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Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

Hi HN! We're Haakam, Michael, and Adi from AgentMail- a ycs25 company. We give AI agents their own email inboxes. Recently, we ran an experiment called Agent.Email. It's a signup flow designed specifically for AI agents instead of humans. The inspira

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Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

Article URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/spotify-will-start-reserving-concert-tickets-for-superfans-1236603106/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225357 Points: 37 # Comments: 73

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Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet). The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River

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Google's Antigravity bait and switch

Article URL: https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529 Points: 409 # Comments: 221

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Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6443103 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221877 Points: 104 # Comments: 95

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Convective Capital raises an $85 million fund to build disaster resilience

After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience.

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Trump delays AI security executive order: ‘I don’t want to get in the way of that leading’

President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.

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This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century

Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.

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Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive ‘universal’ AI interface

Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those sys

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Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1B valuation with KKR backing

Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.

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Top Gun turns 40

Tony Scott's 1986 blockbuster and the 2022 sequel are the best recruitment tools the US Navy could hope for.

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Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again

"This further confirms the wisdom of the current policy of retiring the ISS in 2030."

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Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

Article URL: https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226588 Points: 91 # Comments: 18

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Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

Article URL: https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226038 Points: 40 # Comments: 12

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ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225852 Points: 0 # Comments: 0