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Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.

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Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain

Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.

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Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine

Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.

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Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

ohai! I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers. It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation,

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Google Flow Music

Article URL: https://www.flowmusic.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895765 Points: 8 # Comments: 2

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Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks

I've been using Anthropic's hook features [0] since they were introduced. It allows me to inject determinism into my workflows. This worked perfectly until 4.7. Now, Claude routinely ignores the hook rules. For example, I have a stop hook that preven

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TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment

Article URL: https://gdm-tipsv2.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894734 Points: 12 # Comments: 1

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Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?

Article URL: https://driggsby.com/blog/claude-code-routine-watch-my-finances Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894690 Points: 48 # Comments: 60

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Show HN: HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments

Article URL: https://github.com/adam-s/HNswered Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894638 Points: 8 # Comments: 5

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Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074 Points: 91 # Comments: 183

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I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support

Article URL: https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892019 Points: 702 # Comments: 408

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X-energy stock pops 27% on first day of trading following upsized IPO

Investors flocked to nuclear power startup X-energy in its first day of public trading on the Nasdaq.

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ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.

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X launches stand-alone XChat app on iOS

X's new app promises private chats, disappearing messages, audio and video calls, and more.

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FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features

FCC defines consumer routers expansively, updates FAQ to include Wi-Fi hotspots.