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Databricks' Instructed Retriever beats traditional RAG data retrieval by 70% — enterprise metadata was the missing link (venturebeat.com)

2026-01-08 | get Instructed Retriever → | tags: bendersky, metadata, retrieval

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Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-08 | get Smartwatch → | tags: biometric, biometric surveillance, fighting

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NYC Wegmans Is Storing Biometric Data On Shoppers' Eyes, Voices and Faces (slashdot.org)

2026-01-07 | get Facial Recognition System → | tags: biometric, biometric data, chain

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Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas (slashdot.org)

2026-01-05 | by Posted | get OnlyFans models → | tags: artists, attorneys, granted

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High-Fidelity 3D Shape Generation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-02 | get ShapeGenie → | tags: arxiv, chen, generation

126.

Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | get Thermal Guardian → | tags: apple, nominal, powermetrics

127.

Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-26 | get Sorting Algorithm → | tags: algorithms, algorithms translucency, geometric

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SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | get Photorealistic View Synthesis → | tags: datasets, gaussian, gaussian representation

129.

Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-12 | by Tim De Chant | get Carbon Removal → | tags: carbon, methanol, metric

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This Tetris-playing watch struggles with the one thing it should be great at (theverge.com)

2025-12-12 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Smartwatch → | tags: andrew, battery, game

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Quantum computing ‘KPIs’ could distinguish true breakthroughs from spurious claims (feeds.nature.com)

2025-12-11 | by Gibney | get Quantum computers → | tags: computers, metrics, quantum

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Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-08 | get Trifacta → | tags: algorithms, experience, features

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GAM takes aim at “context rot”: A dual-agent memory architecture that outperforms long-context LLMs (venturebeat.com)

2025-12-04 | get Neural Network → | tags: context, long, memory

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The Download: the fossil fuel elephant in the room, and better tests for endometriosis (technologyreview.com)

2025-11-27 | by Rhiannon Williams | get Endometriosis test kit → | tags: brazil, climate, diagnosis

135.

Show HN: Spikelog – A simple metrics service for scripts, cron jobs, and MVPs (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-27 | get Spikelog → | tags: add metrics, app single, metrics

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Blue Origin Will Make Its New Glenn Rocket Even Bigger to Rival SpaceX (gizmodo.com)

2025-11-22 | get New Glenn → | tags: capable, capable carrying, carrying

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Apple generates $2.4 million per employee but is only third in tech ranking (9to5mac.com)

2025-11-20 | by Ben Lovejoy | get iPhone → | tags: apple, measure, metric

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Writer's AI agents can actually do your work—not just chat about it (venturebeat.com)

2025-11-18 | get Language Model → | tags: agent, enterprise, shetrit

139.

The Tycoon 2FA Phishing Platform and the Collapse of Legacy MFA (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-11-18 | get IdentityGuard → | tags: authenticator, biometric, identity

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Tycoon 2FA and the Collapse of Legacy MFA (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-11-18 | get Biometric authentication system → | tags: authenticator, biometric, identity

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Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-18 | by Jemielniak | get J-Metric → | tags: citation, index, just

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You Can't Use This Google Photos Feature in 2 States. There's a Hidden Reason for That (cnet.com)

2025-11-17 | by See Full Bio | get Google Photos Backup → | tags: biometric, face, feature

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From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later (venturebeat.com)

2025-11-16 | get Vector Database → | tags: graphrag, pinecone, retrieval

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A Google Photos AI Editing Feature Isn't Available in These States. We Asked Lawyers Why (cnet.com)

2025-11-15 | by See Full Bio | get Google Photos AI → | tags: biometric, face, feature

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Google Play will soon penalize Android apps that use too much battery (techspot.com)

2025-11-12 | get Battery Life → | tags: act quickly, android, android metrics

146.

Controlling pyramidal nitrogen chirality by asymmetric organocatalysis (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-12 | by Wu | get Chiral catalysts → | tags: asymmetric, chem, et al

147.

Video games can alter reality (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-07 | by Tom Gurn | get Virtual Reality → | tags: angelica, game, real

148.

DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says (arstechnica.com)

2025-11-05 | get Biometric data → | tags: allow, biometric, immigrants

149.

Nova Launcher is back with a second unexpected update in as many weeks (androidauthority.com)

2025-11-05 | get Smartwatch → | tags: branch, branch metrics, developer

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xAI Employees Were Reportedly Compelled to Give Biometric Data to Train Anime Girlfriend (gizmodo.com)

2025-11-05 | get Biometric data → | tags: anime, anime girlfriend, biometric