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Boomloom: Think with your hands (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-20 | tags: boomloom, warp threads, 4-shaft loom

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Quince hits $10B valuation with giant $500M round led by Iconiq (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-11 | by Julie Bort | get Quince → | tags: iconiq, quince, coach

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Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-03 | get ImageJ → | tags: wasm, fogleman/primitive, primitive shapes

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‘I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy’ Bumper Stickers Won’t Work on the New $60,000 Cybertruck (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-20 | get Bumper Stickers → | tags: amid, amid struggling, cheapest

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Newborn Chicks Connect Sounds With Shapes Just Like Humans, Study Finds (slashdot.org)

2026-02-20 | get Neuralink → | tags: bouba, chicks, kiki

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Show HN: Chaos Studies – attractors and spatial audio (iOS/Mac/Playdate) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-15 | get Audio Engine → | tags: anxious, anxious switching, apart

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Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-12 | get Path Tracing Engine → | tags: demo, path, scene

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How AI is forcing journalists and PR to work smarter, not louder (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-06 | get Newsroom → | tags: ai make, ai model, ai reshapes

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Why some adults thrive after childhood adversity (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-25 | tags: accelerate, accelerate development, adversity

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Do you use ChatGPT’s free version? It now has a major catch (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-16 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: chatgpt, cheapest, cheapest subscription

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When is the best time to book your flight? Google just spilled all the airfare secrets (zdnet.com)

2026-01-03 | by Chris Bayer | get Google Flights → | tags: booking, cheapest, days

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Google just updated its advice on when it's best to book flights - and the data paints a bigger picture (zdnet.com)

2025-12-19 | by Chris Bayer | get Google Maps → | tags: booking, cheapest, days

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When is the best time to book a flight? Google has a new answer (and some spicy data) (zdnet.com)

2025-12-17 | by Chris Bayer | get Flight Price → | tags: booking, cheapest, days

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OpenAI Defaults Free Users to Cheapest Model to Cut Back on Costs (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-16 | get Cloud AI → | tags: cheapest, cheapest model, costs

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Google says this is the best time to book flights, but its other findings may surprise you more (zdnet.com)

2025-12-16 | by Chris Bayer | get Google Flights → | tags: booking, cheapest, days

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Spotify Wrapped 2025 goes ‘analog’ in the age of AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-03 | get Music Player → | tags: aesthetic, aesthetic year, aesthetics

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How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plumes of Plasma? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-24 | by Katherine J. Wu | get Plasma Generators → | tags: energy, grape, grapes

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Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald's boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09 (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-17 | by Mark Tyson | get VHS tapes → | tags: boxes, collection, coverage

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The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-11 | get Mind Reader → | tags: communication, dickens, nonspeakers

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This Cheap Dual-Screen Handheld Is the Best Way to Recreate the Nintendo DS (gizmodo.com)

2025-11-06 | get Nintendo DS → | tags: cheapest, cheapest option, controls

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The Ape Pivot Has Arrived (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Mike Pearl | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: ape, apes, bored

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Madman Sets Up Entire Server on Disposable Vape, Hosts Its Own Website (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | get MacBook Pro → | tags: disposable, ionescu, took

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Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get sustainability guide book → | tags: admin, cheapest, cms

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Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get computer monitor → | tags: convert, diagrams, drawio

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VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ruben Schade | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: singapore, tapes, vcds

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Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get business communication book → | tags: alternative, arduino, cheapest

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Creating fair dice from random objects (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: author, crane, dice

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Some Disposable E-Cigarettes Are More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ellyn Lapointe | get Mindfulness meditation book → | tags: cigarettes, devices, disposable

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Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | get Mindfulness meditation book → | tags: disposable, lead, nickel