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Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitable
Car sales are up, battery sales and emissions credits are down.
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How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.
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Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead
Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers.
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RFK Jr. won't back CDC director on vaccines as agency scraps positive data
Kennedy's tesimony sets up another clash over vaccines with next CDC director.
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You want your Moon landings in HD? So does NASA—here's how it's happening.
"You just push this button, and in three hours, you're counting photons."
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The Neon King of New Orleans
Article URL: https://gardenandgun.com/new-orleans-neon-king Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869496 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher-priest-and-nina-allan-review-an-unconventional-portrait-of-jg-ballard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868832 Points: 30 # Comments: 7
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Parallel agents in Zed
Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866750 Points: 119 # Comments: 68
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Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661 Points: 154 # Comments: 28
Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-players-2026-04-22/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864785 Points: 39 # Comments: 33
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NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission shows space-to-Earth laser comms can scale
Observable Space and Quantum Wave teamed up to capture data beamed back from space.
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How SpaceX preempted a $2B fundraise with a $60B buyout offer
Cursor was on track to close a $2 billion funding round this week but chose to halt discussions after SpaceX offered a $10 billion "collaboration fee" and a path to a $60 billion acquisition.
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France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs
The French government agency that issues and manages national IDs, passports, and other documents announced that hackers stole the personal information of an unspecified number of citizens.
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Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.
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From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?
We wanted to show you what happens after the confetti falls. We checked in with some of our recent alumni, many of whom have sat down with us on Build Mode: The Founder Survival Guide, TechCrunch's podcast for founders at every stage.