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After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zak Killian | tags: castle, game, german

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Jeff Bezos Harshly Criticized for $200 Million Pledge to Protect the World’s Most Endangered Species (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon, bezos, billionaire

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Avoid these 6 phrases if you want to sound more confident (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: avoid, avoid expressions, broadcast

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: adults, cognition, cognition healthy

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: adults, cognition, cognition healthy

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Selling the Dream of SpaceX Was the Easy Part. Now Elon Musk Has to Hang On. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: biggest, biggest ipo, billion

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: applications, drag, floppy

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: amazon, carbon, carbon emissions

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More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: department, flock, investigation

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Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again) (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: action, action reviving, coming

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 9, #1155 (cnet.com)

2026-08-08 | by Gael Cooper | tags: answers, books, connections

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: beshry, beshry said, joining

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X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’ (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: creators, earn, impressions

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: blocker, chrome, chrome extensions

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Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use? (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: access, carplay, connection

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Fastmail offers EU data region (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Bron Gondwana | tags: copy, fastmail, location

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Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Vittoria Elliott | tags: census, citizenship, funding

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Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition Review: Extra cool (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | tags: button, buttons, edition

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AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: centers, data centers, emissions

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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: hurricane, jamaica, model

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Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: billion, billion years, earth

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Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: building, factory, million

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‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: acquisition, acquisition led, alphonzo

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: backdoor, core, embedded

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The humble notebook still matters in the age of AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: capture, capture thoughts, change

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The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: decision, decision making, governance

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Stop Burying Your Press Logos — Here’s Where They Actually Win Buyers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ali Raza | tags: buyer, coverage, footer

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Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other on macOS (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: claude, claude code, code