GoKawiil - Tech News

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Grok Is a Flop, But It May Not Matter to Elon Musk (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-12 | get Tesla Model 3 → | tags: grok, elon musk, data centers

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Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-10 | by Matt Gallagher | get Swift for TensorFlow Guide → | tags: apple silicon, large language model, matrix multiplication

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Everyone says this movie is terrible and it’s still about to make $70 million (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-22 | get Box Office Tracking Chart → | tags: michael biopic, box office, opening weekend

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Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get Commodore 64 Mini → | tags: commodore 64, soul player c64, 6502 assembly

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Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get USB Flash Drive → | tags: zip drive, iomega, floppy disk

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Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-10 | by Jowi Morales | get USB to Floppy Drive Adapter → | tags: tesla, linux kernel, floppy drive

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Will I ever own a zettaflop? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | by The Singularity Is Nearer | tags: zettaflop, exaflop, nvidia

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This $28 floppy disk SSD enclosure is a fun and fast way to keep your storage safe — both practical and nostalgic, this rugged USB-C aluminum enclosure for M.2 drives supports speeds of up to 1,200 MB/s (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-31 | by Ben Stockton | get M.2 SSD Enclosure → | tags: hagibis, m.2 nvme, usb-c

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Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe Kit → | tags: tic-tac-toe, discrete transistors, logisim

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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | get Robot → | tags: maxell, floppy disk, pc mag

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The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | by Mack Degeurin | get Floppy Disk → | tags: disks, floppies, floppy

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The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Shufflepuck → | tags: apple ii, shufflepuck cafe, glider

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Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | get Floppy Disk Drive → | tags: arch, directory, floppinux

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A web server on a single floppy disk (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-29 | get Floppy Disk Server → | tags: disk, floppy, floppy disk

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Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Floppy disk drive → | tags: disk, floppy, floppy disk

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Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get Discs → | tags: disks, disks turn, floppy

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Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track "paints" pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-05 | by Ben Stockton | get Pixel Art → | tags: diagram, disk, floppy

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Taiwan's iPass Releases Floppy Disk Pre-Paid Cash Card (slashdot.org)

2025-12-27 | by Posted | get Floppy Disk → | tags: card, comes, disk

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Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Mark Tyson | get Smartcard → | tags: card, cards, disk

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The Big City; Save the Flophouses (1996) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | get Flophouse → | tags: big city, city, city save

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Amazon launches Trainium3 AI accelerator, competing directly against Blackwell Ultra in FP8 performance — new Trn3 Gen2 UltraServer takes vertical scaling notes from Nvidia's playbook (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-05 | by Anton Shilov | get Trainium3 → | tags: hardware, nvidia, performance

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Floppy Disk / Diskettes // retrocmp / retro computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Thomas Brase | get productivity planner → | tags: 25, 3m, disks

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Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Eleanor Parmenter | get science reference book → | tags: cambridge, digital, disks

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YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch (engadget.com)

2025-10-31 | get Chromecast → | tags: disk, drive, floppy

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Maingear’s Retro95 combines ’90s-era PC design with modern specs (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Tom Warren | get smartphone → | tags: drive, floppy, maingear

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Air Traffic Control in the US Still Runs on Windows 95 and Floppy Disks (wired.com)

2025-10-31 | by Benj Edwards | get Meta Quest → | tags: air, aviation, control