GoKawiil - Tech News

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Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Vittoria Elliott | tags: census, citizenship, funding

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Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mira Holt | tags: applied, batch, line

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Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Meredith Haggerty | tags: editor, learn, movie

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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: cache, engine, kv cache

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OpenAI rolls out a major ChatGPT upgrade, even if you don’t pay for it (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: chatgpt, gpt sol, openai

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OpenAI updating ChatGPT with a smarter GPT-5.6 Sol and unlimited free chats (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-06 | by Zac Hall | tags: chat, chatgpt, gpt sol

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Oh Great—AI Slop Is Coming for Vinyl (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: cold, cold shaking, ending

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What I love about Django (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Justin Duke | tags: class, django, field

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Meta Quest Promo Codes and Coupons for August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Brad Bourque | tags: meta quest, quest 3, vr headset

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MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: mariadb, github, server log

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Help Wanted (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Lake Hope | tags: agplv3, open source, pull request

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When "no healthy upstream" isn't about the upstream you think (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: balancer, dependency, healthy

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Don't credit the LLM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: llm, openai, support requests

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Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh (theverge.com)

2026-08-01 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: verge, synths, questlove

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DROP Platform Lets Californians Reduce Digital Footprint (darkreading.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: drop platform, california, delete request

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JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Dan Smith | tags: openjdk, jep 401, value objects

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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: github, stacked pr, next.js

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Meta’s Reality Labs lost over $4.6 billion in second quarter (cnbc.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jonathan Vanian | tags: meta, reality labs, quest

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Our First Look at ‘VisionQuest’ Comes via These Funko Pops (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: funko pops, visionquest, vision

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GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: autonomous vehicles, ai agents, pull requests

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Agentic Browsers Rewind Web Security by 20 Years (darkreading.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: agentic browsers, web security, social engineering

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Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | by Sameer Wagh | tags: llms, mathematical research, standard deck

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108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: loop engineering, github, pull requests

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I found a dual-display USB-C dock with 8 ports - and no bulky AC brick (zdnet.com)

2026-07-27 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: usb-c dock, ezquest, intel hoover ridge

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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-24 | by Sarah Perez | tags: bluesky, attie, atmosphere

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Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: microsoft 365, reliaquest, apt28

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The 3 words that fuel innovation (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: phil haid, innovation, collaboration

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Meta Horizon+ subscriptions now include Xbox Game Pass starter edition (engadget.com)

2026-07-21 | by Kris Holt | tags: meta horizon+, xbox game pass, meta quest

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Meta’s Quest Game Subscribers Will Be Getting Some Xbox Extras (cnet.com)

2026-07-21 | by Scott Stein | tags: meta, quest vr, xbox game pass

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OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: openai, codex, pull request