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Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: case, cooler, larger

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Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: genes, lettuce, myoglobin

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Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi

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Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: billion, claimed, contracts

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The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jill Duffy | tags: assets, digital, digital assets

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4 Best Compression Boots: Therabody, Hyperice, and More (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: best, best compression, boots

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The AI Therapist: A WSJ Podcast Series (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai mental, bring, chatbots

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8 Best Workout Headphones & Earbuds: Beats, Bose, Apple (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: best, earbuds, headphones

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Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: comments

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Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Aug | tags: cost, costs, email

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Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: centers, data centers, projects

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I’m a CEO overwhelmed by AI projects. Here’s my system for staying sane (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai gets, ai problem, confuse

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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: longbets, longbets org, wins

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"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: longbets, longbets org, wins

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: adults, cognition, cognition healthy

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: adults, cognition, cognition healthy

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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: comments

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Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: clark, hesperaloe, kimberly clark

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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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‘Our Retribution Tour’: A Crypto-Inspired Green Energy PAC Is Reportedly Collecting One Republican Scalp After Another (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: like pac, like renewables, pac ads

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X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: original, participants, program

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Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: bots, digiday, google

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Meet the Media Industry’s Nerd-in-Chief (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-08 | tags: bold, bold thoughts, chief

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Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: bots, human, reddit

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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: comments

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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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Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it' (cnbc.com)

2026-08-08 | by Samantha Subin | tags: agents, cybersecurity, face

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Nancy Guthrie: A Case of Bad Calls and Bad Luck (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-08 | tags: airfares, benefits, benefits small

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AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Etiido Uko | tags: blocks, model, organism