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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 6, 2026?
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Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail publicly demonstrated their telegraph for the first time in 1838, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in 2016, Bono, one half of the iconic duo Sonny & Cher, tragically passed away in 1998, A mob stormed the US Capitol in historic insurrection in 2021,
and we present you with these top quality stories.
From
The Brain, The Body, and The Blue Screen: Why I’m Quitting Hardware
to
Prompt Reverse Engineering: Fix Your Prompts by Studying the Wrong Answers,
let’s dive right in.
The Brain, The Body, and The Blue Screen: Why I’m Quitting Hardware
By @damianwgriggs [ 4 Min read ] I have a visual disability—20/400 vision in my right eye and zero peripheral vision. This makes hardware terrifying. Read More.
Prompt Reverse Engineering: Fix Your Prompts by Studying the Wrong Answers
By @superorange0707 [ 7 Min read ] Learn prompt reverse engineering: analyse wrong LLM outputs, identify missing constraints, patch prompts systematically, and iterate like a pro. Read More.
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