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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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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: app store, astrology, dark

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The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Alice Cuddy | tags: advancing, advancing capital, angry

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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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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: applications, drag, floppy

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: callers, calls, emergency

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America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: battery, energy, grid

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: beshry, beshry said, joining

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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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Why you should buy iPhone 17 Pro now instead of waiting (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Chance Miller | tags: advice, buy iphone, iphone

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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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How to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Will Shanklin | tags: aa aa, aa game, batteries

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Hafiz Rashid | tags: arms, certainly, cuba

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The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: century, light, light possible

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Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use? (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: access, carplay, connection

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Fastmail offers EU data region (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Bron Gondwana | tags: copy, fastmail, location

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Tyler August | tags: apple, dell, efficiency

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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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Robot Dogs Suddenly Taking Jobs From Human Security Guards (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: deployed, guards, human

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Senko Rašić | tags: code, coding, coding easy

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Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Matt Burgess | tags: domain, domains, messages

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Save $160 off AMD's ultimate gaming CPU combo, includes motherboard and chip cooler — $458 combo features Ryzen 7 9800X3D, B850 motherboard, and a 240mm liquid AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: bundle, deals, gaming

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Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, center, city

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Apple @ Work: What IDC’s latest shipments mean for the MacBook Neo and Air in the enterprise (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Bradley C | tags: apple, enterprise, macbook

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Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: add memory, add numbers, assembly

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Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing) (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: ai replaces, determine, determine prices

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Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: community, fitness, members

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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