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OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

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Every fast write moves work somewhere else (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: comments

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Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

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I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: comments

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Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: case, cooler, larger

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GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: change, document, file

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A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terence Tao | tags: argument, conjecture, function

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Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

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The AI Therapist: A WSJ Podcast Series (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai mental, bring, chatbots

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Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: comments

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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: attack, beaver, department

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More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: department, flock, investigation

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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: comments

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: assignments, schools, secondary

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Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: assignments, schools, secondary

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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: comments

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Just How Bad Are AI Data Centers for Your Local Water? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: ai draining, asked, asked experts

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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Frank Landymore | tags: engagement, facebook, meta

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NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Elizabeth Howell | tags: instruments, nasa, officials

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NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Elizabeth Howell | tags: instruments, nasa, officials

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Stop Burying Your Press Logos — Here’s Where They Actually Win Buyers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ali Raza | tags: buyer, coverage, footer

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U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: department, department energy, energy

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I Watched My Startup Run Out of Time and Money — Here Are the 5 Steps That Turn a Setback Into Your Next Advantage (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jonathan Hung | tags: entrepreneurship, failure, founders

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DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doge, government, receipts

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DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doge, government, receipts

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Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: clips, comment, didn

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Software is about people, not code (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by View All Posts Mooreds | tags: built, code, development

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Software is about people, not code (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by View All Posts Mooreds | tags: built, code, development

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Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: comments