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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

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How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: oracle, oracle ceo, openai

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The little-known winstart.bat batch file (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Raymond Chen | tags: winstart.bat, autoexec.bat, virtual machine manager

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Notepad.exe’ is an ultra-fast, lightweight code editor for your Mac (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-15 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: notepad.exe, swift, xcode

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An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: large language model, ground truth, verifying correctness

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Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian Is Packed With Laughs, Flashbacks and Lots of Grogu (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Russell Holly | tags: lego star wars, the mandalorian, grogu

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‘Lilo & Stitch 2’ Is Getting Nostalgic and Thinking Ahead (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: lilo and stitch, disney, animated film

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Disney D23 Movies and Streaming Lineup: Biggest Surprises and Everything Else (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Corinne Reichert | tags: disney, d23, bluey

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Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt (gizmodo.com)

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

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: android, wayland, compositor

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AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Davide Piffer | tags: von neumann, institute for advanced study, symbolic memory

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Anthropic is watermarking text generated by Claude to comply with EU law (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Mariella Moon | tags: anthropic, claude, ai watermarking

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The Airseekers Tron is an impressive mulching robot mower with a couple of frustrating flaws (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: airseekers tron, rtk precision, obstacle avoidance

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It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: windows 11, microsoft, pc manufacturers

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What the world's oldest telecommunications company looks like today (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Husain Parvez | tags: bt group, electric telegraph, william fothergill cooke

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Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: simpsons hit & run, matt groening, playstation 2

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Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: chatbot, llm, ms-paint

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The ‘Lanterns’ Show Almost Came Without a Suit (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: lanterns, suit, show

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Starfighter Trailer, Ahsoka and Anakin: Biggest Star Wars News Out of D23 (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Corinne Reichert | tags: starfighter, lucasfilm, disney

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A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: ending, ending legal, expired

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Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, openai

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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: semaglutide, dementia, risk

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Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: semaglutide, dementia, risk reduction

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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Luke James | tags: backblaze, hgst, toshiba

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Dude Reportedly Hides Prompt Injections in Legal Filing, Just in Case Judge Is Really That Lazy (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: prompt injections, legal filing, dude

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Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Jowi Morales | tags: photon matrix, indiegogo, lidar