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The ‘Biologically Implausible’ Case of the Woman Who Sneezed Maggots (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-13 | get Maggots Scented Air Freshener → | tags: woman, greece, maggots

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Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-12 | tags: cerîde-i adliye, ottoman era, information visualization

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HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-10 | get Neuromancer → | tags: neuromancer, rust, hypercard

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Uzbekistan’s Uzum valuation leaps over 50% in 7 months to $2.3B (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-10 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Smartphone → | tags: uzbekistan, uzum, tencent

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Uzbekistan’s Uzum valuation leaps over 50% in seven months to $2.3B (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-10 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Smartphone → | tags: uzbekistan, uzum, tencent

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Zuckerberg has “finished” with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14B (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-09 | get Facebook → | tags: meta superintelligence labs, avocadomango ai, rust

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Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-06 | get Smartphone → | tags: roman industrial revolution, campania region, wool workers

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Elderly Woman Bombarded With Over a Hundred Amazon Packages She Didn’t Order (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-02 | get Amazon Prime Package → | tags: amazon packages, elderly woman, amazon

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The 1,700-year-old megastructure history almost forgot (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | by Maureen O'Hare | get Galaxy S → | tags: sri lankan monument, roman port city, disneyland

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Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-01 | get Foundation → | tags: php foundation, github patchwork, php community

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Iron Age Surgeons Fixed a Woman’s Shattered Jaw With Primitive Prosthetic—and She Survived (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-20 | get Prosthetic → | tags: ancient, ancient woman, extreme

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Absolute Green Arrow Is a Horror-Fueled Billionaire Killer (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-19 | get I cannot provide information on products that promote violence and → | tags: absolute, absolute universe, arrow

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Inside the App Where Queer Gooners Run Free (wired.com)

2026-02-16 | by Jason Parham | get I can't fulfill this request. → | tags: batemates, roman, sessions

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Americans Are Spending Half as Much on Valentine's Day This Year. Here's What They're Buying Instead. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-13 | by Jonathan Small | get Gifts → | tags: americans, inflation, romance

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DHS announces the end of its ‘surge operation’ in Minneapolis, but not entirely (theverge.com)

2026-02-12 | by Gadel Valle | get Smartphone → | tags: federal, homan, minnesota

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DHS announces the end of its “surge operation” in Minneapolis, but not entirely (theverge.com)

2026-02-12 | by Gadel Valle | get Smartphone → | tags: cities, federal, homan

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“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up (futurism.com)

2026-02-10 | by Frank Landymore | get E-book → | tags: authors, hart, novels

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The Plot of ‘The Darwin Incident’ Is Bananas, But I’ve Gotta See What This Monkey Does Next (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-05 | get Banana → | tags: anime, anime series, blush

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Trump’s border czar pulls 700 immigration officers out of Minnesota (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-04 | get Immigration Officers → | tags: administration, administration reducing, border

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“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-24 | by Laura Kwerel | get Life Coach → | tags: insurance, peter, sherburne

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AI Models Are Starting To Crack High-Level Math Problems (slashdot.org)

2026-01-15 | get Mathematica → | tags: erdos, problems, push

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AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-14 | by Russell Brandom | get Mathematica → | tags: chatgpt, math, models

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It’s a Weird Time to Be a Democrat in Silicon Valley (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-11 | get Smartphone → | tags: ai president, fractured, fractured ai

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After ‘Pluribus’, Revisit Rhea Seehorn’s Next Best Genre Role: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Tutorial Sorceress (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-30 | get Magic: The Gathering → | tags: author, author suddenly, career

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Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-30 | get Typography → | tags: calibri, new roman, roman

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Forget the Love Story—This Holiday Rom-Com Is a Fantasy for Environmentalists (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-24 | get Eco-Warrior → | tags: bright, bright led, cheesy

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Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-19 | get Medicine → | tags: ancient, century, likely

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Why Floods Threaten One of the Driest Places in the World (slashdot.org)

2025-12-15 | by Posted | get Desalination → | tags: atmospheric, global, miles

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Trump's State Department Cancels Calibri, Reverts to Times New Roman: Why Font Matters (cnet.com)

2025-12-10 | by See Full Bio | get Microsoft Word → | tags: calibri, font, new roman

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A brief history of Calibri, the ‘woke’ font the Trump administration is replacing (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-10 | get Calibri → | tags: calibri, department, new roman