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The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Jonathan Beard | tags: bell labs, tom cargill, programming pearls

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Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | by Jay Acunzo | tags: robin williams, art, sistine chapel

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I tested the best MacOS alternative on Linux again - and it even mimics Liquid Glass now (zdnet.com)

2026-06-17 | by Jack Wallen | get KDE Plasma Desktop Environment → | tags: pearos, liquid glass, arch linux

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AI cryptomining network's 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’ — GPU rental costs jump 38%, but Pearl’s cards are doing random matrix math, study claims (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Etiido Uko | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 → | tags: pearl, proof-of-useful-work, rtx 3090

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Facebook and Instagram are experiencing a service interruption (Update: Coming back) (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-12 | get Meta Portal Video Calling Device → | tags: ability, appears, appears getting

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These space stocks are not SpaceX—but they’re blasting off this week in the wake of IPO fever (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-12 | get Satellite Launch Kit → | tags: appear, appear benefiting, benefiting

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‘The Last of Us’ Season 3 Adds Peter Sarsgaard to Cast (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-12 | get The Last of Us Game → | tags: appear, appear video, character

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Bruce Springsteen’s new center in New Jersey is a jewel box monument to his music (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-12 | get Springsteen Music Box → | tags: american, american music, appears float

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Inflatable Elon Musk Appears in Times Square, Begs to be Popped like the AI Bubble (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-11 | get Inflatable Elon Musk Figure → | tags: ai bubble, appears, appears times

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OpenAI Says China Launched Influence Campaign To Shape US Attitudes On AI Datacenters (slashdot.org)

2026-06-11 | get AI Influence Campaign Book → | tags: amplify, amplify impact, anonymous

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Computing’s Top 30: Ming Jin (computer.org)

2026-06-11 | tags: appeared, career, computing

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Oracle stock is tumbling on cloud miss and costly data center plans: What it means for the AI bubble debate (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-11 | get Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide → | tags: appear, appear concerned, beat

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The luxury housing boom is unraveling. These are the only markets still getting more expensive (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-10 | get Luxury Real Estate Book → | tags: cities, defying, defying gravity

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Five winning images of scientists at work (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-10 | by Alexia Austin | get Science Photography Book → | tags: ago amid, aircraft, alps

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Liquid Glass for Linux? PearOS makes another Mac move - how it looks now (zdnet.com)

2026-06-09 | by Jack Wallen | get PearOS Linux Distro → | tags: desktop, linux, liquid

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Siri AI first look: How Apple's rebuilt AI-powered assistant behaves across iPhone, iPad and Mac (engadget.com)

2026-06-09 | by Cherlynn Low | get Apple Siri Smart Home Hub → | tags: appeared, screen, search

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Papa Johns is closing stores: See a list of doomed locations for 2026 as the pizza chain reduces its footprint (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-09 | get Papa Johns Pizza Cutter → | tags: american, american sales, announced

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Apple’s Vision Pro Will Stick AI Siri Right in Your Face (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-08 | get Apple Vision Pro Accessories → | tags: ai marble, appear, appear orb

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AMD welcomes Nvidia to the local AI PC race, points to Gorgon Halo's 192GB memory advantage (techspot.com)

2026-06-07 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: amd moving, appear, appear rattled

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Google tests making AI Mode the default in Search, then says it was an error (techspot.com)

2026-06-06 | get Google Bard AI Assistant → | tags: ai mode, appeared, appeared confirm

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It Turns Out Lookmaxxing Has Some Extremely Emasculating Side Effects (futurism.com)

2026-06-06 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: appearance, hormone, looksmaxxing

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Why Quantum Error Correction Has Become a Full-Stack Engineering Problem (computer.org)

2026-06-05 | get Quantum Error Correction Kit → | tags: appeared, close, correction

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What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-05 | get File Recovery Utility Kit → | tags: file, files, files appear

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More and more of us need to be on camera. Here’s how to do it without being cringe (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-03 | get Ring Light for Streaming → | tags: sxsw, anchorman, ron burgundy

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8 ways I optimize Zorin OS for peak performance - from a decades-long Linux user (zdnet.com)

2026-06-03 | by Jack Wallen | get Zorin OS Performance Tuning Kit → | tags: zorin os, gnome, linux mint

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Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | by Deborah Treisman | tags: shakespeare, butte montana, novel-in-progress

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New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding — RTX 5090 daily revenue has halved to $17.19 since April (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-31 | by Luke James | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 → | tags: pearl, nvidia, together ai

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Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow (wired.com)

2026-05-30 | by Lily Hay Newman | get Cybersecurity USB Data Block → | tags: mypillow, us military, cybercrime

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8 Zorin OS settings I change on every new install - and why you should, too (zdnet.com)

2026-05-28 | by Jack Wallen | get Zorin OS Customization Guide → | tags: zorin os, gnome, linux mint

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My favorite Zorin OS settings and why you'll love them too (zdnet.com)

2026-05-28 | by Jack Wallen | get Zorin OS Customization Kit → | tags: zorin os, gnome, linux mint