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Forests Withered During an Ancient Warming Episode. History Could Repeat Itself (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: forests, ancient warming, climate change

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PBS Station Sues to Regain Access to 70 Years of Archival TV History (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: pbs, st. louis, cloud storage

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jowi Morales | tags: pbs, iron mountain, open source storage

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AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: meta, alibaba, ai crawlers

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Ancient rise in CO<sub>2</sub> was catastrophic for forests: what that means for today’s plants (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-13 | by Dinneen | tags: paleocene-eocene thermal maximum, co2 emissions, natural history museum

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How art invented humanity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: art, humanity, invention

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Transportation Secretary Announces That the Air Traffic Controller Crisis Is History Now That He’s Hired Thousands of Epic Gamers (futurism.com)

2026-08-12 | by Frank Landymore | tags: air traffic controllers, sean duffy, epic games

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5120249 extended security update (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: windows 10, microsoft update, secure boot

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Gamer recruitment drive results in ‘supercharged’ hiring campaign for new Air Traffic Controllers — 94% hiring goal hit in record time with $155,000 salary potential; ‘the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mark Tyson | tags: air traffic control, usdot, faa

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No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: episode, episodes, hours

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Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: open source, schematics, publishing

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Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: open source, schematics, publishing

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Andreessen Horowitz Partner Boasts That the Company’s New Tech Can Fabricate Fake History Like in “1984” (futurism.com)

2026-08-06 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: clip, moore, slop

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Lego's latest Hubble set lets you look inside one of history's greatest space telescopes (techspot.com)

2026-08-04 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: lego, hubble space telescope, space instruments

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A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: a16z, fake tech history, internet

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Opinion | A Brief History of Wealth Creation (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-02 | tags: america, wealth creation, socialists

107.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: risc os, risc processor, risc os open

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From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: chalkdust, latex, mathematical typography

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Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Benjamin Breen | tags: farsi, indo-european, div

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Microsoft’s One-Day Market-Cap Gain Makes History (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-30 | tags: microsoft, google, anthropic

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Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History (slashdot.org)

2026-07-30 | tags: microsoft, stock market, $450 billion

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Windows 11 KB5101684 update released with 42 changes and fixes (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: windows 11, microsoft, patch tuesday

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Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: airlines, flights, busiest day

114.

Beyond Greece and Rome (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: greece, rome, history

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Shay Locomotives (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: shay locomotives, steam engines, rail transport

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Why Did It Take So Long for the Web to Get Its Own Domain Name? (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: web, domain name, internet

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‘We’re at a Crazy Moment in History’: Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: midjourney, co-star, astrology

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The small, real, original web (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | by Oliver Williams | tags: indieweb, small web, 90s internet

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Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | by Saul Pwanson | tags: apple ii, ram, mag computer

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Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: sqlite, bash, atuin