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2251.

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: areas, backward, country

2252.

The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: android, apple, better

2253.

Apple considers round screens and more radical designs for future Apple Watch revamp (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Benjamin Mayo | tags: apple, apple watch, concept

2254.

This scrapped Apple Upgrade feature would’ve made setup much more seamless (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, backup, feature

2255.

Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: genes, lettuce, myoglobin

2256.

Roborock RockNeo Q110H Review: A Quiet and Capable Robot Lawn Mower (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: apparently, company make, good

2257.

Hands-on: This modular controller slides open to transform your iPhone into a mobile game console [Video] (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Fernando Silva | tags: controller, experience, magsafe

2258.

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: camera, cameras, detection

2259.

Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: chip, million, million sq

2260.

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: earth, machines, planet

2261.

A misleading headline made people think AI was replacing 911 dispatchers (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: emergency, human, opcd

2262.

Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: linux kernel, bpf, inlined functions

2263.

The pros and cons of the switch to digital games (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: digital, discs, game

2264.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: launched, project

2265.

Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: alaska, coast, coast guard

2266.

Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi

2267.

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: book, build, compiler

2268.

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, data centers

2269.

Myspace eyes comeback as an 'antidote' to social media fatigue — but it may be a long shot (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya | tags: media, myspace, platforms

2270.

This wearable patch could get you into REM sleep 43 minutes faster (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: brain, patch, rem sleep

2271.

Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: city, council, emporia

2272.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: core, gaming, intel

2273.

USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: newspaper, palantir, publisher

2274.

Everyone thinks the iPhone Ultra will crush Samsung. They’re wrong (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: android, apple, fold

2275.

The Fitness and Recovery Tech I Swear By as a Wellness Expert (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: apple, peloton, plus

2276.

If You’re Hoping to Collect on Apple’s $250M AI iPhone Settlement, You’ll Have to Wait a Year (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: apple, features, intelligence

2277.

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: card, drive, firmware

2278.

49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: autopilot, autopilot eyes, autopilot years

2279.

Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off 'Piet Quine' technique (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, endoh, image

2280.

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Oskari Mantere | tags: cloud, conf, sync