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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: built, memory, microsoft

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Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: areas, backward, country

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FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: drones, grade, lidar

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Trump’s Social Media Team Craves Your Unwilling Participation in Its Weird Fetish (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: clearly, clearly getting, getting

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Micron reportedly offers pennies on the dollar for Crucial RAM return, only offers to reimburse original MSRP despite it being only 37% of market value — chipmaker later reverses course with a better solution (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: crucial, memory, memory kit

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Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: flash, increases, industry

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Tesla Explosion Sends Injured Firefighters to the Hospital (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: battery, explosion, family

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RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: capacity, digitimes, growing

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The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Alice Cuddy | tags: advancing, advancing capital, angry

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We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: battery, energy, grid

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: beshry, beshry said, joining

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: assignments, schools, secondary

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Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: assignments, schools, secondary

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The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: century, light, light possible

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Save $160 off AMD's ultimate gaming CPU combo, includes motherboard and chip cooler — $458 combo features Ryzen 7 9800X3D, B850 motherboard, and a 240mm liquid AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: bundle, deals, gaming

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Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: add memory, add numbers, assembly

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China's memory-making champion smashes DDR5-8800 barrier on AMD platform — CXMT chips close the gap with SK hynix (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: chipmaker, colorful, cxmt

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Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: billion, billion years, earth

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Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: building, factory, million

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Simon Willison | tags: agent, agents, artifactory

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SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: capacity, hynix, memory

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Inside the Trump administration’s $2 billion push to build the world’s first useful quantum computer (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: brought, house, house quantum

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Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Thomas Ricker | tags: bank, battery, lights

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‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ star confirmed for his third Apple TV project (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, apple tv, deadline

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RFK Jr. Is Too Rich to Know the Price of Groceries, Not Rich Enough to Stop Grifting (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doesn, doesn live, health

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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: agent, agent memory, agents