Robot Sourcing Index (Page 27)

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My server is a phone now

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636 Points:…

Aug 9, 2026

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Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://xcancel.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215786…

Aug 9, 2026

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments…

Aug 9, 2026

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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://archive.ph/W2tpE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220339 Points: 200 # Comments: 313

Aug 9, 2026

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL:…

Aug 9, 2026

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X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’

X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under…

Aug 9, 2026

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the…

Aug 9, 2026

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Fastmail offers EU data region

Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ Comments URL:…

Aug 9, 2026

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Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL:…

Aug 9, 2026

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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL:…

Aug 9, 2026

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

Aug 9, 2026

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL:…

Aug 9, 2026

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A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Comments URL:…

Aug 9, 2026

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments…

Aug 9, 2026

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Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of…

Aug 9, 2026

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Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business

Buc-ee's became something of a viral sensation during the World Cup, but it has a troubling history of suing small gas…

Aug 9, 2026

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219508…

Aug 9, 2026

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Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation

A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against…

Aug 9, 2026

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Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

Article URL:…

Aug 8, 2026

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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

Aug 8, 2026

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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.

Aug 8, 2026

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The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today

My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750…

Aug 8, 2026

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Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and…

Aug 8, 2026

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My favorite feel-good show is back

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new…

Aug 8, 2026