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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan

Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to le…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection

Yesterday I published an article titled “App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours”. I have retracted it. Its premise was so fundamentally wrong that there’s no point merely correcting or editing it. Even the title, as I explain below, was inaccurate. Although the original is n…

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Corrupt Minds Think Alike

Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times: The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff. But their mood was anything but …

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

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Childhood trauma really is one of the most common roots of family estrangement, but the research complicates the sentence in an important way: the cut-off is usually less a wound than a considered, last-resort decision that people rarely make lightly

When adult children cut off parents, it rarely springs from impulse—it's the exhausted conclusion of a calculation most people spend years refusing to make.

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Smart planning, not panic, must guide Asia’s data centre buildout

Across the United States, home to 37 per cent of the world’s 10,800 or so data centres, 2026 has been awash with protests against this infrastructure buildout. On July 18 alone, 142 protests were reported across 42 states. According to Data Centre Watch, 75 US data centre project…

IPO-Bound Cult.fit’s Rishabh Telang Denies Forgery Allegations By Deepak Poduval

Deepak Poduval, cofounder of Cult Fitness Pvt Ltd, has filed an FIR against his cofounder and brother-in-law Rishabh Telang at…

The hardest thing about deeply unhappy men is that many of them do not look unhappy: the research suggests male distress often surfaces as anger, overwork or drinking rather than sadness, and the reluctance to name it can turn dangerous

Male distress wears many masks—rage, relentless ambition, substance abuse—and that invisibility can be deadly.

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UPI’s Free Ride Is Over

In the last 10 years, UPI has changed how India transacts. What began as a simple, instant and interoperable way…

Psychology says falling asleep to your favorite podcast or show often isn’t about the content at all — in silence, the thoughts you successfully outran all day finally catch up with you, and the voice in the background is the last line of defense against them

We use our favorite shows and podcasts as emotional sedatives, not entertainment—and silence is the price we pay for avoiding ourselves.

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Tesla Driver Tries the Old ‘I Wasn’t Driving’ Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket

Turns out when you use "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)," that "Supervised" part is important.

Roborock RockNeo Q110H Review: A Quiet and Capable Robot Lawn Mower

A good robot vacuum company can make a good robot mower, apparently.

Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again)

If old horror franchises are coming back, Lionsgate wants to get in on the action with another go at reviving 'Leprechaun.'

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Dithered QR Codes

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

Article URL: https://os8088.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923 Points: 211 # Comments: 126

My server is a phone now

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636 Points: 406 # Comments: 178

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

Article URL: https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536 Points: 265 # Comments: 175

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Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera

For whatever reason, [Jeremy] wants to photograph bees in flight. This is one of those things that doesn’t seem that hard until you try to do it. He’s got the …read more

The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques

In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

Thread for original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228166 Points: 261 # Comments: 48

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Continously Extruding 3D Printed Tubes with Compressed Air

[Jan] of [Roetz 4.0] has a unique approach to multi-material 3D printing: he’s designed an extruder which takes two different materials and extrudes one as a shell around the other. …read more

Transmitting Analog Video Via Frikkin’ Laser Beams

Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: that’s how everything started, after all, back in the day with over-the-air TV. Up the frequency of those photons from radio to …read more