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Serena Williams wants to find the next trillion-dollar company (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: starfire ventures, unicorns, nike

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Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine (wired.com)

2026-07-24 | by Louise Matsakis | tags: vape valley, chinese manufacturers, nicotine analogs

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ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: ascii, unicode, asciidraw

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The Pickle Is In, the Squint Is Out: Here Are the Newest Approved Emoji (cnet.com)

2026-07-20 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | tags: unicode, emoji, apple

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Show HN: Mojibake – A low-level Unicode library written in C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: mojibake, unicode, c11

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Show HN: Mojibake – a low-level Unicode library written in C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: mojibake, unicode, c11

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He Got Hooked on SweatHouz as a Customer. Now He’s CEO of More Than 100 Studios. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-16 | by Jonathan Small | tags: sweathouz, infrared sauna, franchisee

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Samsung Passes Nvidia To Become Most Profitable Company In the World (slashdot.org)

2026-07-07 | tags: able, able correct, correct

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The FDA Ruled That Zyn Pouches Are Safer Than Cigarettes. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Safe (wired.com)

2026-07-03 | by Megan Tomos | tags: cigarettes, nicotine, nicotine pouches

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The FDA Ruled That ZYN Pouches Are Safer Than Cigarettes. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Safe (wired.com)

2026-07-03 | by Megan Tomos | tags: zyn, swedish match, nicotine pouches

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Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: typography, arabic script, font rendering

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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | by Marcin Wichary | get Polish Language Keyboard Sticker → | tags: polish language, unicode, medium

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Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-26 | by Julie Bort | get Open Source Security Kit → | tags: y combinator, dataroom, papermark

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Two Massive Earthquakes Struck Venezuela. Thousands Are Feared Dead (wired.com)

2026-06-25 | by Isabella Ward | get Seismic Alert Smartphone App → | tags: venezuela, yumare, delcy rodríguez

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Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-25 | get Unicorn Zombie Plush Toy → | tags: silicon valley, zombie unicorns, tech startups

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The New ‘Practical Magic 2’ Trailer Offers an Abundance of Plot Hints and Lee Pace (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-24 | get Practical Magic 2 DVD → | tags: practical magic 2, sandra bullock, nicole kidman

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Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | by Sergio Garcia | get Venezuela Debt Relief Book → | tags: venezuela, nicolás maduro, centerview partners

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How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get Smart Home Security Kit → | tags: digital home devices, cyberattacks, nicolaides

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SK Telecom named as the Korean carrier at the center of Anthropic's Mythos export controls controversy — access was revoked days before White House took Mythos and Fable 5 offline for all foreign nationals (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-19 | by Luke James | get SK Telecom 5G Router → | tags: sk telecom, anthropic, mythos

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Daily briefing: The proteins that protect us from deadly mutations (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-18 | by Graham | get Protein Mutation Protection Kit → | tags: proteins, mutations, ocean observatory

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Should nicotine be regulated like a narcotic? A Pacific nation makes the case (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-17 | by Fieldhouse | get Nicotine Replacement Therapy Kit → | tags: nicotine, palau, vapes

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Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Unicorn CPU Emulator Software → | tags: unicorn engine, alibaba cloud, cybersecurity

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A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | get PDP-11 Emulator Kit → | tags: pdp-11, minicomputers, digital equipment corporation

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Huge study hints at risks of switching from tobacco cigarettes to vapes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-14 | tags: tobacco cigarettes, vapes, health risks

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An interview with an Apple emoji designer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | by Keith Houston | get Apple Emoji Design Book → | tags: apple, emoji, unicode

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Investigation: Russian censorship systems (TMCT) expose Chinese DPI signatures (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-05 | tags: censorship, china, china unicom

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This Startup CEO Works 7 Days a Week and Sleeps on a Mattress in the Office: ‘Most Intense Workplace Culture in America’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-03 | by Sherin Shibu | get Office Sleep Mattress → | tags: corgi, nico laqua, ai insurance

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WordPress malware campaign hides payloads in Steam profiles (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-06-01 | get WordPress Security Plugin → | tags: wordpress, steam, valve

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Nintendo is back on mobile, and it wants to turn your selfies into minigames (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-29 | get Nintendo Switch Mini Game Kit → | tags: nintendo, pictonico, warioware

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Nintendo’s newest WarioWare is a weirdo smartphone app (theverge.com)

2026-05-28 | by Andrew Webster | get WarioWare: Move It! → | tags: warioware, nintendo, pictonico