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RFK Jr. plans to curb antidepressants, which he falsely compares to heroin
Kennedy has made—and continues to make—many false claims about SSRIs.
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May 5, 2026
What five years of data tells us about lasting relationships
Article URL: https://hanker.dating/study Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027022 Points: 6 # Commen...
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May 5, 2026
What makes a good smartphone camera?
Article URL: https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...
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May 5, 2026
Threads finally brings messaging to the web
By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bl...
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May 5, 2026
Threads is finally getting DMs on the web
Nearly a year after rolling out Threads direct messaging to everyone on mobile, Meta is finally bringing the feature to ...
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May 5, 2026
California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php Comments URL: https:/...
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May 5, 2026
Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (M...
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May 5, 2026
Airbnb co-founder taps Peter Arnell as first US chief brand architect
Arnell joins Gebbia’s National Design Studio under Trump to unify UX across 27,000 federal sites and streamline how Am...
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May 5, 2026
Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-sc...
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May 5, 2026
Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarify-npp-trademark-infringement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...
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May 5, 2026
GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026021 Points: 3 # C...
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May 5, 2026
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor
According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state in...
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May 5, 2026
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC)
Article URL: https://www.nsa.gov/Cybersecurity/Quantum-Key-Distribution-QKD-and-Quantum-Cryptography-QC/ Comments URL: ...
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May 5, 2026
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...
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May 5, 2026
Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls
Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp. ...
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May 5, 2026
Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150 million Twitter lawsuit for $1.5 million
SEC alleged Musk's late disclosure cheated Twitter investors out of $150 million. ...
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May 5, 2026
Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring- 200k for junior engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://new...
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May 5, 2026
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
The new GPT-5.5 Instant model will replace GPT-3.5 Instant as the default model for ChatGPT
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May 5, 2026
OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem f...
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May 5, 2026
Meta sued by major book publishers over copyright infringement
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engage...
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May 5, 2026
Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. A...
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May 5, 2026
Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs
Article URL: https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/ Comments URL: https://new...
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May 5, 2026
From Alan Shepard to Artemis, celebrating 65 years of Americans in space
On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped...
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May 5, 2026
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/ Comments...
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May 5, 2026
UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly
Article URL: https://www.smmt.co.uk/two-millionth-electric-car-registered-as-market-rebounds-strongly-from-tax-changes/...
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May 5, 2026
I'm Scared About Biological Computing
Article URL: https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing Comments URL: https://news.y...
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May 5, 2026
The new AirPods Max 2 are already on sale for $40 off
In terms of pricing, the original AirPods Max remained stubbornly high even years after their debut, which made them h...
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May 5, 2026
PayPal says it’s ‘becoming a technology company again.’ That means AI.
PayPal is pitching an AI-led turnaround, tying automation and restructuring to $1.5B in savings as it cuts jobs and work...
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May 5, 2026
Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/psa-instagram-encrypted-messaging-ends-may-8/ Comments URL: https://n...
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May 5, 2026
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129 Po...