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Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch
Spy satellite hardware has been repurposed to scan the Universe in the infrared.
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Introducing GPT-5.5
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 Points: 143 # Comments: 32
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905 Points: 76 # Comments: 43
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People Do Not Yearn for Automation
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878737 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
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Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878633 Points: 56 # Comments: 35
'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet
Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/23/hairdryer-used-trick-weather-sensor-34000-polymarket-bet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878208 Points: 142 # Comments: 114
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MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
Article URL: https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117 Points: 32 # Comments: 13
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Incident with Multple GitHub Services
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877644 Points: 86 # Comments: 49
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If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877429 Points: 170 # Comments: 312
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French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offers-to-sell-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877366 Points: 274 # Comments: 95
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I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable
Article URL: https://tenphi.me/blog/why-i-spent-years-trying-to-make-css-states-predictable/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875025 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants
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Meta is revamping its cross-app management system
Meta's Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experience on various Meta apps and devices.
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X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam
X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.
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Salmon raises $100M in equity and debt to bring digital credit to underbanked Filipinos
Salmon is targeting underbanked Filipinos, with little to no credit history, as well as people unhappy with the incumbent lenders' reliability issues.