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WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, put it is mainly cosmetic

WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year

TechCrunch • Apr 20, 2026 • Ivan Mehta
Technology Apr 20, 2026

Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record

An autonomous scarlet robot named "Lightning" finished a 13-mile race in Beijing on Sunday in just 50 minutes and 26 sec...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2046249571882500354 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

A printing press for biological data

Article URL: https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-printing-press-for-biological Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power upstart Fermi

The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.

Technology Apr 20, 2026

I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you

Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-2026-3657863/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding

Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835735 Points: 17...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

My practitioner view of program analysis

Article URL: https://sawyer.dev/posts/practitioner-program-analysis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs

Article URL: https://surfacedby.com/blog/nginx-logs-ai-traffic-vs-referral-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)

Self-hosting is becoming very popular because it lets users keep their data private, local, and inside their own enviro...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket grounded after delivering satellite to wrong orbit

The Federal Aviation Administration grounded Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket after it shuttled its payload to the wrong o...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/musk-scorned-shady-loopholes-yet-offshore-tax-tricks-likely-sa...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Data Center Is Getting a $77M Tax Break to Create One Job

Article URL: https://nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/data-center-tax-break-jpmorgan-chase Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

Eight years ago, my then-fiancée and I decided to get a prenup, so we hired a local mediator. The meetings were useful...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Tesla launches robotaxis in Dallas and Houston, and oops, it’s already unavailable

Tesla claims to have launched a robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston over the weekend, but so far, online crowdsourcin...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

ChatGPT and Codex Down

Article URL: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KPNN2V2SMP3TAN3MCJK87W50 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Hyundai Ioniq 3 2026: Price, Specs, Availability

The brand’s new European 300-mile urban EV hatchback has great interior space and driving smarts, but a lot of competi...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Meet Bruce, the "beak-jousting" parrot

Kea parrot missing his upper beak "has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Canva’s CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software

Today, I’m talking with Melanie Perkins, founder and CEO of Canva, a popular online design tool. I always enjoy talkin...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and ...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

App host Vercel says it was hacked and customer data stolen

Vercel blamed its breach on an earlier hack at Context AI, which allowed hackers to hijack a Vercel employee's account t...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking

Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.

Technology Apr 20, 2026

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany

Article URL: http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834689 Points: 1...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565 Po...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Rivian’s factory hit by tornado ahead of R2 launch

Nobody was hurt after an EF-1 tornado hit the part of the factory where the R2 SUV is supposed to be built.

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for two-sided marketplace?

I'm building a P2P crowdshipping marketplace, basically BlaBlaCar but for packages instead of passengers. Travelers goi...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

Article URL: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)

Article URL: https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

AI chatbots could be making you stupider

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-ai-chatbots-could-be-making-you-stupider Comments URL: https:/...