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The FCC just shredded local TV station ownership rules, despite questionable legality (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: broadcast, local, national

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Why smartphone makers stopped using removable batteries, and why they're making a comeback (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Mariella Moon | tags: batteries, battery, charge

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The $299 Viture Pro 2 are the company's lightest and most comfortable smartglasses yet (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Sam Rutherford | tags: devices, dock, glasses

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Universities would prefer no AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by Hollis Robbins | tags: education, higher, higher ed

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Warren presses Lutnick over UAE access to sensitive U.S. tech after Trump crypto investment (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Luke Fountain | tags: commerce, export, national

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Huge $750 saving makes this Gigabyte OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti an absolute steal right now — just $1,999 for 1600p rig with 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, and a 24-core Intel CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5070 ti, oled display

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Emotional resilience is becoming the most valuable skill. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: gallup, global workforce, emotional resilience

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Your old role isn’t coming back (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: gartner, wall street journal, middle management

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Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by Aug. | tags: rust-lang/rust, large language models, pr policies

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Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: cloudflare, api, wallet

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Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: edotenv, yc s26, quant trading

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I Was Told I’m ‘Just a Mom With a Side Hustle.’ Here’s What Those Words Reveal About Modern Business and Motherhood. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kimberly Spencer | tags: mompreneur, female founders, side hustle

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Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: cmcp, trusted execution environment, snowflake

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What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: labor force, participation, economic indicators

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Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai platforms, digital commerce, adobe analytics

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T-Mobile’s $0-down financing plan bundles taxes and fees (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Emma Roth | tags: t-mobile, equipment installment plan, eip flex 36

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Flock Employee Quits In Disgust, Saying the Company Is Silencing Protestors (futurism.com)

2026-08-04 | by Frank Landymore | tags: flock, surveillance cameras, ai-powered cameras

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FFmpeg 9.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time (wired.com)

2026-08-04 | by Joel Khalili | tags: mistral, open source, openai

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New Tool Traces AI Videos Back to Their Source (darkreading.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: ai videos, industry collaboration, source tracing

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KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: call of duty 4, kisakcod, open source

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KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: call of duty 4, kisakcod, open source

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Samsung’s discounted smart monitor is $349.99, its lowest price yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-03 | by Brad Bourque | tags: samsung, m80f, tizen

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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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AI shopping searches surged 200% in one year - and it's a top priority for commerce leaders now (zdnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Vala Afshar | tags: salesforce, agentic ai, google

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Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: int8 convrot, geforce rtx, comfyui

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Devtools must be open source (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: devtools, tailscale, open source

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Nearly 720,000 People Stopped Working or Looking for Work in a Single Month. Here’s What’s Behind It. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jonathan Small | tags: u.s. bureau of labor statistics, unemployment, remote work

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Windows Task Manager's original creator is bringing a new version to Mac first (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: task manager, microsoft, macos

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ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: ice, dna collection, immigration enforcement