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DHS abuses 1930s customs law in attempt to get data on Canadian from Google
DHS targeted a man who hadn't entered the US for years for criticism of ICE operations.
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Three Inverse Laws of AI
Article URL: https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023861 Points: 54 # Comments: 13
New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS
Article URL: https://debarshibasak.github.io/awesome-paas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023691 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs
Article URL: https://github.com/aragossa/pii-shield Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023587 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
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Agents for financial services and insurance
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023533 Points: 67 # Comments: 46
Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte ( https://airbyte.com/ ). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents ( https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/ ), a unified data layer for agents to discover inf
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It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
Article URL: https://tech.yahoo.com/vpn/article/its-official-utah-is-the-us-state-closest-to-banning-vpns-153556814.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023473 Points: 80 # Comments: 52
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The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
Article URL: https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-05-03-the-best-is-over/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022992 Points: 246 # Comments: 185
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Yet Another GitHub Incident
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1j40g94rn22j Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022900 Points: 64 # Comments: 24
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ElevenLabs lists BlackRock, Jamie Foxx and Longoria as new investors
4. ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.
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CopilotKit raises $27M to help devs deploy app-native AI agents
The Seattle-based startup's Series A round was led by Glilot Capital, NFX and SignalFire, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
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India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality
Krutrim's pivot to cloud after layoffs and limited product updates reflects the economic challenges of building AI models in India.
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Amazon bets Nobel Prize-based dehumidification can cut its energy use
Amazon will buy a new type of HVAC system for its commercial buildings to slash energy use.
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Coinbase to lay off 14% of staff as part of broader restructuring
The restructuring is aimed at addressing market volatility and increasing the use of AI tools to improve efficiency.