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AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s congressional bid

A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation. New York's Alex Bores, a former tech executive himself, is one of them.

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What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes

Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.

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CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/03/cia-saudi-arabia-drone-attack-iran/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239512 Points: 12 # Comments: 2

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Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language

Article URL: https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239042 Points: 17 # Comments: 4

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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell

Article URL: https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238279 Points: 23 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter

Built this because people working with large document sets had no free tool that handled batch processing cleanly. Tesseract is free and runs locally. For anything that needs more accuracy — Google Vision, Gemini, or any OpenRouter model — you bring

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Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237692 Points: 121 # Comments: 30

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An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)

Article URL: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237460 Points: 53 # Comments: 8

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Payment fees matter more than you think

Article URL: https://cuencahighlife.com/why-payment-fees-matter-more-than-you-think/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236582 Points: 79 # Comments: 47

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When AI writes the software, who verifies it?

Article URL: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234917 Points: 77 # Comments: 56

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ChatGPT’s new GPT-5.3 Instant model will stop telling you to calm down

The company says the new model will reduce the "cringe" that's been annoying its users for months.

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Anduril aims at $60 billion valuation in new funding round

The funding round would come less than a year after Anduril's Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion valuation.

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Claude Code rolls out a voice mode capability

Anthropic is stepping up its game in the AI coding space with the rollout of Voice Mode in Claude Code.

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Android users can now share tracker tag info with airlines to help locate lost luggage

More than 10 global airlines now accept Find Hub locations as part of their baggage recovery process.

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X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of ‘armed conflict’

Creators who break the rules will get a three-month suspension, and if they continue to violate the policy, they'll be permanently banned.