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8 free Android productivity apps I can’t live without in 2026 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: android, apps, free

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Windows 11 26H2 is a small update with big quality-of-life improvements, expected around October 2026 (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: cloud, copilot, microsoft

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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Ham Vocke | tags: task runners, code repositories, dependency management

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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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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tasklet, ai platform, customer success engineer

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Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’ — Microsoft gave original Windows Task Manager dev permission to reference Windows XP source code (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Mark Tyson | tags: windows task manager, apple mac, activity monitor

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How much can you delegate to agents? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jina Yoon | tags: agents, delegation, stamphog

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Your Brain Can Rewire Itself To Allow True Multitasking (slashdot.org)

2026-07-29 | tags: brain rewiring, multitasking, domestic operating system

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Forget layoffs: This quiet workplace tactic is shucking headcounts without anyone noticing (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: workforce automation, ghost downsizing, small businesses

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What solopreneurs should refuse to hand over to AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: solopreneurs, artificial intelligence, solo business

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Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | by Dave Farquhar | tags: amiga, commodore, motorola 68000

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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: kimi k3, fable 5, open model

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Frontier AI Is Faceplanting at Real-World Workplace Tasks (futurism.com)

2026-07-21 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: frontier ai, uc berkeley, autonomous agents

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1Password's new Agentic Mode lets Claude log into your accounts without seeing your credentials (zdnet.com)

2026-07-16 | by David Gewirtz | tags: access, claude, password

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Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-14 | by Yennie Jun | tags: human, tasks, thinking

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Go-Flavored Concurrency in C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | by Anton Zhiyanov | tags: cond, pool, task

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iPadOS 27 still needs simpler multitasking, here’s what I’d like to see (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-11 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: ipad, ipados, multitasking

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OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-09 | tags: browser, chatgpt, chatgpt work

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Meta Introduces a Big New AI Model for the Agentic Age (cnet.com)

2026-07-09 | by See Full Bio | tags: computer, meta, model

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Grok 4.5 is here to justify your X subscription (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-09 | tags: build, create, grok

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Grok 4.5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: grok, model, opus

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SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: inference, model, tasks

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Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: anthropic, claude, cowork

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Microsoft Is Eliminating 4,800 Jobs — Including 20% of Its Xbox Staff: ‘We Will Return to Growth in 2027.’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-07 | by Jonathan Small | tags: admitting tasks, gaming, jobs

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Price per 1M tokens is meaningless (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: claude, cost, lower

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Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: taskpeace, mcptask, claude code

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A new attack uses a BioShock-style puzzle to convince AI browsers they're not in the real world (techspot.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: layerx, bioshocking, ai browsers

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Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features (techspot.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: microsoft, windows, notepad

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Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 makes desktop windowing feel more like a real PC (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-02 | get Samsung DeX Station → | tags: android 17, qpr1 beta 6, desktop windowing

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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-01 | by Sarah Perez | get Google Assistant for Mac → | tags: gemini spark, google assistant, google tasks