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1321.

Cigarette smoke effect using shaders (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-05 | get Graphics Card → | tags: fragment, texture, textureimpl

1322.

Samsung HW-QS90H soundbar hands-on: Impressive bass performance without a subwoofer (engadget.com)

2026-01-05 | get Soundbar → | tags: advertisement, didn, drivers

1323.

Trump Organization's $499 Smartphone Delayed Again, Now Until the End of January (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get iPhone → | tags: cast, cast void, form

1324.

Archboot Adds COSMIC Desktop as a New Install and Rescue Option (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get COSMIC → | tags: cast, cast void, form

1325.

Furiosa's Energy-Efficient 'NPU' AI Chips Start Mass Production This Month, Challenging Nvidia (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get NPU → | tags: cast, cast void, form

1326.

Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-04 | by Mark Tyson | get Blu-ray Disc → | tags: blu ray, format, format war

1327.

The US Effort to Break China's Rare-Earth Monopoly (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get Rare-earth magnets → | tags: cast, cast void, form

1328.

Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture (wired.com)

2026-01-03 | by David Gilbert | get Social media platforms → | tags: google, image, maduro

1329.

Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-02 | get Facial Recognition System → | tags: grok, images, platforms

1330.

A silly diffuse shading model (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | get Diffuse Shading Model → | tags: cdot, formula, light

1331.

The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | by About The Author | get Session SPAs → | tags: interactions, latency, performance

1332.

Best Robot Vacuums: Our Latest Lab Testing Reveals the Best Robots for the New Year (cnet.com)

2026-01-01 | by See Full Bio | get Robot Vacuum → | tags: carpet, mid pile, performance

1333.

Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | get Intel Core → | tags: benchmarks, hardware, lenovo

1334.

Survey confirms: You don’t need any ‘elite’ chip for your next phone (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-31 | get Smartphone → | tags: chip, elite, just

1335.

Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-31 | by Charles Platkin | get Water Purification System → | tags: aircraft, airlines, coli

1336.

Steam's 2025 best sellers show indie games competing with AAA hits (techspot.com)

2025-12-30 | get Game Engine → | tags: available information, based revenue, chart

1337.

Free speech’s great leap backwards (theverge.com)

2025-12-30 | by Felipe De La Hoz | get Open Internet → | tags: administration, agents, apple

1338.

Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI (slashdot.org)

2025-12-29 | get Neural Network → | tags: brain, brain lazarus, committee

1339.

TSMC begins quietly volume production of 2nm-class chips — first GAA transistor for TSMC claims up to 15% improvement at ISO power (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Anton Shilov | get GAA → | tags: density, performance, power

1340.

The MacBook Pro alternative I settled on was a Windows laptop I overlooked (zdnet.com)

2025-12-29 | by Kyle Kucharski | get Windows laptop → | tags: battery, blade, form

1341.

ChatGPT finally rolls out Thinking time toggle on mobile (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-29 | get Language Model → | tags: chatgpt, email, extended

1342.

Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | get Quantum Computer → | tags: formula, left, left frac

1343.

Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | get Quantum Computer → | tags: formula, left, left frac

1344.

NY Governor Hochul signs bill requiring warning labels on ‘addictive’ social media (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-27 | by Anthony Ha | get Smartphone → | tags: disrupt, media, media platforms

1345.

AMD's 5-year-old Ryzen CPUs are popular again because RAM is too expensive (techspot.com)

2025-12-26 | get Ryzen 9 → | tags: aging, aging platform, ago currently

1346.

Even the Companies Making Humanoid Robots Think They’re Overhyped (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-26 | get Robot → | tags: androids, androids perform, billions

1347.

ChatGPT’s new formatting blocks make its UI look more like a task tool (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-25 | get Markdown → | tags: chatgpt, draft, email

1348.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite's latest Linux benchmarks show significant regressions, performs similarly to five-year-old Intel Tiger Lake chips — promising chip continues to be plagued by software support issues (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Qualcomm Snapdragon → | tags: machine, machines, performance

1349.

Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Storage → | tags: array, performance, server

1350.

Pi-calculating record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Storage → | tags: array, performance, server