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Do You Know Your VPN’s Jurisdiction? Your Privacy Depends on It (cnet.com)

2026-03-27 | by See Full Bio | get ExpressVPN VPN Service → | tags: vpn, jurisdiction, privacy

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Thread Witnesses 80% Decline In Engagement, Exposes Flaws In Social Media’s Connection Hypothesis (techreport.com)

2026-03-26 | by Alpa Somaiya | get Blue Sky Social Media App → | tags: threads, mark zuckerberg, social media

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This Email Strategy Turns One-Time Buyers Into Long-Term Subscribers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-25 | by Alex Padilla | get Email Marketing Automation Tool → | tags: email marketing, subscription retention, litmus

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4 lessons from the mass timber movement (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-25 | get Mass Timber Construction Book → | tags: mass timber, green building, climate crisis

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Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe Kit → | tags: tic-tac-toe, discrete transistors, logisim

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Stop Chasing New Customers. Here’s How to Keep the Ones You Already Won (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-17 | by Chris Flood | get Customer Retention Strategies Book → | tags: customer retention, ai assistants, social media marketing

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Creative's Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro brings discrete audio back from the grave (techspot.com)

2026-03-16 | get Sound Blaster Audigy FX → | tags: creative, sound blaster, audigy fx pro

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WhatsApp launches preteen accounts, here’s how they work (9to5mac.com)

2026-03-11 | by Ryan Christoffel | get Kids Safety Phone Kit → | tags: whatsapp, preteen accounts, end-to-end encryption

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Nexperia China begins making its own chips after split with Dutch parent (techspot.com)

2026-03-11 | get Nexperia Semiconductor Development Kit → | tags: nexperia, china, bipolar discrete

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Discrete Structures [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | get Discrete Structures → | tags: discrete, discrete structures, structures

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The History of the Rebellion That Nearly Broke House Targaryen (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-16 | get House Targaryen → | tags: blackfyre, blackfyre pretenders, kingdoms

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picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-16 | get Pico → | tags: commands, interpreter, picol

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OLED gaming monitor shows only light burn-in after 3,000-hour torture test — 500 hours of Overwatch gameplay leaves a faint scar on the premium panel (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Hassam Nasir | get OLED display → | tags: burn, image, image retention

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Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-05 | get Virtual Reality Headset → | tags: chimps, human, long

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This bonobo had a pretend tea party — showing make believe isn’t just for humans (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-05 | by Callaway | get Virtual Reality Headset → | tags: bastos, imaginary, kanzi

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These mysterious ridges could be the secret to younger skin (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-05 | by Petrić Howe | get Facial Ridges → | tags: animal, clues, form

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Cornell research shows that underwater 3D printing can be used to build or repair ocean structures in place — DARPA-funded project aims to make underwater construction faster, cheaper, and safer (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Mark Tyson | get 3D Printing → | tags: concrete, construction, cornell

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Oxford’s giant new lab building has a secret hidden in its facade (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-28 | get Facade → | tags: actually, brain, brain scan

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CPython Internals Explained (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-27 | get CPython → | tags: based version, contents, cpython

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This simple robot could drastically speed up data center construction (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-27 | get Robot → | tags: anchor, concrete, holes

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Hypnosis with Aphantasia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-18 | by Liana Scott | get Neurofeedback → | tags: guided, hypnosis, life

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Beneath acid skies (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Bochnia Küster | get Cloud Computing → | tags: acid, elijah, eyes

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This open-source tool uses AI to translate Japanese retro games on the fly (techspot.com)

2026-01-05 | get GamePal → | tags: aims, aims provide, bertrand quenin

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LG says it’s launching the world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop — also announces 16-inch ultra-portable laptop with 'dual-AI' functionality (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-02 | by Jowi Morales | get Laptop → | tags: discrete, gram, inch

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LG says that it’s launching the world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop — also announces 16-inch ultra-portable laptop with 'dual-AI' functionality (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-02 | by Jowi Morales | get Laptop → | tags: discrete, gram, inch

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Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-02 | get Gamepad → | tags: game, install, installer

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Everybody’s Getting In on the Canvas TV Craze (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-30 | get Smart TV → | tags: far screen, look far, painting

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You can't design software you don't work on (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-29 | get Database → | tags: advice, concrete, design

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NMH BASIC (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-27 | get Neutron Monitor → | tags: basic, input, interpreter

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Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | get Python 3.15 → | tags: case, interpreter, ms ms