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Fiber-Optic Internet Cables Measure Earthquakes More Accurately Than the Government’s Alert System, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, government alert system

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When transit passes were designed by hand (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Stephen Coles | tags: milwaukee electric railway, transit passes, tobias frere-jones

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When transit passes were designed by hand (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Stephen Coles | tags: milwaukee electric railway, transit passes, tobias frere-jones

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Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: situational awareness, ai stock, july

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Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: situational awareness, ai stock, july

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The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy | tags: robot vacuums, federal communications commission, cybersecurity

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X settles with advertising group after accusing it of coordinating a boycott (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: world federation of advertisers, wfa, elonn musk

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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a quirky life sim that’s worth buying at this discount (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Brad Bourque | tags: tomodachi life, nintendo switch, miis

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Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Matt Beton | tags: 6502, bbc micro, autoregressive model

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LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: linkedin, ai slop, hari srinivasan

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Lumentum CEO warns of impending bottleneck on critical material used for silicon photonics — fab and material shortfall already lags 30% below customer needs as co-packaged optics demand skyrockets (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke James | tags: lumentum, indium phosphide, silicon photonics

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The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: generative ai, record charts, music industry

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61-Year-Old Japanese Man Arrested After Decade of Rocking Too Hard (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: japanese man, rock music, police arrest

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Food packaging is entering a new era of scrutiny (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: food packaging, sustainability, carbon emissions

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The End of an Era (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hugh Howey | tags: amazon kindle, kasparov, jeopardy

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Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3% with single stick (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: ddr5, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, tom's hardware

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Your motherboard's M.2 SSD heatsink might be slowing down your SSD — Only 6 of 20 tested boards made full contact (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Joe Shields | tags: motherboard, m.2 ssd, heatsink

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A third of physical PS5 games and half of Xbox Series discs need downloads to work properly, report shows (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Rob Thubron | tags: ps5, xbox series, physical discs

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MSI promises an EXPO ULL-like boost for your existing DDR5 memory — High-Efficiency Mode brings low-latency tuning to older RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: msi, expo ull, amd

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Save $900 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC from MSI in this limited-time Woot deal, now $1,399 — grab a huge saving on this Codex R2 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: msi, rtx 5070, nvidia geforce

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SJY Zeph Open-Back Headphones Review: Music Through Magnets (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Martin Cizmar | tags: sjy zeph, open-back headphones, airpods max

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Progressive Web Components (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ariel Salminen | tags: web components, react server components, elena library

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Exclusive: Here are the Galaxy S26 FE’s camera specs (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: galaxy s26 fe, samsung isocell, omnivision ov08a1

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The World Is Too Hot. El Niño Is Partly to Blame (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Molly Taft | tags: el niño, french president emmanuel macron, california coast

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Is it time for the B-school case study to die? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: flexner report, surgical simulators, medical education

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The surprising operating system behind brave decisions (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: brave decisions, guryan tighe, unmasking fear

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Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: playstation 5, xbox series x, doesitplay

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Sony pushes forward with ditching discs, despite backlash (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: playstation, sony, digitalization

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Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: gander, android, open source

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Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: marble os, ai agents, gui design