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She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-21 | by Lillian Perlmutter | tags: san diego border, surveillance camera, mit technology review

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Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-21 | by De Rijcke | tags: academic freedom, central europe university, peer review

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Thermacell LIV 2.0 Review: Taking My Yard Back (wired.com)

2026-09-20 | by Christopher Null | get Thermacell LIV 2.0 Smart Mosquito Repellent System → | tags: thermacell liv 2.0, mosquito repellent, smart home devices

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Don't call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-20 | tags: ferrari purosangue, suv review, v12 engine

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PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-20 | tags: pdf forgeries, gwern.net, google scholar

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Control Resonant reviews praise its spectacular world and bold new direction (techspot.com)

2026-09-18 | by Our Editors Hand-Pick These Games Based On A Broad Criteria | get Sony DualSense Wireless Controller → | tags: control resonant, techspot, future plc

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Breville’s Wild New Toaster Swaps the Timer for Optic Sensors to Tell When Toast Is Done (cnet.com)

2026-09-17 | by John Carlsen | get Breville Eye Q Auto Toaster → | tags: breville eye q 850, optic sensor, toaster technology

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Breville’s Eye Q Uses an Optic Sensor for Flawless Toast. Here’s My Review (cnet.com)

2026-09-17 | by John Carlsen | get Breville Eye Q 850 Auto Toaster → | tags: breville eye q, toaster technology, optic sensor

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I used the Motorola Edge (2026) all summer long, but it never won me over (androidauthority.com)

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Snap Specs Hands-On: Dorky, Fun, and Potentially Too Ambitious (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-16 | get Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses → | tags: snap specs, ar glasses, snap

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Asking authors about their own papers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: authors, research papers, peer review

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: authors, papers, research

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This Code Is CRAP (2011) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Posted Alberto Savoia | tags: crap acronym, code quality, software metrics

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What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova? (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: neutrinos, core-collapse supernovae, physical review d

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macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-16 | get MacBook Air M4 laptop → | tags: macos 27 golden gate, apple intelligence, siri

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Replacing Pull Requests with Delta (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: delta, pull requests, multiplayer coding

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The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-16 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai extinction risk, mit technology review roundtable, openai

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The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: google play, app review, google

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Breville Eye Q Toaster review: A toaster with a vision (engadget.com)

2026-09-16 | by Sam Rutherford | get Breville Eye Q Toaster → | tags: breville eye q, toaster review, toasting technology

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Forget the iPhone Duo — the First iPhone Had More Hype and a More Shocking Price (cnet.com)

2026-09-16 | by Patrick Holland | get Apple iPhone 17 Pro → | tags: iphone duo, original iphone, iphone 18 pro

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What we have learned at OpenShell applying formal methods to control AI agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Alex Watson | tags: formal methods, z3 library, ai agents

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The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-15 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: openai, anthropic, ai extinction

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ChatGPT transcripts are reportedly read by humans to improve responses, including those with personal information — 'Project Lilly' has seen OpenAI hire hundreds of contractors to manually review logs (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-15 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: chatgpt, openai, project lily

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GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: gpt-5.6 luna, gpt-6 astra, ai-code-review-evals

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Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | by Evan Hahn | tags: reduce, map, filter

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1,000+ shoes reviewed and cut in half (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: shoes, shoe review, cut in half

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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | by Evan Hahn | tags: reduce function, map function, filter function

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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | by Blog Logo | get SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Luxe iPhone → | tags: google, youtube ads, deceptive ads

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Conversations that AIs are having in the office that may influence your performance review and pay (cnbc.com)

2026-09-12 | by Cheryl Winokur Munk | get Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High book → | tags: ai coaching, performance review, the predictive index

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Kioxia Exceria Pro G2 2TB SSD Review — Speed built to last (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-12 | by Shane Downing | get Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2TB PCIe 5.0 SSD → | tags: kioxia, exceria pro g2, ssd review