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AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Francisco Trindade | tags: junior engineer, pull request, senior engineer

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The TCL QM8L proves it's worth the upgrade in our lab testing (zdnet.com)

2026-08-20 | by Taylor Clemons | tags: tcl qm8l, samsung, sony

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Chinese Startup Shows Off Robot Horse You Can Actually Ride (futurism.com)

2026-08-20 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: daxai, cyber horse, qiji x1

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Private equity is coming for your kid’s sports league (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: private equity, kalamazoo, youth sports

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Qualcomm just teased two new Snapdragon 8 Elite chips (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite, qualcomm, snapdragon summit

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Daily briefing: People older than 100 have more cancer-killing cells (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-20 | by Graham | tags: pasqal, killer t cells, brain organoids

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Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-19 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: rillet, ai accounting, enterprise resource planning

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Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: google, spirit airlines, data acquisition

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Physicists Think They’ve Discovered a New Type of Quantum Matter (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: quantum droplet, physicists, particles

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From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: quantum relative entropy, semiclassical einstein equations, quantum physics

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Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: unsloth, dynamic v3.0, gguf

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Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban? (theverge.com)

2026-08-19 | by Sean Hollister | tags: dji, hoverair, fcc

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Rules of Good Social Skills (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: social skills, 2025, rules

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Rules of Good Social Skills (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: social skills, communication, interpersonal

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Whoop Expands Beyond Its Wearable Membership With Blood Tests (cnet.com)

2026-08-19 | by Anna Gragert | tags: whoop, quest diagnostics, blood tests

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Grab the 50-inch Fire TV Omni QLED for 43% off while this record-low deal lasts (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: fire tv omni qled, amazon, dolby vision iq

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What's the difference between Android's Qi2 And Qi2.2 wireless charging? (engadget.com)

2026-08-19 | by Anna Washenko | tags: qi2, qi2.2, android smartphones

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Qualcomm retracts select Snapdragon C power efficiency benchmarks nearly a week after publication — updated slide removes idle apps and web browsing results (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jake Roach | tags: qualcomm, snapdragon c, tom's hardware

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I tested Bose's new midrange headphones - now the pricey Ultras feel redundant (zdnet.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jada Jones | tags: bose, quietcomfort, sennheiser

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London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone cleaned up the city’s air. Then children’s lungs got bigger (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: ultra low emission zone, london, vehicle emissions

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PostgreSQL for Everything (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: postgresql, mysql, timescaledb

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The Pixel 11 isn’t the best Pixel of 2026, but it’s the smartest buy (theverge.com)

2026-08-19 | by Cameron Faulkner | tags: pixel 11, google, pixel 10a

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The Pixel 11 Pro is a great phone, no thanks to its flashiest new features (theverge.com)

2026-08-19 | by David Imel | tags: pixel 11 pro, google, computational photography

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Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water' (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: liquid death, garage beer, jason kelce

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Get better color accuracy on your TV with these simple steps (zdnet.com)

2026-08-19 | by Taylor Clemons | tags: oled, qled, micro rgb

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AI server boom funds $314 universal cash payout in Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te says the payout ensures the country's AI windfall 'can be shared by all,' 11% GDP growth and $903B export surge finance $7.4B dividend (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: ai servers, taiwan, foxconn

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: critical infrastructure, post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics

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The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: mojo, qualcomm, modular platform

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Someone put Android 13 on the reMarkable Paper Pro, and it actually works (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: android 13, remarkable paper pro, chalid raqami