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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…
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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.
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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.'
gizmodo.com
X Introduces Big, Promising Revamp of Its Program for Paying Content Creators
Credit where credit is due: this sounds much better than the program it's replacing.
gizmodo.com
Inside Humanity’s Ancient Obsession With Conquering Time
Particle physicist Guido Tonelli discusses humanity's long-held obsession with time and how this relationship has shaped science.
gizmodo.com
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have
While the device is pretty and lightweight, it’s not something the everyday person needs due to its hefty price tag and size.
techcrunch.com
International tech
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…
inc42.com
The idea that successful people guard some secret list of things they never share is mostly myth, but two habits of discretion do hold up in the research: they rarely broadcast their unfinished goals, and they almost never vent
What separates the genuinely successful from the merely well-marketed is not what they hide, but what they refuse to advertise—and the science behind why restraint in two specific areas actually changes outcomes.
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says the people who apologise for the state of their house before anyone has even walked in aren’t self-conscious about cleanliness, they were raised to believe hospitality had to be earned before it could be offered
The reflex to apologise for the house before anyone has looked at it is rarely about cleanliness. It is often a habit built in a childhood where hospitality was a performance the family passed or failed, and the pre-emptive apology is the toll being paid at the door decades later…
siliconcanals.com
Flipkart Minutes Enters Premium Grocery Segment With Pykd
Walmart-owned Flipkart’s quick commerce arm Flipkart Minutes is entering the premium grocery and specialty food products segment under its private…
inc42.com
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.
siliconcanals.com
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.
siliconcanals.com

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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
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My server is a phone now
Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636 Points: 369 # Comments: 154
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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
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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
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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.
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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: 237 # Comments: 150
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Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic
Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a …read more
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High-Density Parchment Paper Papertronics with Laser-Carved Hydrophilic Channels
Paper as a substrate for electronic circuits is not very common, but promising for flexible circuits with low cost and easy recyclability. That said, paper is not an easy material …read more
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Dithered QR Codes
Article URL: https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742 Points: 245 # Comments: 20
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