Articles by mywacaday
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SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death (scientificamerican.com)

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Semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY 'class 100 cleanroom' in his garden shed (tomshardware.com)

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NASA boss says Boeing Starliner failure one of worst in its history (bbc.com)

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WebMCP is available for early preview (chrome.com)

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iRobot bankruptcy revealed a new kind of competitor: 'the Chinese fast follower' (businessinsider.com)

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A grad student's wild idea triggers a major aging breakthrough (sciencedaily.com)

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Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers (bbc.com)

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Judge concern over use of AI tool to prepare 43-page report for harassment case (thejournal.ie)

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Gdpval: Evaluating AI Model Performance on Real-World Economically Valuable Task [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

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Ask HN: Small Utility App Monetization

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A team of engineers saved Morgan Stanley more than 280k hours this year (businessinsider.com)

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First-Ever SpaceX Shares Now Available Through Blockchain (forbes.com/sites/digital-assets)

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Ask HN: Use AI for Proof of Concept?

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Use AI for proof of concept?

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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate EPA's Scientific Research Arm (nytimes.com)

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A simple geometry question that fools almost everyone (theguardian.com)

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New Irish 'unicorn' as Tines raises €121M at valuation of €1.1B (independent.ie)

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Tesla is suing drivers who complain about their cars after accidents–and winning (the-independent.com)

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Evolution journal editors resign en masse (arstechnica.com)

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Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on the Tibetan Plateau (sciencealert.com)

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Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer (csoonline.com)

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First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected with NASA-Designed Instrument (nasa.gov)

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Tesla preferred to hit oncoming car instead of pedestrian who fell onto the road (reddit.com)

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Europe's highest court rules on €13B Apple tax case (rte.ie)

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Starbucks new boss under fire for 1k-mile commute (bbc.co.uk)

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NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour (nasa.gov)

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4k Meters Below Sea Level,Scientists Have Found the 'Dark Oxygen' (popularmechanics.com)

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Physicists Just Created an Element Using a Particle Beam (gizmodo.com)

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Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows (neowin.net)

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Building the Endgame Invisible PC (youtube.com)

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The screen tech that can do almost anything (bbc.com)

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Varig Flight 254 (wikipedia.org)

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Anyone have insight on the ChatGPT outage

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1000s of homes may be left without heat if remote control firm ceases trading (irishexaminer.com)

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NASA Just Received Laser MeMessage Beamed from a 226M Kilometer (iflscience.com)

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Ukraine's New Factory-Smashing Drone Is a $90k Sport Plane with a Robot At (forbes.com/sites/davidaxe)

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Fastest Camera Drone vs F1 Car [video] (youtube.com)

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Richard Scolyer: Melanoma doctor's high-stakes gamble to treat his brain cancer (bbc.co.uk)

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Fences sucking power from under HV transmission lines (youtube.com)

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What are some great questions kids have asked you?

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Comparing the 1970's Cray-1 supercomputer against the Raspberry Pi (adafruit.com)

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AI discovers that not every fingerprint is unique (etsy.com)

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Kenya's push to make 'boda-boda' motorbike taxis go electric (bbc.co.uk)

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Holidays short read/watch recommendations

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Elon Musk's luck has finally run out (businessinsider.com)

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'A big moment': Nerves felt in government ahead of Apple tax case (thejournal.ie)

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Revolutionary DARPA X-65 Plane with No Moving Control Surfaces (nextbigfuture.com)

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Do HN contributers follow sport

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Prada to design NASA's new Moon suit (bbc.com)

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George RR Martin and John Grisham among group of authors suing OpenAI (theguardian.com)

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TikTok fined €345M by Ireland’s data regulator for violating children’s privacy (irishtimes.com)

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Elon Musk says he blocked a Ukrainian attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet (thejournal.ie)

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Future-Proofing Evernote’s Foundations (evernote.com)

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EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025 (theverge.com)

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[dupe] Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe (sfgate.com)

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If there were 0 limits to cost/practicality what software/hardware would you buy

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Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan (bbc.co.uk)

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Learning Suggestions

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Russia-Ukraine-bucha-massacre-takeaways (nytimes.com)

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Mr Olds' Remarkable Elevator (youtube.com)

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CVS and Walgreens agree to pay $10B to settle opioids lawsuits (bbc.com)

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Despite conflict, Russia sends France giant magnet for nuclear fusion project (euractiv.com)

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Not Just a Big Fish, but Perhaps the Biggest Bony Fish Ever (nytimes.com)

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Cancer-cell-in-cell formation tumor relapse resistance to immunotherapy (elifesciences.org)

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Scientists stumped by holes in Sue the T-Rex's jawbone (rte.ie)

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Spotify buys Dublin-based Kinzen (rte.ie)

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Magnetic gears – why nobody talks about this?

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Payments group Sumup blamed as football fans party for free at Aviva Stadium

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LastPass developer systems hacked to steal source code

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Nowhere on Earth where rainwater safe to drink – study