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Penn's bioengineered chewing gum cuts oral HPV up to 93% in lab tests

A University of Pennsylvania team led by Henry Daniell has engineered a chewing gum, derived from lablab beans, that sharply reduces microbes tied to head and n

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pgrust rewrites Postgres in Rust, claims 300x analytics speedup over the original

pgrust, a Rust reimplementation of Postgres, has shipped version 0.2 with a rebuilt query engine that its authors say makes analytical queries up to 300x faster

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Phone anti-theft detection mistakes a jog for a grab-and-run

A one-line social post captures a familiar failure mode of modern smartphone security: motion-based anti-theft features that flag the owner's own workout as a t

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Quake Turns 30: Free 'Dawn of the Machine' Episode Lands on Every Platform

id Software and MachineGames are marking Quake's 30th anniversary with Dawn of the Machine, a free episode pushed automatically to existing owners across Xbox,

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Site owner reports 99% of 1.5M-page site's traffic came from scrapers

Source content was not available to summarize. Only the headline and URL were provided; the article body was not included in the request, and a direct fetch of

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Solo-built agent runtime Herdr joins Y Combinator, relicenses to Apache-2.0

Herdr, a terminal-native runtime for managing CLI coding agents, is joining Y Combinator's F26 batch. Its sole developer, Can, describes the tool as a way to gi

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The $15 fix for USB-C's identical-cable problem: test them yourself

USB-C promised one connector for everything, but it created a new headache: cables that look identical can differ wildly on the inside. A freebie that shipped w

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US pays RWE $1.2B to walk away from its offshore wind leases

German utility RWE has agreed to abandon its US offshore wind developments in exchange for a $1.2bn payout from the Trump administration's Department of the Int

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aitech-culture

When Code Is Nearly Free, Taste Becomes the Only Scarce Skill

The essay argues that code-generating AI has erased the old barrier of software: the hours of typing, manual-reading, and API-wrangling that used to stand betwe

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A Botanist's Reading List — and a Blunt Endorsement of Sci-Hub and Libgen

This is a self-education guide for aspiring botanists, not a technology story. The author argues that anyone can learn plant identification without formal acade

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aitech-culture

AI Is a Steak Machine, Not a Chef: Why Judgment Still Separates Good Software

Using an extended cooking metaphor, this piece argues that AI has made producing software trivially easy while doing nothing to guarantee it's any good. Anyone

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Artificial Analysis Agentic Index cited for a new Qwen 'Max' top ranking — unverified from source

A Hacker News post points to Artificial Analysis, an independent AI benchmarking site, claiming a Qwen 'Max' model has taken the top spot on its Agentic Index.

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