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Just one instruction on AMD's 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: amd, amd fx-series, amd opteron

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Slap ROM Patcher (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: rom patcher, fxpak, haskell

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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Paul Alcorn | tags: intel, nvidia, 3dfx

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XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT drops to its lowest price of the summer — save $90 on AMD's flagship RDNA 4 graphics card (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-26 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: amd, rx 9070 xt, rdna 4

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Sony's FX5 cinema camera finally offers open gate and RAW 5K recording (engadget.com)

2026-07-23 | by Steve Dent | tags: sony, fx5, cinema line

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Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | by Aurora Nockert | tags: amd, llvm, gfx1250

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Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console (wired.com)

2026-07-17 | by Matt Kamen | tags: steam machine, valve, amd fidelityfx

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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-01 | by Marina Temkin | get Venture Capital Investment Book → | tags: sound ventures, ashton kutcher, morgan beller

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After successfully selling over 15 cars, Faraday Future would now like you to buy its robots (engadget.com)

2026-06-24 | by Anna Washenko | get Faraday Future Robot Model → | tags: faraday future, yt jia, ces 2017

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Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | get WebAssembly Debugging Toolkit → | tags: wasm, emscripten, bgfx

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Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | get WebAssembly Debugging Kit → | tags: wasm, bgfx, sdl2

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The Future of wasi-gfx and wasi:webgpu (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-09 | by Sean Isom | get WebGPU Developer Kit → | tags: wasi-webgpu, wasi-gfx, wasmcloud

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The 5 Best Sunrise Alarm Clocks for Peaceful Mornings (cnet.com)

2026-06-01 | by See Full Bio | get Sunrise Alarm Clock Wake-Up Light → | tags: hatch restore, casper glow light, lumie bodyclock rise 100

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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card is now available to purchase (engadget.com)

2026-06-01 | by Lawrence Bonk | get AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE → | tags: amd, radeon rx 9070 gre, rdna 4

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Massive's pioneering 'Lord of the Rings' crowd simulation software is now free to use (engadget.com)

2026-05-29 | by Steve Dent | get Massive Crowd Simulation Software → | tags: massive, lord of the rings, massive prime

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LIFX Smart Light Bulbs at a record 36% off are a solid pick (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-19 | get LIFX Smart Light Bulb → | tags: lifx, smart light bulbs, apple homekit

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro 7.1 channel sound card: A decent 2026 upgrade for analog audio (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX → | tags: creative sound blaster, audigy fx pro, logitech z906

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Graphing Scientific Calculator Based on the ESP32 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-15 | get ESP32 Dev Kit Board → | tags: esp32, numworks, casio fx-991ex

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AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-14 | get AMD Radeon Graphics Card → | tags: amd, fidelityfx super resolution, radeon rx 7000

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PC Engine CPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | get TurboGrafx-16 Console → | tags: pc engine, turbo grafx-16, hu6280

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This $199 upscaler wants to make your retro consoles look great on modern TVs (techspot.com)

2026-04-29 | get RetroTINK 2X Pro → | tags: morph 2k, pixel fx, analog-to-digital

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How This Underused Strategy Could Unlock an Entirely New Revenue Stream for Your Business (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-27 | by Ben Walker | get Business Strategy Book → | tags: naspo, rfxpremier, cooperative purchasing

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Mark's Magic Multiply (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get Magic Multiplication Puzzle Game → | tags: floating-point multiplication, embedded processors, ieee 754

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Survival horror game Cronos: The New Dawn coming natively to Apple Silicon Macs (9to5mac.com)

2026-04-10 | by Marcus Mendes | get MacBook Pro with M2 Chip → | tags: cronos the new dawn, apple silicon, metalfx upscaling

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The Miniature Wife was an exercise in visual trickery (theverge.com)

2026-04-08 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | get Miniature Wife Puzzle Kit → | tags: film, peacock, vfx

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VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | get Visual Effects Software Suite → | tags: visual effects, vfx, vfxhq

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Every GPU That Mattered (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, amd, 3dfx

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Apple’s latest acquisition is telling sign of where the company is headed (9to5mac.com)

2026-04-04 | by Michael Burkhardt | get Apple MacBook Pro → | tags: apple, final cut pro, motionvfx

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Foxing aspires to be an eBPF-powered replication engine for Linux filesystems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-30 | get eBPF for Linux Filesystems → | tags: ebpf, foxing, filesystem

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Browser-based SFX synthesizer using WASM/Zig (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-27 | get Web Audio Synthesizer Kit → | tags: wasm, zig, sfx synthesizer