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Why I Told My Chatbot to Stop Kissing Up to Me (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-16 | tags: chatbot, ai responses, human-computer interaction

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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: google, apple, palantir

543.

The PC age began 45 years ago with the breakthrough Intel 8088 processor — 8-bit bus fueled 45 years of x86 dominance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: intel 8088, ibm pc 5150, x86 architecture

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Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star (wired.com)

2026-08-16 | by Jorge Garay | tags: james webb space telescope, black hole star, nasa

545.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra Review: The Right Shape (wired.com)

2026-08-16 | by Julian Chokkattu | tags: samsung galaxy z fold8, qualcomm snapdragon 8 elite gen 5, foldable smartphones

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ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes (theverge.com)

2026-08-16 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: chatgpt, openai, computer history

547.

Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: wildfire smoke, clean air act, university of maryland

548.

Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos (wired.com)

2026-08-16 | by Simon Frantz | tags: neutrinos, los alamos national laboratory, project poltergeist

549.

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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Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore (theverge.com)

2026-08-16 | by Robert Hart | tags: openai, hugging face, ai safety

551.

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

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

552.

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

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

553.

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

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

554.

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

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

555.

Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: copper, slac, nuclear fusion

556.

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

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

557.

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: fourier series, digital filters, oscillations

558.

Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny: Nassim Taleb (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | tags: alcohol studies, nassim taleb, us government

559.

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

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

560.

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

561.

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

562.

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: arecibo observatory, wow signal, hipparcos

563.

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Henrik Karlsson | tags: y combinator, startup incubators, sam altman

564.

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

565.

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

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

566.

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: digi-comp 1, mechanical computer, plastic computer

567.

Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: askhn, seronegative spondyloarthropathy, google sheets

568.

Ask HN: Ive quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: seronegative spondyloarthropathy, google sheets, paper journal

569.

AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies (slashdot.org)

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

570.

Why are RAM prices so high right now? (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Daniel Cooper | tags: ram prices, ai companies, openai