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It’s Illegal in China to Lay Someone Off to Replace Them with AI, Court Finds
"Employers are prohibited from shifting operating costs to employees."
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Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone Review: AI Can’t Save This Robot Vacuum
Ecovacs’ latest all-in-one robot vacuum and mop has some fancy features you might use—but many that you won’t.
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More Than a Third of All New Podcasts Are AI-Generated
Synthetic podcasts just keep coming.
gizmodo.com
AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
Bad news for Tilly Norwood.
techcrunch.com
Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.
techcrunch.com
Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027
"The Magician's Nephew" looks like a big next step in Netflix's thawing relationship with movie theaters.
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Psychology says the adults who were raised with very little affection don’t grow up unable to love, they grow up suspicious of the love that finally arrives, and the warmth a partner offers them at thirty or forty often gets quietly held at arm’s length, not because they don’t want it, but because the body that didn’t learn how to receive affection at six is still trying to figure out the choreography at fifty
The cruelest paradox of human connection: those who needed love most as children often spend their adult lives physically tensing up when it finally arrives, their bodies still protecting them from a danger that existed decades ago.
siliconcanals.com
How Coratia Technologies Is Protecting Undersea Data Highways With Marine Robots
Can machines come to the rescue when mankind faces a threat to its digital lifeline?   Odisha-based Coratia Technologies is working…
inc42.com
Snabbit’s Micromarket Push
First, groceries arrived in 10 minutes. Now, even house help is going instant. India is seeing the rise of a…
inc42.com
I’m 37 and I was raised in a house with almost no affection, and the hardest part isn’t missing it, it’s that I still don’t know how to receive it now that it’s finally being offered
Despite decades of studying psychology and mindfulness, nothing prepared me for moments when people reach for a hug and my body's first instinct is to freeze—not from lack of love, but because at 37, I'm still learning the language of physical affection that most people master in…
siliconcanals.com
Centre Notifies 100% FDI In Insurance Sector
The Centre has allowed up to 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies under the automatic route, weeks after…
inc42.com
The people who say they prefer being alone aren’t always lying. Some of them just learned that the version of company available to them costs more energy than solitude ever did
Solitude isn't always a preference. Sometimes it's the cheaper option, weighed against company that asks you to keep performing a version of yourself you've outgrown.
siliconcanals.com

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A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
Article URL: https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991802 Points: 276 # Comments: 113
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Building a C-3PO You Can Really Talk To
C-3PO is one of the more famous movie robots out there. However, we don’t see a lot of replicas built, perhaps because in speech and mannerisms, he’s quite hard to …read more
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EP213: MCP vs Skills, Clearly Explained
Both MCP and Skills extend what an agent can do. But they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one adds cost or complexity you don't need.
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Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings
Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we’ve seen Twitch control all sorts of …read more
hackaday.com
Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/this-tesla-owner-won-10k-in-court-for-teslas-fsd-lies-tesla-is-still-fighting-him/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991350 Points: 240 # Comments: 113
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Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Article URL: https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235 Points: 311 # Comments: 172
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Squeezing Fluids With the Right Peristaltic Pump for the Task
Peristaltic pumps are a very simple and effect device for transferring fluids without said fluid ever coming into contact with any part of the pump mechanism. At their core they …read more
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Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
Article URL: https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606 Points: 332 # Comments: 80
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes
In this article, we will learn how Kubernetes is a system of promises, and that every piece of it is a small program keeping one of those promises.
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