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The End of ‘The End of Oak Street’ Sure Felt Like THAT Right? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: ewan mcgregor, anne hathaway, oak street

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Agility’s CEO on What It Takes to Break Ideas Out of the Lab (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-14 | tags: agility, ceo, lab

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Phantom Blade Zero can run on old GPUs, but you'll need way more for ray tracing (techspot.com)

2026-08-14 | by Daniel Sims | tags: nvidia, ray tracing, unreal engine 5

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Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere (slashdot.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: starlink, earth's upper atmosphere, computer scientists

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US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | by Sam Levin | tags: dhs, ice, operation puppet master

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Apple seeks settlement talks with Epic Games in new court filing (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-14 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, epic games, app store

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Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US [U] (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-13 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, epic games, app store

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Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-13 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, epic games, app store

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X is testing a tool that will let users see if their posts have been 'shadowbanned' (engadget.com)

2026-08-13 | by Karissa Bell | tags: shadowbanning, github, algorithm

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Trump declares 100 percent tariffs on many drones and all aircraft parts (theverge.com)

2026-08-13 | by Sean Hollister | tags: dji, tariffs, unmanned aircraft

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A Legendary Flood in Medieval Europe Wasn’t a Single Disaster—It Was 16 of Them (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: medieval europe, flood, crisis response

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Chatbots argue against election conspiracy theories, then willingly illustrate them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: chatbots, election conspiracy, brennan center

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X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-13 | by Sarah Perez | tags: github, for you algorithm, ranking system

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ChatGPT Is Now Giving Out Personal Finance Advice. Here’s Where It Can Go Really Wrong. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: chatgpt, jd power, financial advice

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What’s happening with D.C.’s Kennedy Center? A pro-Trump board will soon meet to discuss these new closure plans (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: kennedy center, federal judge, donald trump

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Anthropic's Claude tried to solve the Riemann hypothesis and found something new instead (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: riemann hypothesis, prime numbers, anthropic

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Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Elad Rosenheim | tags: openrouter, agent runners, kimi k3

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Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society, Used It to Recruit for Her Startup That’s Now Facing Accusations (futurism.com)

2026-08-13 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: phia, google chrome, slack

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Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society (futurism.com)

2026-08-13 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: phoebe gates, phia, google chrome

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JCB's hydrogen car Hydromax hits 406 mph record at Bonneville (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: jcb, hydromax, hydrogen engine

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Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: ballet, workflow automation, connector libraries

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Ancient rise in CO<sub>2</sub> was catastrophic for forests: what that means for today’s plants (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-13 | by Dinneen | tags: paleocene-eocene thermal maximum, co2 emissions, natural history museum

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Build Wide, Ship Narrow (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Bruno Quaresma | tags: ai assistant, github pull requests, software engineering

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I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: synthesizers, midi-ox, roland

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Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Arthur Zaczkiewicz | tags: social media, canned sardines, tiktok

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Why Can't You Find Canned Sardines? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Arthur Zaczkiewicz | tags: sardines, social media, canned sardines

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The Writers of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ on Crafting Their Complex Villain (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: spider-man, sadie sink, erik sommers

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AI doesn’t transform organizations; leadership does. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: disciplined governance, integrated business planning, organizational leadership

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People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: facebook, economic connectedness, upward mobility

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Your key to success isn't more luck or hard work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: facebook, raj chetty, economic connectedness