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Travel app Hopper to pay $35M in FTC settlement over ‘unfairly’ charging hidden fees

Hopper will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive “dark patterns” to hide fees and mislead travelers about the cost and benefits of services.

TechCrunch • Jul 2, 2026 • Lauren Forristal
Technology Jul 2, 2026

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/co-locating-workflow-state-with-your-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/73125 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Vulkan is now available on NetBSD

Article URL: https://github.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765607 Point...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Cries Foul

One of Kalshi’s most prominent traders tells WIRED he’s swearing off Spotify-related markets until the issue is reso...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Weber marks down grills and griddles to their best prices ever for July 4th

If our recent Decoder interview with Weber Blackstone CEO Roger Dahle has you craving freshly grilled meats or veggies, ...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?

Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Boeing-owned Wisk Aero accused of firing manager who raised safety concerns

A former software manager claims Wisk rushed software testing ahead of a crucial 2025 flight test.

Technology Jul 2, 2026

FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet

New US rules would legalize quiet supersonic flights without the sonic boom. ...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready?

I have not seen anyone put out a date for a new rocket, and actually hit it. ...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Show HN: QUALITY.md – open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI

Hello all, I created QUALITY.md to help build a holistic quality evaluation process for my projects. Turns out it's als...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

EU Court of Justice allows criminal prosecution for reposting RT videos

Article URL: https://tass.com/world/2154415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763962 Points: 6 # Com...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250

Plex is pushing customers to newer features and more frequent payments.

Technology Jul 2, 2026

The video game disc is dead

For decades, to be a gamer was to accumulate a lot of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that ne...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Africa CDC confirms Marburg case in Uganda as Ebola outbreak rages

Early reports indicate there may be another case, but spread is thought to be localized. ...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone

Article URL: https://theguptalog.blogspot.com/2026/07/former-microsoft-dev-built-25kb-notepad.html Comments URL: https:...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

Article URL: https://moeonmargin.substack.com/p/the-us-government-is-now-a-shareholder Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense

Article URL: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html#toc_wd2bm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

The DEA Plans to Ban Opioid-Like Kratom Compound 7-OH

The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called "gas station heroin," as a controll...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion

The EU went after Google for the practice of bundling its search engine and browser with Androi...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine

Coding agents don't have long-term memory.But you do have months of full-fidelity agent transcripts stored on your mach...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Influencer screenings aren’t going away

For a few days, it seemed like Universal decided that there would be no advanced screenings of Christopher Nolan's The O...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1079001/67840550991151ed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Show HN: ZkGolf

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) let an untrusted proved show that computation was executed correctly without revealing the...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices

Article URL: https://kendal.codeberg.page/inkwell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763222 Points: ...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Melinda Gates’ venture firm backs Magnify Ventures’ $46.6M Fund II

Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised a $46.6 million Fund II from LPs including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal ...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviv...