2026-08-22

Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students

Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students

"I can't even imagine walking down the hallway and seeing a peer of mine being electrocuted in a place that is supposed to be a safe space for students." The...

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llm 0.33

Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2. #1608, #1631 I shipped a...

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555 Makes a Useful Beat Frequency Oscillator

555 Makes a Useful Beat Frequency Oscillator

If you’ve got a cheap ham rig, it might not be very practical for you to receive certain transmissions out of the box. However, if you were to hack in...

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5 Sci-Fi Shows That Are Perfect From Start to Finish

5 Sci-Fi Shows That Are Perfect From Start to Finish

These acclaimed sci-fi shows have become the gold standard for the genre.

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Mark Carney on the U.S. Under Trump: ‘Sometimes, Its Signature Is Written in Pencil’

Ian Austen, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs,...

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Rally-X - An Arcade conversion of Rally X for the Amiga is in the works via JOTD [UPDATE]

It wasn't too long ago that many of us had the pleasure of playing Allan Turvey's Terrapins RX; a Rally X Remix demo which was based on the 1980 game...

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Patients Are Skipping Going to the Doctor Because AI “Receptionists” Can’t Understanding What They’re Saying

Patients Are Skipping Going to the Doctor Because AI “Receptionists” Can’t Understanding What They’re Saying

"I ended up just hanging up and not bothering to try and book an appointment." The post Patients Are Skipping Going to the Doctor Because AI “Receptionists” Can’t Understanding What...

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Code Smell 321 - Getter Piggybacking (8/22/2026)

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Code Smell 321 - Getter Piggybacking (8/22/2026)

8/22/2026: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!

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Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well'

Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well'

"Gamers will frequently point to popular games and say, 'we want more of that,' without necessarily knowing exactly what part of those games made them so good."

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Celebrate the SNES's 35th Birthday With the 5 Weirdest Switch Online Games

Celebrate the SNES's 35th Birthday With the 5 Weirdest Switch Online Games

The SNES library on Switch Online is full of classics, but equally full of hidden retro gems. These are five of the best

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The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying

The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying

Me and a bunch of big-box PC games are going to go full boomer or prove a very important point.

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More than just code review

The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes...

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How to Play MEXC Referral Game Box: Open a Box First, Then Invite - Both Sides Earn Futures Bonus

Learn how MEXC Referral Game Box works: open a free box, invite friends, complete tasks, and unlock Futures Bonus rewards together.

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Advertising After the Campaign: How GenAI Is Turning Ads into Living Systems

Infinite ad variations are easy. Preserving one recognizable, trusted brand while they adapt is the hard part.

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Offloop

A shared workspace where people and AI agents get work done Discussion | Link

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5 Things I Learned About People From Doing Stand-Up Comedy

5 Things I Learned About People From Doing Stand-Up Comedy

(People had complained about me just posting a preview of the linked post, so here's the whole thing!)I’ve been doing stand-up comedy for two months now, which is a total...

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The US Navy Starting Building and Cancelled in 5 Days an Aircraft Carrier With No Island at All, and Trump Now Wants to Move the One on the Ford-Class

The US Navy Starting Building and Cancelled in 5 Days an Aircraft Carrier With No Island at All, and Trump Now Wants to Move the One on the Ford-Class

The USS United States was designed with a massive, completely unobstructed flight deck. The island - the tower structure every carrier has carried since - was removed altogether, because planners...

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Speed Beat Relevance: What Broke When I Put an LLM in Front of Product Search

Six failures from building an LLM-backed product search engine: a price filter that never filtered, invented category IDs, and latency that beat relevance.

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Diet Claude

Never get blindsided by Claude's usage limits again Discussion | Link

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