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From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product

This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.

TechCrunch • Apr 16, 2026 • Maggie Nye, Isabelle Johannessen
Technology Apr 16, 2026

Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Five men control AI. Who should control them?

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/insider/the-insider/five-men-control-ai-who-should-control-them Comments URL: ht...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links

Article URL: https://clojure.org/about/documentary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798345 Points: ...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

German Dog Commands

Article URL: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german-dog-commands/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4779...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation

Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.

Technology Apr 16, 2026

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

Technology Apr 16, 2026

A Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design

Article URL: https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media

FTC aims to stamp out brand-safety standards that hurt Breitbart and Musk's X. ...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Live Nation says it will fight monopoly suit loss

After a jury found that Live Nation-Ticketmaster violated antitrust law on several counts, the company warns in a blog p...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Ozlo’s comfy Sleepbuds are nearly 30 percent off in the run-up to Mother’s Day

If you’re struggling to get a full night of rest, a good pair of sleep earbuds can help you tune out unwanted distract...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Teenage Engineering might be getting into instrument amps next

An unannounced Teenage Engineering device, the KO-Amp 35, can be found over at the FCC in a new filing. The label clearl...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Europe’s Online Age Verification App Is Here

Available for free to any company that wants to use it, the “completely anonymous” app puts the pressure on porn sit...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

European police email 75,000 people asking them to stop DDoS attacks

Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services, including the arrest of...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes

I was unsure if my parents would notice that the voice on the other end wasn't mine - or that it was mine, sort of, but ...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Casely has reannounced a power bank recall from 2025 following a fatality

Casely first recalled over 429,000 of its 5,000mAh Power Pods wireless power banks in April 2025 following 51 reports of...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html Commen...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background

An in-app browser allows visual feedback while building websites and more.

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product

A herald of the SAASpocalypse?

Technology Apr 16, 2026

The Online Fiction Boom Reimagining China’s History

Chinese fantasy novels reimagine the past with modern tech and ideology. A new book argues they also help reinforce auth...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul

In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefit...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

The Ukraine war's deep impact on Metro 2039’s development, story

Upcoming sequel wants to capture a "uniquely Ukrainian perspective" on the post-apocalypse. ...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review

Hey HN! We're Charles and Dean, and we're building Stage: a code review tool that guides you through reading a PR step ...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone

China cable-cutter demo coincides with more sabotage of subsea Internet cables. ...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund

In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrow...

Technology Apr 16, 2026

Microsoft and Stellantis want to use AI to help car owners

Digital services for brands from Jeep to Peugeot will feel the presence of AI. ...