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$25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options

Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so.

Ars Technica Apr 17, 2026 Jonathan M. Gitlin
Technology Apr 17, 2026

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder

Article URL: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon Comments ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction

Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows. ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetiz...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/NeoGeo-AES-SNK-announces-reissue-of-retro-console-without-emulation-11262319....

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to expl...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer

"The world that was, doesn't exist. It's just us, trying to hold onto what was." ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. Whit...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

Article URL: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808268 Points...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

Zoom will show a badge on verified participants' tile.

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder

Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks

Article URL: https://strangelyentangled.com/blog/musings-80s-hardware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/TcEa3b5-head-of-engineering Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion

"I've been thinking about reentry for three straight years."

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, mem...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

Article URL: https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807809 Points...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

Article URL: https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

Prices for "critical components" are surging because of massive data center investments. ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

I'm spending 3 months coding the old way

Article URL: https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why

The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provid...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box

Article URL: https://datagirl.xyz/posts/dos_inside_the_box.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Our new favorite budget phones

Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, w...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

The best budget smartphones you can buy

Some of us take a kind of “eat to live” rather than a “live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that he...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

NASA Force

Article URL: https://nasaforce.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807209 Points: 22 # Comments: ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-th...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session

Article URL: https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you Comments U...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant

Article URL: https://gregorio-project.github.io/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806899 ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Slop Cop

Article URL: https://awnist.com/slop-cop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806845 Points: 40 # Comme...