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

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

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Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets

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Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

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Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool

Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year

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Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes to Twitch to chat with New Yorkers

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.

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Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

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US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms

Beneficiaries include startup backed by firm with links to the Trump family.

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Plug-in hybrids get plugged in more than you might think

Toyota is the latest automaker to report PHEV charging stats, and they're encouraging.

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Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

Hey HN, We're Gus and Carlos from Runtime ( https://runtm.com ). We're building infra that lets your whole team (including non-engineers) ship with Claude Code, Codex, and other agents without engineering having to handhold every session. After Mentu

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We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

Article URL: https://rivet.dev/blog/2026-02-04-we-reverse-engineered-docker-sandbox-undocumented-microvm-api/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223693 Points: 12 # Comments: 0

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Michael Keating has died

Article URL: https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/michael-keating-1947-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223303 Points: 43 # Comments: 22

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Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145029/get-your-passwords-out-of-bitwarden-while-you-still-can/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223258 Points: 107 # Comments: 66

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Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

Article URL: https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733 Points: 57 # Comments: 19

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Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

Hi everyone, I am Bojta Lepenye, and first of all, I want to thank the core developers of Hashcat. In my experience, it is quite literally the most capable tool available for offline password cracking across a wide range of use cases. I have spent th