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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | get Mindfulness Meditation App → | tags: reuters institute, digital news report, smartphones

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Armstrong Effect (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | get Armstrong Effect Book → | tags: static electricity, william armstrong, armstrong hydroelectric machine

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Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: polymarket, social media, paid creators

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Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: uk government, online safety policy, vpn

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How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-06-20 | by Zoe Kleinman | get Social Media Privacy Guide → | tags: big tech, internet regulation, social media ban

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Why the social media ban is about so much more than social media (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-06-20 | by Zoe Kleinman | get Digital Privacy and Security Kit → | tags: big tech, social media, internet regulation

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Renting a sewing machine from the library (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Erika Benke | get Portable Sewing Machine Kit → | tags: sewing machine, library, finland

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Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Charles P. Pierce | tags: dialog, peter thiel, nato

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A Love Story (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by The Pudding | tags: marriage, stephanie coontz, feudal lords

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 21, #636 (cnet.com)

2026-06-20 | by See Full Bio | get Sports Trivia Board Game → | tags: the athletic, nytimes, sports

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Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get AI Hallucination Detection Tool → | tags: 2brains inc, robert cringely, llm hallucinations

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Yes, I Was Wrong About Meal Kits. This Is the Service That Changed My Mind (cnet.com)

2026-06-20 | by See Full Bio | get Blue Apron Meal Kit → | tags: blue apron, meal kits, vegan

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How it feels to practice for IOAI in Iran (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | tags: iran olympiad, ai olympiad, iranian students

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This Fake Cancer ‘Cure’ Has People Go Naked Into a Big Plastic Bag, Then Gasses Them With Industrial Bleach (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-20 | tags: cancer cure, plastic bag, industrial bleach

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UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Apple Vision Pro Case → | tags: visionos, apple vision pro, x11

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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Russell Poole | get SMPTE Standards Digital Library → | tags: smpte, media technology, standards

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How to personalize the screensaver on your Kindle (engadget.com)

2026-06-20 | by Mariella Moon | get Kindle Screensaver Customization Kit → | tags: kindle, amazon, screensaver

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Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Media Player Codec Pack → | tags: windows 11, media player, hevc

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The best UK Amazon Prime Day tech deals 2026 — epic savings on premium gaming PCs and laptops, peripherals, 3D printers at Currys, Argos, Scan and CCL, too (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Ben Stockton | get Gaming Laptop RGB Keyboard → | tags: amazon prime day, acer nitro v16, amd ryzen

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Big Tech is borrowing like never before (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Ron Patel | get Amazon Business Loan Kit → | tags: nvidia, big tech, bond market

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Car manufacturers are ditching Android Auto in 2026: Here's why (engadget.com)

2026-06-20 | by Steve Dent | get Wireless CarPlay Adapter → | tags: android auto, rivian, google assistant

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What Fox and Roku aren’t telling us yet (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-20 | get Roku Streaming Stick → | tags: fox, roku, merger

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Nothing's budget brand CMF won't be releasing a new phone this year (engadget.com)

2026-06-20 | by Mariella Moon | get Nothing Ear (2) Wireless Earbuds → | tags: nothing, cmf, phone pro 2

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Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Hassam Nasir | get RTX 5070 Graphics Card → | tags: nvidia rtx 5070, amazon, kenwood av receiver

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The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-20 | get Facial Recognition Age Verification → | tags: uk government, facial age estimation, asylum seekers

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Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation (futurism.com)

2026-06-20 | by Joe Wilkins | get Portable Personal Fan → | tags: el niño, french open, university of oregon

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I tried Samsung Health’s huge redesign for 2026. Here are the 5 biggest hits and misses (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-20 | get Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 → | tags: samsung health, galaxy watch, one ui 9

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China unveils man-portable anti-drone laser that can burn through a drone 1,600 feet away in four seconds — backpack-sized 2-kilowatt weapon uses AI for targeting, weighs 55 pounds, and can be carried by a single soldier (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Luke James | get Portable Laser Defense System → | tags: harbin xinguang, lijian ii, lijian iii

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Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG (theverge.com)

2026-06-20 | by Adi Robertson | tags: dice-based rpg, moves of the diamond hand, cosmo d

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Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara on Her 100th "Little People, Big Dreams" Book (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by A Mighty Girl Staff | get Little People, Big Dreams Book → | tags: little people big dreams, vanessa nakate, gloria fuertes