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Apple earnings, universal clipboard interoperability, iPhone event chatter (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-06 | by Chance Miller | tags: benjamin, happy, happy hour

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Commemorative golden Doom floppy disks go up for pre-order — pair of limited edition dummy ‘imitation gold plating’ disks and a box are $30 at GameStop (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Mark Tyson | tags: doom, fanattik, gamestop

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Robotics development made dead simple (open source) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-26 | tags: ros 2, openarm, isaac sim

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A Mother Got So Happy at Her Daughter’s Wedding That She Ended Up Hospitalized (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: mother, daughter, happy heart syndrome

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Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing (wired.com)

2026-07-21 | by Ej Dickson | tags: etsy, ai-generated art, alibaba

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A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk (techspot.com)

2026-07-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: floppy disk, 2p game arcade, game development

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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: floppy disk, game development, 2p_game_arcade

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iOS 27 beta 3 changes, Siri AI on Apple Watch, macOS Golden Gate features (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-09 | by Chance Miller | tags: chance, free, happy

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: drive, floppy, hardware

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Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | by Various Contributors | tags: disk, disks, drive

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Discord Goes Ban-Happy, Suspends People for Benign Images (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: ban happy, benign, benign images

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We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by Cyrus Lopez | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: autoexec.bat, floppy disk, modem

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 30, #1837 (cnet.com)

2026-06-29 | by See Full Bio | tags: wordle, nytimes, puppy

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HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Donald Papp | tags: hamsteros, greasweazle, vintage hardware

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Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away (venturebeat.com)

2026-06-22 | get AI Video Editing Software → | tags: alibaba cloud, happyhorse 1.1, openai sora

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The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Digital Privacy and Security Book → | tags: web, open standards, search engines

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WWDC 2026 recap, iOS 27, new Siri and more officially announced (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-11 | by Chance Miller | get Apple Siri Voice Remote → | tags: chance, happy, happy hour

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The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-06 | by Mark Tyson | get 3.5 Inch Floppy Disk → | tags: disk, disks, floppies

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iOS 27 bill splitting, new hardware waiting on new Siri, final WWDC expectations (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-04 | by Chance Miller | get Apple iPhone 15 Case → | tags: apple, chance, happy

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86Box v6.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get 86Box Emulator Software → | tags: 86box, hardware, networking

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get Floppy Disk Data Recovery Kit → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-05-26 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get USB Floppy Disk Drive → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Poppy’ is a proactive AI assistant that handles what Siri still can’t (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-23 | by Michael Burkhardt | get AI Assistant Device → | tags: poppy, siri, apple maps

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The trick to getting 7-Eleven’s $1 Slurpees this summer is knowing the schedule (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-13 | get Slurpee Cup Dispenser → | tags: 7-eleven, slurpees, happy hour

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Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-13 | by Sarah Perez | get Smart Organizer AI Assistant → | tags: apps, calendar, computing

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Imminent Samsung Strike Could Be an Earthquake for AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-13 | get Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra → | tags: chains, chains happy, complex

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BOOX just added the one accessory Kindle users keep begging for (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-08 | get BOOX Magnetic Cover → | tags: boox, tappy, kindle

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Boox announces Tappy, a wireless page-turning remote (engadget.com)

2026-05-08 | by Matt Tate | get Boox Tappy Remote → | tags: boox, tappy, ereaders

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Boox’s new page-turning e-reader remote is a tiny two-button keyboard (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Boox e-reader remote → | tags: boox, tappy, e-reader

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Whataburger’s redesigned packaging proves the Happy Meal could be happier (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-06 | get Happy Meal Toy Set → | tags: whataburger, happy meal, packaging