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OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund

Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.

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Gas prices aren’t the only factor fueling used EV sales

There are a growing number of reasons why used EVs have gained in popularity.

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OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek

OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.

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Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be "swaps," exempt from state laws

Court rules US preempts states from applying gambling laws to prediction markets.

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Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science

Congress rejected huge cuts to science in 2026, but Trump is trying again.

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“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO

OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.

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Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

Article URL: https://github.com/kitfunso/hippo-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667672 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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NYC Families Need over $125,000 in Income to Live in Any Borough

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-06/nyc-families-need-over-125-000-in-income-to-live-in-any-borough Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667459 Points: 14 # Comments: 5

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Ah, peptides. where to begin?

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ah-peptides-where-begin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667321 Points: 31 # Comments: 14

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HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667011 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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Root Persistence via macOS Recovery Mode Safari

Article URL: https://yaseenghanem.com/recovery-unrestricted-write-access/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666767 Points: 15 # Comments: 10

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A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days

Article URL: https://photon.codes/blog/we-found-a-ticking-time-bomb-in-macos-tcp-networking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666488 Points: 92 # Comments: 57

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Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

I built this because I wanted to see how far I could get with a voice-to-text app that used 100% local models so no data left my computer. I've been using a ton for coding and emails. Experimenting with using it as a voice interface for my other agen

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Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting

TrueType fonts have a hinting VM that grid-fits glyphs. It has a stack, storage area, conditionals, function calls, and it turns out it's Turing-complete. So I built a raycasting engine in the hinting bytecode. The glyph "A" in the font has 16 vertic

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SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines

Article URL: http://som-st.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665207 Points: 11 # Comments: 0