GoKawiil - Tech News

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Astronomers Just Found the Youngest Planet Ever Seen. It Shouldn’t Be So Huge (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-18 | get Celestron NexStar 8SE Telescope → | tags: elias 2-24 b, planet formation, exoplanet discovery

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Backups Aren't Simple (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get Western Digital My Book external hard drive backup → | tags: data loss, backups, external hard drive

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Hands On: Sharge's Disk Pro 2 Ultra is a compact, magnetic DIY SSD dock with active cooling, 80W passthrough charging, and HDMI 2.1, supporting up to 8TB drives (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-11 | by Matt Safford | get Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD → | tags: sharge disk pro 2, hdmi 2.1, m.2 ssd

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Hands On: Sharge's Disk Pro 2 Ultra is a compact, magnetic DIY SSD dock with active cooling, 80W passthrough charging, and HDMI 2.1 that supports up to 8TB drives (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-11 | by Matt Safford | get Samsung 990 Pro 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD → | tags: sharge disk pro 2, hdmi 2.1, external ssd

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Poisson Disk Sampling (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-02 | by Justin Steinman | get Real-Time Rendering Fourth Edition book → | tags: poisson disk sampling, bradson's algorithm, computer graphics

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Make a Portable Wide-screen Mechanical TV (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-27 | by James Brown | get Raspberry Pi Pico W → | tags: scanwheel, raspberry pi pico, john logie baird

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It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-26 | by Simon Späti | get Leuchtturm1917 A5 dotted hardcover notebook → | tags: obsidian, ai agents, vibe code

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Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Mark Tyson | get Maxell UR-90 blank cassette tapes → | tags: maxell, cassette tapes, disk union

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Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary sale (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: disk, drive, drives

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The GoPro HERO13 Black bundle drops to record-low $354.99 with case, microSD card, and more (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: gopro hero13, san disk micro sd, enduro batteries

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Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: systemd-journald, ext4, btrfs

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Commodore 8-Bit 5¼" Disk Images (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mass Werk | tags: commodore 8-bit, 5¼" disk images, pet 2001 emulator

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Hyperspace (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: hyperspace, macos, space-saving clones

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Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: atari, atari st, database

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Commemorative golden Doom floppy disks go up for pre-order — pair of limited edition dummy ‘imitation gold plating’ disks and a box are $30 at GameStop (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Mark Tyson | tags: doom, fanattik, gamestop

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With Switch 2, iPhone, and laptop tricks, the Sharge Disk Pro 2 is finally a worthy EDC (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Sean Hollister | tags: sharge disk pro, macbook pro, switch 2

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How I free up Windows disk space and shred sensitive data for free with open-source BleachBit (zdnet.com)

2026-07-30 | by Lance Whitney | tags: bleachbit, windows defender, open-source

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Apple updates macOS 28 guidance with direct encrypted HFS+ to APFS conversion (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-22 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, macos 28, hfs+

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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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A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk (techspot.com)

2026-07-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: floppy disk, 2p game arcade, game development

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Classic Amiga titles, free to download (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: amiga, tampa bay amiga group, pd software

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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: floppy disk, game development, 2p_game_arcade

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Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: windirstat, qdirstat, rust

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Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: windirstat, qdirstat, rust

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PSA: Beware of fake Mac crash reports out to steal your passwords, crypto wallets, more (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-15 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, disk, disk image

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Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: disk, kernel, linux

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Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: agent, allow, clawk

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Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-11 | tags: cache, disk, free

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Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-09 | tags: cache, disk, expert

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How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | get ZFS Storage Server Kit → | tags: disk, john, nvme