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Walmart adding Tap to Pay after years of shoppers asking for it

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/walmart-finally-adding-tap-to-pay-after-years-of-shoppers-asking-for-it-3400920/
1•randycupertino•20m ago

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ChrisArchitect•15m ago
Source: https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/08/21/more-ways-to-p...

Mersenne Twister in a 15-Year-Old Game Binary

https://medium.com/@jizoskasa/i-reverse-engineered-plants-vs-zombies-to-answer-one-very-specific-...
1•birdculture•30s ago•0 comments

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

https://claude.com/blog/bringing-claude-mythos-5-to-more-defenders
1•garo-pro•1m ago•0 comments

Britain would be bonkers to ditch Palantir

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/20/britain-would-be-bonkers-to-ditch-palantir
1•andsoitis•1m ago•0 comments

Printing Lists

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/14/printing-lists.html
1•chilipepperhott•2m ago•0 comments

AI is about to uncover a hidden world of animal communication

https://twitter.com/itsolelehmann/status/2090831992200020253
1•bilsbie•5m ago•0 comments

His Wedding Guests Were Arriving–Just as His $45B Fund Was Falling Apart

https://www.wsj.com/finance/leopold-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness-ai-fund-597633d3
1•simonebrunozzi•6m ago•0 comments

The Meta Chalkboard

https://christopherabalos.substack.com/p/the-meta-chalkboard
1•cabalos•7m ago•0 comments

Sharding pytest by file cut collection time from 3 minutes to 40 seconds

https://tobsecret.github.io/2026/08/20/Sharding-Tests-by-File/
1•tobsecret•8m ago•1 comments

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT does not scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-select-distinct-does-not-scale
2•KraftyOne•8m ago•0 comments

Dilution math: why more companies should be boot or seed-strapping

https://readonpaper.substack.com/p/100-of-250m-beats-10-of-2b
1•mondesai•9m ago•0 comments

Volcanoes That Made History

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2026/volcanoes-that-made-history
1•knowablemag•11m ago•0 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
8•NKosmatos•13m ago•3 comments

A look under our trunk: what’s in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
4•giuliomagnifico•14m ago•0 comments

Walmart adding Apple Pay, other tap-to-pay options

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/walmart-tap-apple-pay-options
2•kblissett•15m ago•1 comments

The Better You Are at Programming, the Worse AI Looks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_590TxMwvWM
2•root-parent•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why is HN missing a "go to top" link on long posts?

1•KellyCriterion•15m ago•1 comments

Jasmine Sun on SF, Sontag, and Stanford

https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/jasmine-suns-project-of-self-transformation
1•ekluger•16m ago•0 comments

Why Do I Work?

https://jondlm.github.io/website/blog/why_do_i_work/
1•jondlm•17m ago•1 comments

How Micron's $50B Boise buildout is reshaping its hometown

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/20/micron-boise-chip-fab-expansion.html
2•TMWNN•17m ago•1 comments

The Death of the Job: How AI and Robots Will Rewrite Work in the Next 10 Years

https://simonroses.com/2026/08/the-death-of-the-job-how-ai-and-robots-will-rewrite-work-in-the-ne...
1•speckx•18m ago•0 comments

Better Go Handlers

https://xeoncross.com/2026/better_go_handlers.html
2•Xeoncross•19m ago•0 comments

America's capital crunch: Soaring debt collides with AI spending spree

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/national-debt-deficit-ai-spending
2•toomuchtodo•19m ago•0 comments

Walmart adding Tap to Pay after years of shoppers asking for it

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/walmart-finally-adding-tap-to-pay-after-years-of-shoppers-a...
1•randycupertino•20m ago•1 comments

How Thailand Resisted Colonization

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-thailand-resisted-colonization/
2•karakoram•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Outbid.lol but for X and LN Profiles

https://founderboard.lol
1•radomird•23m ago•0 comments

Waymo Launches Robotaxi Service in Houston

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/20/waymo-fully-launches-robotaxi-service-in-houston/
1•xnx•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Lore – build and monetize personal context

https://github.com/dipakkrishnan/lore-mcp
1•dipakk•24m ago•0 comments

Moderna's cancer shot: exciting for investors, inconclusive for patients

https://www.ft.com/content/d8ff1233-01ff-496d-aa18-91233c1db051
2•root-parent•24m ago•0 comments

KDE Linux Experiences

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/
1•speckx•27m ago•0 comments

Superconducting temperature record set at ordinary pressures

https://www.anl.gov/article/superconducting-temperature-record-set-at-ordinary-pressures
3•Thorondor•28m ago•0 comments