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We’ll take it: A TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse

Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.

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GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it

Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.

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F1 in Miami: That's what it looks like when an upgrade works

2026's Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing.

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AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.

Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.

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Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

Article URL: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/04/28/2003856358 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012477 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Days Without GitHub Incidents

Article URL: https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012022 Points: 81 # Comments: 21

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Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge

Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/heat-pump-sales-rise-17-across-europe-in-q1-as-energy-prices-surge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012003 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

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Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-03/trillions-in-us-retirement-dollars-flow-into-opaque-trusts-that-rival-etfs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011781 Points: 27 # Comments: 1

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Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-they-dont-want-to Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011603 Points: 51 # Comments: 17

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I am worried about Bun

Article URL: https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184 Points: 95 # Comments: 40

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OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-rounds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010774 Points: 52 # Comments: 46

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Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/922877/homebridge-2-0-matter-update-robot-vacuums Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010597 Points: 27 # Comments: 2

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Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

Article URL: https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010266 Points: 34 # Comments: 39

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Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983 Points: 84 # Comments: 46

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1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009840 Points: 45 # Comments: 35