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Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: earth, engineered safeguards, habitability

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A less powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is now officially a thing (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite gen 5, qualcomm, redmi k100 pro

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Let the machines in (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Adam Socki | tags: niels bohr, douglas hofstadter, memories of hadrian

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The New ‘Onslaught’ Trailer Introduces Its Psychotic Supersoldiers (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: onslaught, adam wingard, adria arjona

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Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: deep space network, nasa, madrid

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‘Onslaught’ Is a ‘Spiritual Sequel’ to ‘The Guest’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: adam wingard, the guest, sci-fi

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The AMD Radeon Settings You Should Actually Be Using (techspot.com)

2026-07-24 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: amd radeon, amd software, radeon gpu

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The AMD Radeon Settings You Should Actually Be Using (techspot.com)

2026-07-24 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: amd radeon, amd software, radeon gpu

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The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Its Biggest Upgrade Yet. What Comes Next Could Change Physics (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: large hadron collider, particle accelerator, physics

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Fiat's new $15,000 mini EV is now on sale in the US, but it's not yet legal to drive (techspot.com)

2026-07-21 | by Julio Franco | tags: fiat, topolino, stellantis

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Madrid is electric with World Cup energy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: madrid, world cup, argentina

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How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | by Sara Hashemi | tags: roman concrete, hadrian’s villa, carbonation

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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: mipi, quadrf, radio

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Why I switched to a NAS storage drive to backup files - and ditched iCloud and Dropbox for good (zdnet.com)

2026-07-07 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: adrian, drives, plus

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Best Electric Scooter for 2026 (cnet.com)

2026-07-02 | by See Full Bio | tags: apollo go, electric scooter, segway max g3

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Computing’s Top 30: Muneer Khan (computer.org)

2026-07-01 | tags: cadre tech labs, ieee computer society, computing's top 30

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Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | get MacBook Sleep Wake Timer → | tags: adrafinil, macos, clamshell sleep

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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | by Natalie Wolchover | get Quantum Physics Book → | tags: large hadron collider, elementary particles, quanta podcast

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General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-25 | by Rebecca Bellan | get AI Training for Robotics Kit → | tags: fortnite, general intuition, quadrupedal robot

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From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-25 | by Rebecca Bellan | get AI Robot Training Kit → | tags: fortnite, general intuition, ai robotics

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Who is Darializa Avila Chevalier? The upstart NY democratic socialist who just beat a long-serving congressman (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-24 | tags: darializa avila chevalier, ny democratic party, adriano espaillat

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Systems optimization should be part of CI/CD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | get CI/CD Pipeline Optimization Tool → | tags: adrs, openevolve, gepa

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OBD2 'fuel saver' boxes can actually increase costs by damaging your car - do this instead (zdnet.com)

2026-06-23 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get OBD2 Diagnostic Scanner → | tags: obd2, fuel saver, tuning box

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Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats (techspot.com)

2026-06-22 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Age of Empires II Goat Figurine → | tags: microsoft, age of empires ii, neural network

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Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-21 | by Mark Tyson | get AI Neural Network Kit → | tags: age of empires, microsoft ai, neural network

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François Englert (1932 – 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | tags: higgs boson, large hadron collider, brout-englert-higgs field

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Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation (futurism.com)

2026-06-20 | by Joe Wilkins | get Portable Personal Fan → | tags: el niño, french open, university of oregon

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A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-19 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get AI Model Optimization Kit → | tags: subquadratic, subq, google deepmind

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AMD resolves HandBrake scaling issues on Threadripper, gains reach 215% (techspot.com)

2026-06-18 | get AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU → | tags: amd, handbrake, threadripper

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CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | tags: compilers, llvm, just-in-time