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Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-11 | get Marco Polo Smart Video Doorbell → | tags: uwb, inertial measurement unit, range-only localization

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A big shift in measuring marketing impact (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-11 | get Marketing Analytics Dashboard → | tags: harris poll, marketing impact, pipeline contribution

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Storied Toolmaker Closes Its Last Hometown Plant—and Blames Its Tape Measures (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-06 | get Digital Tape Measure → | tags: stanley black & decker, tape measures, connecticut

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The Digital Industry Is Optimizing Itself Into Mediocrity. Here’s How to Keep Quality at the Center of Your Work. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-04 | by Goran Paun | tags: digital industry, performance metrics, craft culture

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Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | get Web Request Rate Limiter → | tags: web requests, hertz, measurement

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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | tags: large language models, proxy measures, chatgpt

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A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | get 3D Body Scanner Kit → | tags: body measurement prediction, bartol regression, anny model

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Performance reviews are performative (and why that matters now more than ever) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-20 | get Performance Review Software → | tags: performance reviews, measurement crisis, email analysis

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This humanoid robot can almost run as fast as a human sprinter (techspot.com)

2026-04-17 | get Atlas Humanoid Robot → | tags: unitree, humanoid robot, sprinter

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Every leader wants to change the world. Here’s how to tell if you’re actually doing so (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-16 | get Leadership and Impact Book → | tags: elon musk, change the world, leadership

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New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get Hubble Space Telescope Model → | tags: hubble, astronomical measurements, tension

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Best Smart Shades, Blinds, and Curtains (2026): Motorized, Tailor-Made, and More (wired.com)

2026-04-10 | by Simon Hill | get Motorized Smart Blinds → | tags: smart shades, tailor-made, window blinds

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AI Data Centers Can Warm Surrounding Areas By Up To 9.1C (slashdot.org)

2026-03-31 | get AI Data Center Cooling Fan → | tags: ai data centers, land surface temperature, university of cambridge

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How to measure a good life – tips for moving beyond GDP (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-23 | by Heys | get Mindful Living Journal → | tags: gdp, uk economy, high-level expert group

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Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-19 | by Authors | get Smart Home Wi-Fi Extender → | tags: austin, housing construction, zoning regulations

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AppsFlyer Web SDK hijacked to spread crypto-stealing JavaScript code (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-03-14 | get Cybersecurity Web Monitoring Tool → | tags: appsflyer, web sdk, supply-chain attack

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Sizing chaos (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | by The Pudding | get Smartphone → | tags: measurements, range, recorded

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Womens Sizing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | by The Pudding | get Smartwatch → | tags: measurements, range, recorded

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I can use this laser tape measure in places I didn't think possible (and it's on sale) (zdnet.com)

2026-02-18 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Laser Tape Measure → | tags: features, laser, measurements

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Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-12 | by Allan Macgregor | get Python → | tags: code, generated, lines

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Meta warned EU plans to impose measures on tech giant to reverse WhatsApp AI policy (cnbc.com)

2026-02-09 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get WhatsApp AI → | tags: commission, measures, meta

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Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-21 | by Evangelou | get Microplastics → | tags: deposition, emission, emissions

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Exciplex-enabled high-efficiency, fully stretchable OLEDs (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Zhou | get OLEDs → | tags: department, engineering, korea

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Google co-founders may be leaving California (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-11 | by Anthony Ha | get Google → | tags: associated, associated page, brin

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OpenAI Reaches Truce With Advocacy Group Over Dueling Child-Safety Measures (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-10 | get Chatbots → | tags: ballot, ballot measure, chatgpt

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Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS (slashdot.org)

2026-01-09 | get DNS → | tags: agcom, appeal, blocking

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French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites, Dismisses 'Cloudflare-First' Defense (slashdot.org)

2026-01-08 | get DNS → | tags: argued, block, blocking

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AI Doesn't Have to Be Expensive. Here Are 8 Smart Ways to Leverage It on a Modest Budget. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-07 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: cloud, cost, measure

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Soft biodegradable implants for long-distance and wide-angle sensing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-07 | by Lan | get Smart Implants → | tags: biodegradable, deep, deep tissue

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Decorative Cryptography (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-05 | by Chris Fenner | get Cryptographic Cipher → | tags: boot, interposer, kernel