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DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble

Article URL: https://datacenter.fm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959513 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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Technology Apr 30, 2026

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

Article URL: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958942 Points: 18 ...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution

Article URL: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4795...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Monad Tutorials Timeline

Article URL: https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Lessons from Building an OTel Normalizer for GenAI

Article URL: https://www.groundcover.com/blog/otel-normalizer-genai-part-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO

You need infrastructure to build AI a and robots, but apparently you also need AI and robots to build infrastructure.

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

Article URL: https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4795771...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Where the Goblins Came From

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

Article URL: https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig

Article URL: https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html Comments ...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4795...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Zulip 12.0 Released

Article URL: https://blog.zulip.com/2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust

Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/a-grounded-conceptual-model-for-ownership-types-in-rust/ Comments...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Craig Venter has died

Article URL: https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-genomics-in...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Claude.ai and API Unavailable

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/2gf1jpyty350 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479568...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Claude.ai Down Again?

Please run /login · API Error: 403 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"permission_error","message":"Account is no longer ...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos with Historic JFK Flight

Article URL: https://www.flyingmag.com/joby-nyc-electric-air-taxi-jfk-airport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

PhonePe and Google Pay command 80% of India's UPI instant payments network. Rivals are set to meet with regulators to lo...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Mike: open-source legal AI

Article URL: https://mikeoss.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956739 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending

The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do s...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B

The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, ac...

Technology Apr 30, 2026

Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk

About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympa...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets

Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal

Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit i...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’

Tensions flared on the third day of trial in Musk v. Altman as OpenAI’s lawyers cross-examined Musk.

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it

Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said on Wednesday that the number of users a...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

View transactions sent to a Monero address

Article URL: https://localmonero.co/blocks/search/47xmhbRuYpSYSrVZx2RsPBhaAQByZq3ucAT6ULxHvDAu8c853ErpLHqBdDmpVzcmWFdZF...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

> Be Alexandra Elbakyan

Article URL: https://nitter.space/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049057344013881523#m Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...