Articles by WithinReason
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Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature (standardebooks.org)

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2025: The science stories that stopped us in our tracks (bbc.co.uk)

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Samsung and SK Hynix hesitate to expand production and focus on long-term profit (igorslab.de)

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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop (geohot.github.io)

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Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site (tomshardware.com)

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Compulsory hidjab law officially abolished in Iran (zamin.uz)

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Short Science Fiction, by Isaac Asimov – Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org)

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UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data (ft.com)

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Outcast (filfre.net)

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Food Irradiation Is Not as Bad as It Sounds (hackaday.com)

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Firefox 142 Now Available – Allows Browser Extensions/Add-Ons to Use AI LLMs (phoronix.com)

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158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack by guessed password (tomshardware.com)

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23andMe founder buys back genetic testing company in second auction (ft.com)

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PCI-Sig Announces PCIe Optical Interconnect Solution: PCIe-over-Fiber (techpowerup.com)

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask” (news.mit.edu)

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'World's first' AMD GPU driven via USB3 (tomshardware.com)

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First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant (arstechnica.com)

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AI tool generates high-quality images faster than approaches (news.mit.edu)

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Resentment (geohot.github.io)

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Have we accidentally bred some dogs for obesity? (arstechnica.com)

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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise (arstechnica.com)

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Fresh leaks suggest Half-Life 3 development may be nearing completion (arstechnica.com)

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RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available (frame.work)

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In 1991, after a 28-hour coding spree, the efforts of John Carmack Doomed us all (tomshardware.com)

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[dupe] Gentrified Doom remake trades chainsaw for cheese knife (arstechnica.com)

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Lego Omni-Directional Treadmill (hackaday.com)

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Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature (standardebooks.org)

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Microsoft Loosens Windows 11 Install Requirements, TPM 2.0 Not Needed Anymore (techpowerup.com)

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TinyGrad Showcases TinyBox Pro: 1.36 PetaFLOP Compute Monster at $40k Price Tag (techpowerup.com)

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Influence Agents (geohot.github.io)

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Huawei Technologies' Latest AI Processors Were Made by TSMC (bloomberg.com)

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2024 Photomicrography Competition – Nikon (nikonsmallworld.com)

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Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer (wired.com)

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6G tests reach a blisteringly quick 938 GB/s, 5000X faster than 5G (tomshardware.com)

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Raspberry Pi external GPU runs Doom 3 at 4K (tomshardware.com)

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How AI is improving simulations with smarter sampling techniques (news.mit.edu)

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Leo AI and Ollama Bring RTX Local LLMs to Brave Browser (nvidia.com)

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Microsoft's AI Boss Wants to Bring 'Emotional Support' to Windows and Office (wired.com)

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PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao (pytorch.org)

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TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro' (tomshardware.com)

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Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime (lichess.org)

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Donald Trump Interview – Lex Fridman Podcast #442 [video] (youtube.com)

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Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture now on YouTube (arstechnica.com)

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Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases? (astralcodexten.com)

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Cult Sci-Fi author repackages WordStar 7 DOS (tomshardware.com)

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Windows 11 July Update Breaks Bitlocker, Forces Recovery (techpowerup.com)

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A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine (news.mit.edu)

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Seiko Had a Smartwatch in 1984 (hackaday.com)

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The Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Was Possibly Just for Knitting (hackaday.com)

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Is Jimmy Sabatino America's Loneliest Prisoner? (westword.com)

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The Hunt for the Most Efficient Heat Pump in the World (wired.com)

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Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s (tomshardware.com)

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NumPy 2.0 Brings Faster Performance (phoronix.com)

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How Many Western ICs Are There in Russia's Weapons? (hackaday.com)

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Non-invasive zaps to the spinal cord can treat paralysis (arstechnica.com)

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Multiple Arm vendors are making chips for desktop PCs (tomshardware.com)

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2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA (wikipedia.org)

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Act on Press (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

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Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food (longnow.org)

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Nvidia RTX Remix 0.5 Released for Remastering Old Games (phoronix.com)

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PyTorch 2.3 (pytorch.org)

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AMD: Additional Parts of the Radeon Stack to Be Open Sourced Throughout the Year (phoronix.com)

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Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results for Linux Gaming (phoronix.com)

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[deleted] (twitter.com/__tinygrad__)

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Researchers find a new organelle evolving (arstechnica.com)

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The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers (arxiv.org)

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Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion (news.mit.edu)

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'Simply good' Chinese electric cars power ahead of inferior US rivals (ft.com)

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A little US company makes history by landing on the Moon (arstechnica.com)

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Nvidia's new app doesn't require you to log in to update your GPU driver (arstechnica.com)

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Stepping Inside Art in VR, and the Workflow Behind It (hackaday.com)

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A Captivating Summer 2007 (fabiensanglard.net)

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The Gyro Monorail (hackaday.com)

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Canon Wants to Challenge ASML with a Cheaper 5 Nm Nanoimprint Lithography (techpowerup.com)

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Nintendo 'Switch 2' coming this year with 8-inch LCD screen (tomshardware.com)

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[dupe] Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel (arstechnica.com)

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DeepMind approaches gold standard in complex maths in latest AI breakthrough (ft.com)

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Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Is in Development (tomshardware.com)

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Vroomba (hackaday.com)

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Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again (arstechnica.com)

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Doom's creators reminisce about "as close to a perfect game as anything we made" (arstechnica.com)

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Polish Train Manufacturer Threatens Hackers Who Unbricked Their Trains (hackaday.com)

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PCIe for Hackers: External PCIe and OCuLink (hackaday.com)

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Deep neural networks show promise as models of human hearing (news.mit.edu)

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UK class-action targets mobile phone operators with £3.3B damages claim (ft.com)

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Simon–Ehrlich Wager (wikipedia.org)

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US gov: sanctions swerving GPUs to fall under their 'control the next day' (tomshardware.com)

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You can use external GPUs on the Raspberry Pi 5 [video] (youtube.com)

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The most powerful cosmic ray since the oh-my-god particle puzzles scientists (nature.com)

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Apple's Pro Display XDR takes Thunderbolt 3 to its limit (fabiensanglard.net)

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Don Walsh: The man who made the deepest ever dive (bbc.com)

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Two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record (economist.com)

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Canon Begins Selling Chip Machines to Rival Best by ASML (bloomberg.com)

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Humanity is out of control, and AI is worried (ft.com)

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SteamVR 2.0 (steampowered.com)

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Motorola demos smartphone that can wrap around your wrist (again) (arstechnica.com)

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The largest health-research study is under way in Britain (economist.com)

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The Pros and Cons of Hydrofoils (hackaday.com)

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MIT design would harness 40% of the sun's heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel (news.mit.edu)

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Steam Deck Gets Easy Undervolting Controls with Firmware 118 (tomshardware.com)