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iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In
At this point, buying a prebuilt PC may cost the same as building it yourself.
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WorkOS
My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is your auth infrastructure? If you’re building B2B SaaS, especially AI, you quickly need enterprise features like …
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Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.
Wispr Flow says growth accelerated in India after its Hinglish rollout, even as voice AI products continue to face challenges.
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Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data
Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to b…
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We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we discussed what xAI's deal with Anthropic might mean for parent company SpaceX.
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Govee Ceiling Light Ultra Review: AI Art Ain’t It
A fun novelty that’s marred by better competition and a price that’s simply too high.
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International tech
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…
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Honasa CBO Yatish Bhargava Steps Down Within A Year
Yatish Bhargava has stepped down as the chief business officer (CBO) of Mamaearth parent Honasa Consumer within a year of…
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Skyroot’s Giant Leap
For several years, India’s spacetech startups have tried to seek the validation of proving that privately held companies just like…
inc42.com
Psychology says the cruelest thing about being raised by a narcissistic but charming parent isn’t anything they did at home — it’s the structural impossibility of being believed by anyone outside the house, and a child who learns early that the world will never see what they see grows into an adult who has stopped trying to be understood by people who weren’t there
She is nine years old, standing at her teacher’s desk after school, trying to explain why she didn’t want to go home. The teacher listens with the soft, patient face teachers use when they think a child is being dramatic. Then the teacher says, kindly, that she met the girl’s mot…
siliconcanals.com
Can Bhavish Aggarwal Drag Ola Krutrim Out Of The Rut?
In June 2023, on a visit to India, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said Indian startups looking to build…
inc42.com
Psychology suggests that adult children who are the most loyal to their parents in late life are often the ones who never quite became close to them — the loyalty is the substitute for the closeness that didn’t form, and the visits, the calls, the careful attention are sometimes a daughter’s way of paying for an intimacy that was supposed to have been included
Research on adult children caring for aging parents consistently finds that caregiving satisfaction is not predicted by the volume of care provided. It is predicted, instead, by the quality of the underlying relationship — by whether the caregiver feels recognized within a bond t…
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Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Article URL: https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082968 Points: 242 # Comments: 80
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Why You Probably Shouldn’t DIY a Car Airbag
Car airbags are both a very simple concept and a marvel of engineering, replacing the bone-shattering impact of unforgiving plastic and steel with a relatively soft landing in a funky-smelling …read more
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Challenging The Way We Pedal
The bicycle is an invention that has not changed in its fundamentals since the first recognisably modern machines appeared in the closing years of the 19th century. Its frame uses …read more
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces …
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Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
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Speech Jammer Gets Jammed Up
This project is perhaps the single most passive-aggressive thing we’ve ever seen on this site: rather than tell someone directly to ‘shut up’, [Blytical]’s speech jammer lets you hack their …read more
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Debian must ship reproducible packages
Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081245 Points: 315 # Comments: 132
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Tracing Olfactory Receptor Mapping Between the Nose and Brain
The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in the nasal epithelium, from which they send signals …read more
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