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Used Booksellers Are Racking Up Huge Sales. They’re Not Thrilled About the Likely Reason (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: used books, booksellers, sales

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Have a Pixel 10 Pro? Here are 6 reasons you shouldn’t upgrade to the Pixel 11 Pro (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: pixel 10 pro, pixel 11 pro, google

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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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Open-Weight AI Won’t Crimp Demand for Picks and Shovels (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-16 | tags: open-weight ai, artificial intelligence, picks and shovels

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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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The Two Factions of C++ (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Written By | tags: c++ standard committee, c++, google

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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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The Effective Altruists Reportedly Have Their Mojo Back Thanks to AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: effective altruists, mojo, report

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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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UK researchers are growing miniature human tissue from NHS patient cells to improve drug testing (techspot.com)

2026-08-16 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nhanced drug testing, organoids, nhs

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Why one of the most common brain disorders is also one of the most misunderstood (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: beginning, beginning turn, corner

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

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

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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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What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: pyinstaller, solarwinds, pypi

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‘Holiday hoarding’ is a workplace crisis (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: pto, burnout, workplace

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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

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

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

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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

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Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Ariel Bleicher | tags: eden geopower, electrical reservoir stimulation, geothermal heat

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X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: github, apache v2, for you