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1801.

DIY PC maker Framework's desktops finally succumb to RAM apocalypse, hit with price increase — now starts at $1,139 with 32GB, 128GB up $450 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-13 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get RAM → | tags: blog, desktop, framework

1802.

DIY PC maker Framework finally succumbs to RAM apocalypse, is raising prices on its desktops — now starts at $1,139 with 32GB, 128GB up $450 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-13 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get RAM → | tags: blog, desktop, framework

1803.

Elon Musk's Grok Is Under Fire Worldwide Over Illegal Images— But Musk Is Defiant (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: creating, elon musk, government

1804.

Time's Running Out to Grab the Speedy Apple M4 Mac Mini While It's $99 Off (cnet.com)

2026-01-13 | by See Full Bio | get Mac Mini → | tags: apple, best, cnet

1805.

PSA: Hate the Ask button in Google Photos? You can get rid of it easily (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-13 | get Google Photos → | tags: ask photos, button, gemini

1806.

The month long, 3000 mile roller derby of Chicago (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-13 | get Roller Derby → | tags: derby, roller, roller derby

1807.

SK Hynix to invest $13 billion in new plant amid memory chip shortage (cnbc.com)

2026-01-13 | by Dylan Butts | get Memory chips → | tags: electronics, hynix, memory

1808.

It’s time to walk through the fire (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-12 | get Smartwatch → | tags: bukowski, bukowski framed, charles

1809.

FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath (wired.com)

2026-01-12 | by Matt Giles | get Smartwatch → | tags: asked, attorney, english

1810.

Unsurprisingly, Elon Musk reacts poorly to Apple’s new Google Gemini deal (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-12 | by Marcus Mendes | get Google → | tags: apple, google, musk

1811.

Pebble founder says his new company is ‘not a startup’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-12 | by Sarah Perez | get Smartwatch → | tags: google, migicovsky, pebble

1812.

Grok targeted in UK law over sexually-explicit AI image generation — UK will begin prosecuting illegal prompting this week (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-12 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: grok, illegal, just

1813.

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get GitHub → | tags: claude, cowork, tasks

1814.

The Home Tech Gadgets That Stole the Show at CES 2026 (cnet.com)

2026-01-12 | by See Full Bio | get Smart Speaker → | tags: cnet, david, david watsky

1815.

Framework hikes desktop PC prices as RAM shortage drags on (theverge.com)

2026-01-12 | by Emma Roth | get RAM → | tags: ai max, chip, desktop

1816.

What's a passkey? The easy explanation - for anyone done with passwords (zdnet.com)

2026-01-12 | by Ed Bott | get Keylogger → | tags: create, passkey, passkeys

1817.

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get Discs → | tags: disks, disks turn, floppy

1818.

Retro Apple emulator ported to $60 ESP32 microcontroller-powered touchscreen tablet — supports Mac OS8.1 and a virtual MC68040 CPU in major emulation leap (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-12 | by Mark Tyson | get MC68040 → | tags: basilisk, classic, emulation

1819.

Shopify CEO vibe codes an MRI viewer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get MRI Viewer → | tags: frontend, frontend skills, generate

1820.

Bold predictions and book recommendations from you, our readers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-12 | get E-book → | tags: approaches, approaches leadership, asked

1821.

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-12 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get Neuralink → | tags: model, parts, task

1822.

I tried the new Linux Mint 22.3 - it's a masterclass in polish and quality-of-life fixes (zdnet.com)

2026-01-12 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | get Linux Mint OS → | tags: cinnamon, desktop, kernel

1823.

We asked if YouTube’s unskippable ads have gone too far, and readers didn’t hold back (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-12 | get Ad blockers → | tags: survey, unskippable, unskippable ads

1824.

Malaysia and Indonesia block Elon Musk's Grok due to nonconsensual sexual content (cnbc.com)

2026-01-12 | by Dylan Butts | tags: chatbot, concerns, grok

1825.

Z80 Membership Card (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get Z80 → | tags: card, disk, membership

1826.

Malaysia and Indonesia block Musk's Grok over explicit deepfakes (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-12 | get Deepfake → | tags: grok, images, indonesia

1827.

Xfce is great (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | by Ruben Schade | get Xfce → | tags: case, desktop, just

1828.

The next two years of software engineering (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-11 | by Addy Osmani | get Cloud → | tags: code, coding, developers

1829.

The Next Two Years of Software Engineering (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-11 | by Addy Osmani | get Cloud → | tags: code, coding, developers

1830.

HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-11 | get Preload → | tags: desktop, fold, html