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Rogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mph — LA to NYC correspondence takes 22 hours to deliver; virtual birds can get distracted or even lost (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: ios, carrier pigeon, noah larrobino

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Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Dayna Camilleri-Clarke | tags: foreign supermarkets, nightingale, supermarket layout

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Cursed Startup Now Offering Buy-Now-Pay-Later Radiation Exposure Kits in Case of Nuclear Armageddon (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: nuclear, amble, klarna

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Your Samsung phone has a hidden Settings shortcut menu — here’s how to enable it (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: samsung galaxy, good lock, regi star

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4 quick software tweaks to extend your phone’s battery life by 30% (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: iphone, android, battery life

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4 quick software tweaks to extend your phone’s battery life by 30 percent (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: iphone, android, gps

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Dario Amodei’s Wife Is Closely Linked to Jeffrey Epstein (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Frank Landymore | tags: anthropic, dario amodei, jeffrey epstein

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These practices improve your well-being and actually stick (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: matt bloom, lasting wellbeing, science-based practices

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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: littlelearner, model checkpoints, mathcamps

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SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: falcon 9, spacex, starlink

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A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: geiger counter, portable device, analog sensor

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A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: geiger counter, portable device, low power

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Axios Partners With OpenAI to “Automate” Local Journalism (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: openai, axios, journalism

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People Horrified That They’ll Be Busted Now That Anthropic Is Watermarking AI Content (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Frank Landymore | tags: anthropic, claude, watermarking

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The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: programming languages, breck yunits, pldb

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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Posted On | tags: moire patterns, inogon light, tom scott

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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Posted On | tags: moiré patterns, inogon light, tom scott

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The ‘Country Hicks’ Who Refused $26 Million from an AI Data Center (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-16 | tags: kentucky, ai data center, country hicks

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I survived two years as prime minister in a hit new game - then my cabinet deserted me (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-15 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: no 10, brewis, boris johnson

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AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: gpu, weather simulation, ai-assisted

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How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: jellyfish, electricite de france, gravelines nuclear

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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by View More Posts | tags: software engineering, agent harnesses, large models

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How Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8 measures your antioxidant levels (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Husain Parvez | tags: samsung, galaxy watch 8, raman spectroscopy

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SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: blood sugar, android app, sugartrack

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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: comments

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Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by The Liu Family | tags: digital signal processing, ieee jack s. kilby medal, princeton university

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Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: claude, thermalright, anthropic

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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Michael Stapelberg | tags: zsh, zsh_history, zsh 5.9.2

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What is a Bluetooth codec and which one offers the best audio quality? (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Deven Mcclure | tags: bluetooth, ldac, aptx

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Grab this RTX 5070 gaming PC for just $1,499, saving $600 off list price — Acer Nitro 85 prebuilt comes with 16GB of RAM, Core Ultra 7 265F, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5070, acer nitro 85, intel core ultra 7