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Sony’s PS5 sales plummet amid price rises and a memory crisis

Sony sold just 1.5 million PS5 consoles in its most recent fourth fiscal quarter, down 46 percent year over year. The slump in PS5 sales comes after Sony raised the price of its PS5 consoles twice ove...

The Verge • May 8, 2026 • Tom Warren
Technology May 8, 2026

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and oth...

Technology May 8, 2026

Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices

Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 console globally, "in light of changes in market conditions," and is now f...

Technology May 8, 2026

Meet Rassvet, Russia’s Answer to Starlink

With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims to ...

Technology May 8, 2026

Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

I know what you're thinking... and I still can't believe it, but...This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID ...

Technology May 8, 2026

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

Article URL: https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059...

Technology May 8, 2026

QBE – Compiler Back End

Article URL: https://c9x.me/compile/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059633 Points: 21 # Comments:...

Technology May 8, 2026

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

Article URL: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology May 8, 2026

HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker

Article URL: https://hantawatch.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058917 Points: 5 # Comments: ...

Technology May 8, 2026

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to ...

Technology May 8, 2026

Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

Article URL: https://github.com/graemeg/blaise Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058644 Points: 6 # ...

Technology May 8, 2026

Why you can never get your doctor to call you back

Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about whe...

Technology May 8, 2026

Agentic Engineering

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/agentic-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480585...

Technology May 8, 2026

US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/passports-unpaid-child-support-penalty-state-department-42d90cfa8a06ee349bb9145...

Technology May 8, 2026

Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1066418/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058337 Points: 6 # ...

Technology May 8, 2026

AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026-05-07https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/aws-warns-of......

Technology May 8, 2026

Evaluating Geekbench 6

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating-geekbench-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480...

Technology May 8, 2026

Mojo 1.0 Beta

Article URL: https://mojolang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901 Points: 21 # Comments: 2...

Technology May 8, 2026

Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI

Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails...

Technology May 8, 2026

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/announcements/gpt55-cost-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 8, 2026

Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

Article URL: https://etke.cc/blog/introducing-komai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056804 Points:...

Technology May 8, 2026

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

Article URL: https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056749 Poi...

Technology May 7, 2026

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-men-as-wome...

Technology May 7, 2026

Ramp in talks to hit $40B+ valuation, 6 months after reaching $32B

The company is reportedly in talks to raise another $750 million at a pre-money valuation of more than $40 billion. It l...

Technology May 7, 2026

Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain

Article URL: https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-human-brain ...

Technology May 7, 2026

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805...

Technology May 7, 2026

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

Article URL: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-bil...

Technology May 7, 2026

OpenClaw Had a Rough Week

Article URL: https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-rough-week Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056003 P...

Technology May 7, 2026

OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API

The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a ...

Technology May 7, 2026

Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...