GoKawiil - Tech News

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Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: half-life, valve, mac os 9

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Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: half-life 2, haikuos, refind

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How My Images Are Dithered (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: dithering, am grid printing, wikipedia

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My Images Are Dithered (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: dithering, am grid printing, wikipedia

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Insulator-free topological photonic multi-lane highways (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Cui | tags: topological photonics, gyromagnetic honeycomb, photonic crystals

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Steam now has 50% more users than PlayStation, and Sony's own decisions might be pushing more players there (techspot.com)

2026-07-10 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: half, maus, million

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Court Approves $46 Million 23andMe Settlement For 2023 Data Breach Victims (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: breach, customers impacted, half

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How to watch Summer Games Done Quick 2026 (engadget.com)

2026-07-03 | by Kris Holt | tags: twitch, summer games done quick, donkey kong country 2

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Half-Life 2 in a Browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-25 | get Half-Life 2 Steam Key → | tags: half-life 2, browser gaming, valve corporation

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Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | tags: wine, steam, factorio

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Nvidia releases RTX Remix 1.5 with new RTX IO compression reducing mod file sizes by up to 37% — update also adds Smooth Normals and 'RTX Remix Skills' Agents (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-17 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nvidia RTX Remix Software → | tags: nvidia, rtx remix, rtx io

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ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get ReactOS Compatibility Pack → | tags: reactos, half-life, windows

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A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | get Portable Dumpster Rental → | tags: book, books, derrida

14.

What does it mean to be a chief design officer? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-12 | tags: boardroom, business leader, design

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They Just Opened Their 1,700th Cafe and Have 900 More Signed. Here’s the Strategy Fueling This $1.5 Billion Franchise. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-11 | by Jonathan Small | get Starbucks Coffee Mug → | tags: cafe, food, growing

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How Visa is designing smarter credit cards for AI shopping (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-10 | get Smart RFID Credit Card → | tags: agents, agents prepare, behalf

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A developer ported Half-Life to a Nokia N95, and it runs at 30fps with Bluetooth keyboard support (techspot.com)

2026-06-10 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Nokia N95 Smartphone Case → | tags: coding, game, half

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Logitech’s new Mobi Fold squeezes a lot of functionality into a tiny folding mouse (theverge.com)

2026-06-10 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Logitech Mobi Fold Mouse → | tags: fold, half, logitech

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The AI boomerang effect: more data suggests employers are reversing AI layoffs (techspot.com)

2026-06-09 | by Daniel Sims | get AI Workforce Analytics Tool → | tags: eliminated, firms, half

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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-08 | by Luke James | get Mobile Phone Cooling Fan → | tags: half, half life, leoncini

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SoulsOnly.tff – A font for humans not AI and keyboard firmware to type in it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-08 | get SoulsOnly TFF Font → | tags: character, cipher, font

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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-07 | by Luke James | get Mobile Game Controller → | tags: half, half life, leoncini

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Fujifilm’s X Half is even more whimsical with a $300 price cut (theverge.com)

2026-05-17 | by Cameron Faulkner | get Fujifilm X-H2 Camera → | tags: fujifilm, x half, san disk

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Gemini’s speckly new animation is spreading from iOS to Android (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-07 | get Android Animation Toolkit → | tags: google gemini, android authority, ios

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Why This Phone Company Is Now a (Record-Breaking) Robot Company (cnet.com)

2026-04-26 | by See Full Bio | get Robotic Smartphone Dock → | tags: honor, humanoid robot, mobile world congress

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A Push to Digitize the Forest (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-24 | get Digital Forest Monitoring Kit → | tags: china, robot, forest

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Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | get Electric Tractor Model → | tags: alberta, startup, no-tech tractors

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A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China (wired.com)

2026-04-20 | by Javier Carbajal | get Robot Running Companion → | tags: honor robot, humanoid robots, china

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Robot runner handily beats humans in half-marathon, setting new record (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-20 | get Robotic Running Shoes → | tags: honor lightning, humanoid robots, beijing half-marathon

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This Goofy Humanoid Robot Can Run a Half Marathon Faster Than You (and Everyone Else) (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-20 | get Atlas Humanoid Robot Kit → | tags: humanoid robot, half marathon, goopy robot