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iPhone 18 Pro Max storage can drop lower than a hard drive at 1.1 MB/s during heavy writes — QLC NAND offers higher capacity but reportedly suffers 38% drop compared to TLC-based Pro (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-21 | by Kunal Khullar | get SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD 1TB → | tags: iphone 18 pro max, qlc nand, tlc nand

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Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-21 | tags: fable 5, reasoning tokens, effort level

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Grok 4.7 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-21 | tags: grok 4.7, cursorbench 4.0, grok bot

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Apple Mac mini (Late 2026) Review: Strong performance, but losing its grip on value (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-21 | by Brandon Hill | get Apple Mac mini M4 → | tags: mac mini, apple m6, late 2026

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PlayStation 3 emulation devs work around an Nvidia bug for up to 37% faster performance — open-source coders reach out to Nvidia to over uncovered bug (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-21 | by Mark Tyson | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics card → | tags: rpcs3, nvidia driver bug, ps3 emulation

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Apple Mac mini M6 debuts: more performance at a higher price (techspot.com)

2026-09-21 | by Our Editors Hand-Pick Related Products Using A Variety Of Criteria | get Apple Mac mini M4 → | tags: apple, mac mini, m6 chip

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Want a promotion? Your performance counts but your behavior counts more (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-21 | tags: satya nadella, microsoft, promotion

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iOS 27 makes your iPhone faster in these 30+ ways (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-20 | by Chance Miller | get Apple iPhone 16 → | tags: ios 27, iphone performance, photos app

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Control Resonant PC performance tested: 28 GPUs take us back to the Oldest House and a warped Manhattan cityscape (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jeffrey Kampman | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics card → | tags: control resonant, dlss 4.5, ray reconstruction

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Huawei details AI accelerator roadmap, pulls in next-generation Ascend NPUs by several quarters — FP4 performance of the Ascend 960PR doubles expectations (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Anton Shilov | tags: huawei, ascend 960pr, ascend 970

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SpaceX Manager Arrested for Allegedly Stabbing a Tesla Contractor Over Karaoke Performance (futurism.com)

2026-09-17 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: spacex, tesla, kyle gonzalez

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Developer uses GPT-6 Astra to get CoD Black Ops 2 Hijacked map running natively inside Minecraft — achieves 45fps performance using Minecraft’s OpenGL context (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Mark Tyson | get Minecraft Java and Bedrock Edition PC → | tags: gpt-6 astra, black ops 2, minecraft

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Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card → | tags: amd, matrix cores, gpu architecture

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Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: quicksort, google, open source

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Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: quicksort, vectorization, performance-portable

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Single-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling Is Proven for the Next Decade of Ultra-Dense Compute (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-09-16 | get Corsair iCUE LINK H150i liquid CPU cooler → | tags: single-phase direct liquid cooling, two-phase cooling, immersion cooling

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Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Stephen Toub - Msft | tags: .net 11, christopher guest, spinal tap

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Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | tags: gauss-seidel, loop unrolling, loop-carried dependency

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MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro Focuses on Gaming, AI Performance for High-End Phones (cnet.com)

2026-09-15 | by Mike Sorrentino | get Anker PowerExpand Elite Thunderbolt 3 Dock → | tags: mediatek, dimensity 9600 pro, tsmc

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Wired vs wireless gaming mouse: is there really a difference in performance? (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Deven Mcclure | get Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse → | tags: wired vs wireless, gaming mouse, input latency

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High-performance garbage collection for C++ (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: oilpan, chromium, blink

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Conversations that AIs are having in the office that may influence your performance review and pay (cnbc.com)

2026-09-12 | by Cheryl Winokur Munk | get Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High book → | tags: ai coaching, performance review, the predictive index

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Why it might be time to use AI to rehearse pay, performance chats before meeting with your manager (cnbc.com)

2026-09-12 | by Cheryl Winokur Munk | get Crucial Conversations book → | tags: ai coaching, the predictive index, obi chatbot

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Apple’s A20 Pro chip puts the iPhone 18 Pro well ahead of Android flagships — for now (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-12 | tags: apple, a20 pro, iphone 18 pro

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My Pixel was overheating and stuttering until I made these 5 tweaks (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-12 | get Google Pixel 9 Pro → | tags: pixel, overheating, stuttering

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Hear Peter Cullen’s Final Optimus Prime Performance in New ‘Transformers’ Short Clip (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-11 | get Transformers The Movie 4K Ultra HD → | tags: peter cullen, optimus prime, transformers

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Is gaming on the Pixel 11 really that bad? I played 3 popular games to find out (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-10 | get Backbone One mobile gaming controller USB-C → | tags: pixel 11, tensor, gaming

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Apple says new A20 Pro chip can sustain twice the performance of the iPhone 16 Pro, deliver 40% faster graphics (techspot.com)

2026-09-10 | by Skye Jacobs | get Anker MagGo Qi2 magnetic wireless charger stand → | tags: a20 pro, iphone 18 pro, apple

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iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max Hands-On: Burgundy, Better Cameras, and Higher Performance (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-10 | tags: iphone 18 pro, iphone 18 pro max, burgundy

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iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max Hands-On: Burgundy, Better Cameras, and More Performance (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-10 | tags: iphone 18 pro, iphone 18 pro max, burgundy