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It's been about 30 years since the Tamagotchi became the must-have toy for children around the globe. Now, 3 decades on, the humble tamagotchi is inspiring a new generation of electronic pets. France ...
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Found this on an open directory (blankline.org). It describes a 'Recursive Swarm' architecture designed to solve context saturation for 24+ hour engineering tasks. Two key claims stood out to me: D3 E...
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Wider is better. Lenovo is at it again with wild laptop concepts for CES 2026, and the biggest one is the Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop. It has a flexible OLED display that expands horizontally - ...
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Hi HN I recently got married, promptly had a bit of a meltdown, and decided to lock myself in a room and build for a while. At the same time, I was trying to outbound sell for my startup and kept runn...
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