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Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age

A new generation of satellite startups in San Francisco is racing to capitalize on recent technological breakthroughs in space-based data collection and communications.

Wired • May 4, 2026 • Paresh Dave
Technology May 4, 2026

Dating Is a Rich Person’s Game Now

The problem isn’t just the apps. People actually can’t afford to date anymore.

Technology May 4, 2026

Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision

Article URL: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/8-million-thermos-jars-bottles-recalled-after-3-132568152 ...

Technology May 4, 2026

The Best Star Wars Gifts for Everyone, From Padawans to Jedi Masters (2026)

These are the best Star Wars gifts in the galaxy for everyone, from Padawan fans to Jedi masters.

Technology May 4, 2026

Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI

The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs ov...

Technology May 4, 2026

Midori, the first browser to offer a VPN with Mesh technology

Article URL: https://astian.org/midori-en/performance-adblock-and-more-in-midori-11-7-1/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology May 4, 2026

Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages with Navigations for Interactions

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-html-pages/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480...

Technology May 4, 2026

Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide

Article URL: https://www.firgelli.com/pages/humanoid-robot-actuators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 4, 2026

Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260502233911.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology May 4, 2026

We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse

Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "foundin...

Technology May 3, 2026

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

Article URL: https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility Comments URL: https:...

Technology May 3, 2026

Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTPv4sI_Jc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002839 Po...

Technology May 3, 2026

Let's Buy Spirit Air

Article URL: https://letsbuyspiritair.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777 Points: 44 # Com...

Technology May 3, 2026

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

Article URL: https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 3, 2026

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

Article URL: https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 3, 2026

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper

Article URL: https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136 Points:...

Technology May 3, 2026

Introduction to Atom

Article URL: https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002089 P...

Technology May 3, 2026

‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art

The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."

Technology May 3, 2026

Make Your Own Microforest

Article URL: https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology May 3, 2026

Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"

Article URL: https://guessingheadlights.com/colorado-grandma-keeps-getting-pulled-over-because-police-cameras-cannot-te...

Technology May 3, 2026

Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-f...

Technology May 3, 2026

Why TUIs Are Back

Article URL: https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 3, 2026

The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left

Article URL: https://death-of-scrum.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999880 Points: 24 # Comme...

Technology May 3, 2026

Talking to Transformers

Article URL: https://miraos.org/blog/2026/05/02/talking-to-transformers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 3, 2026

How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-kepler-built-verifiable-ai-for-financial-services-with-claude Comments URL: ht...

Technology May 3, 2026

Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

Article URL: https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999656 ...

Technology May 3, 2026

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

Article URL: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999...

Technology May 3, 2026

In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate diagnoses than emergency room doctors

A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room c...

Technology May 3, 2026

LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction

Article URL: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap15/content.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999520...

Technology May 3, 2026

I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999460 Po...