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Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get Bun JavaScript Runtime → | tags: bun, rust, reddit

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A Wikipedia Clone Built on AI Hallucinations Is Here to Hasten Along the Death of the Internet (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-14 | tags: wikipedia, ai hallucinations, internet

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Wendy’s restaurants abroad are about to break the biggest color rule of food branding (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-14 | get Colorful Food Photography Kit → | tags: wendys, international markets, digital ordering

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Total Wireless Trims Prices on Its New Unlimited Phone Plans (cnet.com)

2026-05-13 | by See Full Bio | get Total Wireless Unlimited Plan → | tags: 150gb hotspot data, international roaming, disney plus premium

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Apple TV sees another departure from its international content team (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-13 | by Marcus Mendes | get Apple TV International Content Guide → | tags: amazon, apple, apple tv

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Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-12 | by Fight For The Future | get Wayback Machine Subscription → | tags: archive, internet, internet archive

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I set up a $190 mesh Wi-Fi system at home, and it handled a dozen 4K video streams with ease (zdnet.com)

2026-05-12 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get TP-Link Deco Mesh Wi-Fi → | tags: tenda, mesh wifi, wifi 7

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Amazon employees are gaming AI usage leaderboards to impress managers (techspot.com)

2026-05-12 | get AI Gaming Leaderboard Kit → | tags: amazon, meshclaw, financial times

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Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores — workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-12 | by Luke James | get AI Productivity Booster Kit → | tags: amazon, consumption, demand

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Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-12 | get Text Blaze Text Expansion Tool → | tags: text blaze, yc w21, no ai internship

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Remember Digg? It’s Back, in AI News Outlet Form (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-12 | get Digg AI News T-Shirt → | tags: digg, ai news outlet, internet

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Tinder Quietly Restarted Its Internship Program — And What Happened Next Stunned Leadership: ‘The Craziest Thing’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-11 | by Sherin Shibu | get Tinder Internship Program Guide → | tags: tinder, match group, internship

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The Trump Phone inches another step closer to being vaporware (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-11 | tags: trump mobile, t1 phone, vaporware

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Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-11 | get Digital Rights Management (DRM) Software → | tags: sony, internet piracy, supreme court

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IRGC-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran's mouthpiece calls for a cut of $10 trillion of transactions that pulse through the cables daily (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-11 | by Mark Tyson | get Undersea Cable Security Kit → | tags: cables, internet, iran

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I caught the car (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get Car Dash Cam → | tags: uber, senior software engineer, internal leveling scheme

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Shelf Source: Tom MacWright (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | by Zachary Kai | get Smart Home Shelving Unit → | tags: bret victor, tom macwright, the elements of typographic style

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The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | tags: internet, cyberlibertarianism, paper maps

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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get Cyberlibertarianism Book → | tags: internet, paper maps, honda civic

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Internet Archive Switzerland (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get Internet Archive Swiss Collection → | tags: internet archive, switzerland, sankt gallen

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Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-08 | tags: trump tariffs, supreme court, international trade court

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Hacker Takes Over Robot Lawnmower, Runs Over Innocent Man (futurism.com)

2026-05-08 | by Frank Landymore | get Smart Robot Lawn Mower → | tags: yarbo, robot lawnmower, hacking

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Burger King’s CEO Took Calls From 1,500 Customers. What Happened Next Is Already Showing Up in Restaurants. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jonathan Small | get Burger King Customer Feedback Kit → | tags: burger king, tom curtis, restaurant brands international

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Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026' (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Mark Tyson | get Windows 11 Win32 API Book → | tags: windows 11, win32 api, microsoft azure

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Briefing Chat: Can’t focus? It’s not your attention span, it’s your notifications (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-08 | by Petrić Howe | get Focus Booster Noise-Canceling Headphones → | tags: notifications, internet explorer, css

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Briefing Chat: Can't focus? It's not your attention span, it's your notifications (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-08 | by Petrić Howe | get Focus Booster Noise-Canceling Headphones → | tags: notifications, internet explorer, css

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‘Undruggable’ cancer proteins meet their match (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-08 | tags: cancer proteins, undruggable proteins, nature.com

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Building for the Future (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Smart Home Starter Kit → | tags: cloudflare, ai tools, workforce reduction

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T‑Mobile is making it easier for people to get cell service while visiting the US (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-07 | get T-Mobile Prepaid SIM Card → | tags: t-mobile, esim, android authority

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Angry Birds and FIFA International Soccer join the World Video Game Hall of Fame (engadget.com)

2026-05-07 | by Kris Holt | get Angry Birds Puzzle Game → | tags: angry birds, fifa international soccer, silent hill