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Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | get Raspberry Pi 5 8GB board → | tags: needle 3, deepseek v4 flash, tool calling

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How chimps teach their kids tool tricks (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: chimpanzees, tool use, jane goodall

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How to use the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool to create a bootable USB drive (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Gabriela Vătu | get Samsung BAR Plus USB Flash Drive → | tags: windows 11, media creation tool, usb drive

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Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | by Benjamin J. Sunter | tags: google sheets, xlsx, comment extraction

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This powerful free tool is your secret weapon against phone scams (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-11 | get YubiKey 5C NFC security key → | tags: phone scams, scam detection, android

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This free tool is a doomscrolling escape hatch (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-10 | get Unpluq distraction blocker → | tags: minded, doomscrolling, focus app

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DOGE Affiliate Asked for College Credits for Participating in Takeover (wired.com)

2026-09-03 | by Vittoria Elliott | tags: doge, hud, sweetrex

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This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops (wired.com)

2026-09-03 | by Dell Cameron | get Means of Control Byron Tau book → | tags: flock safety, ai search tool, police cameras

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Decompiler Explorer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-01 | get Practical Binary Analysis book → | tags: decompiler explorer, file upload, binary files

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He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them (wired.com)

2026-08-28 | by Miles Klee | get Wacom Intuos Pro drawing tablet → | tags: cara, jingna zhang, ai art scraping

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Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police (slashdot.org)

2026-08-22 | by Posted | tags: flock, ai tool, police

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c100 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: c100, mechanical keyboard, magnetic hinge

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Slack Has (of Course) Launched a Vibe Coding Tool (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: slack, slack code, ai coworkers

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Flock’s New AI Tool Does Much More Than Track License Plates (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: flock, ai tool, license plates

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First look: Here’s how Google Photos’ new Redact tool will work (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: google photos, redact tool, apk teardown

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code (wired.com)

2026-08-19 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, ai tool, police surveillance

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AI tool lets researchers ‘vibe code’ in the quantum realm (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | by Castelvecchi | tags: quantum computing, pasqal, arxiv

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PSA: Claude Code now enables auto mode as default, Anthropic says (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-14 | by Zac Hall | tags: anthropic, claude code, auto mode

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Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: suzanne, ai tool, product design

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What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: code, copilot, requests

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Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: mistral, large language model, sandbox

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Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: mistral, large language model, sandbox

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Introducing Bench 2.0 — a revamped benchmark analyzer, exclusively for Tom's Hardware Premium subscribers (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jeremy Kaplan | tags: bench, hardware, tests

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Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with 'Sorry, typo' — AI tool mistakes user's home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: backup, entire, rm rf

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Savers Value Village thrift store launches new AI tool to price items (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Laya Neelakandan | tags: savers, thrift, told

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Stop jumping between Adobe apps with this new ChatGPT plugin (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: adobe, chatgpt, photoshop

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AI Notetaker Lets Hackers Spy on Government, Corporate Video Calls (darkreading.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: google firebase, tl;dv, ai meeting tool

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What Is Congress’s Favorite AI Tool? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: congress, sam altman, ai tool

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LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool (engadget.com)

2026-07-30 | by Karissa Bell | tags: linkedin, ai slop, linkedin reporting tool

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HBO Max Shorts being tested on iPhone users in latest vertical video offensive (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: hbo max, shorts, warner bros