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A Dystopia Falls (With a Little Help) in This Speculative Short Story (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-07 | tags: lightspeed magazine, melissa a watkins, sarah's laugh

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PCIe has doubled bandwidth every generation for two decades, PCIe 8.0 is on track to do it again at 1TB/s (techspot.com)

2026-05-07 | get PCIe 8.0 Expansion Card → | tags: pcie, pcie 8.0, bandwidth

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RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM → | tags: ram prices, tech companies, hardware specs

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Frame Generation Doesn't Fix Bad Performance! (techspot.com)

2026-05-06 | get AI Frame Interpolation Software → | tags: frame generation, lego batman, fps

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Frame Generation Doesn't Fix Bad Performance! (techspot.com)

2026-05-06 | get AI Frame Interpolation Software → | tags: lego batman, frame generation, fps

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Tree community resource economics control soil food web multifunctionality (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Henneron | get Soil Food Web Kit → | tags: fundiveurope, soil food web, forest biodiversity

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Electrocaloric effects across room temperature in multilayer capacitors (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Guo | get Electrocaloric Cooling Device → | tags: multilayer capacitors, electrocaloric effects, pst–15pmw

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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Olivier Lacombe | tags: gemma 4, speculative decoding, large language models

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Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-05 | get Smartphone Battery Replacement Kit → | tags: shrinkflation, gadgets, ram

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Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Drew Breunig | get Coding for Beginners Kit → | tags: agentic coding, frontier models, codex

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Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | by Marcin Wichary | get Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud → | tags: photoshop, adobe, spectrum

12.

Are leaders born or made? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-04 | get Leadership Development Book → | tags: chriselle lim, perfume, brands

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I tracked 3,000 steps on my Apple Watch, Google Pixel, and Oura Ring - this one was most accurate (zdnet.com)

2026-05-04 | by Nina Raemont | get Oura Ring Gen 3 → | tags: apple watch, google pixel, oura ring

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Make Your Own Microforest (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Miniature Indoor Forest Kit → | tags: miyawaki method, horn farm center, microforest

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Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get YAML Templating Tool → | tags: ai psychosis, yaml specs, claude ai

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Is your Purosangue SUV not sharp enough? Ferrari has you covered. (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-01 | get Ferrari Purosangue Model Car → | tags: purosangue, ferrari, handling speciale

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Weird Quantum Gadget Spits Out Chaotic ‘Sound Particles’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-01 | get Quantum Sound Generator → | tags: quantum gadget, sound particles, deep ocean

18.

20 Years in Cyber: Dark Reading Marks Milestone With Month of Special Coverage (darkreading.com)

2026-05-01 | get Cybersecurity Awareness Kit → | tags: dark reading, cyber security, 2006

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Forget emulators: These new handhelds are built to play Commodore 64 and Spectrum games (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-01 | get Commodore 64 Mini → | tags: commodore 64, zx spectrum, hyper mega tech

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Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum receive clamshell makeover — iconic 8-bit legends join the handheld gaming wars (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-01 | by Zhiye Liu | get Commodore 64 Mini → | tags: commodore 64, zx spectrum, handheld gaming

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The Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum have been turned into retrofuturistic handhelds (theverge.com)

2026-04-30 | by Andrew Liszewski | get RetroPie Gaming Handheld → | tags: commodore 64, zx spectrum, blaze entertainment

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I Built SpecDD Because AI Kept Forgetting What We Were Building (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get AI Development Notebook → | tags: specdd, api, dependency

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Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | get Doom Classic Video Game → | tags: cubedoom, spectre programming language, sdl2

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What Makes eVTOL Motors Different Than EV Motors? (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-04-27 | by Elan Head | get eVTOL Brushless Motor Kit → | tags: evtol, joby aviation, electric motors

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Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | tags: tiao, board game, game id

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Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by It'S Years Since The Chernobyl Disaster. This Is What It Has Meant For Wildlife Living Around The Devastated Nuclear Power Plant. | get Chernobyl Wildlife Documentary Book → | tags: chernobyl, doñana biological station, radioactive wildlife

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I bought a $40 earwax camera and keep finding reasons to use it (zdnet.com)

2026-04-26 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Endoscope Camera for Smartphones → | tags: bebird, earsight plus, amazon

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Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-24 | get Endangered Species Act Book → | tags: endangered species act, trump administration, gulf of mexico

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Authorities arrest special forces soldier who allegedly made $400K on Polymarket bet involving Maduro operation (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-23 | by Lucas Ropek | get Polymarket Betting Platform → | tags: polymarket, operation absolute resolve, nicolas maduro

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US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-23 | by Hannah Rabinowitz | tags: special forces, operation absolute resolve, polymarket