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3151.

Graduating without a thesis: meet the people getting ‘practical’ PhDs in China (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-09 | by You | tags: china, engineering, graduation

3152.

One of Meta’s Offices Was Briefly Overtaken by a Rogue Squirrel (wired.com)

2026-07-08 | by Paresh Dave | tags: inside, internal memo, janitor

3153.

Volkswagen is employing 100 sheep at a solar farm in Poland (engadget.com)

2026-07-08 | by Anna Washenko | tags: agriculture, biodiversity, energy

3154.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: brown, roberto, roberto serrano

3155.

A Silent Workspace In Claude Mirrors Key Features of Human Consciousness (slashdot.org)

2026-07-08 | tags: ansi, ansi draft, committee

3156.

Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-08 | by Marina Temkin | tags: billion, billion valuation, coding

3157.

Waymo Plans to Expand Driverless Cars to 4 More Major Cities This Year (cnet.com)

2026-07-08 | by See Full Bio | tags: cities, driving, self

3158.

More and More Lampposts in California, New York, and Connecticut Will Soon Charge EVs (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: augment, augment existing, charging

3159.

‘Moana’ Is an Exercise in How Not to Remake an Animated Classic (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: action, action remake, aia star

3160.

SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: coding, cursor, grok

3161.

Rewriting Bun in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | by Object Object | tags: build, build shard, failures

3162.

T-Mobile is making two of its best deals unavailable to its own customers (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: carrier, existing, family

3163.

Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: add repeat, bar industry, barback

3164.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: brown, roberto, roberto serrano

3165.

Millions of Driver’s License Numbers Exposed in Massive Data Breach (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: activity, activity targeting, assuranceamerica

3166.

‘Dune: Part Three’ Had Its Very Own Psychedelic Film Unit (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: canadian, canadian influences, december

3167.

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: benchmark, coding, harnesses

3168.

iOS 27 adds nine new languages and accents to Apple Translate (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-08 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, apple translate, chinese

3169.

I Made a Smart TV Dumber to Escape Being Tracked. Here's How (cnet.com)

2026-07-08 | by See Full Bio | tags: internet, just, likely

3170.

SpaceX stock closes below debut price at $148 in two-day slide after Nasdaq-100 inclusion (cnbc.com)

2026-07-08 | by Lora Kolodny | tags: benchmark, debut, inclusion

3171.

'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now (zdnet.com)

2026-07-08 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | tags: bugs, code, kernel

3172.

Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game (wired.com)

2026-07-08 | by Omnia Al Desoukie | tags: equity, fifa, investments

3173.

Why Does Donald Trump Keep Talking About ‘Tic Tac’? (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: does, does donald, donald

3174.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: coding, coding evaluations, evaluations

3175.

Of Course ‘Widow’s Bay’ Is a Comedy, and Apple TV’s Head of Programming Knows It (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: emmy, emmy nominations, fright

3176.

Meta's Glasses Will Turn Off the Camera If You Tamper With the Privacy Light (slashdot.org)

2026-07-08 | tags: asking, glasses, led light

3177.

The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: blocking, fable, interaction

3178.

Fable is not a useful model (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: blocking, fable, interaction

3179.

Gemini for Home is getting smarter sports updates and prettier weather forecasts (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: assistant, conversation, follow

3180.

An Adorable Puppy-Eyed Seal Is the Star of These Award-Winning Photos (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: abstaining, abstaining death, beatles