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Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die (wired.com)

2026-02-26 | by Rebecca Heilweil | get I can't fulfill this request. → | tags: supercomputer, silicon valley, ibm power9

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Valve Has Been ‘Letting Children and Adults Alike Illegally Gamble,’ New York A.G. Alleges (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-26 | tags: loot boxes, valve, new york a.g.

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Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | by Rohan S. Puranik | get Smartphone → | tags: octavia guitar pedal, london olympic studios, purple haze

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Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI (wired.com)

2026-02-25 | by Maxwell Zeff | get Chatbot → | tags: openai, silicon valley, gmail

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New York sues Valve, alleging its loot boxes are ‘quintessential gambling’ (theverge.com)

2026-02-25 | by Jay Peters | tags: loot boxes, valve, new york

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Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | by Liam Proven | get Neuralink → | tags: bcachefs, rust, linux kernel

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The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations (theverge.com)

2026-02-25 | by Emma Roth | get AI Marketplace → | tags: peace corps, tech corps, american ai exports program

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Stripe’s valuation soars 74% to $159 billion (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-24 | by Julie Bort | get Payment Gateway → | tags: stripe valuation, thrive capital, stripe tempo

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Fellow Series 1 Espresso Machine Review (2026): Excellent, but a Work in Progress (wired.com)

2026-02-24 | by Matthew Korfhage | get Breville → | tags: fellow series 1, silicon valley, san francisco

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Archer Aviation accuses rival Vertical Aerospace of ripping off its air taxi designs (theverge.com)

2026-02-24 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | get Air Taxi → | tags: vertical aerospace, archer aviation, patent infringement

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A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-24 | by Julie Bort | get OpenClaw → | tags: openclaw, meta ai, silicon valley

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Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-23 | get Data Center → | tags: data center, silicon valley, kentucky

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“I’m not for sale”: Farmers refuse to take millions in data center deals (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-23 | get Data Center → | tags: data center, rural lands, silicon valley

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‘Uncanny Valley’: AI Researcher Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, and Evie Magazine’s Party (wired.com)

2026-02-23 | by Brian Barrett | get Bots → | tags: uncanny valley, rent-a-human, bluesky

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Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party (wired.com)

2026-02-23 | by Brian Barrett | get Robotics → | tags: uncanny valley, rent-a-human, bluesky

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Julia: Performance Tips (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Smartwatch → | tags: julia, performance, rust

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Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-22 | by Connie Loizos | get Smartphone → | tags: benchmark, silicon valley, uber

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Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-21 | get Rust Compiler → | tags: parse-dont-validate, rust, type-driven design

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Toyota Mirai hydrogen car depreciation: 65% value loss in a year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-21 | get Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle → | tags: car depreciation, depreciation, depreciation value

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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-20 | by Brian Merchant | get Drones → | tags: flock surveillance cameras, silicon valley, ice data center buildout

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The Gay Tech Mafia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-20 | by Zoë Bernard | get I can't fulfill this request. → | tags: silicon, silicon valley, straight

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OpenClaw Security Fears Lead Meta, Other AI Firms To Restrict Its Use (slashdot.org)

2026-02-20 | get OpenCLAW → | tags: openclaw, pistone, secure

503.

Gemini 3.1 Pro (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | get Smartwatch → | tags: evaluation, evaluations, gemini

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OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-19 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Google → | tags: billion, billion bloomberg, billion valuation

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C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | get C Standard Library → | tags: active, bool, evaluation

506.

Inside the Gay Tech Mafia (wired.com)

2026-02-19 | by Zoë Bernard | get Smartphone → | tags: silicon, silicon valley, straight

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Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | get Docker → | tags: build, cons, docker

508.

OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity near approval to host AI directly for the U.S. government (exclusive) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-18 | get Google Assistant → | tags: ai companies, approval, authorization

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Bayer proposes $7.25 billion Roundup settlement as Supreme Court case looms (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-18 | get Roundup → | tags: agreement, agreement comes, allegations

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Microsoft’s Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-18 | get Glass Chip → | tags: archival, archival preservation, change