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Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrd818gd2o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800839 Points: 21 # Comments: 1

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George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/how-george-orwell-predicted-the-rise-of-ai-slop.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800765 Points: 19 # Comments: 8

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New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800166 Points: 64 # Comments: 11

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The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

Article URL: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799120 Points: 115 # Comments: 92

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Playdate’s 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=47798176 Points: 44 # Comments: 19

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Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.

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Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board

Hastings helped to transform the video rental industry — first with physical, then digital, delivery.

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Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.

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Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM

GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.

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As they got close to the Moon, Artemis II astronauts were eager to land

"If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down."

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Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure

New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”

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Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

Article URL: https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800033 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

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A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

Article URL: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799573 Points: 25 # Comments: 0

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The Beginning of Scarcity in AI

Article URL: https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799322 Points: 27 # Comments: 32