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Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr

In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were places where people could hire freelancers to do specialized creative labor using skills that took years to develop. In the age of generative AI, though, m...

The Verge May 1, 2026 Charles Pulliam-Moore
Technology May 1, 2026

Oura adds birth control support to its period tracker

Oura is launching a new reproductive health feature that takes hormonal contraception into consideration when tracking p...

Technology May 1, 2026

Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debuts

Two launches this week delivered 61 more satellites to orbit for the Amazon Leo broadband netwo...

Technology May 1, 2026

17 Best Graduation Gifts That Aren't Totally Cringe (2026)

From tech to home goods, these giftable gadgets are as practical as they are cool.

Technology May 1, 2026

People are finally using Reddit’s search

The company saw a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thurs...

Technology May 1, 2026

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

Article URL: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973755 Points: 6 # ...

Technology May 1, 2026

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL

Article URL: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47...

Technology May 1, 2026

Show HN: Site Mogging

Hi HN,I've been playing around with Cloudflare's Browser Run and Workers AI to create this funny "website vs website"-w...

Technology May 1, 2026

Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles docu...

Technology May 1, 2026

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology May 1, 2026

Your Website Is Not for You

Article URL: https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology May 1, 2026

There's a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?

In addition to being full of screens, China now wants its cars to be packed with AI. ...

Technology May 1, 2026

What Chef Jon Kung Swears By in the Kitchen (2026)

Plus, their definitive takes on sharpening knives and washing rice.

Technology May 1, 2026

Dyson put someone else’s motor in its robot vacuum

Dyson, a company built on engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn't...

Technology May 1, 2026

Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum

I'm deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It's the company's best robotic floor cleane...

Technology May 1, 2026

Do You Need Aluminum Luggage? (2026): Rimowa, Away, Carl Friedrik

All-metal carry-ons give you the turn-left-on-a-plane look, but are they really worth the cost of a vacation?

Technology May 1, 2026

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-access-to-c...

Technology May 1, 2026

Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk

I've always had the urge to have my two macbooks communicate. Having one idle while working on the other felt like unde...

Technology May 1, 2026

A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025)

Article URL: https://btxx.org/posts/beginners-guide-sourcehut/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973...

Technology May 1, 2026

Soundcore Nebula P1 Projector Review (2026): Compact and Portable for Indoor-Outdoor Viewing

This all-in-one indoor-outdoor projector from Anker is compact, affordable, and water-resistant—but not cinema quality...

Technology May 1, 2026

Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Window...

Technology May 1, 2026

The Rotary Un-Smartphone

Article URL: https://skysedge.com/telecom/RUSP/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972807 P...

Technology May 1, 2026

This Treatment Could Reverse Osteoarthritis Joint Damage With a Single Injection

Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed new therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themse...

Technology May 1, 2026

Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

Article URL: https://github.com/intel/auto-round Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972659 Points: 6 ...

Technology May 1, 2026

This Indigenous Language Survived Russian Occupation. Can It Survive YouTube?

YouTube’s search and recommendation algorithms are driving children to Russian-language content even when they seek ou...

Technology May 1, 2026

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

USB-C cables can be a mess. One cable charges at 5W, another does 100W and Thunderbolt 4, and they look identical in th...

Technology May 1, 2026

Grok 4.3

Article URL: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972447 P...

Technology May 1, 2026

Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine

Article URL: https://lovable.dev/blog/hunting-networking-bugs-in-kubernetes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology May 1, 2026

Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h

Article URL: https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEHpOd8VQ40ZQs-KD81fboQXe...

Technology May 1, 2026

Meta's Big Tobacco PR Tactics

Article URL: https://yadin.com/notes/toasted/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971830 Points: 15 # ...