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On filing the corners off my MacBooks

đŸ’„ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ← Back April 2026 I file the sharp corners off my MacBooks. People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so. Here are some photos so you know what I'm talking about: The bottom edge of the MacBook is very sharp. Indeed, the industrial designers at Apple chose an aluminum unibody partly for the fact that it can handle such a geometry.…
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Home Depot Spring Black Friday (2026): Best tool and grill deals

Home Depot Spring Black Friday (2026): Best tool and grill deals

✹ Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Deals,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Deals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There are no words for her This means when Black Friday falls in April and lasts for two weeks. Originally coined to refer to the chaos and hoopla when holiday shopping meets post-Thanksgiving football games, Black Friday has come to explicitly mean "anytime discounts."So when The Home Depot says they're having a "Spring Black Friday" sale, what they're trying to say is that spring can also be Christmas for the DIY and backyard set. It's when you buy…
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Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty

đŸ’„ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ‘The thing I’d like most in the world’, says the reader in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979), ‘is to make clocks run backwards.’ And understandably so. Written after a period of creative uncertainty, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller is a profoundly – even wilfully – disorienting work. It starts in a familiar enough way, with you, the reader, settling down to read Calvino’s latest novel. But you soon realise something’s wrong. The printers have not only messed up…
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NASA Artemis II lands in the Pacific Ocean in a ‘perfect’ landing for a moon mission

NASA Artemis II lands in the Pacific Ocean in a ‘perfect’ landing for a moon mission

đŸ’„ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,NASA,artemis ii 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft returned to Earth, and their mission around the moon was successful. “Integrity,” the name of the crew spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, fell into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time, according to NASA. The four crew members on board - three Americans and one Canadian - were all in a "green" (or safe and healthy) state after Orion's "perfect" landing. The crew…
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Artemis II live updates as crew splashes down near San Diego after historic moon mission

Artemis II live updates as crew splashes down near San Diego after historic moon mission

đŸ”„ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Reentry into Earth's atmosphere should begin at 7:53 p.m. ET, according to NASA's timeline for landing day.Twenty-four seconds after reentry begins, and some 1,950 miles from splashdown, heating across the Orion capsule's 16.5-foot heat shield will build to the point that electrically charged plasma will engulf the spacecraft, preventing normal communications.One minute and 22 seconds into the descent, temperatures across the heat shield will reach a peak of some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit — half as hot as the visible surface of the sun. The…
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Artemis II returns from a historic trip around the moon

Artemis II returns from a historic trip around the moon

đŸ”„ Read this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Space,Welcome Back ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The furthest journey Human history concluded Friday evening when NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts returned to Earth after a trip around the moon. The crew's Orion space capsule, named Integrity, touched down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego shortly after 5 p.m. PT, marking the end of a 10-day, more than 695,000-mile journey out to the far side of the moon and back.The four-person Artemis II crew — Commander Reed Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and…
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Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?

Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For nearly 20 years the deal has been simple: you click a link, arbitrary code runs on your device, and a stack of sandboxes keeps that code from doing anything nasty. Browser sandboxes for untrusted JavaScript, VM sandboxes for multi-tenant cloud, ad iframes so banner creatives can't take over your phone or laptop - the modern internet is built on the assumption that those sandboxes hold. Anthropic just shipped a research preview that generates working exploits for one of them 72.4% of the time, up…
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PSA: If you use Meta AI, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing

PSA: If you use Meta AI, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing

đŸ’„ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,social media,meta ai,muse spark ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Meta released its new Muse Spark AI model on Wednesday as part of a major overhaul of its AI efforts. It's do-or-die time for Meta - The company cannot afford it investPumping billions of dollars back into something that doesn't work, like the metaverse. Well, maybe they are literally I can bear it, but it would be very damaging, not to mention embarrassing. Speaking of embarrassment: Imagine that a group of your friends, family, and strangers you once met in college receive…
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chrisecker/miniword: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python.

chrisecker/miniword: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python.

đŸ’„ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A minimal word processor in python. In development but already great. Key Aspects Real WYSIWYG editing (no HTML layer, no embedded browser) Lightweight and fast startup Minimal dependencies (wxPython + Cairo) Clean, simple file format (human-readable, diff-friendly, git-friendly, AI-friendly) Good Markdown support Extensible via Python-plugins Dependencies Miniword is developed under Linux but should run under Windows and Mac as well. The following dependencies are required: Python >= 3.9 wxPython >= 4.0 Cairo >= 1.2 On Debian all dependencies are installed by sudo apt install python3-wxgtk4.0…
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Last 24 hours: You can save up to $500 on your Disrupt 2026 card

Last 24 hours: You can save up to $500 on your Disrupt 2026 card

đŸ’„ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Enterprise,Startups,Transportation,Space,Climate,Fintech,Venture,AI,Apps,Robotics,Fundraising,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: That's it. The clock is running out. Tonight is your last chance to get savings up to $500 TechCrunch disabled 2026 passes. These discounts end at 11:59 PM PT. Register here to secure your right with the limited-time offer. What is disrupted is delivered year after year this year, Disable Moscone West takes over in San Francisco October 13-15, bringing together 10,000 founders, VCs, operators, and technology leaders for a tightly curated three-day experience focused on real results. Attendance returns for: High…
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