GoKawiil - Tech News

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The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: programming languages, breck yunits, pldb

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Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: mic drop, show hn, multiplayer

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Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: heat waves, greenhouse gases, arctic warming

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Polaroid’s tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of film (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Brad Bourque | tags: polaroid go, instant camera, amazon

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SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: blood sugar, android app, sugartrack

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Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by The Liu Family | tags: digital signal processing, ieee jack s. kilby medal, princeton university

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Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: claude, thermalright, anthropic

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Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anthony Ha | tags: grok, xai, spacex

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Grab this RTX 5070 gaming PC for just $1,499, saving $600 off list price — Acer Nitro 85 prebuilt comes with 16GB of RAM, Core Ultra 7 265F, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5070, acer nitro 85, intel core ultra 7

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Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Andrej Flis | tags: super el niño, kelvin wave, westerly winds

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AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: openai, google, meta

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An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: large language model, ground truth, verifying correctness

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Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anthony Ha | tags: anthropic, claude, watermarking

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Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian Is Packed With Laughs, Flashbacks and Lots of Grogu (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Russell Holly | tags: lego star wars, the mandalorian, grogu

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Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: anthropic, claude, watermark

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: android, wayland, compositor

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Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: voltair, drone, earth observation

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Anthropic is watermarking text generated by Claude to comply with EU law (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Mariella Moon | tags: anthropic, claude, ai watermarking

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The Airseekers Tron is an impressive mulching robot mower with a couple of frustrating flaws (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: airseekers tron, rtk precision, obstacle avoidance

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It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: windows 11, microsoft, pc manufacturers

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What the world's oldest telecommunications company looks like today (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Husain Parvez | tags: bt group, electric telegraph, william fothergill cooke

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Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: simpsons hit & run, matt groening, playstation 2

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Here's how to reset your ASUS router (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Alec Hively | tags: asus, router, reset

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Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: copernicus, danube, nuclear power

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How to request an Xbox refund (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Husain Parvez | tags: xbox, microsoft store, digital games

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The ‘Lanterns’ Show Almost Came Without a Suit (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: lanterns, suit, show

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How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-15 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: chatgpt, anthropic, perplexity

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Apple has a huge product roadmap for the smart home: Here’s what’s coming (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-15 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, homepod mini, apple tv

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Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, openai

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Delete your family’s personal data from the internet with a 55% discount on Incogni (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-15 | by Sponsored Post | tags: incogni, data brokers, apple privacy