- newA giant cloud storage upgrade works out to $36 per TB
TL;DR: Internxt gives you 10TB of encrypted cloud storage for a one-time $359.99 payment (reg. $2,900), with end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge privacy, and no recurring storage bill.Cloud storage is useful. Paying rent on your own files foreve…
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- newWhy hobby coders treat AI-written code as missing the point
A programmer named Fogus came across a GitHub argument about chess engine development and wrote about why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models. Hobbyists say is working code isn't the goal. They like to build operating s…
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- newTAC-2 is back: the new Commodore reissues an old joystick
The TAC-2 was a famous joystick offered for Commodore's C64, the 8-bit personal computer first sold in 1982, and compatible with the Atari and other systems using the classic 9-pin plug. And now you can buy it again. There are upgrades such as a stro…
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- newThe farthest you can get from a road in the San Gabriels is 2.7 miles
Dima Kogan hiked in the San Gabriel Mountains, and a friend wondered which point in the range sits farthest from any road or trail. Kogan went home and computed it, and his notes on the poles of inaccessibility above Los Angeles put the answer at 4,3…
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- newHoover Dam is set to lose 40% of its maximum power this year
The US Bureau of Reclamation is resorting to moving water between reservoirs so that Glen Canyon Dam can continue to generate electricity. Darren Orf reported in Popular Mechanics on August 10, 2026, that a long drought has pulled Lake Powell and Lak…
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- newMicrosoft, Google and Amazon now depend on two money-losing AI firms
Microsoft, Google, and Amazon's growth depends on two companies that lose tens of billions of dollars a year. In a newsletter post, "Where's Your Ed At" reported on analyst estimates from Wells Fargo, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank.Wells Fargo es…
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- newI Love the 90s! curates classics of the web and cable TV
I Love the 90s! is a website designed to evoke the feel of channel-surfing cable TV in the 1990s. It looks like it was made before HTML was standardized (but is perfectly modern under the hood) and wraps a myriad of low-bitrate standard-def compresse…
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- newBorder corner stores have filed 700,000 reports on cash transfers
A federal rule that targets cartel money laundering has driven customers away from the money-transfer counters at small shops on the US-Mexico border. The Guardian's Lourdes Medrano reported on August 11, 2026 that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Ne…
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- newNew daily word game challenges you to be succinct
Take twelve words and rearrange them to say the same thing in just five. That's the game. Sheets.works takes spreadsheets and turns them into dashboards and reports. To show off their chops in a fun way, they release a Data Drop once a week, like a…
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- newRead 20,000 restored golden-age comics free in your browser
The ComicBooks.com Reading Room is a free online library of old comics that you read in your browser, one deep-zoomable page at a time. Open Culture pointed to it this week. The counter on the front page listed 20,109 books. The site promises "No log…
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