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Let’s Talk About the Ending of ‘Mortal Kombat II’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-08 | get Mortal Kombat Action Figure → | tags: mortal kombat, post-credit scene, video game adaptation

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Composite Artemis II Animation Shows Just How Much Stuff Is in Low Earth Orbit (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-08 | get LEO Satellite Tracking Device → | tags: artemis ii, low earth orbit, dodgeball

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Cursed New AI Service Writes a Mother’s Day Card and Mails It to Your Mom, Without Any Human Involvement Except Inputting Your Credit Card Details (futurism.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jon Christian | get AI Mother's Day Card Service → | tags: anthropic, openai, postable

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Matter of taste (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-08 | by Harrison | get Smart Kitchen Food Scale → | tags: taste receptors, aspergillus, outpost seven

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The hidden cost of nicotine products (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-07 | get Nicotine Replacement Therapy Kit → | tags: nicotine products, cigarette butts, disposable vapes

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Trump pressures Iran to end the war: ‘bombing starts’ if no deal is made (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-07 | tags: iran, u.s. proposals, strait of hormuz

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pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get PostgreSQL Monitoring Toolkit → | tags: pg_flight_recorder, postgresql, pg_cron

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10 trillion downloads are crushing open-source repositories - here's what they're doing about it (zdnet.com)

2026-05-06 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | get GitHub Copilot Subscription → | tags: sonatype, maven central, open-source repositories

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Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

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Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get Quantum Cryptography Starter Kit → | tags: quantum key distribution, quantum cryptography, nist

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Yet Another GitHub Incident (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get GitHub Actions Automation Kit → | tags: github, incident, comments

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Bozoma Saint John doesn’t believe in imposter syndrome—and here’s why you shouldn’t either (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-04 | get Imposter Syndrome Self-Help Book → | tags: bozoma saint john, leadership, imposter syndrome

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Looking to find meaning and purpose in your life? Try these simple steps (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-03 | tags: arthur brooks, the meaning of your life, purpose

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Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get Neanderthal Fat Storage Kit → | tags: neanderthals, bone marrow, neumark-nord 2

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Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get Prehistoric Fat Storage Kit → | tags: neanderthals, bone marrow, neumark-nord 2

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pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery Guide → | tags: pgbackrest, postgresql, pgxbackup

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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get Coding Interview Practice Book → | tags: software engineers, job postings, tech industry

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Bright idea? UK firm pioneers data centres using lampposts (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-05-01 | get Smart Streetlight Data Hub → | tags: uk firm, data centres, lampposts

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Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | get GitHub Private Repository Management → | tags: github, postgres, git

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Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | get Group Theory for Positional Encodings → | tags: group theory, positional encodings, attention

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Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | get Disposable Tech Gadget Kit → | tags: ghostbox, github actions, global free tier

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GhostBox – disposable little machines from the Global Free Tier. (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | get GhostBox Disposable Tech Gadget → | tags: ghostbox, github actions, global free tier

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Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | by Michael Steil | get PostScript Viewer for Browser → | tags: postscript, adobe, laserjet

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A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | get Sourcehut Starter Kit → | tags: sourcehut, github, git

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Simple and Correct Snapshot Isolation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get Database Snapshot Isolation Guide → | tags: snapshot isolation, serializable snapshot isolation, postgresql

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Does Postgres Scale? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get PostgreSQL Scaling Guide → | tags: postgres, aws rds, workflow

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Full-Text Search with DuckDB (news.ycombinator.com)

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Trashing Your Old Tech Hurts the Environment and Your Wallet. Some Still Do It Anyways (cnet.com)

2026-04-30 | by See Full Bio | get Tech Recycling Bin → | tags: apple, ipad, best buy

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For years, employers treated degrees as a proxy for competence. Technology just called their bluff (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-30 | get Online Coding Bootcamp Course → | tags: degree hacking, washington post, online degrees

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Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get SQLite Queue Management Tool → | tags: sqlite, honker, pub/sub