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It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste
Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment of support across the political spectrum in the US. Interest from tech companies that are scrambling to meet demand for massive data centers has sparked a resurgence of money and attention in the industry. That newfound interest is exact…
MIT Technology Review
‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy
Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.
gizmodo.com
NEA’s Tiffany Luck On How Startup Founders Can Build Moats In Vertical AI
We recently spoke with Tiffany Luck, a partner at New Enterprise Associates about the increasing relevance of vertical AI, how startups can carve out durable advantages in a world dominated by platform giants, and more.
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How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute
Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying on reinforcement learning techniques that provide sparse feedback. Researchers …
venturebeat.com
5 Reasons Why Summer Is the Worst Season of the Year
Summer kind of sucks, and I have the science to prove it.
gizmodo.com
WWE Videos Made by a Glitching AI That Sounds Like It’s Being Strangled Are the Future of Entertainment
It sounds awful. I can't stop listening.
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International tech
OpenAI integrates frontier models, Codex, and AI agents into AWS through Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI is expanding its enterprise reach by bringing its advanced AI models,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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People who feel lonely inside long marriages aren’t ungrateful or cold. They’re describing a specific exhaustion that comes from sharing a house with someone who stopped being curious about them years ago
The loneliest place in a long marriage isn't the silence — it's living beside someone who has stopped wondering who you are now.
siliconcanals.com
SHAREBOT Raises Several Hundred Million RMB in New Funding as It Scales Rapid Robot Deployment Network
SHAREBOT raises a new multi-hundred-million RMB round to scale its robotics leasing platform, accelerating nationwide deployment and building a standardized robot delivery network across 100+ cities.
pandaily.com
SenseTime Launches SenseNova U1, Moving Toward a Unified Model Era of Understanding and Generation
SenseTime open-sources SenseNova U1, a unified multimodal model built on its NEO-unify architecture that merges understanding and generation into a single framework.
pandaily.com
TSMC accelerates 2nm expansion, targets record five-fab ramp in 2026
At its recent North America Technology Symposium, TSMC said it is doubling the pace of advanced-node capacity expansion to meet booming demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Senior Vice President Hou Yongqing said five 2nm fabs are set to enter ramp-up to mass produ…
technode.com
Psychology says the highly perceptive people, the ones who notice the shift in a friend’s voice three sentences before anyone else, who clock the tension in a room the moment they walk in, aren’t gifted or intuitive, they’re usually people who learned early that reading the air kept them safe
Those who instantly sense when something's off in a room aren't blessed with a mystical gift—they're often carrying an invisible burden from childhoods where reading the emotional weather meant survival.
siliconcanals.com

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Can you 3D Print a Pinball Machine That’s Fun to Play?
It seems fair to say that pinball machines are among the most universally loved gaming systems known today, yet the full-sized ones are both very expensive and very large, while …read more
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Before GitHub
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921 Points: 479 # Comments: 149
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Compact VGA Output Board For The Pi Pico
Many microcontrollers can spit out simple analog video signals if that’s something you desire. However, it normally requires a bit of supporting hardware and, of course, the right connectors to …read more
hackaday.com
How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms
In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.
bytebytego.com
Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/no-fly-zones-around-moving-ice-vehicles-this-drone-pilot-fought-back-and-won/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940271 Points: 230 # Comments: 71
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How ChatGPT serves ads
Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942437 Points: 351 # Comments: 237
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Payphone Tag Is Australia’s New National Sport
Australia’s payphones are an iconic part of the national landscape, even if they’re not as important as they once used to be. However, they’re having a resurgence of late, in …read more
hackaday.com
Recycling PLA and Other Plastic Waste with Compression Molding
After previously trying out low-tech compression molding with a toaster oven and 3D printed molds, [future things] is back with a video that seeks to explore some of the questions …read more
hackaday.com
Wipeout Clone Runs Native on ESP32-S3
Psygnosis’s 1995 game Wipeout is remembered for two things: being one of the greatest games of all time, and taking advantage of the then-new PlayStation’s capacity for 3D graphics. The ESP32-S3 …read more
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