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Prolific Team Fortress 2 collector is selling his in-game case arsenal for an estimated $100,000 — 1.7 million items collected over 10 years are enough to fund a house purchase (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: team fortress 2, valve, steam marketplace

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The Best Kids’ Backpacks for the 2026 School Year (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Adrienne So | tags: the north face, chromebooks, simple modern

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HP’s HyperX Omen 15 isn’t quite the budget-friendly gaming laptop its predecessor was (theverge.com)

2026-08-02 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: hyperx omen 15, nvidia rtx 5050, ces

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Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Isabella Ward | tags: artificial intelligence, european union, deepfakes

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Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy? (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Boone Ashworth | tags: meta, smart glasses, face recognition

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Plenty premium, but pummeled by RAM crisis (zdnet.com)

2026-08-02 | by Kyle Kucharski | tags: framework laptop, intel series 3, ram shortage

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Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI? (theverge.com)

2026-08-02 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | tags: pippa, generative artificial intelligence, hogan shrum

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Do this for 5 to 10 minutes a day to improve your brain at any age, new research shows (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: university of texas, brain training, scientific reports

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Don't credit the LLM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: llm, openai, support requests

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Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: linux, desktop, market share

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The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI From China (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-02 | tags: silicon valley, open models, china

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Rogue AI Hacks Herald New Era of Cyber Chaos (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-01 | tags: openai, anthropic, ai hacking

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150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers 'Hardship Fund' (slashdot.org)

2026-08-01 | by Posted | tags: itch.io, necrosoft games, united videogame workers

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AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Betsy Vereckey | tags: mit, large language models, ai financial advice

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Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-01 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: hacker house, london island, applied ai

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The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: silicon valley, food delivery app, startup acquisition

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Apple's Stock Drops Nearly 10%. How Will It Respond to Memory Shortage? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-01 | by Posted | tags: apple, tim cook, memory shortage

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 2, #1148 (cnet.com)

2026-08-01 | by Gael Cooper | tags: nyt, connections, airport codes

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Dell founder shows how a $100 billion empire started 42 years ago — CEO says ‘This one page changed my life’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Jowi Morales | tags: dell technologies, ibm pcs, university of texas

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Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: flutter, dart 3, kaisel

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A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-01 | tags: balaji srinivasan, america, new country

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Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: cursor, enterprise plans, token pricing

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Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows (futurism.com)

2026-08-01 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, atlanta police department

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Google Briefly Turned Google Earth Into an AI Slop Factory (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: google earth, google, google products

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Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification (slashdot.org)

2026-08-01 | tags: google, android, sanctioned nations

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What is distributed Key Generation (DKG)? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: compute, parties, party

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5 of the best new Android apps you need to try this August (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: android apps, samsung messages, google messages

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We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Coerced People Into Getting Tattoos of Its Logo in Exchange for a Job Interview (futurism.com)

2026-08-01 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: ai startup, lemonlime, y combinator

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Apple weekend deals: AirPods Pro 3, Apple Studio Display $540 off, M5 MacBook Air $240 off, AirTag 2, more (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-01 | by Justin Kahn | tags: apple, airpods pro 3, apple studio display

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Third-party app stores are about to take over Google Play. Here’s how to prepare (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: google play store, third-party app stores, android