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Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals
The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting one of the its key clean power goals at risk.
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Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura before they go public.
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Inkscape 1.4.4
Article URL: https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040622 Points: 32 # Comments: 1
Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model
Article URL: https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040002 Points: 21 # Comments: 5
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BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 144 # Comments: 189
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Proton Meet
Article URL: https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039674 Points: 49 # Comments: 11
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SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags
Article URL: https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038750 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
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Life During Class Wartime
Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038307 Points: 43 # Comments: 6
Appearing productive in the workplace
Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001 Points: 326 # Comments: 111
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Ted Turner has died
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037009 Points: 138 # Comments: 97
Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit
Article URL: https://www.coveragecat.com/careers/engineering/fractional-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035223 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
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DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases
U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft.
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AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys
Braintrust, a startup that makes an “operating system for engineers building AI software,” notified customers that hackers broke into one of its Amazon cloud environments, and is asking customers to rotate their API keys.
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SpaceX may spend up to $119B on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
The project would be a "multi-phase, next-generation, vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing and advanced computing fabrication facility," according to the proposal.