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Maine Governor Vetoes Landmark Data Center Moratorium

The plan would have frozen data center constructions in the state until November 2027.

What Tim Cook built

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss how Apple has changed since Cook became CEO in 2011, and what challenges incoming CEO John Ternus will be facing.

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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X’s ‘Everything App’ Metamorphosis Supposedly Accelerating Soon with ‘X Money’ Rollout

It's been years, but Elon Musk is reportedly still trying to make this happen.

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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The New ‘Spider-Noir’ Trailer Is as Colorful As You Want

Get a new look at 'Spider-Noir' before it swings onto your TVs next month.

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Psychology says the people who genuinely seem happy aren’t more optimistic or more grateful than everyone else, they’re the ones who stopped chasing the feeling a long time ago and quietly built a life small enough, honest enough, and slow enough that happiness had nowhere left to hide from them

The genuinely happy people you know aren't posting motivational quotes or keeping gratitude journals—they're the ones who quietly downsized their lives until there was nowhere left for contentment to escape.

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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026

Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…

Li Auto signs UAE, Saudi partners and expands in Asia Pacific

Li Auto said it has signed partnership agreements with the UAE’s Al Fahim Motors and Saudi Arabia’s Mohamed Yousuf Naghi Motors, marking its planned entry into the Middle East with its extended-range electric L-series models. The company said the rollout will bring its family-foc…

I spent forty years believing I was mentally strong because I never broke down — it took one question to make me understand that what I called strength was just a very old, very practiced form of disappearing

The moment my therapist exposed how I'd spent four decades perfecting the art of emotional invisibility, masquerading as the strong, silent type while actually abandoning everyone who ever tried to truly know me.

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It took me until 44 to realize that the most dangerous comfort is a life that’s bearable — not bad enough to leave, not good enough to feel like living

After years of telling myself I should be grateful for my stable marriage and decent job, I discovered the most insidious trap isn't rock bottom or dramatic failure—it's the comfortable numbness of a life that's just bearable enough to endure but never quite worth celebrating.

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Dhan Bets Beyond Brokerage

Having assembled a capital markets stack, spanning APIs, AI-led tools, content, education and algorithmic investing, over the past five years,…

Context decay, orchestration drift, and the rise of silent failures in AI systems

The most expensive AI failure I have seen in enterprise deployments did not produce an error. No alert fired. No dashboard turned red. The system was fully operational, it was just consistently, confidently wrong. That is the reliability gap. And it is the problem most enterprise…

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Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce

In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.

Report Claims Samsung Might Post Its First-Ever Mobile Division Loss This Year, Blaming RAM Crisis

Ben Schoon, 9to5Google: In March, a report revealed some of the internal cuts Samsung has been making for its mobile division, with the company initially concerned it could post an operating loss for the first time ever. It’s a big deal, as Samsung’s mobile (MX) division has hist…

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GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

Article URL: https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780 Points: 397 # Comments: 156

Building an IBM PCjr BIOS from Source Using Original Printed Source Code

As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available for it. This includes the x86 assembly listing for the …read more

Freeze Moving Tools with a Stroboscopic Camera

If you take a video of a spinning wheel, you’ll probably notice that the spokes appear to turn more slowly than the wheel is actually rotating, and sometimes in the …read more

GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910546 Points: 203 # Comments: 108

Dyson Vacuums and the Curse of Cooked Capacitors

It seems to be becoming a bit of a theme that consumer electronics are dying not due to some critical fault, but due to Cooked Capacitor Syndrome (CCS). Case in …read more

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

Article URL: https://statecharts.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908833 Points: 260 # Comments: 75

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An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

Article URL: https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 Points: 256 # Comments: 336

2026 Green Powered Challenge: A Portable Solar Panel, Made Better

Many of us will have seen the portable solar panels offered on our favourite online purveyors of electronics, but some who have bought them remain unimpressed with their performance. [t.oster92] …read more

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909226 Points: 556 # Comments: 252