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Huawei beats Apple and Samsung with new wide foldable

Apple and Samsung have both been strongly linked with plans for foldable phones in a boxy, wide aspect ratio, but it looks like another company will get there first. Huawei has just revealed the desig...

The Verge Apr 13, 2026 Dominic Preston
Technology Apr 13, 2026

Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749126001880 Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business

Kepler Communications is flying 40 GPUs in Earth orbit. And its latest customer is Sophia Space.

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Programming Used to Be Free

Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/programming-used-to-be-free/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The AI Layoff Trap

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748123 Points: 9 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flying Blind

Article URL: https://www.viktorcessan.com/the-economics-of-software-teams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rsdk7i/anybody_here_talking_about_the_massive/ Comments U...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

A Canonical Generalization of OBDD

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05537 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747595 Points: 5 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Kindle users in uproar re: latest update, old devices now unusable: 'Fuck You '

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/tech/kindle-to-cease-support-for-old-devices-causing-user-uproar/ Comments U...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website

Article URL: https://haunt.madebywindmill.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747248 Points: 7 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning

Article URL: https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-how-the-ai-loser-may-end Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746610 Points: 5 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

State of Homelab 2026

Article URL: https://mrlokans.work/posts/state-of-homelab-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

Article URL: https://www.eetimes.com/taking-on-cuda-with-rocm-one-step-after-another/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sam-altman-s-home-targeted-second-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels

Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/tech-valuations-back-to-pre-ai-boom-levels Comments URL: htt...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Inventors Who Didn't Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/us-famous-inventions-inventors-wrong-3d5b0a0f Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

Technology Apr 12, 2026

A Perfectable Programming Language

Article URL: https://alok.github.io/lean-pages/perfectable-lean/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=477...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI

Article URL: https://blog.danielvaughan.com/i-ran-gemma-4-as-a-local-model-in-codex-cli-7fda754dc0d4 Comments URL: http...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

Article URL: https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/single-view/unkartierte-insel-demnaechst-auf-seekarten-verzei...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strike-kills-infant-girl-south-lebanon-during-fathers-fu...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds

Article URL: https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-panels-are-creating-rain-clouds/19854/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-landmark-election-closely-watched-by-eu-russia-us-202...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/europe/hungary-election-orban-magyar.html Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Room for the Moon is thrillingly weird experimental pop

For obvious reasons, I've had Moon on the mind all week. So I was trying to figure out what I should recommend this week...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augment...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

Google Removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/serenityforge.com/post/3mj3r4nbiws2t Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

European AI. A playbook to own it. By Mistral

Article URL: https://europe.mistral.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743700 Points: 35 # Commen...

Technology Apr 12, 2026

The Peril of Laziness Lost

Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...