GoKawiil - Tech News

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: backdoor, core, embedded

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Trump is losing his war on wind power (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: administration, development, government

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Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: cases, organ, organ procurement

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Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results (wired.com)

2026-08-06 | by Isabella Ward | tags: alam, majorana, microsoft

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AMD sinks 8% in premarket trading despite beating expectations (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: ahead, billion, central

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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: duckdb, clojure, jdbc

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Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS is down to its lowest price ever (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Brad Bourque | tags: lenovo, legion go s, steam os

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Purple Carrot Meal Kit Review: Tastier Than Meal Kits With Meat (wired.com)

2026-08-04 | by Matthew Korfhage | tags: purple carrot, meal kit, tofu

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FFmpeg 9.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ffmpeg, version 9.0, multimedia

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An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: unam, ai proctoring, lockdown browser

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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: ai proctoring, lockdown browser, unam

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SearXNG in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: searxng, rust, duckduckgo

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Galaxy S27 Ultra may get a slimmer camera thanks to this hidden upgrade (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: galaxy s27 ultra, samsung, inkjet lens process

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The Computational Theory of Mind (2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Rescorla | tags: computational theory of mind, cognitive science, neurophysiological description

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Does Eating Less Protein Produce Healthier Aging and Metabolism? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-02 | by Posted | tags: protein intake, fgf21, cell processes

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Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: risc os, risc processor, risc os open

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Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: ai api pricing, openai, token costs

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Charlie Stross – On the non-use of AI in my writing process (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: charlie stross, writing, non-use

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Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: nas, x86 processors, intel n100

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Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: orca-bench, language model agents, oncall

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How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Crair | tags: oak processionary caterpillar, eichenprozessionsspinner, berlin

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Food packaging is entering a new era of scrutiny (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: food packaging, sustainability, carbon emissions

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Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-31 | by Glickman | tags: large language models, arxiv preprint, university of washington

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Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup — firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose cores (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Anton Shilov | tags: intel, atom processor, rosaiclabs

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How to think about software quality (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Aditya Athalye | tags: software quality, motorcycle maintenance, process

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How to not die by a thousand cuts or how to think about software quality (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Aditya Athalye | tags: software quality, motorcycle maintenance, zen dialogue

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How to Not Die by a Thousand Cuts. Or, How to Think About Software Quality (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Aditya Athalye | tags: software quality, motorcycle maintenance, zen dialogue

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This Breakthrough Technology Is Poised to Accelerate Your Company’s Growth (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | by Albert Santalo | tags: agentic ai, robotic process automation, strategic decision-making

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A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: bezier curve, gpu, texture lookup

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How silicon-chip technology is being re-engineered for quantum computing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ares | tags: silicon-chip, quantum computing, quantum processors