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Lost one-of-a-kind Nintendo DS cartridge hits eBay for $9,100 — PokePark Fishing Contest designed to delete itself after 12 hours, game so rare it was only distributed to theme park attendees in 2005 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nintendo ds, pokepark fishing contest, ebay auction

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It's a shame what's happened to radio (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | by Jim Grey | tags: radio, wmhd, disk jockey

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War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | by War Atlas | tags: approximate, approximate dashed, borders

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An Adorable Puppy-Eyed Seal Is the Star of These Award-Winning Photos (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: abstaining, abstaining death, beatles

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Enter to Win an Apple Watch in Five Different CNET Group Contests (cnet.com)

2026-07-07 | by See Full Bio | tags: apple, big guessing, cnet

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The Underhanded C Contest (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: underhanded c contest, nuclear threat initiative, nan poisoning

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These Award-Winning Science Photos Capture the Beauty—and Weirdness—of Research (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-19 | get Science Photography Book → | tags: mosquitoes, whale sharks, nature photo contest

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The World’s Weirdest Coding Contest Honors the Most Unreadable Programs (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-12 | get Obfuscated C Code Puzzle → | tags: coding, coding contest, contest

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The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-07 | get Obfuscated C Code Book → | tags: contest, entries, entry

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Name That Toon Contest (darkreading.com)

2026-05-28 | tags: toon, contest, name

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ZDNET Big Guessing Game: Official contest rules (zdnet.com)

2026-05-19 | by Zdnet Us Staff | tags: ziff davis, big guessing game, cnet

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Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-16 | get Vintage Bicycle Typing Kit → | tags: linotype, women printers, typesetting

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OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher (technologyreview.com)

2026-03-20 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get AI Research Assistant Tool → | tags: openai, gpt-4, reasoning models

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Swipe, Plug-in, Pwned: Researchers Find New Ways to Hack Vehicles (darkreading.com)

2026-01-23 | get Smartphone → | tags: automotive, automotive world, chargers

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Hackers get $1,047,000 for 76 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-23 | get Autocentric → | tags: automotive, contest, days

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Amazon Is Making a Fallout Shelter Competition Reality TV Show (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | get Nuclear Shelter → | tags: amazon, bethesda, contestants

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Amazon is turning Fallout’s postapocalypse into a reality show (theverge.com)

2026-01-15 | by Andrew Webster | get Virtual Reality → | tags: contestants, fallout, fallout shelter

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Co-op game Overcooked may become a competition reality TV show on Netflix (engadget.com)

2025-11-05 | get Game → | tags: competition, contestants, deadline

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Here’s how Google is choosing 15 fans to test the next Pixel (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Sean Hollister | get Google Pixel → | tags: contest, entrant, google

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Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get digital camera → | tags: contest, image, microscope

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The Subway Game (1980) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: contestant, new, station

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Call for Nominations – Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2025 (computer.org)

2025-10-31 | by Jennifer Salazar | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: contest, prize, rules

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Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get white noise machine → | tags: ai, contest, dębiak

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Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get white noise machine → | tags: ai, contest, dębiak