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Firefox’s new home page widgets are helping me focus (theverge.com)

2026-06-18 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Firefox Focus Privacy Browser → | tags: firefox, mozilla, pomodoro

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The work AI can’t do (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-18 | get AI Content Creation Toolkit → | tags: people analytics, sentiment data, turnover scores

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Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read? (slashdot.org)

2026-06-15 | by Posted | get E-book Reader Kindle Paperwhite → | tags: chatgpt, reading scores, mit study

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New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-03 | get Plex Media Server → | tags: plex, social features, watchlists

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Claude Opus 4.8 is more honest, less deceptive, and considerably cheaper (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-29 | tags: anthropic, claude opus 4.8, android authority

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Confidence Scores for Exam Questions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by No Magic Pill | get Exam Question Confidence Analyzer → | tags: brier scores, multiple-choice, exam questions

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Credit scores are flawed. FICO has a new model that adds cashflow data. It might just offer the boost you need (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-20 | get FICO Score Boost Kit → | tags: fico, plaid, credit scores

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US Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media (slashdot.org)

2026-05-17 | by Posted | get Educational Assessment Toolkit → | tags: stanford, no child left behind, student test scores

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Parents Are Paying $50,000 to Pick Their Babies’ Eye Color and IQ. Some Experts Say This Is ‘Very Troubling.’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jonathan Small | get Genetic Trait Testing Kit → | tags: herasight, nucleus genomics, orchid health

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I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get US Government Auction Search Tool → | tags: govdeals, gsa, publicsurplus

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Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | get Educational Assessment Kit → | tags: naep, reading scores, mathematics scores

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Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-19 | by Vincent Gregoire | get NHL Terminal Game Tracker → | tags: nhl, faceoff, terminal ui

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Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-15 | get Database → | tags: binary, distance, hamming

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Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI (futurism.com)

2026-01-25 | by Joe Wilkins | get Resume Scanner → | tags: eightfold, eightfold ai, hiring

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Beyond Benchmarks: How Ecosystems Now Define Leading LLM Families (computer.org)

2025-12-17 | get Language Model → | tags: appeared, behave, behave post

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Chinese Spacecraft Got Disturbingly Close to Smashing Into a Starlink Satellite (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-15 | get Starlink Satellite → | tags: close, close underscores, coordination

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A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa (feeds.nature.com)

2025-12-03 | by Clements | get Ecosystems → | tags: experts, intactness, land

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School cell phone bans and student achievement (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-02 | get Smartphone → | tags: district, school, schools

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School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement (NBER Digest) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-02 | get Smartphones → | tags: district, school, schools

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Zillow drops climate risk scores after agents complained of lost sales (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-01 | by Tim De Chant | get Zestimate → | tags: climate, real, risk

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Here’s an Interesting Theory About Why Kids’ Test Results Have Fallen to Their Lowest Point in Two Decades (futurism.com)

2025-11-23 | by Frank Landymore | get Education Technology → | tags: laptops, performance, school

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AI could predict who will have a heart attack (technologyreview.com)

2025-10-31 | by Vishal Khetpal | get Meta Quest → | tags: cac, heart, plaque

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Job mismatch and early career success (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Julie Berry Cullen | get business communication book → | tags: individuals, job, jobs

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Job Mismatch and Early Career Success (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Julie Berry Cullen | get business communication book → | tags: individuals, job, jobs

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Some Pixel owners are getting a more powerful At A Glance widget (androidauthority.com)

2025-10-31 | get Google Pixel → | tags: cards, finance, glance

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Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark leaks are making people mad (androidauthority.com)

2025-10-31 | get Google Pixel → | tags: 10, pixel, pro

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Apple Hopes Tennis Will Remind You the Apple Sports App Exists (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by James Pero | get iPhone → | tags: app, apple, scores

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Apple Sports app redesigned with new personalized sections, adds tennis scores just in time for Wimbledon (9to5mac.com)

2025-10-31 | by Benjamin Mayo | get iPhone → | tags: app, apple, live

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Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get laptop → | tags: legislation, pirg, repairability