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UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Apple Vision Pro Case → | tags: visionos, apple vision pro, x11

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Burn-9 makes an entire game out of Metal Gear's Codec scenes (engadget.com)

2026-06-06 | by Igor Bonifacic | get Metal Gear Codec Puzzle Book → | tags: agent, burn, colony

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Iran reportedly funneled billions through Binance to fund its military (engadget.com)

2026-05-22 | by Steve Dent | get Binance Cryptocurrency Trading Platform → | tags: binance, changpeng zhao, iran

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Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-20 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get VPN Privacy Protection Kit → | tags: trump mobile, smartphone, data leak

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Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | get Digital Rights Management Software → | tags: anna's archive, shadow library, penguin random house

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3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-13 | by Benjamin Feldman | get 3D Splatting Art Kit → | tags: 3d gaussian splatting, 3dgs, kerbl et al. 2023

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Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-11 | get JavaScript Coding Kit → | tags: google antigravity, webcontainer api, gemini 3.1 pro

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Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996 (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-09 | by Mark Tyson | get Linux Tux Penguin Figurine → | tags: linux, tux, linus torvalds

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Bill Gurley, Jack Altman back startup Pursuit, which helps companies sell to government (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-29 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | get Government Contracting Guidebook → | tags: pursuit, opengov, bill gurley

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China announces CPU-only exascale supercomputer with 47,000 homemade processors, record 2 Exaflops of performance without GPUs — Lingshen super said to use Huawei Kunpeng servers and no foreign-made components (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-28 | by Luke James | get Huawei Kunpeng Server → | tags: huawei kunpeng, exascale supercomputer, ling shen

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Return to ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ With an Astarion Prequel Book (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-25 | get Baldur's Gate 3 Art Book → | tags: baldur's gate 3, penguin random house, astarian

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Vampire Crawlers, Peter Molyneux's return and other new indie games worth checking out (engadget.com)

2026-04-25 | get Indie Game Development Kit → | tags: playdate, panic, titanium court

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ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get SQL Data Visualization Book → | tags: ggsql, sql, ggplot

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MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-19 | get MuJoCo Physics Simulator → | tags: mujoco, google deepmind, opengl

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Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-17 | by Thompson | get PFAS Testing Kit → | tags: penguins, pfas pollution, nature.com

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Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-15 | get Penguin Relationship Chart Puzzle → | tags: sumida aquarium, penguin, relationship chart

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Daily briefing: The air is full of DNA — here’s what it can teach us (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-14 | by Graham | get AirDNA Air Quality Monitor → | tags: airborne dna, magellanic penguins, forever chemicals

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Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | by Kat Kerlin | get PFAS Testing Kit → | tags: pfas, penguins, uc davis

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As Mass Drownings Add Up, Emperor Penguins Officially Join the Endangered List (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-09 | get Penguin Encyclopedia Book → | tags: emperor penguins, antarctic fur seals, southern elephant seals

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Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-09 | get Penguin & Seal Conservation Kit → | tags: iucn red list, emperor penguin, antarctic fur seal

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Meet the ‘Club Penguin’ superfans giving the game a second life (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-01 | get Club Penguin T-Shirt → | tags: club penguin, disney, tamagotchi

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OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-30 | get Smart Grid Infrastructure Map → | tags: opengridworks, electricity, infrastructure

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Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-12 | by Kate Park | get Neuralink → | tags: merge labs, neuralink, openai

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Graphics Programming Resources (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | get Graphics Programming Resources → | tags: opengl, ray tracing, pbr

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After 17 years, Minecraft Java Edition starts replacing OpenGL with a Vulkan multi-threaded renderer — update will prove a boon for performance and modding (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-20 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Minecraft → | tags: game, java, modders

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Minecraft Java Is Switching From OpenGL To Vulkan (slashdot.org)

2026-02-19 | get Vulkan → | tags: away, away opengl, modders

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Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | by Liam Dawe | get Vulkan → | tags: away, minecraft, opengl

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This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required (wired.com)

2026-01-29 | by Emily Mullin | get Brain-Computer Interface → | tags: brain, gestala, pain

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Grinning Wolf Tells Little Red Riding Hood That Her Safety Is His Top Priority (futurism.com)

2026-01-22 | by Frank Landymore | get Smartwatch → | tags: anthropic, human, peng

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Huawei’s Ascend and Kunpeng progress shows how China is rebuilding an AI compute stack under sanctions (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Luke James | get Artificial Intelligence Compute Stack → | tags: ascend, class, huawei