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Iran suspected of conducting cyberattacks on US water suppliers in 45 municipalities — small towns mostly targeted, with utilities switching to manual control (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jowi Morales | tags: iran, water supply, cyberattacks

602.

This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-02 | by Allison Marsh | tags: magnetic tape, magnetophon, aeg

603.

AI Images Are Everywhere. Here’s What They Do to Our Brains, and What We Can Do. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-02 | tags: machine learning, neural networks, feed algorithms

604.

Commemorative golden Doom floppy disks go up for pre-order — pair of limited edition dummy ‘imitation gold plating’ disks and a box are $30 at GameStop (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Mark Tyson | tags: doom, fanattik, gamestop

605.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: risc os, risc processor, risc os open

606.

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: f* (f star), ocaml, microsoft research

607.

AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors could fix microstutters and improve 1% lows in games — Next-gen CPUs tipped to feature per-core optimizations for thermal and power budgets (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd zen 6, ryzen 10000, cpuc performance control

608.

Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170 (theverge.com)

2026-08-02 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: xbox series x, microsoft, price increase

609.

First open-source firmware for AM5 officially launches — Dasharo v0.9.0 brings Coreboot and openSIL to Zen 4 APUs on MSI B850 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Aaron Klotz | tags: coreboot, dasharo, amd

610.

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: ai customer research, demand generation, sales qualified leads

611.

Every household management app I tried came up short, so I built my own with Claude (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: claude, android, household apps

612.

A Coldcard firmware flaw let hackers drain $70 million in Bitcoin in 41 minutes, with losses now topping $88 million (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: coldcard, coinkite, bitcoin

613.

SpaceXAI says it will remove all 69 of its unpermitted turbine power generators, but expects process to take a year — trailer-mounted generators to be replaced by 1.2GW power plant (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jowi Morales | tags: spacexai, colossus data centers, nvidia h200

614.

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: meshdiff, stl, browser

615.

Are Return-to-Office Mandates Killing Workers' Trust in Workplaces? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-02 | by Posted | tags: return-to-office, disaster avoidance experts, gleb tsipursky

616.

RTX 5060 Ti survives car crash after being bent in half — short PCB saves the day, single memory chip resolder restore full performance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5060 ti, brother zhang, short pcb

617.

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: system f, fuse language, rust

618.

der8auer tests PC chimney effect, dropping CPU temps by 19°C with a 110cm 3D-printed tower (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: pc chimney effect, der8auer, ryzen 7 9800x3d

619.

90% of my searches don’t touch Google anymore — here’s what I use instead (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: google search, brave search, android authority

620.

Gem Mint signed 1983 Steve Jobs business card opens at $70,000 — second signed card from that era after $180,000 record sale (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jowi Morales | tags: steve jobs, apple, psa/dna

621.

The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jay Bennett | tags: james webb telescope, cosmic dawn center, red dots

622.

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: us treasury, yen market, financial intervention

623.

Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: python, katharos, concurrency

624.

Best Car Vacuums (2026): Handheld, Cordless, Shopping Tips (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Nena Farrell | tags: car vacuums, handheld vacuum, cordless vacuum

625.

I’ve reviewed smartphones for 10 years. Don’t waste your money upgrading in 2026 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: google pixel, android authority, smartphone upgrades

626.

I went running with the Galaxy Watch 9 in London, and it taught me something new (zdnet.com)

2026-08-02 | by Nina Raemont | tags: galaxy watch 9, samsung, london

627.

Prolific Team Fortress 2 collector is selling his in-game case arsenal for an estimated $100,000 — 1.7 million items collected over 10 years are enough to fund a house purchase (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: team fortress 2, valve, steam marketplace

628.

Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Matt Clancy | tags: industrial revolution, ai growth, uk gdp

629.

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: ars notoria, john, magic

630.

Google Chrome may soon block New Tab hijacker extensions by default (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: chrome, google, chromium