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iPhone Models Ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th in Counterpoint’s List of 10 Bestselling Phones Worldwide in Q1 2026

Samsung phones took spots 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. The one phone not from Apple or Samsung in the top 10 was the Xiaomi Redmi A5 at #10. As I always say, take these numbers with a grain of salt, but according to Counterpoint, the bestselling phones, in order, are: iPhone 17 iPhone 17 P…

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Garmin’s Latest Cheap(er) Watches Steal a Bunch of Features From Its Premium Wearables

Garmin's Forerunner 70 and Forerunner 170 will help you become a health-obsessed athlete for less.

U.S. bank disclose security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app

The bank said the security lapse was due to the use of an “unauthorized” AI software app.

Narwal’s Next Robot Vacuum Promises Luxury Features at a Midrange Price

The Freo Z10 Turbo comes with a self-cleaning, self-emptying dock for less than $1,000.

Mel Gibson Touted This Dubious Cancer Remedy on Joe Rogan. Sales Are Now Soaring

Prescriptions of a two-drug combo including ivermectin skyrocketed following Gibson's appearance, a new study finds, especially among cancer patients.

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Nazara Q4: PAT Jumps Over 13X To ₹56 Cr, Revenue Declines 23%

Gaming major Nazara’s consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter of FY26 (Q4 FY26) zoomed multifold to ₹55.7 Cr from…

SMIC secures approval for $5.9 billion acquisition in China’s largest domestic wafer foundry M&A

On Monday, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced that its share issuance and asset acquisition plan had been reviewed and approved by the M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) Review Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The committee determined that…

The CCTV Gold Rush: Indian Startups, OEMs Race To Fill Surveillance Vacuum

On April 1, 2026 India imposed severe restrictions on uncertified internet-connected CCTV cameras, effectively banning dominant Chinese brands such as…

Tencent QClaw AI Integrates With Docs and ima Knowledge Base

Tencent's QClaw AI has integrated with Tencent Docs and the ima knowledge base, letting enterprise users query across documents and knowledge bases in one conversation — a significant expansion of Tencent's AI productivity tooling.

Behavioral science suggests that responding well to education and opportunity may itself be a partly inherited trait — not just a product of good parenting

A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and 98 percent of the link between IQ at 23 and socioeconomic status at 27 can be attributed to genetic factors. IQ itself came in at around 75 percent heritable…

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AI Hardware Startups: VCs Favoring Young Founders, But Is There a Valuation Premium?

China's AI hardware startup scene is divided over whether young founders deserve the valuation premiums they command — or whether VCs are simply chasing hype and labels rather than fundamentals.

AI agents are running hospital records and factory inspections. Enterprise IAM was never built for them.

A doctor in a hospital exam room watches as a medical transcription agent updates electronic health records, prompts prescription options, and surfaces patient history in real time. A computer vision agent on a manufacturing line is running quality control at speeds no human insp…

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The Ending of ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Was Changed Late in the Game

The final moments of the film were crafted later in the process to leave audiences with a few specific thoughts.

Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok

The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.

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How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem

In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.

Reverse-Engineering and Documenting the Fisher Price Pixter

Between 2000 and 2002 the Fisher Price Pixter was sold to children as an educational handheld toy with a touch screen that enabled drawing and listening to music in addition …read more

How Figma Upgraded Data Pipeline from Multi-Day Latency to Real-Time

In this article, we will learn what happened as Figma grew and how its engineering team handled the growth in terms of the data pipeline issues.

This Random Number Generator Does It With Neon

The quest for true randomness has roots in cryptography and is a rabbit hole that gets surprisingly deep with alarmingly rapidity. Still, the generation of random-enough numbers is a popular …read more

Learning Software Architecture

Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106024 Points: 392 # Comments: 73

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Another Gift To The World From CERN: Their Entire Set Of KiCad Libraries

As the foremost boffins of Europe toil deep underneath the border between Switzerland and France in their never-ending quest to truly understand the fabric of the Universe, they rely on …read more

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224 Points: 423 # Comments: 153

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The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does

You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber …read more

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

Article URL: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997 Points: 202 # Comments: 15

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