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3211.

Trivia: What was the population of the Death Star? (techspot.com)

2026-05-04 | tags: death star, galaxy, engineering

3212.

Grimly Cyberpunk Video Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Leaning Out of Propeller Plane to Obliterate Drones With Rifles (futurism.com)

2026-05-04 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: ukrainian drones, yak-52 aircraft, 11th army aviation brigade

3213.

Tesla hits Musk’s threshold for ‘safe unsupervised’ driving (theverge.com)

2026-05-04 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | get Tesla Autopilot Safety Kit → | tags: tesla, elon musk, full self-driving

3214.

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | get eBay Gift Card → | tags: gme, ebay, td securities

3215.

Circle to Search update lets Google look beyond your screen content (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-04 | get Google Nest Cam Indoor → | tags: circle to search, google, android

3216.

Feds Fine Durham Energy Efficiency Co $722M (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | by Lisa Sorg | get Energy Star LED Bulb → | tags: american efficient, ferc, durham

3217.

RIP Ask Jeeves: Historic Google Search rival shuts down after 30 years (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-04 | get Google Search Console → | tags: ask.com, google search, iac

3218.

Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by Olivia Richman | get Flock Safety License Plate Reader → | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, colorado

3219.

How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by Delfina Hoxha | get Website Integration Toolkit → | tags: company a, company b, company c

3220.

How far behind is each major Chromium browser? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Chromium Browser Developer Edition → | tags: chromium, browser, security vulnerabilities

3221.

Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Metal Gear Solid 2 Art Book → | tags: metal gear solid, source code, 4chan

3222.

Opinion | As Warfare Changes, Land Power Remains Vital (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-03 | get Military Strategy Board Game → | tags: us military, land power, warfare

3223.

Sony's AI Robot Can Probably Beat You at Table Tennis (cnet.com)

2026-05-03 | by See Full Bio | get Table Tennis Robot → | tags: sony ai, project ace, reinforcement learning

3224.

Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | tags: llm, wiki builder, claude code

3225.

Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Cybersecurity Book Bundle → | tags: javascript, security, obfuscation

3226.

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by Matt Adams | get Mercedes-Benz Touch Control Knob → | tags: mercedes-benz, glc, mbux hyperscreen

3227.

Popular 90s search engine ‘Ask Jeeves’ finally bites the dust — parent company shutters website that pioneered natural language queries, only a placeholder results page remains (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-03 | by Jowi Morales | get Ask Jeeves T-Shirt → | tags: ask jeeves, iac, ask.com

3228.

Anthropic in early talks to buy DRAM-less AI inference chips from UK startup — Fractile's SRAM architecture reduces need for pricey memory during extreme pricing and shortage crunch (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-03 | by Luke James | get AI Inference Chip Kit → | tags: anthropic, fractile, inference chips

3229.

Samsung Messages Is Going Away in July: Save Your Texts Before It Disappears (cnet.com)

2026-05-03 | by See Full Bio | get Samsung Galaxy Text Backup → | tags: samsung messages, google messages, galaxy s26

3230.

Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare and expendable combat missions — $2,000 expendable combat drones cost less than some gaming PCs (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-03 | by Etiido Uko | get Disposable Drone Kit → | tags: airkamuy, cardboard drones, japan maritime self-defense force

3231.

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get YAML Templating Tool → | tags: ai psychosis, yaml specs, claude ai

3232.

Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by Michael Martin | get Retro Computing Kit → | tags: z80, 6502, intel 8080

3233.

Open source does not imply open community (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Open Source Community Guide → | tags: open source, github, dvcs

3234.

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by A Note To Package Authors | get Haskell Programming Book → | tags: haskell, mercury, nullpointerexception

3235.

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by A Note To Package Authors | get Haskell Programming Book → | tags: haskell, mercury, nullpointerexception

3236.

World's biggest RC A380 [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get RC Airbus A380 Model → | tags: rc aircraft, a380, aerospace

3237.

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

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

3238.

A little comparison between R and Kap (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | by Elias Mårtenson | get R Programming Book → | tags: pandas, kap, read_csv

3239.

The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-02 | tags: eli lilly, roche, supercomputers

3240.

Retailer selling broken RTX 5090 GPUs for as low as $1,760 — GPUs were damaged during transport, but include all components on the PCB (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-02 | by Hassam Nasir | get RTX 5090 GPU Repair Kit → | tags: nvidia geforce rtx 5090, ldlc, msiventus 3x oc