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The best Star Wars Day deals

May the Fourth be with us all on this Star Wars Day. While things have been relatively quiet with the multimedia gold mine that is Star Wars, with just some murmurs about upcoming movies (The Mandalor...

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Technology May 4, 2026

AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.

Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.

Technology May 4, 2026

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-round...

Technology May 4, 2026

Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/922877/homebridge-2-0-matter-update-robot-vacuums Comments URL: https://news...

Technology May 4, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.

Technology May 4, 2026

GitHub Is Down

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/72q3n8yxthcy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480...

Technology May 4, 2026

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

Article URL: https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology May 4, 2026

Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster

Article URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/11828244/alberta-voter-list-leak-public-safety-disaster/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology May 4, 2026

As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control

Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderat...

Technology May 4, 2026

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983 Points: 25 ...

Technology May 4, 2026

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/ Comments URL: https://n...

Technology May 4, 2026

Amazon’s trying to turn its massive shipping operation into another AWS

Amazon might have a part in delivering all kinds of stuff to your door soon, as its massive shipping network opens up to...

Technology May 4, 2026

I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months

Article URL: https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009747 Points: 22 # Com...

Technology May 4, 2026

Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

Article URL: https://www.ecopv-eu.com/en/blog-en/replaceable-smartphone-batteries-2027-eu-regulation/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology May 4, 2026

Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started. ...

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Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

Article URL: https://pomiferous.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009441 Points: 4 # Comments: ...

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DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian's Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts

Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn't entered the US in more than a decade—followin...

Technology May 4, 2026

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health ...

Technology May 4, 2026

Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI

Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. It’s become something of an annual tradition to have Dara join u...

Technology May 4, 2026

Tesla hits Musk’s threshold for ‘safe unsupervised’ driving

We've crossed yet another one of Elon Musk's self-driving thresholds. Tesla's fleet of vehicles using the company's Full...

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Redis array: short story of a long development process

Article URL: https://antirez.com/news/164 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009172 Points: 3 # Comme...

Technology May 4, 2026

Amazon opens up its global logistics network to all businesses

The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx.

Technology May 4, 2026

How Monero's proof of work works

Article URL: https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros-proof-of-work-works Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology May 4, 2026

Exclusive: Metalenz Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible

Metalenz’s Polar ID face-scanning technology works even when the camera is hidden under the display.

Technology May 4, 2026

5 days only: Bring a partner or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass

The BOGO offer is live. For a limited time, buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the ...

Technology May 4, 2026

GameStop makes $56 billion offer to acquire eBay

GameStop has made an offer to acquire eBay for $56 billion, which comes as part of GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's plan to tra...

Technology May 4, 2026

Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms

Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill. ...

Technology May 4, 2026

Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-bets-155312...

Technology May 4, 2026

MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

Computational model lets users tweak parameters to hear effect on the sound in early design pro...

Technology May 4, 2026

Doordash adds AI tools to speed up merchant onboarding, edit photos of dishes

DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look be...