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Used Booksellers Are Racking Up Huge Sales. They’re Not Thrilled About the Likely Reason (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: used books, booksellers, sales

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Have a Pixel 10 Pro? Here are 6 reasons you shouldn’t upgrade to the Pixel 11 Pro (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: pixel 10 pro, pixel 11 pro, google

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Rogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mph — LA to NYC correspondence takes 22 hours to deliver; virtual birds can get distracted or even lost (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: ios, carrier pigeon, noah larrobino

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Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Dayna Camilleri-Clarke | tags: foreign supermarkets, nightingale, supermarket layout

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Cursed Startup Now Offering Buy-Now-Pay-Later Radiation Exposure Kits in Case of Nuclear Armageddon (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: nuclear, amble, klarna

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The Effective Altruists Reportedly Have Their Mojo Back Thanks to AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: effective altruists, mojo, report

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Your Samsung phone has a hidden Settings shortcut menu — here’s how to enable it (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: samsung galaxy, good lock, regi star

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UK researchers are growing miniature human tissue from NHS patient cells to improve drug testing (techspot.com)

2026-08-16 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nhanced drug testing, organoids, nhs

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Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore (theverge.com)

2026-08-16 | by Robert Hart | tags: openai, hugging face, ai safety

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SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: falcon 9, spacex, starlink

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A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: geiger counter, portable device, low power

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What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: pyinstaller, solarwinds, pypi

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‘Holiday hoarding’ is a workplace crisis (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: pto, burnout, workplace

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Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny: Nassim Taleb (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | tags: alcohol studies, nassim taleb, us government

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Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Ariel Bleicher | tags: eden geopower, electrical reservoir stimulation, geothermal heat

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X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: github, apache v2, for you

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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: multi-agent systems, ai agents, agent-agent interaction

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The ‘Country Hicks’ Who Refused $26 Million from an AI Data Center (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-16 | tags: kentucky, ai data center, country hicks

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Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: mic drop, show hn, multiplayer

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Disney’s Millennium Falcon Ride Activates Fortnite In-Game Rewards (cnet.com)

2026-08-16 | by Corinne Reichert | tags: millennium falcon, disney parks, fortnite

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AI Is Helping Patients Solve Medical Mysteries (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: medical diagnostics, patients, doctors

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Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: tea5767, esp32, ky-040

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How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: jellyfish, electricite de france, gravelines nuclear

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How Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8 measures your antioxidant levels (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Husain Parvez | tags: samsung, galaxy watch 8, raman spectroscopy

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The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: arecibo observatory, wow signal, hipparcos

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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: johns hopkins, waist circumference, visceral fat

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Grab this RTX 5070 gaming PC for just $1,499, saving $600 off list price — Acer Nitro 85 prebuilt comes with 16GB of RAM, Core Ultra 7 265F, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5070, acer nitro 85, intel core ultra 7

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How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: oracle, oracle ceo, openai

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Apple Watch battery replacement: How much does it cost and is it worth it? (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Christine Persaud | tags: apple watch, watchos 27, apple watch series 9

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Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: kimi work, feedback reports, session data