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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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Maine Governor Vetoes Landmark Data Center Moratorium

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

Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures

As growth slows, Truecaller is leaning on subscriptions, business services, and new features to sustain momentum beyond India.

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.

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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The First ‘Brand New Day’ Marvel Legends Tease a Spidey-Hulk Brawl

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' isn't quite a teamup movie, but these Marvel Legends toys will let you live out those fantasies.

International tech

Meituan Quietly Tests Trillion-Parameter AI Model Built on Domestic Compute

Meituan enters the trillion-parameter AI race with a domestically trained model rivaling GPT-4.

Honda Shifts China R&D Strategy to Local Leadership Amid Intensifying Competition

Honda shifts to China-led EV development as it restructures operations to stay competitive in the world’s largest auto market.

DeepSeek V4 becomes default model for OpenClaw

The global open source agent framework OpenClaw released its 2026.4.24 version on Sunday, bringing both DeepSeek V4 models into its core ecosystem. V4 Flash, designed with 284 billion parameters and 13 billion activated parameters, is now the default model, delivering Max mode in…

Pony.ai Unveils Next-Gen Autonomous Driving Domain Controller Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion

Pony.ai launches a next-gen NVIDIA-powered domain controller to accelerate scalable L4 autonomous driving and Robotaxi commercialization.

Petpooja On Taxmen’s Radar, Pine Labs Acquires Shopflo & More

Petpooja & The Trail Of Missing Bills India’s restaurant tech ecosystem is under scrutiny, as tax officials have uncovered evidence…

There’s a specific kind of adult who can’t enjoy a gift without immediately calculating what it cost the giver, and it isn’t thoughtfulness, it’s a residual scan from a childhood where everything received was followed by a reminder of the sacrifice it required

The adult who can't open a present without immediately pricing it isn't being gracious. They're running an old program from a childhood where every gift came with a quiet reminder of what it cost.

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★ The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous

The New York Times PR account, on Twitter/X a week ago: Sunday’s crossword puzzle in the print edition of The New York Times Magazine contains a grid that does not match the clues. The correct version of the puzzle can be found in the news section of Sunday’s print edition of The…

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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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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.

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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

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

Article URL: https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650 Points: 303 # Comments: 257

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

Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them

Article URL: https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912645 Points: 209 # Comments: 315

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.

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: 271 # Comments: 202

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

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

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

Article URL: https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914165 Points: 454 # Comments: 248

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