GoKawiil - Tech News

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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: curiosity, distance, mars

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Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: bang, bang power, big bang

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The DISTINCT in Your COUNT (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Radim Marek | tags: aggregate, count, distinct

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Tech giants struggle to censor graphic videos of Perez Hilton appearing to harm himself (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: acts, alike say, appeared

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What Is AI Model Distillation? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai model distillation, model compression, deep learning

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How IaC Turns Infrastructure Into a Competitive Advantage—Q&A With Srilakshmi Bharadwaj (computer.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: iac, srilakshmi bharadwaj, ieee computer society

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Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: dram, rowhammer, rowpress

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Predictive Speculative KV Replication for Bursty LLM Inference (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: kv replication, large language models, bursty inference

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Cro – elegant reactive services in Raku (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cro, raku, reactive systems

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Hollywood was too afraid to distribute this movie. So the director built her own company and did it herself (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: cherien dabis, fast company, palestinian story

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PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: postgresql, psql, distributed systems

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Hooray for the Sockets Interface (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by George Michaelson | tags: unix, berkeley software distribution, sockets

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Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: python distributions, pyoxidizer, sqlite

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I tested a new Debian Linux loaded with local AI - see if it's right for you (zdnet.com)

2026-07-27 | by Jack Wallen | tags: debian, shadowfetch, linus torvalds

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California's largest AI data center project suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water, 0.03% of Imperial Valley’s supply — plaintiffs claim project equivalent to 160-acre farm amidst concern about jobs and reallocation of farmland (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-27 | by Anton Shilov | tags: ai data center, colorado river, imperial valley

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California's largest AI data center is suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water a year (techspot.com)

2026-07-27 | by Rob Thubron | tags: ai data center, colorado river, imperial irrigation district

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Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | by Amd | tags: pytorch monarch, amd instinct, rocm

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From Silicon Valley to DC, the tech world is suddenly obsessed with one concept in AI: Distillation (cnbc.com)

2026-07-25 | by Kif Leswing Jonathan Vanian | tags: google ai, distillation, moonshot ai

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It's getting harder to focus every day (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: focus, timer, open source

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Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI reassigned to new judge [U] (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-24 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, openai, jony ive

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Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI reassigned to new judge (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-24 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, openai, jony ive

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Neill Blomkamp Is Making It Look Like AI Is the Last Resort for Filmmakers With Failing Careers (futurism.com)

2026-07-23 | by Frank Landymore | tags: neill blomkamp, district 9, seedan

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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-23 | by Tim Fernholz | tags: distillation, kratsios, model

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I Am Buiding BorgIOS to de-shitify the Internet (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: borgios, peer-to-peer, usb identity

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Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: paramount, warner bros, merger

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AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: att, california, carrier of last resort

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Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros merger (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-20 | by Aisha Malik | tags: paramount, warner bros, skydance

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What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: riemann zeta function, distribution of primes, euclid primes

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First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | by Pallab Ghosh | tags: earth-like planet, habitable zone, science journal

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As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: spotify, illegal downloading, music industry