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High school student develops membrane-free filter that removes most microplastics from water (techspot.com)

2026-03-24 | get Microplastics Water Filter → | tags: microplastics, water treatment, pfas

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Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-21 | by Stephen Hackett | get MacOS Menu Bar Organizer → | tags: macos tahoe, apple, steve troughton-smith

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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-20 | get NASA Space Shuttle Model → | tags: nasa, space shuttle discovery, orion capsule

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The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-18 | by Ken Scott | get Model Airplane Kit → | tags: aircraft, transavia airtruk, de havilland tiger moth

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Young Entrepreneurs Are Building Businesses Around ‘Grandma Hobbies’ and Demand Is Surging (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-16 | by Jonathan Small | get Crafting with Grandma's Knitting Kit → | tags: needlepoint, mahjong, ap news

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Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-01 | by Pooya Esfandiar | get Raspberry Pi Pico → | tags: raspberry pi pico, fm radio transmitter, gpio pin

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What was the first life restoration of a sauropod? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | get Dinosaur skeleton → | tags: sauropod restoration, barosaurus mount, brontosaurus

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Microsoft’s Brad Smith says U.S. tech should ‘worry a little’ about Chinese firms' government subsidies (cnbc.com)

2026-02-18 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Microsoft → | tags: chinese, models, smith

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Anthropic executive takes a thinly-veiled swipe at OpenAI over spending and ads (cnbc.com)

2026-02-11 | by Arjun Kharpal Sawdah Bhaimiya | get Neural Network → | tags: anthropic, openai, smith

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Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-07 | get Asian Elephant → | tags: asian, asian elephant, born

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Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-27 | get Xfce → | tags: code, compositor, project

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Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | get DigiD → | tags: dutch, government, security

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Microsoft says communities won't see energy price hikes near data centers as utility costs rise (cnbc.com)

2026-01-13 | by Jordan Novet | get Data Center → | tags: centers, data centers, electricity

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Corundum – open-source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-04 | get Corundum → | tags: completion, corundum, interface

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Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25,000 vehicles go? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-04 | by Nick Maini | get Traffic Management System → | tags: bridge, cost, hammersmith

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Jorja Smith's record label hits out at 'AI clone' song (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2025-12-01 | get Music Technology → | tags: jorja, label, music

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It doesn’t end at Neuralink (theverge.com)

2025-11-30 | by Elissa Welle | get Brain-Computer Interface → | tags: camera, cursor, just

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Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into bookable itineraries (techcrunch.com)

2025-11-18 | by Aisha Malik | get TravelItinerary → | tags: boop, recommendations, smith

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Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off (techcrunch.com)

2025-11-10 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Neuralink → | tags: process, scribe, smith

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Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-10 | by Venter | get Scissors → | tags: genome, hopkins, sequencing

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DIY Amiga sound sampler circuit mystery solved 32 years later — Magazine instructions had key component spec typos (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-09 | by Mark Tyson | get Amiga → | tags: amiga, cu amiga, issue

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Microsoft letting employees raise concerns about products after Middle East controversy (cnbc.com)

2025-11-06 | by Jordan Novet | get Microsoft Surface → | tags: brad smith, defense, microsoft

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Neuralink implant patient gets 'second pair of eyes' thanks to motorized AI webcam — Insta360 Link 2 connected to MacBook gives father with ALS new lease on life (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-05 | by Mark Tyson | get Neuralink implant → | tags: family, hardware, life

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Court Ruling in Getty's AI Copyright Case Has Both Sides Claiming a Win. Here's Why (cnet.com)

2025-11-04 | by See Full Bio | get Atomic Habits book → | tags: copyright, getty, models

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Slow Horses creator explains why he’s leaving Apple TV series (9to5mac.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ryan Christoffel | get iPhone → | tags: horses, season, seasons

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Aspiring content creators should get this DJI Mic 2 deal! (androidauthority.com)

2025-10-31 | get smartphone → | tags: camera, dji, mic

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The Battle Over Space Shuttle Discovery Keeps Getting Crazier (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ellyn Lapointe | get Meta Quest → | tags: congress, discovery, senators

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Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: act, cornyn, shuttle

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White House Investigates Whether to Chop Space Shuttle Discovery Into Pieces (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | by Victor Tangermann | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: discovery, nasa, shuttle

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On ‘Peacemaker,’ Nothing Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Like Escaping Earth X (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Isaiah Colbert | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: chris, harcourt, keith