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Tuesday, 12 May 2026
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Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
https://archive.ph/rP4cb (text at bottom) https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2032201568335044978 , https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2032201568335044978 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelli... https://futurism.com/artificial-inte
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The wild six weeks for NanoClaw’s creator that led to a deal with Docker
Gavriel Cohen is living an open source developer's dream as his project has achieved acclaim and a partnership with Docker in a matter of weeks.
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Spotify will let you edit your Taste Profile to control your recommendations
When you edit your Taste Profile, you'll impact your personalized playlists like Discover Weekly, recommendations, and Wrapped.
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Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10
Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."
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M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody
The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time.
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Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae
Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.
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Measles vaccinations rose 291% among New Mexico adults during outbreak
Despite anti-vaccine rhetoric, New Mexico residents embraced lifesaving shots.
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Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times
Advanced Shader Delivery uses precompiled shaders for "console-like load times" across PC hardware.
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Your Phone Is an Entire Computer
Article URL: https://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367568 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM
We built an open-source proxy that sits between coding agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc.) and the LLM, compressing tool outputs before they enter the context window. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vFZ6MPrwjw#t=9s . Motivation: Agents are te
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The Accidental Room (2018)
Article URL: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367443 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Why the militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink
Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517766-why-the-worlds-militaries-are-scrambling-to-create-their-own-starlink/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367220 Points: 25 # Comments: 12
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Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave
Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/shanidar-z-face-revealed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366931 Points: 21 # Comments: 8
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The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We'll Be "Stunned" by NSA Under Section 702
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/the-wyden-siren-goes-off-again-well-be-stunned-by-what-the-nsa-is-doing-under-section-702/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366374 Points: 105 # Comments: 23
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Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/13/macbook-neo-runs-windows-11-vm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364729 Points: 36 # Comments: 54