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Rivian sacrifices 2027 profit goal to push deeper into autonomy
Rivian admitted in a regulatory filing that it is delaying its goal of reaching "positive EBITDA" next year because of how much it is spending on developing self-driving technology.
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Alphabet’s X has a new spinout, and it’s going after one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares
Anori aims to shrink the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, onto a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.
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After 25 years, Valve reworks Counter-Strike's reload system
Full-magazine reloads throw out muscle memory in favor of "higher stakes" decisions.
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Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America
Radiocarbon results suggest a single origin and rapid diffusion through cultural transition networks.
Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. (We had a thread last year here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807868 .) Today we're releasing three new models with 80M, 40M and 14
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Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/19/oil-prices-gas-prices-rise-iran-israel-donald-trump Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441351 Points: 44 # Comments: 16
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macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal
One of those 'woke up to MacOS updates' and finding none of my dockers are reachable via dnsmasq (which I use), and low and behold, an update silently breaks custom dns resolution. Hopefully Apple will listen to the bug report I've made. Hold off on
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Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API
Article URL: https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440309 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
The Shape of Inequalities
Article URL: https://www.andreinc.net/2026/03/16/the-shape-of-inequalities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440284 Points: 32 # Comments: 1
Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence
Article URL: https://ramtrack.eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438342 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
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Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/us-news/afroman-found-not-liable-in-bizarre-ohio-defamation-case/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436950 Points: 765 # Comments: 345
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K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute
K2's Gravitas is an ambitious project that aims to demonstrate the tech needed to build data centers in space.
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Tools for founders to navigate and move past conflict
Founders can create frameworks for working through conflict and change when the team is just two or three people, and if done correctly, it can scale with the company.
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Anori, Alphabet’s new X spinout, is tackling one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares
Anori aims to shrink down the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on to a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.