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2101.

Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-05 | get FlatBuffers → | tags: adblock, brave, browser

2102.

Qualcomm’s Next PC Chip Promises Even Better Battery Life Than Before (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-05 | get Quantum Dot Display → | tags: chip, chip hopes, hopes

2103.

Qualcomm's new chipset makes budget shopping for laptops a whole lot easier in 2026 (zdnet.com)

2026-01-05 | by Cesar Cadenas | get Laptop Processor → | tags: core, features, laptops

2104.

Qualcomm expands Snapdragon on Windows with X2 Plus – 10-core ARM CPU boasts 35% single-core jump (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Jake Roach | get X2 Plus → | tags: chips, core, cores

2105.

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Plus chip at CES (engadget.com)

2026-01-05 | get Snapdragon X2 Plus → | tags: core, core performance, cores

2106.

Best Workout Mirrors for 2025 (cnet.com)

2026-01-05 | by See Full Bio | get Fitness Mirror → | tags: able, classes, forme

2107.

Cigarette smoke effect using shaders (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-05 | get Graphics Card → | tags: fragment, texture, textureimpl

2108.

This egg-shaped gadget aims to demystify hormones… with pee (theverge.com)

2026-01-05 | by Victoria Song | get Hormone Monitor → | tags: health, home, hormone

2109.

Samsung HW-QS90H soundbar hands-on: Impressive bass performance without a subwoofer (engadget.com)

2026-01-05 | get Soundbar → | tags: advertisement, didn, drivers

2110.

Trump Organization's $499 Smartphone Delayed Again, Now Until the End of January (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get iPhone → | tags: cast, cast void, form

2111.

Archboot Adds COSMIC Desktop as a New Install and Rescue Option (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get COSMIC → | tags: cast, cast void, form

2112.

Furiosa's Energy-Efficient 'NPU' AI Chips Start Mass Production This Month, Challenging Nvidia (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get NPU → | tags: cast, cast void, form

2113.

Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-04 | by Mark Tyson | get Blu-ray Disc → | tags: blu ray, format, format war

2114.

The US Effort to Break China's Rare-Earth Monopoly (slashdot.org)

2026-01-04 | by Posted | get Rare-earth magnets → | tags: cast, cast void, form

2115.

Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture (wired.com)

2026-01-03 | by David Gilbert | get Social media platforms → | tags: google, image, maduro

2116.

Opinion | The Screens Hijack My Class (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-02 | get Smartphone → | tags: don know, ipad, ipad normal

2117.

Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-02 | get Facial Recognition System → | tags: grok, images, platforms

2118.

A silly diffuse shading model (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | get Diffuse Shading Model → | tags: cdot, formula, light

2119.

The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | by About The Author | get Session SPAs → | tags: interactions, latency, performance

2120.

Best Robot Vacuums: Our Latest Lab Testing Reveals the Best Robots for the New Year (cnet.com)

2026-01-01 | by See Full Bio | get Robot Vacuum → | tags: carpet, mid pile, performance

2121.

Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | get Intel Core → | tags: benchmarks, hardware, lenovo

2122.

New GlassWorm malware wave targets Macs with trojanized crypto wallets (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-01 | get Crypto Wallet → | tags: extension, extensions, glassworm

2123.

Survey confirms: You don’t need any ‘elite’ chip for your next phone (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-31 | get Smartphone → | tags: chip, elite, just

2124.

The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-31 | get Smartphone → | tags: code, function, functions

2125.

Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-31 | by Charles Platkin | get Water Purification System → | tags: aircraft, airlines, coli

2126.

Steam's 2025 best sellers show indie games competing with AAA hits (techspot.com)

2025-12-30 | get Game Engine → | tags: available information, based revenue, chart

2127.

Free speech’s great leap backwards (theverge.com)

2025-12-30 | by Felipe De La Hoz | get Open Internet → | tags: administration, agents, apple

2128.

Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI (slashdot.org)

2025-12-29 | get Neural Network → | tags: brain, brain lazarus, committee

2129.

Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-29 | by Molly White | get Trust Wallet → | tags: created, created molly, definitely

2130.

TSMC begins quietly volume production of 2nm-class chips — first GAA transistor for TSMC claims up to 15% improvement at ISO power (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Anton Shilov | get GAA → | tags: density, performance, power