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What actually happens when you let apps track your activity? (engadget.com)

2026-08-17 | by Max Miller | tags: google maps, instagram, sensors

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In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Zita Ballinger Fletcher | tags: egypt, missile program, heinz krug

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Satellite Images Reveal How Suspected Scam Compounds Appear Out of Nowhere (wired.com)

2026-07-24 | by Matt Burgess | tags: satellite images, myawaddy, international justice mission

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Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess (futurism.com)

2026-05-23 | by Jon Christian | get Tesla Cybertruck Model → | tags: cybertruck, tesla, elon musk

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Donald Trump Jr.-backed 'Steroid Olympics' are happening on Sunday. Here's what to expect (cnbc.com)

2026-05-22 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Olympic Steroid Testing Kit → | tags: steroid olympics, enhanced games, wada

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Elon Musk said Cybertrucks can float like boats. Somebody drove one into a lake. Here’s what happened (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-20 | get Tesla Cybertruck Floating Kit → | tags: tesla, cybertruck, elon musk

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Cybertruck Owner Drives Car Into Lake to Test ‘Wade Mode’, Gets Arrested (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-20 | get Tesla Cybertruck Accessories Kit → | tags: cybertruck, tesla, wade mode

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Monad Tutorials Timeline (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | tags: haskell, monads, category theory

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The Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex (wired.com)

2026-04-17 | by Skye Battles | tags: incels, manosphere, roe v. wade

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Developer rebuilds Doom using CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine (techspot.com)

2026-04-02 | get HTML5 Game Development Kit → | tags: doom, css, html5test.com

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Developer rebuilds Doom using only CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine (techspot.com)

2026-04-02 | get CSS 3D Game Development Kit → | tags: doom, css, html5test.com

12.

China Is Helping Drive Cuba's Solar Boom (slashdot.org)

2026-03-20 | get Portable Solar Power Bank → | tags: china, cuba, solar

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4Chan Mocks $700K Fine For UK Online Safety Breaches (slashdot.org)

2026-03-19 | tags: 4chan, uk online safety, voice technology

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When startups become a family business (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-12 | by Maggie Nye | get Family Business → | tags: build mode, rivio, ai procurement

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GLP-1s Are an Environmental Catastrophe (futurism.com)

2026-02-08 | by Victor Tangermann | get Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists → | tags: amino, drugs, peptide

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‘Supergirl’ May Get a Last-Minute Musical Change (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-07 | get Superman → | tags: briefly, briefly teased, djawadi

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Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck — following copper, power, DRAM, and NAND (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Chris Stokel-Walker | get Microchip → | tags: industry, kewada, optical

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Science-Centric Streaming Service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing Firm Now (slashdot.org)

2025-11-24 | by Posted | get Streaming Service → | tags: defined, defined showing, harry

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Google Denies 'Misleading' Reports of Gmail Using Your Emails To Train AI (slashdot.org)

2025-11-24 | by Posted | get Chromebook → | tags: defined, defined showing, harry

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Best Gifts for Babies and Toddlers, Tested and Approved by Our Own Kids (wired.com)

2025-10-31 | by Nicole Kinning | get car accessories → | tags: baby, bedtime, car

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Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get productivity planner → | tags: canva, nowadays, painful

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Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get computer monitor → | tags: code, doom, run

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A Mirror World Brings Wonders—and Dread—in This Fantasy Short Story (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Lightspeed Magazine | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: fawad, like, mirror

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Scholars solved a 130-year literary mystery and it hinged on one word (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Show → | tags: humility, james, said

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Researchers Solve 130-Year-Old Literary Mystery Involving Elves, Wolves, and a Medieval Meme (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Margherita Bassi | get Amazon Echo → | tags: chaucer, falk, makes

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Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get educational planning book → | tags: chaucer, mentions, tale