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Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips
The deal is interesting for a number of reasons, including that SiFive's chip designs are based on RISC-V, not x86 or ARM.
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South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/south_korea_data_access_universal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730407 Points: 25 # Comments: 1
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Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/22/bitcoin-miners-are-losing-usd19-000-on-every-btc-produced-as-difficulty-drops-7-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730370 Points: 61 # Comments: 47
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Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
Article URL: https://cirruslabs.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730194 Points: 41 # Comments: 13
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Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/11/polymarket-gamblers-betting-iran-war-ukraine-news-truth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729994 Points: 84 # Comments: 34
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Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours
I built a satirical browser game to share with friends (Hormuz Havoc: you play an American president managing a crisis in the Middle East, only "loosely" inspired by current events). I had good fun making this, but that's not necessarily the interest
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AI models are terrible at betting on soccer—especially xAI Grok
Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI struggle with the Premier League.
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Helium is hard to replace
Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719274 Points: 324 # Comments: 230
France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/frances-government-ditching-windows-for-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728653 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
https://pardonned.com Inspired by the videos of Liz Oyer, I wanted to be able to verify her claims and just look up all the pardons more easily. Tech Stack: Playwright - to sccrape the DOJ website SQLite - local database Astro 6 - Build out a sta
20 years on AWS and never not my job
Article URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727711 Points: 117 # Comments: 15
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Productive Procrastination
Article URL: https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/blog/productive-procrastination/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727659 Points: 11 # Comments: 6
The Seasons Are Wrong
Article URL: https://kentwalters.com/posts/seasons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727387 Points: 13 # Comments: 18
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The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?
"The work ahead is greater than the work behind us."
20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
Article URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727711 Points: 36 # Comments: 0