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1621.

Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom (theverge.com)

2026-06-21 | by Andrew Hawkins | get Electric Air Taxi Model → | tags: joby aviation, archer aviation, vertical aerospace

1622.

Why most U.S. workers are checked out and bosses are the last to know (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-21 | get Workplace Engagement Book → | tags: the office, michael scott, steve carell

1623.

Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes (slashdot.org)

2026-06-21 | by Posted | get Public Transit Facial Scanner → | tags: facial recognition, kansas city, american civil liberties union

1624.

Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans (theverge.com)

2026-06-21 | by Dominic Preston | get Sony Xperia 1 VIII Smartphone → | tags: sony xperia 1 viii, sony, android police

1625.

Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn't tell the difference (techspot.com)

2026-06-21 | by Skye Jacobs | get Soundwave Espresso Maker → | tags: unsw sydney, ultrasonic espresso, acoustic cavitation

1626.

Building reliable agentic AI systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | by Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni | get AI Safety and Alignment Book → | tags: agentic ai, retrieval-augmented generation, bayer ag

1627.

Armstrong Effect (news.ycombinator.com)

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

1628.

Gamers Sue PlayStation: It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games (slashdot.org)

2026-06-21 | by Posted | get PlayStation Game License Card → | tags: playstation, gaming licenses, game ownership

1629.

Project Fetch: Phase Two (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: anthropic, claude opus 4.1, claude opus 4.7

1630.

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

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

1631.

Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Banana Car Air Freshener → | tags: big banana car, montana police, cowboy state daily

1632.

How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get Smart Home Security Kit → | tags: digital home devices, cyberattacks, nicolaides

1633.

The Memory-Chip Crisis Is Here—and You’re Footing the Bill (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-20 | get Crucial Ballistix DDR4 RAM → | tags: memory chip, smartphone, game console

1634.

Stop calling the Super Productionizer a 'baby blender' – Frank Elavsky (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Blender for Smoothies → | tags: good corp, super productionizer, good corporation

1635.

François Englert (1932 – 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | tags: higgs boson, large hadron collider, brout-englert-higgs field

1636.

Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get Turing Encryption Device Kit → | tags: alan turing, enigma machine, bletchley park

1637.

Alice is impatient (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Marc Brooker | get Smartphone Stand for Desk → | tags: amazon web services, agentic ai, ec2

1638.

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-20 | by Anthony Ha | get AI Ethics Book → | tags: signal, chatbots, meredith whittaker

1639.

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

1640.

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

1641.

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get ASCII Art 3D Renderer → | tags: ascii 3d rendering engine, glyph css, webgl

1642.

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get PostgreSQL Performance Tuner → | tags: postgresql, clickhouse, postgres service

1643.

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Zine Printing Kit → | tags: dirty little zine, browser-based zine maker, us letter

1644.

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

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

1645.

Get AMD's flagship Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of DDR5 memory and an MSI B850 Wi-Fi 7 motherboard at a discount — Micro Center bundles are now available on Amazon (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, msi b850, wi-fi 7

1646.

Epic is working on a 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher that will be 5x faster (engadget.com)

2026-06-20 | by Jackson Chen | get Epic Games Launcher Upgrade → | tags: epic games, unreal fest, epic games store

1647.

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

1648.

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-20 | by Anthony Ha | get DeepMind Research Notebook → | tags: nobel prize, alphafold, deepmind

1649.

Let’s Hear It for This Prime Day Deal Slashing $76 Off Nothing’s Earbuds (cnet.com)

2026-06-20 | by See Full Bio | get Nothing Ear (2) Wireless Earbuds → | tags: nothing earbuds, amazon prime day, active noise cancellation

1650.

Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get USB Data Blocker → | tags: microsoft, cryptocurrency, usb drives