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AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Elie Dolgin | tags: stanford university, ai-designed phages, bacteriophages

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Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Jowi Morales | tags: photon matrix, indiegogo, lidar

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Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: quasicrystals, webxr, show hn

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US Navy 3D prints combat-ready drones and 1,000+ parts aboard aircraft carrier during exercise — containerized factory fabricated 80-mph FPVs and critical spares despite rough seas and 12-foot waves (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Mark Tyson | tags: firestorm labs, xcell platform, 3d printing

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A Kingdom Hearts anime is coming to Disney+ (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Mariella Moon | tags: kingdom hearts, disney+, square enix

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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: codex, gpu mode, core automation

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Disney Wants You to Behold the First ‘VisionQuest’ Trailer (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: disney, visionquest, marvel

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Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: earthquake, indonesia, magnitude 7.7

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NSA and IETF, Part 9 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: nsa, ietf, pqcrypto

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Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: pull request, code review, ai tools

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New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Kate Taylor | tags: madison square garden, facial recognition, biometric data

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Why Software Quality Is Now a Founder-Level Problem, Not Just an Engineering One (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-14 | by Mudit Singh | tags: software quality, founder problem, ai code generation

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Predict Antenna Coupling on Electrically Large Platforms Before Building Hardware (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: antenna coupling, mutual s-parameters, wipl-d

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Discrete Fourier Transform by Hand (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | by Prof. Tom Yeh | tags: discrete fourier transform, neural network, u-net

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This 50-inch 2026 Toshiba 4K QLED Fire TV is down to $199.99 at Amazon (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: toshiba, fire tv, qled

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Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: qwen, unsloth, gguf

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Qwen3.8-27B (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: qwen, qwen3.8-27b, gguf

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Qwen 3.8 27B (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: qwen, transformers, fp8 quantization

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Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: qwen, qwen 3.8, hugging face

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This flagship with a massive battery and a 200MP camera is just around the corner (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: poco, redmi, k100 pro

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Apple’s China AI strategy now includes training its own custom model, per report (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-14 | by Zac Hall | tags: apple, china, alibaba

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US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-14 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: fbi, spyware, wiretap

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Allstate CEO’s Message on Quantum Computing: ‘Get on the Train’ (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-14 | tags: allstate, quantum computing, ceo

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Google’s Pixel Phones Are Getting a Tap-to-Share Feature for Contact Info and More (cnet.com)

2026-08-14 | by Dashia Milden | tags: pixel, google, quick share

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Best Wireless Chargers (2026): My Picks After Testing 100+ (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Simon Hill | tags: krafted couch, qi2, nimble apollo

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Businesses Are Spending Big on Quantum (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-14 | tags: quantum computing, encryption, businesses

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Start your PC gaming journey with this $1,100 1080p gaming rig, now $300 off — RTX 5060 rig from Newegg ships with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Ben Stockton | tags: newegg, rtx 5060, intel core i5-14400f

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AI is revealing the hidden flaws in the labor market (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: labor market, inequalities, organizations

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Pixel 11 Pro XL vs. Galaxy S26 Ultra: There’s only one I’d spend my money on (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: galaxy s26 ultra, pixel 11 pro xl, qualcomm snapdragon

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Modder straps two desktop CPU coolers to ZTE handset, turns smartphone into a gaming PC — Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC with 24GB of RAM runs The Witcher 3 at 1080p ultra (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: zte nubia z70 ultra, qualcomm snapdragon 8 elite, the witcher 3