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VHF Propagation: What Every RF Engineer Should Know
A practical educational guide to common and uncommon VHF propagation modes, covering the physics, range implications, and real-world behaviors engineers need to understand. What Attendees will Learn 1. Why “line of sight” fails as a practical VHF planning model. 2. How refraction…
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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’
Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop, Google has long been al…
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What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents
There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second. Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability, not an asset.…
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The First Reactions to ‘The Odyssey’ Are Here
Christopher Nolan's star-studded epic had its world premiere in London Monday, so what did people think?
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California Man’s Eyelid Bump Turned Out To Be a Worm Never Before Seen in the US
The eight millimeter-long "nodule" on the man's eyelid was originally suspected to be a chalazion.
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xAI Is Dead. Long Live SpaceXAI
I never have to type out what the hell "xAI" is again.
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Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, was worth nearly £10 billion before turning 40 — and he still owns roughly 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia that the family has refused to sell for three centuries
Hugh Grosvenor became the 7th Duke of Westminster at 25 with a £9.9 billion fortune built on 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia — land his family has leased, but never sold, since 1677.
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Flipkart Launches Second ESOP Liquidity Event In 12 Months
Walmart-owned ecommerce major Flipkart has announced its second ESOP liquidity event over the past year, allowing eligible employees to sell…
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Apple brings back card payments for App Store, iCloud subscriptions in India: Report
Apple has reportedly started bringing back credit and debit card payments for… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Kunal Kapoor, Ketto Cofounders Launch Healthtech Startup MetaGO
Actor Kunal Kapoor has partnered with crowdfunding platform Ketto’s cofounders Varun Sheth and Zaheer Adenwala to launch healthtech startup MetaGO. …
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People who spend a few minutes several times a week writing down what they’re grateful for tend to report higher well-being, better sleep, and more prosocial behavior
A note on what follows: we are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians or psychologists. These are patterns measured across thousands of people, and one of the studies below is a survey rather than an experiment. A pattern in a crowd is not a prescription for any…
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Alibaba wins reprieve on US lobbying after Pentagon blacklisted companies
Tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has secured a temporary legal reprieve that effectively allows it to resume lobbying in the United States, the latest development in its dispute with the Pentagon after the firm was included on a blacklist of companies deemed to support China’s mi…
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Ultra-Long Range Flights To Ease Australian Air Travel
Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many …read more
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AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805624 Points: 262 # Comments: 194
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A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle
Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck. Still in the early …read more
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The Bit79 was a Famicom clone that took the “Family Computer” Name Seriously
While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it was very rarely used as a …read more
hackaday.com
Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique
For this article we spoke with the team behind World, including Tiago Sada and Lily Gordon at Tools for Humanity, on how they try to solve this problem.
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CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
Article URL: https://www.comaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808928 Points: 271 # Comments: 54
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A global workspace in language models
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808002 Points: 237 # Comments: 79
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Flight Sim Tracking from Spatial Audio
Flight sims are wonderful to play around with to get immersed in the position of a pilot. Racing sims can give you a thrill that can only be beaten by …read more
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Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts
2026.04 - "Judgement is the last human skill AI can't replace". Everyone is saying it. I am trying to understand it. I want you to get good at it. Let's get philosophical and practical.
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