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Monday, 11 May 2026
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Show HN: Out Plane – A PaaS I built solo from Istanbul in 3 months
Hey HN, I posted Out Plane here last week. Wanted to share an update because I've been shipping a lot. I started this because deploying side projects was killing my motivation. Build something fun over a weekend, then waste two days on Dockerfiles, n
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Samsung Upcycle Promise
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-promised-make-old-phones-useful-galaxy-upcycle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125263 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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Conduent data breach grows, affecting at least 25M people
The number of people affected by a data breach at government contractor giant Conduent is growing, as millions of people continue to receive notices warning them that hackers stole their personal data.
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Mogul says it has tracked $1.5B in music royalties, raised $5M in funding
Mogul, which helps artists track royalties and value their catalogs, raised $5 million in a round led by the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund.
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It’s time to pull the plug on plug-in hybrids
Plug-in hybrid vehicles are rarely charged, according to a new study. Why are automakers still producing them?
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New Relic launches new AI agent platform and OpenTelemetry tools
New Relic is giving enterprises more observability tools, letting them create and manage AI agents, and better integrate OTel data streams.
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Waymo robotaxis are now operating in 10 US cities
Waymo launched services today in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando.
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Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data
Nimble uses AI agents to search the web, verify and validate the results, and then clean and structure the information into neat tables that can then be queried like a database.
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Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/goodbye-innerhtml-hello-sethtml-stronger-xss-protection-in-firefox-148/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136611 Points: 59 # Comments: 15
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xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/ai-defense-department-deal-musk-xai-grok Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136477 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136036 Points: 27 # Comments: 7
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Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r
Article URL: https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/decimal-java Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134779 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/making-wolfram-tech-available-as-a-foundation-tool-for-llm-systems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129727 Points: 192 # Comments: 107
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
We returned to MIT last month to teach a revised version of Missing Semester, six years after the original debut (which has been extensively discussed on HN, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226380 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34
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Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123689 Points: 308 # Comments: 168