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Yet Another Piece of AI-Pilled Speculative Fiction Has Gone Dangerously Viral
It's a trend that urgently needs to die.
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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‘Toy Story 5’ Almost Made Its Emotional Moment More Real
You're *shocked*, surely, but Pixar had an idea for how to make you cry even harder during 'Toy Story 5.'
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TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
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Govee Outdoor Chromatic String Lights Review: A Colorful Way to (Kind of) Light Your Patio
Love sticking pretty lights in your patio? Govee’s lights are an easy, but very spendy way to do it.
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Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
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RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
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How to Bias a CRT After Installation
For most of us the abbreviation “CRT” brings to mind a monitor or TV. But at its core it’s about the special vacuum tube that makes the images appear. Regardless …read more
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Hacking the Mi Band 10 Smart Band and its Bestechnic SoC
In between playing Doom on the most ergonomically challenged devices, [Aaron Christophel] likes to take a relaxing break with reverse-engineering Xiaomi Mi Band fitness trackers and writing custom firmware for them. …read more
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Blender 5.2: Coming Soon With Improved Simulations
Blender is one of the poster children for Open Source Software– proof that something hacked together by enthusiasts could grow to rival the big boys in 3D modeling, animation and …read more
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Autopsy of a Freshly Cooked 10Gbit SFP+ Network Adapter
With the advent of affordable 2.5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does …read more
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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615569 Points: 270 # Comments: 241
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Bernoulli Disk Goes “Wii!” When Plugged Into WiiU
The Bernoulli disk was a wild piece of 1980s hardware. Take a big floppy. Spin the platter at 1500 RPM just a micron or so from a read head. The …read more
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When I reject AI code even if it works
Article URL: https://vinibrasil.com/when-i-reject-ai-code-even-if-it-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614631 Points: 208 # Comments: 145
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Google Hits 50% IPv6
Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/28/google-hits-50-ipv6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616800 Points: 316 # Comments: 308
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