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SpeakOn’s dictation device is a good idea marred by platform limitations
This $129 device uses MagSafe to stick on the back of an iPhone to power transcription across apps
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Soundcore Space 2 Review: A Shockingly Stellar Value for Budget ANC Wireless Headphones
At $130, Soundcore's Space 2 punch way above their weight class.
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Scare Your Neighbors With This Incredible Life-Size ‘Alien’ Halloween Decoration (Exclusive)
In space, no one can hear you scream...but your neighbors might when they see you've got a 6-foot alien in your front yard.
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Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis
The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons.
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Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.
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OpenAI CEO apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community
In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting.
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I lost my job to AI (but not in the way that you think)
After watching AI eliminate half my company's graphics department, I never imagined I'd be clearing out my own desk six months later—not because a bot could write better than me, but because of something far more insidious happening in offices everywhere.
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Karnataka Drafting Responsible AI Framework To Embrace ‘I-Governance’: Priyank Kharge
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arguably become the most consequential technological advancement of our era, percolating not only into high-level business…
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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026
Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…
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Psychology says the most resilient people aren’t the ones who never fell apart — they’re the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it
They're the ones who sat alone at 2 AM with their demons, rebuilt themselves piece by piece with no witnesses, and emerged stronger without ever posting about their "journey."
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I spent forty years believing I was mentally strong because I never broke down — it took one question to make me understand that what I called strength was just a very old, very practiced form of disappearing
The moment my therapist exposed how I'd spent four decades perfecting the art of emotional invisibility, masquerading as the strong, silent type while actually abandoning everyone who ever tried to truly know me.
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It took me until 44 to realize that the most dangerous comfort is a life that’s bearable — not bad enough to leave, not good enough to feel like living
After years of telling myself I should be grateful for my stable marriage and decent job, I discovered the most insidious trap isn't rock bottom or dramatic failure—it's the comfortable numbness of a life that's just bearable enough to endure but never quite worth celebrating.
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B-Trees vs LSM Trees: Comparison and Trade-Offs
In this article, we will look at B-Trees and LSM trees in detail, along with the trade-offs associated with each of them.
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If you follow [Maker’s Muse] on YouTube, you know he’s as passionate about robot fights these days as he is about the tools he uses to make the robots. Luckily …read more
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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
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Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered obsolete. With this terrifying idea in mind, it’s reassuring to see …read more
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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
Article URL: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984 Points: 315 # Comments: 201
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Building an IBM PCjr BIOS from Source Using Original Printed Source Code
As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available for it. This includes the x86 assembly listing for the …read more
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Dyson Vacuums and the Curse of Cooked Capacitors
It seems to be becoming a bit of a theme that consumer electronics are dying not due to some critical fault, but due to Cooked Capacitor Syndrome (CCS). Case in …read more
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The Arduino UNO, Basically
If you miss the days when you used Basic on your classic computer or wrote embedded software with a Basic Stamp, then maybe dust off your Arduino UNO or any …read more
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