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1591.

Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack drops to an all-time-low price (engadget.com)

2026-02-17 | get AirPods → | tags: apple, battery, battery pack

1592.

This one-of-a-kind cowboy hat from Gold House and Stetson celebrates the Year of the Fire Horse in style (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-17 | get Cowboy Hat → | tags: action, action boldness, asian

1593.

How to Review an AUR Package (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | by Bert Peters | get OpenVINO → | tags: arch, build, install

1594.

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | by Mateusz Viste | get Sparrow OS → | tags: development, packages, project

1595.

NASA’s Latest Attempt to Resolve Moon Rocket’s Fueling Problems Didn’t Go As Planned (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-16 | get Fuel cells → | tags: sls rocket, artemis 2, nasa

1596.

macOS Tahoe 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add compact tab bar in Safari (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-16 | by Ryan Christoffel | get Tab Bar → | tags: compact, compact tab, ipad

1597.

Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-16 | get Coulomb Gas → | tags: rust, coulomb gas, iphone

1598.

MagSafe Monday: Hands-on with The Ridge’s 5-in-1 Magnetic Power Bank (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-16 | by Bradley C | get Power Bank → | tags: battery, built, cables

1599.

TSMC considers an additional $100 billion investment into Arizona fabs to bolster American chipmaking efforts — move would help TSMC's chips avoid tariffs due to local production (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Chipmaking → | tags: billion, capacity, taiwan

1600.

What Would the First Week of World War III Look Like in Space? (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-16 | get Satellite → | tags: iii look, like space, look like

1601.

Elon Musk Eyes Moon Facility, Catapult to Send AI Satellites Into Orbit (cnet.com)

2026-02-16 | by See Full Bio | get Satellite → | tags: based ai, factory, musk

1602.

Western Digital's HDD production for 2026 is already sold out (techspot.com)

2026-02-16 | get Hard Disk Drive → | tags: hdd western digital, space x starship, rust programming language

1603.

The El Paso No-Fly Debacle Is Just the Beginning of a Drone Defense Mess (wired.com)

2026-02-16 | by Lily Hay Newman | get Drone Defense System → | tags: airspace, army, defense

1604.

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake. (technologyreview.com)

2026-02-16 | by Kim Zetter | tags: enforcement, law enforcement, nixon

1605.

Makers Are Building Back Against ICE (wired.com)

2026-02-16 | by Boone Ashworth | get Smartphone → | tags: agents, build, federal

1606.

Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-16 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Neysa → | tags: blackstone, capacity, founder

1607.

Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges (slashdot.org)

2026-02-15 | by Posted | get GitHub → | tags: campaign, package, packages

1608.

Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery is cheaper than ever right now (engadget.com)

2026-02-15 | get AirPods → | tags: battery, battery pack, charge

1609.

Scientists Spot Signs of Derelict Soviet Moon Lander on Lunar Surface (futurism.com)

2026-02-15 | by Victor Tangermann | get Spacecraft → | tags: landing, luna, moon

1610.

Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-02-14 | by Willie D. Jones | get Lidar Scanner → | tags: lidar, microvision, rust

1611.

My Houseplants Kept Dying Until I Tried This $13 Device (cnet.com)

2026-02-14 | by See Full Bio | get Smart Plant Sensor → | tags: capacitive sensors, orchid, cnet

1612.

Elon Musk Has Changed His Mission Statement (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-14 | get Neuralink → | tags: elon musk, space x starship, iphone 16

1613.

I tried the best XR display glasses right now - the winning pair was not the most expensive (zdnet.com)

2026-02-14 | by Jason Howell | get Smart Glasses → | tags: rayneo air 3s pro, xreal 1s, viture beast

1614.

Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-14 | get Satellite → | tags: kuiper belt, neptune, legacy survey of space and time

1615.

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Audio cable → | tags: copper wire, diyaudio, banana

1616.

iFixIt calls BMW’s new anti-consumer security screws 'a logo-shaped middle finger to right to repair,' Adafruit 3D prints a solution — BMW's connector reverse engineered using patent filing as a design blueprint (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-14 | by Mark Tyson | get iFixit Adafruit → | tags: bmw roundel logo, torx fasteners, right to repair

1617.

Corsair redesigns DDR5 packaging to combat rising RAM scams (techspot.com)

2026-02-14 | get DDR5 → | tags: corsair, dd5, ram scams

1618.

The ‘zombie internet’ has arrived—and it has devastating consequences for advertising, social media, and the human web (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-14 | get Internet → | tags: moltbook, social media, advertising

1619.

Man Lets AI Rent His Body (futurism.com)

2026-02-14 | by Joe Wilkins | get Neuralink → | tags: rentahuman, ai bots, spacex starship

1620.

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-14 | get Matplotlib → | tags: matplotlib, python, rust