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Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616361 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
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Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/renewables_generated_nearly_half_global_power/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615756 Points: 23 # Comments: 1
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Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/nikigrayson.com/post/3miik2wzosk25 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615490 Points: 66 # Comments: 31
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Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one-giant-step-beyond-the-s-band-radio-comms-of-the-apollo-era Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615449 Points: 58
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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615434 Points: 67 # Comments: 28
Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615002 Points: 150 # Comments: 59
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The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes
Article URL: https://report.bearblog.dev/the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-perfect-storm-of-retail-investor-fallacies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612775 Points: 60 # Comments: 42
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Tesla’s cheaper vehicles aren’t helping its declining sales
The company's deliveries in the first quarter were just 6% higher than last year, and Tesla now faces a third straight year of falling sales.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems leans on magnets for near-term revenue
Realta Fusion is buying magnets from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, providing a revenue stop gap.
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Diverse teams start with diverse VCs
It is the path of least resistance for a growth-stage company to hire from the familiar Silicon Valley pipelines but if a founder wants a diverse team, that value has to be put into practice from the very first hire.
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Exclusive: Beehiiv expands into podcasting, taking aim at Patreon
One way Beehiiv is convincing creators to switch from rivals like Substack and Patreon is by not taking a cut of revenue.
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Cash App launches ‘pay later’ feature for P2P pay transfers
Block says that the new feature has strong built-in protections to keep users from so-called debt spirals.
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A new connections app, Sonder, has a deliberately tedious sign-up process (and it’s working)
Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn.
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Tesla sales grew by 6% in Q1, but company has an overproduction problem
Between January and March, Tesla built 50,000 more cars than it could sell.
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Amazon is trying to buy Globalstar to compete with SpaceX's Starlink
Amazon wants in on the low-Earth orbit Internet action.