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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: effectiveness, effectiveness mathematics, mathematics

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Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: clark, hesperaloe, kimberly clark

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Here’s why Apple is skipping its M6 Pro and M6 Max chips to accelerate M7 launch (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, chip, neural

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Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: community, fitness, members

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Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tim De Chant | tags: natural, natural gas, plants

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SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tim De Chant | tags: billion, gas power, natural

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GAO finds Elon Musk's DOGE inflated claims of $110 billion in savings for federal government (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lora Kolodny | tags: claimed, cuts, doge

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Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: bacteria, cancer, daniell

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Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight microbes linked to cancers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: bacteria, cancer, daniell

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The DISTINCT in Your COUNT (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Radim Marek | tags: aggregate, count, distinct

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Jalapeños tied to U.S. salmonella outbreak came from a Mexican grower (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: chipotle, chipotle mexican, eating

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Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: compromised, exploited, federal

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New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: attack, attacker, branch

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AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed (theverge.com)

2026-08-06 | by Hayden Field | tags: lopez, models, spiral

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Hungryroot Coupon Codes: 30% Off This August (wired.com)

2026-08-06 | by Matthew Korfhage | tags: code, grocery, hungryroot

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Python string literals are kinda funny (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: backslash, content resulting, literals

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Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Isabelle Johannessen | tags: australian, battlefield, startup

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Zoox to start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: exemption, federal, robotaxi

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AMD sinks 5% despite earnings beat, strong data center revenue (cnbc.com)

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

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AMD sinks 7% despite earnings beat, strong data center revenue (cnbc.com)

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

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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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Forget Neuralink. This startup thinks your tongue is the better interface (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: neuralink, augmental, mouthpad

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Antigen presentation by CD40<sup>+</sup>MHC-II<sup>+</sup> astrocytes promotes CNS autoimmunity (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Lee | tags: education, fellowship, funded

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Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Troy Hunt | tags: fedex, phishing, australia post

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FBI Agent Accused of Stealing $1 Million in Crypto Apparently Missed the Corruption Tutorial (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: fbi, cryptocurrency, corruption

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OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Calls Lawsuit ‘Careless, Aggressive and Oddly Personal’ (cnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Katelyn Chedraoui | tags: openai, apple, chatgpt

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The Sound of Inevitability (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Brent Donnelly | tags: derivatives, susquehanna, parallax

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WHOOP is giving members a one-year subscription to Natural Cycles (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: whoop, natural cycles, skin temperature

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Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: phishing-as-a-service, ringcentral, microsoft 365

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: shieldstral, multimodal safety, nvidia gpu