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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.
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Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium
L.D. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until November 1, 2027.
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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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Soundcore Space 2 Review: A Shockingly Stellar Value for Budget ANC Wireless Headphones
At $130, Soundcore's Space 2 punch way above their weight class.
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Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis
The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons.
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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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Nobody talks about what actually happens to your friendships in the first years of retirement, and it isn’t drama or fallouts, it’s the quiet Tuesday afternoon you realise some people only knew the working version of you, and there’s nothing left to talk about now that the building between you is gone
The hardest part isn't losing touch with your work friends—it's sitting across from someone you spent 40 years with and realizing you've both been talking about the past for an hour because without the job site between you, there's nothing left to say.
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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…
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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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Psychology says the most resilient people aren’t the ones who never fell apart — they’re the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it
They're the ones who sat alone at 2 AM with their demons, rebuilt themselves piece by piece with no witnesses, and emerged stronger without ever posting about their "journey."
siliconcanals.com
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,…
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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…
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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: 453 # Comments: 196
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Slicer Settings for “Indestructible” Battle-Bot Worthy PLA Parts
If you follow [Maker’s Muse] on YouTube, you know he’s as passionate about robot fights these days as he is about the tools he uses to make the robots. Luckily …read more
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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
https://web.archive.org/web/20260426040218/https://juraj.bed... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130 Points: 303 # Comments: 160
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Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
Article URL: https://statecharts.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908833 Points: 223 # Comments: 67
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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
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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
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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
Article URL: https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879 Points: 933 # Comments: 598
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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
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The Arduino UNO, Basically
If you miss the days when you used Basic on your classic computer or wrote embedded software with a Basic Stamp, then maybe dust off your Arduino UNO or any …read more
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