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An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: large language model, ground truth, verifying correctness

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White House authorizes private companies to launch 'hack-back' cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Luke James | tags: white house, cyberattacks, department of justice

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France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | by Author | tags: france tax authority, directorate general of public finances, zerobytes

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Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: czinger, diverent 3d, direct-metal laser-sintering

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A closer look at home price corrections in second-home housing markets Naples and Sevierville (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: naples, sevierville, housing market

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YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream Users Could Be Owed Money From Disney. Here’s the Deadline (cnet.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: youtube tv, directv stream, disney

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10 Directors We’d Love to See Make the Next ‘Jurassic World’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: jurassic world, scarlett johansson, gareth edwards

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France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls (slashdot.org)

2026-08-11 | tags: telemarketing calls, france, consumer protection

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Supermassive Games will lay off up to 75 workers (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kris Holt | tags: supermassive games, until dawn, firesprite

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Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: handwriting recognition, decision tree, symbol identification

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Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: handwriting recognition, decision tree, symbol identification

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Here's how to pair your Roku remote (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: roku, roku remote, bluetooth

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Author Correction: Cooperation conflicts with equality when allocating public goods (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sheng | tags: nature.com, public goods, cooperation

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Author Correction: Durable all-inorganic perovskite tandem photovoltaics (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-10 | by Duan | tags: perovskite, photovoltaics, extended data

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Utm Team | tags: build, calls, directx

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: advance, advance directed, affected

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‘Ramps’ Near Egypt’s Red Pyramid Might Actually Be Ancient Dams (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ancient, ancient egyptians, better

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: advance, advance directed, affected

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Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k=4 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: quantum error correction, happy code, greedy recovery

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A ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Sequel Is Happening, but Not With Gareth Edwards (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: dino, dino franchise, director

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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: aa omniscience, answers, correct

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You Could Get a $24,000 College Scholarship — Without Even Applying to Any Schools (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: admissions, admit, college

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Publisher Correction: Progressive plasticity during colorectal cancer metastasis (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Moorman | tags: colorectal cancer, plasticity, metastasis

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Accidental landlords are on the rise in housing markets where home prices are falling (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: home prices, capital gains tax, accidental landlords

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Perspec 1.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: perspec, adobe scan, dropbox

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Here's how to watch the Nintendo Direct for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sam Rutherford | tags: fire emblem, nintendo direct, fortune's weave

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Author Correction: Casdatifan shows durable response linked to HIF-2α biology in kidney cancer (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Choueiri | tags: casdatifan, hif-2α, kidney cancer

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Author Correction: Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-03 | by Revah | tags: human cortical organoids, creative commons, open access

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Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: kyoto university, habit formation, neural changes

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Windows NT 4.0 brought the Win95 UI to servers 30 years ago today — milestone unifying modern Windows OS hit RTM in the Pentium era (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: windows nt, microsoft, windows 95