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29461.

On the implausibility of the Death Star's trash compactor (2002) (mcsweeneys.net)

36 points by EndXA on Mar 13, 2024 | 53 comments

29462.

Kioxia Demonstrates Raid Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives (anandtech.com)

36 points by vanburen on Aug 13, 2024 | 53 comments

29463.

California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars (techcrunch.com)

36 points by doener on Oct 12, 2024 | 53 comments

29464.

US egg industry kills 350M chicks a year. New tech offers an alternative (tampabay.com)

36 points by howard941 on Dec 19, 2024 | 53 comments

29465.

Apple kills many browser games in the EU: unprecedented affront to regulation (gamesfray.com)

36 points by agust on Feb 13, 2024 | 52 comments

29466.

The $25B Kroger-Albertsons Merger Is Going to Fail (thebignewsletter.com)

36 points by toomuchtodo on Feb 28, 2024 | 52 comments

29467.

Dan's the man: Why Chinese women are looking to ChatGPT for love (bbc.com)

36 points by rmason on Jun 14, 2024 | 52 comments

29468.

2026 Kia EV3 First Drive Review: More Like This, Please (thedrive.com)

36 points by peutetre on Sep 12, 2024 | 51 comments

29469.

Nvidia Stock Rises. AMD's New AI Chip Is Not Competitive (barrons.com)

36 points by nabla9 on Oct 12, 2024 | 51 comments

29470.

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4 (theregister.com)

36 points by beardyw on Oct 23, 2024 | 51 comments

29471.

How to get new nuclear built faster (samdumitriu.com)

36 points by jseliger on Jan 17, 2024 | 50 comments

29472.

Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch (payloadspace.com)

36 points by bilsbie on Jul 11, 2024 | 50 comments

29473.

Transforming of Communist-era apartment blocks that dominate Eastern Europe (bbc.com)

36 points by ranit on Apr 5, 2024 | 49 comments

29474.

Altman handpicked for Homeland Security's AI safety board (axios.com)

36 points by mysterydip on Apr 26, 2024 | 49 comments

29475.

Sorry, iPads (therectangle.substack.com)

36 points by HAARP on May 22, 2024 | 49 comments

29476.

New UNESCO report warns that Generative AI threatens Holocaust memory (unesco.org)

36 points by t0bia_s on Jun 19, 2024 | 49 comments

29477.

Discord runs Powershell on load to find Nvidia binaries (twitter.com)

36 points by adrift on Aug 18, 2024 | 49 comments

29478.

What happens if someone votes by absentee/mail-in and dies before Election Day? (ballotpedia.org)

36 points by zdw on Oct 1, 2024 | 49 comments

29479.

Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible (2005) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

36 points by wslh on Aug 16, 2024 | 48 comments

29480.

When A.I.'s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself (nytimes.com)

36 points by nyc111 on Aug 26, 2024 | 48 comments

29481.

Apple M4 iPad Pro OS Has New Security Exclave for Camera and Microphone Activity (9to5mac.com)

36 points by transpute on Jun 5, 2024 | 47 comments

29482.

The Pythonic Emptiness (blog.codingconfessions.com)

36 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 10, 2024 | 46 comments

29483.

Opinion: Perplexity offers several advantages over Google as a search engine (theregister.com)

36 points by rntn on Dec 16, 2024 | 46 comments

29484.

Ubisoft is killing off a game millions have bought (The Crew) (windowscentral.com)

36 points by beretguy on Feb 26, 2024 | 45 comments

29485.

America's Rental-Market Mystery (economist.com)

36 points by pg_1234 on Mar 20, 2024 | 45 comments

29486.

Parochialism in time and space (2021) (wyclif.substack.com)

36 points by Bluestein on Aug 25, 2024 | 45 comments

29487.

Have You Wanted to Quit Social Media?

36 points by ismailsevik on Oct 19, 2024 | 45 comments

29488.

Something's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever' Chemicals (nytimes.com)

36 points by yasp on Aug 31, 2024 | 44 comments

29489.

OpenAI training its next major AI model, forms new safety committee (arstechnica.com)

36 points by gmays on May 29, 2024 | 43 comments

29490.

Clarke's Law, and who's to blame for bad science reporting (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

36 points by luu on Jan 3, 2024 | 43 comments