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Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-24 | tags: ebola, democratic republic of the congo, ituri

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Humanoid robots have beaten Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash record (engadget.com)

2026-08-23 | by Jackson Chen | tags: humanoid robots, honor lightning robot, tiangong ultra

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Humanoid robots shatter Usain Bolt's 100m record, hits 23.8 mph before crashing into foam pads — video shows Tiangong Ultra logging 9.39-second sprint before colliding with padded wall (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Jowi Morales | tags: tiangong ultra, humanoid robots, world athletics championships

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The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom (wired.com)

2026-08-21 | by Zeyi Yang | tags: china, inner mongolia, ulanqab

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This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-21 | by Julianne Pepitone | tags: ieee, balaji ingole, amla commerce

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Meet Niles, Croc’s new reptilian mascot (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: croc, niles, duolingo

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Meet Niles, a new reptilian Crocs mascot (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: crocs, niles, duolingo

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How to get your attention span back (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: duolingo, notifications, emails

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Find My, iCloud, and several other Apple services are currently down for some users [U] (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-18 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: affected, et ongoing, experiencing

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Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Julian Chokkattu | tags: fairphone, repairable smartphone, qualcomm snapdragon

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Duolingo Expands Its Math Services for More Advanced and Personalized Learning (cnet.com)

2026-08-17 | by Macy Meyer | tags: duolingo, math, education

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How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: mongodb, heidi, scribe

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I replaced Duolingo with Gemini, and it’s (almost) the perfect alternative (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: duolingo, gemini, android authority

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Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: roscosmos, progress rocket center, soyuz-2

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Babbel Promo Code: Up to 65% Off in August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Molly Higgins | tags: babbel, duolingo, speech recognition

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Choose Boring Technology (2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: nodejs, mongodb, etsy

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Enters Klingon Territory (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: star trek, strange new worlds, klingon

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HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: websockets, phoenix liveview, django liveview

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You’ll soon be able to use Google Health to track your blood glucose in real time (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: google health, abbott, lingocgm

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The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: digital id, 5rights, ccdh

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The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: digital id, 5rights, ccdh

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Duolingo is finally letting you undo this frustrating mistake (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: duolingo, android authority, undo button

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Token-maxxing is dead. Agentic memory is what comes next. (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: mongodb, token-maxxing, context window

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What I love about Django (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Justin Duke | tags: class, django, field

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Duolingo users are fed up with random strangers cluttering their feeds (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: duolingo, feed, follow

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This Android launcher made my home screen fun again - and I'm using the free version (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jack Wallen | tags: android, mango launcher, google

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Apple announces Ted Lasso look-alike contest happening in NYC (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-03 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: apple tv, ted lasso, apple fifth avenue

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Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: llm, django, ai coding assistants

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<b>The forensic traces that can help catch poachers — </b> July’s best science images (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: colobus monkeys, democratic republic of the congo, lomami river

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Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: react.js, htmx, misago