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Rivian sacrifices 2027 profit goal to push deeper into autonomy

Rivian admitted in a regulatory filing that it is delaying its goal of reaching "positive EBITDA" next year because of how much it is spending on developing self-driving technology.

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Alphabet’s X has a new spinout, and it’s going after one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares

Anori aims to shrink the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, onto a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.

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After 25 years, Valve reworks Counter-Strike's reload system

Full-magazine reloads throw out muscle memory in favor of "higher stakes" decisions.

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Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America

Radiocarbon results suggest a single origin and rapid diffusion through cultural transition networks.

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Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. (We had a thread last year here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807868 .) Today we're releasing three new models with 80M, 40M and 14

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Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/19/oil-prices-gas-prices-rise-iran-israel-donald-trump Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441351 Points: 44 # Comments: 16

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macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

One of those 'woke up to MacOS updates' and finding none of my dockers are reachable via dnsmasq (which I use), and low and behold, an update silently breaks custom dns resolution. Hopefully Apple will listen to the bug report I've made. Hold off on

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Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API

Article URL: https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440309 Points: 13 # Comments: 5

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The Shape of Inequalities

Article URL: https://www.andreinc.net/2026/03/16/the-shape-of-inequalities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440284 Points: 32 # Comments: 1

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Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence

Article URL: https://ramtrack.eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438342 Points: 10 # Comments: 3

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Afroman found not liable in defamation case

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/us-news/afroman-found-not-liable-in-bizarre-ohio-defamation-case/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436950 Points: 765 # Comments: 345

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K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute

K2's Gravitas is an ambitious project that aims to demonstrate the tech needed to build data centers in space.

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Tools for founders to navigate and move past conflict

Founders can create frameworks for working through conflict and change when the team is just two or three people, and if done correctly, it can scale with the company.

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Anori, Alphabet’s new X spinout, is tackling one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares

Anori aims to shrink down the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on to a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.

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Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise

Cloaked's latest round is a mix of equity and growth funding.