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Grab 32GB of Corsair DDR5 for an effective $230 right now in this 9950X3D combo deal —Newegg RAM bundle ships with 16-core AMD X3D chip alongside an MSI X870E board and a free 240mm cooler for $1,308 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Ben Stockton | tags: amd ryzen 9 9950x3d, corsair vengeance ddr5, msi x870e

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der8auer tests PC chimney effect, dropping CPU temps by 19°C with a 110cm 3D-printed tower (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: pc chimney effect, der8auer, ryzen 7 9800x3d

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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Paul Alcorn | tags: intel, nvidia, 3dfx

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New open source printer has 7 toolheads that swap in 5 seconds for fast, zero-waste multi-color 3D printing — Sovol M1D 3D printer is the first open-source IDEX design with an integrated tool-changer (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: sovol, 3d printer, orca slicer

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Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3% with single stick (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: ddr5, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, tom's hardware

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Modder der8auer builds 110cm 3D-printed chimney to passively cool Ryzen 7 9800X3D without fans, cuts temps by 19C — radically simple PC mod uses the 'stack effect' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: der8auer, ryzen 7 9800x3d, chimney cooling

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If You Own a 3D Printer, You Absolutely Need to Try Hi3D (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Layer Van-Ds .Vds-Byline-Block Font-Family Var --Font-Ui-Heading | tags: 3d printing, hi3d, creality

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People are paying $59 to make their phones worse. The reason speaks volumes about the tech world right now (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: brick, germantown, 3d-printing

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Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: mere.run, apple silicon, 3d modeling

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This new Google Earth feature will change how you explore the world (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: google earth, gemini nano banana 2, satellite imagery

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3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: 3d pinball, windows, 1995

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Get $180 of 3D printing filament for just $86 in this eBay blowout — save 52% on 10 reels of Creality's Hyper PLA, just $8.63 a spool (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: creality, hyper pla, 3d printing

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Save up to $700 on these iBuyPower gaming PCs, fitted with an RX 9070 XT for 4K gaming — liquid-cooled AMD rigs feature either a 9800X3D or 9900X CPU, along with 32GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD, starting from $1,799 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ben Stockton | tags: ibuypower, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, rx 9070 xt

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Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: half-life, valve, mac os 9

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Creality's multicolor K2 3D printer hits an all-time low price of $499 — save $200 today, with the perfect printer for jumping into the hobby (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: creality, k2 3d printer, cfs system

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Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $16 when you buy it with AMD's brand-new 7700X3D — Ryzen 7 with an X870 motherboard, G.Skill Ripjaws, and an AIO for just $588 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-27 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: amd ryzen 7 7700x3d, msi pro x870-p, g.skill ripjaws

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AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D is now available at a record-low $569 (techspot.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: amd ryzen 9 9950x3d, techspot, future plc

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Modder rigs his Steam Deck with spikes and an automated taser to stop family members from borrowing it (techspot.com)

2026-07-27 | by Rob Thubron | tags: steam deck, raspberry pi, 3d printing

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Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70,000 — DIY medical equipment costs less than 7% of a full-sized MRI machine’s $1.1 million starting price (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-26 | by Jowi Morales | tags: open-source imaging initiative, osi2 one, 3d-printed mri

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3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the ‘world’s first microprocessor' — CADC’s MP944 chip controls the fighter’s swing-wing system, among other things (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-26 | by Mark Tyson | tags: f-14 tomcat, cadc, mp944

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Is this e-reader case a gun? (theverge.com)

2026-07-25 | by Mack Degeurin | tags: xteink, 3d printing, gun laws

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Leak details Ryzen 7 9800HX3D, AMD's first affordable 3D V-cache laptop CPU (techspot.com)

2026-07-25 | by Daniel Sims | tags: amd, ryzen 7 9800hx3d, 3d v-cache

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AMD working on new X3D V-cache mobile chip for gaming laptops, leaker claims — Ryzen 7 9800HX3D could launch with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB cache (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-24 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: amd ryzen 7 9800hx3d, 3d v-cache, zen 5

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Save $460 on this AMD 9800X3D gaming PC with RTX 5080 — get blistering 4K performance for less (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-24 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, nvidia rtx 5080, cyberpowerpc

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Vulkan Tutorial (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | by Alexander Overvoorde | tags: vulkan, khronos, opengl

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Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: opengl, learnopengl, modern opengl

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I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: pcb design, 3d printing, radxa cm3

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Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: opengl, vulkan, metal

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Save 10% on the brand-new Creality Pika 3D scanner — easily scan models and textures for $629 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-23 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: creality, pika, 3d scanner

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Check out this nifty 3D Playdate game demo (engadget.com)

2026-07-22 | by Anna Washenko | tags: playdate, cristina ramos, mirror's edge