GoKawiil - Tech News

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KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: call of duty 4, kisakcod, open source

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Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild (theverge.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jay Peters | tags: house house, big walk, co-op multiplayer

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Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh (theverge.com)

2026-08-01 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: verge, synths, questlove

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Can Winamp Ride the Retro Tech Wave All the Way Onto Spotify’s Private Beach? (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: winamp, spotify, retro tech

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Winamp Plans Comeback With New Deezer Partnership (cnet.com)

2026-07-30 | by Blake Stimac | tags: winamp, deezer, media player

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Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-29 | by Lauren Forristal | tags: winamp, deezer, spotify

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Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: wayland, multi-seat, linux

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Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: chicxulub crater, iridium layers, asteroid impact

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MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Julie Bort | tags: runlayer, rippling, model context protocol

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AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-27 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32-s3, google per-layer embeddings, slvdev

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VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: vlc, unity, linux

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Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: esp32-s3, gemma models, per-layer embeddings

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My Emacs Configuration (Dired) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | by Eugene Andrienko | tags: emacs, dired, mplayer

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The case for MUDs in modern times (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | by Andrew Zigler | tags: mud, telnet, irc

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Qobuz overhauls its music player and adds real-time lyrics (engadget.com)

2026-07-23 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: qobuz, real-time lyrics, music player

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Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: openai, software factory, strongdm

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Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: unlayer, email builder, document builder

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Electronic-resonance enhanced molecule for perovskite solar cells (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Wu | tags: perovskite solar cells, self-assembly monolayers, indium tin oxide

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At VB Transform 2026, Zillow's engineering chief said AI ROI numbers only hold up if you measure before you build (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: zillow, ai architecture, chatbot

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Pico W firmware creates driverless USB WiFi bridge (Layer-2) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | by Jean-Luc Aufranc | tags: pico-wifi, raspberry pi pico, infineon cyw43439

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Intuit scrapped its own AI agent architecture twice in four months. At VB Transform 2026, its AI VP called that the fast path (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: intuit, vb transform 2026, agentic ai

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The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: enterprise ai, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases

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5 Reasons to Buy the New Pink Floyd Cassette Deck, Ranked Best to Worst (cnet.com)

2026-07-16 | by See Full Bio | tags: best, cassette, cassette player

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Lionel Messi’s Final World Cup—and the Death of Early Retirement (wired.com)

2026-07-15 | by Malak Saleh | tags: football, messi, older

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PayPal stock is skyrocketing after Stripe and a private equity firm reportedly made a buyout offer (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: acquisition, acquisition way, areas

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The tiniest MMO (theverge.com)

2026-07-15 | by Andrew Webster | tags: community, game, playdate

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Graphene oxide-polydopamine membranes with controlled interlayer spacing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-15 | by Lu | tags: goms, interlayer, solution

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PlayStation FlexStrike wireless fight stick delayed without a firm release date (engadget.com)

2026-07-14 | by Jessica Conditt | tags: flexstrike, orders, players

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Samsung 990 2TB SSD Review: New flash, familiar speeds (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Shane Downing | tags: drive, flash, layer

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EverQuest’s biggest fans are leading its revival (theverge.com)

2026-07-14 | by Kallie Plagge | tags: everquest, game, legends