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What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch U.S. software in favor of sovereign tech
Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.
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‘Welcome to Derry’ Season 2 Is Built Off an Old ‘It’ Storyline
When 'Welcome to Derry' returns, season two is jumping back in time and visualizing a part of the book fans only read about.
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Exclusive: Goldman Sachs Leads $60M Series C For Personal Loan Fintech Kashable
Kashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, has secured $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ Sustainable Investing.
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A New But Familiar Villain Is Coming in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3
Plus, 'Toy Story 5' makes a first for the franchise.
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DF Paraphernalia: Last Call for This Round of T-Shirts and Hoodies
It’s really just a coincidence, but it was 20 years ago this week that I went full-time writing Daring Fireball (after writing the site in my spare time for 4 years). That feels like a long time ago. But it feels like yesterday, too. In my announcement, I wrote: Daring Fireball i…
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‘Hazbin Hotel’ Will Close Its Doors After Five Seasons
Enjoy your stay at 'Hazbin Hotel' while you can, because once it's over, Spindlehorse is making new projects for Prime Video.
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International tech
China bars foreign investment in Manus AI project as scrutiny on AI exports grows
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) today announced that, in accordance with laws and regulations, it has issued a decision prohibiting foreign investment in the acquisition of the general-purpose AI agent project Manus. It also requires the relevant transac…
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Amazon To Expand Quick Commerce Service To 100 Cities In India
Ecommerce giant Amazon plans to expand its quick commerce service ‘Amazon Now’ to 100 cities across India as it looks…
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China outlines new labour protection plan for nation’s 200 million gig workers
China has vowed to better protect the country’s vast gig-economy workforce, as an economic slowdown leads millions of people to sign up for delivery, ride-hailing and other informal jobs on online platforms. The 12-point plan – issued by the State Council, China’s cabinet, and th…
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Intel warns China of severe server CPU shortage as AI demand surges
Intel has recently issued a warning to major cloud service providers in China that, due to a surge in demand for AI infrastructure and slower-than-expected yield ramp-up for its 18A process, server CPU supply will face severe shortages over the next two quarters (Q2 and Q3). Deli…
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Unicommerce Q4: Profit Rises Marginally To ₹3.4 Cr
Ecommerce-focused SaaS company Unicommerce reported a 3% rise in its consolidated net profit to ₹3.4 Cr in Q4 FY26 from…
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Capcom-licensed Monster Hunter Outlanders mobile game starts test in China on April 29
The mobile game Monster Hunter Outlanders, licensed by Capcom and developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studio Group, will begin its testing phase on April 29. This test will be a limited-availability, account-restricted, data-wipe beta with in-game purchases enabled, and is only open to A…
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Monitoring LLM behavior: Drift, retries, and refusal patterns
The stochastic challenge Traditional software is predictable: Input A plus function B always equals output C. This determinism allows engineers to develop robust tests. On the other hand, generative AI is stochastic and unpredictable. The exact same prompt often yields different …
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RAG precision tuning can quietly cut retrieval accuracy by 40%, putting agentic pipelines at risk
Enterprise teams that fine-tune their RAG embedding models for better precision may be unintentionally degrading the retrieval quality those pipelines depend on, according to new research from Redis. The paper, "Training for Compositional Sensitivity Reduces Dense Retrieval Gener…
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Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked
The American technology giant provides water and energy monitoring and utility meters to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses.
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A Trackball 3D Controller
We use CAD packages in our 3D work, and it’s likely that many of us have become annoyed by the limitations of controlling the view of a 3D object using …read more
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Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/04/15930-sabastian-sawe-sh... https://news.adidas.com/running/two-adidas-athletes-sabastia... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350 Points: 451 # Comments: 296
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The Prompt API
Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917026 Points: 200 # Comments: 105
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Mist, Mirrors, Laser : Multi-view 3D Projection
“Lights, camera, action!” might have been the call when recording back in the day, but for an awesome three-dimensional viewing experience, you might try yelling “Mist, Mirrors, Laser!” and following …read more
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Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914677 Points: 225 # Comments: 74
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EP212: Data Warehouse vs Data Lake vs Data Mesh
Storing data is the easy part. Deciding where and how to organize it is the real challenge.
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Hackaday Links: April 26, 2026
It’s been three weeks since the Artemis II crew returned to Earth, and while the mission might be over for Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, …read more
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TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough
Article URL: https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916890 Points: 235 # Comments: 50
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Trying Pair Programming With an LLM Chatbot
When it comes to software developers, there are t a few distinct types. For example, the extroverted, chatty type, who is always going out there to share the latest and …read more
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