FACTFLOW

Tech

5 days only: Bring a partner or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass

The BOGO offer is live. For a limited time, buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Offer ends this Friday, May 8. Save here.

Tech

Barocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals

Barocal might have discovered a cheap, nonpolluting material that could dethrone today's refrigeration technology.

Tech

Doordash adds AI tools to speed up merchant onboarding, edit photos of dishes

DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create new websites from existing content.

Tech

Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms

Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

Tech

MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

Computational model lets users tweak parameters to hear effect on the sound in early design process.

Tech

Study: AI models that consider users' feelings are more likely to make errors

Overtuning can cause models to "prioritize user satisfaction over truthfulness.”

Tech

Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-bets-155312411.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008326 Points: 37 # Comments: 7

Tech

PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out

Article URL: https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/releases/tag/v3.8.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008083 Points: 47 # Comments: 20

Tech

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008074 Points: 36 # Comments: 7

Tech

Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/polymarket-kalshi-betting-profits-prediction-markets-eb23ac11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007503 Points: 21 # Comments: 12

Tech

Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym

Article URL: https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007438 Points: 260 # Comments: 100

Tech

Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?

Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.

Tech

ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is

Article URL: https://www.siliconimist.com/p/asmls-best-selling-product Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007145 Points: 54 # Comments: 23

Tech

World's biggest RC A380 [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9YLGbhxng Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988781 Points: 32 # Comments: 4

Tech

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

Article URL: https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983467 Points: 11 # Comments: 1