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Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: earth, engineered safeguards, habitability

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ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: exfilsquad, pnld, police national legal database

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This new drone spins so fast the human eye can barely see it (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Alec Hively | tags: northwestern, phantom twist, drone invisibility

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Fiat's new $15,000 mini EV is now on sale in the US, but it's not yet legal to drive (techspot.com)

2026-07-21 | by Julio Franco | tags: fiat, topolino, stellantis

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Tesla Created a $225 Balance Bike for Tots, and It’s Already Sold Out (cnet.com)

2026-07-17 | by See Full Bio | tags: tesla, balance bike, elon musk

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Tesla Created a $225 Balance Bike for Tots, and It's Already Sold Out (cnet.com)

2026-07-17 | by See Full Bio | tags: tesla, balance bike, cyberquad

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Tesla's selling a $225 balance bike for toddlers (engadget.com)

2026-07-17 | by Steve Dent | tags: tesla, autopilot, radio flyer

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Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: homogeneous, interval, level

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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: mipi, quadrf, radio

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Drone Autonomy (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-04 | tags: autonomous, instead, just

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Drone Autonomy Crash Course (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-04 | tags: autonomous, instead, just

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This retro enthusiast forced Windows 11 to run on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and AGP graphics (techspot.com)

2026-06-30 | get Windows 11 Compatibility Hack → | tags: windows 11, core 2 quad, agp graphics

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Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | get Drone Building Kit → | tags: octocopter, quadcopter, mueller

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RAM crisis provokes enthusiast to try Windows 11 on DDR1-era hardware — other key vintage components included the Core 2 Q6600 and ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-27 | by Mark Tyson | get Vintage PC RAM Upgrade → | tags: ram crisis, windows 11, core 2 quad

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General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-25 | by Rebecca Bellan | get AI Training for Robotics Kit → | tags: fortnite, general intuition, quadrupedal robot

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From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-25 | by Rebecca Bellan | get AI Robot Training Kit → | tags: fortnite, general intuition, ai robotics

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Odd police video shows drone removing knife from motionless suspect (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-23 | get Drone Surveillance Kit → | tags: drones, sacramento county sheriff’s office, magnet disarmament

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A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-19 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get AI Model Optimization Kit → | tags: subquadratic, subq, google deepmind

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SubQ 1.1 Small (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get SubQ 1.1 Small Kit → | tags: subquadratic sparse attention, flashattention-2, enterprise ai

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Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get SubQ 1.1 Small VR Headset → | tags: subquadratic, subq 1.1 small, flashattention-2

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Quadratic funding democratizes allocation by rewarding projects w/ broad support (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Quadratic Funding Guidebook → | tags: quadratic funding, square root, match pool

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Ukraine used ten AI-controlled ‘Terminator’ drones to kill Russian soldiers two years ago, marking first autonomous killings of humans — autonomous killer quadcopters left ‘everything dead’ says senior Ukrainian defense industry figure (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-13 | by Mark Tyson | tags: ukraine, terminator drones, ai-controlled

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Ukraine used 10 AI-controlled ‘Terminator’ drones to kill Russian soldiers two years ago, marking first autonomous killings of humans — autonomous killer quadcopters left ‘everything dead’ says senior Ukrainian defense industry figure (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-13 | by Mark Tyson | tags: ukraine, terminator drones, ai-controlled

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256GB of dual-channel RAM hits mass market thanks to Origin Code — quad-rank CUDIMM packs 128GB of DDR5-8000 into a single module (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-01 | by Zhiye Liu | get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM → | tags: origin code, ddr5-8000, gigabyte z890

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You can still run the original Nvidia Control Panel by grabbing it from the Microsoft Store today — app remains useful to adjust a handful of RTX Pro and Quadro features, and may be handy for troubleshooting (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-31 | by Mark Tyson | get Nvidia Control Panel → | tags: nvidia control panel, microsoft store, rtx pro

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Bootids Meteor Shower May Explode With Meteors or Fizzle Out: How to Watch (cnet.com)

2026-05-27 | by See Full Bio | get Meteor Shower Viewing Kit → | tags: bootids, perseid, geminids

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Star Citizen reaches $1 billion in lifetime funding, 14 years after the project was first announced — game still in early access with no release window, including 'Squadron 42' campaign (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get Star Citizen Collector's Edition → | tags: star citizen, cloud imperium, squadron 42

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Next year’s iPhone Pro models to get radical new design, per leaker (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-21 | by Ryan Christoffel | get iPhone 15 Pro Case → | tags: iphone, apple, face id

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HyperX FlipCast Review: For the gamer-podcaster (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-20 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get HyperX QuadCast Microphone → | tags: hyperx, flipcast, usb-c

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The quadratic sandwich (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | tags: gradient descent, strong convexity, l-smoothness