Technology

The Department of Labor’s Faith Leader Is Now Also in Charge of Its Civil Rights Enforcement

Kenneth Wolfe organized the Department of Labor’s controversial prayer services before he was quietly appointed to lead a major agency office.

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Technology May 21, 2026

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

Author here. RMUX started from a frustration: I've used tmux for years and got tired of scraping output with grep and s...

Technology May 21, 2026

Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments

Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they've been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for...

Technology May 21, 2026

The Best Home Security System Is Modular (2026)

I’ve had SimpliSafe’s modular, no-contract setup for nearly a decade, and adding on to it has been a cinch.

Technology May 21, 2026

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that h...

Technology May 21, 2026

The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-o3-geoguessr-prompt-did-not-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology May 21, 2026

Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an AI Growth Engineer (Zurich or Remote)

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/typewise/jobs/HmCzfBK-ai-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news....

Technology May 21, 2026

Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul

Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482190...

Technology May 21, 2026

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech

France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickl...

Technology May 21, 2026

General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India’s travel payments market

Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal d...

Technology May 21, 2026

Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering

Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with partic...

Technology May 21, 2026

In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factor

The SpaceX IPO is here, and it's more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world's first ...

Technology May 21, 2026

OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/openai-ipo-filing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 21, 2026

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

Article URL: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-2026-update/14136 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology May 21, 2026

What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one

Article URL: https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482...

Technology May 21, 2026

SpaceX Listed Grok's ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing

The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complain...

Technology May 21, 2026

Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/ Comments URL: ht...

Technology May 21, 2026

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia

The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.

Technology May 21, 2026

Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter

Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.

Technology May 20, 2026

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth [pdf]

Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 20, 2026

I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

Article URL: https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215979 Point...

Technology May 20, 2026

SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers

The investment comes as Elon Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big...

Technology May 20, 2026

Deep – CLI/REPL for generating and iterating on codebases using DeepSeek

Article URL: https://github.com/cynchro/deepseekCLI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215654 Points:...

Technology May 20, 2026

Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time

"We believe we have identified the largest TAM in human history."

Technology May 20, 2026

DOS Zone

Article URL: https://dos.zone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Technology May 20, 2026

Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral

The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.

Technology May 20, 2026

xAI burned $6.4B last year. SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first...

Technology May 20, 2026

Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43 billion of holdings in startups

Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would...

Technology May 20, 2026

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated pl...

Technology May 20, 2026

Trump admin didn't want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague

Officials denied refusing entry, but dodged questions on why Americans didn't return. ...