GoKawiil - Tech News

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Rethinking Database Programming (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: database programming, software development, sql

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How I turned my fish tank high tech (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Emma Roth | tags: petbank, nano fish, celestial pearl danios

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How to Customize Your iPhone’s Apps and Home Screen (cnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | tags: ios 26, apple, home screen

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Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Dominic Preston | tags: fairphone, fairphone 6 plus, android police

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PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: hydro-québec, gull island, churchill falls

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Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: alibaba, qwen3.8-27b, hugging face

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Daily briefing: ‘Too hot to sleep’ is harmful to your health (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-18 | by Graham | tags: dolphin shelling, queensland, tursiops aduncus

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Lock It Up: Android 17’s Latest QPR2 Beta Introduces a Built-In App Lock (cnet.com)

2026-08-17 | by Joe Hindy | tags: android 17, qpr2 beta, app lock

129.

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: quake, id software, cd-rom

130.

Android 17 QPR 1 Beta 9 shares its fixes as Google puts on the finishing touches (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: android 17, qpr 1, pixel 6

131.

Heisenberg Said Empty Space Isn’t Really Empty. A Magnetic Star May Have Finally Proven Him Right (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: heisenberg, magnetic star, quantum labs

132.

Gboard is cooking up a speedy new way to add content to messages (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: gboard, quick insert, android

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Here’s what’s new with iOS and macOS 27 beta 6 (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Zac Hall | tags: ios 27, macos 27, apple intelligence

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macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 features redesigned traffic light window controls (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Zac Hall | tags: macos 27, golden gate, apple

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Apple rolls out Release Candidates for macOS Tahoe 26.7 and macOS Sequoia 15.8 [U] (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: macos tahoe, macos sequoia, apple

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Apple rolls out Release Candidates for macOS Tahoe 26.7 and macOS Sequoia 15.8 (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: macos tahoe, macos sequoia, apple

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Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: qwen3.8, artificial analysis, open weight models

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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: origin, github, cursor

139.

AirBuddy 3 now available with new Action HUD, widgets, Now Playing, deeper automation, more (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: airbuddy, gui rambo, magic handoff

140.

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: github, microsoft, outages

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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: groq, ai chips, neocloud

142.

Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Charlie Wood | tags: magnetization, quantum field theory, wilson machinery

143.

GitHub was down for most of the day (engadget.com)

2026-08-17 | by Kris Holt | tags: github, copilot, microsoft

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GitHub has been down for most of the day (engadget.com)

2026-08-17 | by Kris Holt | tags: github, copilot, microsoft

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Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Michał Piszczek | tags: qwen3.8, nvidia rtx pro 4000, llama.cpp

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AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: ai companies, used bookstores, model training

147.

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: flags quiz, world flags, regions

148.

GitHub down again? no PR access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: github, githubstatus, pull requests

149.

Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: stripe, openrouter, acquisition

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HP Omnibook X (2026) review: Nailing the basics (engadget.com)

2026-08-17 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: omnibook x, intel x9, intel arc b390