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Every Day Is a Perfect Day to Watch ‘Redline’

Nearly two decades later, Studio Madhouse's high-octane sci-fi anime racing film still feels like the future of animation.

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

Juli Clover, MacRumors: Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB RAM. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now…

This Experimental Low-Waste Fuel Could Transform Nuclear Reactors

The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and abundant.

Broadcast Booths Around Baseball Tip Their Caps to John Sterling

Great stuff around MLB: Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league, with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical routines to give a nod to Sterling’s distinct style. It s…

Learn What It Takes to Become a Cybersecurity Consultant

Cybersecurity consultants have never been more in demand. Information security analyst roles are projected to grow nearly 30 percent between now and 2034, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than 15 million cybercrime incidents occurred worldwide in 2024, Stati…

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Anthropic secures massive SpaceX compute deal as it expands Claude Code limits

Anthropic has announced an expansion of its infrastructure and product capacity through… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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The generation that sacrificed the most for their families is now quietly grappling with a question nobody prepared them for: if I spent my whole life living for others, what do I actually believe about how I want to live now

Surveys of older adults consistently surface a quiet pattern: people who spent decades building lives around providing, caregiving, and obligation often report difficulty naming what they actually enjoy once those roles loosen. Researchers studying aging and identity describe it …

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The Chinese EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S.

By banning Chinese software, the U.S. risks isolating its automakers from the integrated systems, standards, and partnerships shaping the global electric vehicle market.

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DeepSeek Claude Code Clone Hits 8,700 GitHub Stars as Developer Goes Viral

A Rust-based terminal AI coding agent built for DeepSeek V4 has taken GitHub's trending list by storm, accumulating 8,700 stars in days. Its creator, a patent law student, is now fielding interview requests from around the world.

I stopped initiating with my closest friends for ninety days, no calls, no texts, no checking in, and the silence I got back wasn’t cruelty, it was the simple confirmation that I had been the entire weather system in every one of those friendships

For ninety days I stopped reaching out to my closest friends, and what came back wasn't anger or hurt feelings, it was the quiet arithmetic of who I'd actually been to them all along.

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Google adds ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and online forums to its AI-powered search experience

Google has updated its AI search feature to include ‘expert advice’ pulled… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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AI Is Rewriting What Investors Should Look For In Early Startup Teams

Technical expertise still matters, but when everyone can build, thanks to AI, it no longer differentiates, writes guest author Aaron Tainter, director of accelerator programs at Innovation Works. And that forces a harder question for investors: If the product isn’t the moat, what…

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Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless

A guide to ten technological components — from THz communications and AI/ML to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces — poised to define 6G wireless networks. What Attendees will Learn Which frequencies 6G will use — Understand why THz bands (above 100 GHz) and the7–24 GHz range ar…

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Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

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Taking Polyphony to a New Level

There are all manner of musical synthesis techniques, from the early electromechanical instruments through analogue tape systhesis, the all-electronic waveform synthesisers of the 1960s onwards, and Yamaha’s FM systhesis of …read more

Direct FDM Printing with Granules

The idea of FDM 3D printing using granules rather than filament is an appealing one: rather than having to wrangle spools of filament that need to adhere to strict dimensions …read more

BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 218 # Comments: 351

Appearing productive in the workplace

Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001 Points: 583 # Comments: 231

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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037128 Points: 306 # Comments: 332

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555 Points: 917 # Comments: 307

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Why Opposed Piston Internal Combustion Engines Are Great

Converting the ignition of a fuel-air mixture into usable mechanical energy lies at the core of a dizzying number of internal combustion engines developed over the course of more than …read more

AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want

It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as …read more

How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products

In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.