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The new Razr Ultra is still the best-looking phone out there

Look, you're not going to find much new on the 2026 version of the Motorola Razr Ultra. There's a new main camera sensor, a slightly bigger battery, and a higher price: $1,499, up from $1,299. But one...

The Verge • Apr 29, 2026 • Allison Johnson
Technology Apr 29, 2026

Motorola just revealed the Razr Fold’s price and hoo boy

2026 is shaping up to be a tough year to launch a high-end phone. The memory crisis has phone prices rising across the b...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Professional school grads from diverse classes get higher salaries

Study authors say courts should reconsider rulings in light of this new evidence. ...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Shrdlu

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950156 Points: 1...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Online age verification is the hill to die on

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

Article URL: https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Microsoft is giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants everyone to know: "We are Xbox." Just last week, she scrapped Microsoft Gaming as the name of...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Cursor Camp

Article URL: https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949939 Points: 39 # Com...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-war-iran-has-cost-25-billion-so-far-says-pentagon-official-20...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

I built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase

Article URL: https://www.metabase.com/blog/ten-custom-subagents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Roku’s $3 streaming service, Howdy, reaches 1M subs, per recent report

Roku’s $2.99 streaming service Howdy has topped 1M subscribers, showing demand for cheaper, low-commitment alternative...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them Comments URL: https...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Mistral Medium 3.5

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

What can we gain by losing infinity?

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-we-gain-by-losing-infinity-20260429/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

The best deals we found during Amazon’s Gaming Week

Amazon’s annual Gaming Week is bringing discounts on video games, accessories, and PC components through May 4th. This...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

Article URL: https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-broke-postgresql Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Uber is in the hotel business now, thanks in part to AI

Uber announced several new features on Wednesday during its annual event, which push far beyond the company's original r...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/making-ai-chatbots-more-friendly-mistakes-support-false...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

How Trump Weaponized the DOJ Division That Kept Elections Fair

The Trump administration has effectively forced out more than two dozen experienced lawyers from the DOJ's Voting Sectio...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Google TV is getting a dedicated row for YouTube Shorts

Google is making it easier to jump into watching YouTube Shorts on its TV devices without having to open the dedicated Y...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Uber adds hotels to its app in big travel swing

Open Uber's app and you'll see options to hail a car, order some food, or go grocery shopping. And starting today, you'l...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Tumbler Ridge families sue OpenAI for not alerting police to the suspect’s ChatGPT activity

Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against O...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

Article URL: https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949204 Points: 8...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

ChatGPT downloads are slowing — and may cause problems for OpenAI’s IPO

ChatGPT is struggling to keep up its once-explosive growth as users uninstall the app or opt for rival chatbots instead....

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Zed is 1.0

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949027 Points: 97 # Comm...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

The keyboard used to score Dune 2 is getting more affordable

Expressive E is making its Osmose MPE keyboard (comparatively) more affordable by ditching the synthesizer and making it...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Apple loses bid to pause App Store fee changes as case heads to Supreme Court

Apple lost its bid to pause court-ordered App Store payment changes, keeping external purchase links in place as its cas...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948664 Po...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Tangled – We need a federation of forges

Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/federation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948603 Points: 6...

Technology Apr 29, 2026

Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails

Manufacturers backed effort to repeal the law but ultimately failed.