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Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | by Posted | tags: linux kernel, amdgpu, intel xe

4682.

Universities must stop protecting bullies — or more people will leave science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-17 | by Mahmoudi | tags: academic parity movement, university bullying, faculty misconduct

4683.

How the story of life and our planet unfolded — together (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-17 | by Newman | tags: voyager 1, pale blue dot, stromalites

4684.

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Simon Willison | tags: qwen, alibaba, qwen 3.8 27b

4685.

China's Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: china, moon landing, chang'e-7

4686.

Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: rag, large language model, enterprise ai

4687.

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Ivan Gavran | tags: formal verification, lean, signal shot

4688.

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: red queen hypothesis, self-improving ai, nvidia

4689.

Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Marek Fiser | tags: double-double, floating-point, mpfr

4690.

Bruce Campbell Wants ‘Evil Dead’ to Lighten the Hell Up Again (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: bruce campbell, evil dead, horror movies

4691.

Protobuf has LSP support (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Team Buf | tags: protobuf, buf, vscode

4692.

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Team Buf | tags: protobuf, buf, vscode

4693.

Could a Disc-Free PlayStation Actually Lower Game Prices? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: playstation, disc-free, game prices

4694.

Here's why retro games look better on old CRT TVs (engadget.com)

2026-08-16 | by Igor Bonifacic | tags: crt tvs, playstation 3, xbox 360

4695.

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: mathcode, lean, git

4696.

How to lease an iPhone instead of buying one (engadget.com)

2026-08-16 | by Deven Mcclure | tags: apple upgrade program, klarna, iphone

4697.

First Production Ferrari Luce Goes for $40 Million (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: ferrari, luce, production

4698.

Being ambitious and being a dad (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: ambitious, great, having

4699.

Being Ambitious and Being a Dad (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: ambitious, great, having

4700.

If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: anthropic, autonomous ai, liability

4701.

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Emma Romano | tags: st lucie nuclear power plant, control rods, nuclear regulatory commission

4702.

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Shayla Love | tags: gps, cognitive mapping, hippocampus

4703.

Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Luke James | tags: code, codes, paper

4704.

There’s Pretty Much No Good Way to Fight an Electric Vehicle Fire, New Study Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, thermal runaway

4705.

Schlage Sense Pro Review: Who Needs a Key Anyway? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: schlage, sense pro, smart lock

4706.

Large-scale DDoS attacks disrupted Threema secure messaging service (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: ddos, threema, end-to-end encryption

4707.

Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 flying-wing drones a year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Luke James | tags: mich 2000, tu-95, ztk-150

4708.

A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: quadcopter, reinforcement learning, mujojo

4709.

A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: creation, creation mirror, life

4710.

Google reportedly taps AMD to design next-generation TPU — hybrid AI ASIC could integrate on-package CPU cores for reinforcement learning (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Anton Shilov | tags: google, amd, tpu