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Motorola suddenly raises budget phone prices up to 50%âyou can probably thank AI
Motorola's budget phones are much less budget-friendly today.
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Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
I built this because I was interested in the data. Didn't fully get it to what I wanted, but thought I'd share it nonetheless. Maybe someone has better data sources they could share! Turns out live ship tracking APIs are expensive so I manually just
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John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696035 Points: 67 # Comments: 13
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Show HN: Orange Juice â Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
Article URL: http://oj-hn.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694036 Points: 64 # Comments: 86
I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
Article URL: https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropic-support-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693679 Points: 211 # Comments: 115
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Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates
https://archive.ph/Oc85c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690977 Points: 415 # Comments: 162
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A self-driving car in Austin killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage
This incident has brought negative attention to the new technology.
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AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict
AWS has an ingrained culture of handling coopetition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.
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Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices
Amazon told Kindle owners this week that it's ending support for all e-readers released in 2012 or earlier, making them virtually unable to load any new content.
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Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a âground-up overhaulâ of its AI
This is the first model Meta has released under its Superintelligence Labs, led by former ScaleAI CEO Alexandr Wang.
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Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups
Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victimsâ devices.
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Motorola's budget phones are now up to 50% more expensive as memory shortage drags on
Motorola's budget phones are much less budget-friendly today.
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To beat Altman in court, Musk offers to give all damages to OpenAI nonprofit
Musk wonât seek a âsingle dollarâ in OpenAI suit after asking to pocket up to $134 billion.
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Tankers passing through Strait of Hormuz will have to pay cryptocurrency toll
Any tanker passing must reveal its cargo so Iran can determine transit fee amount.
USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers
Article URL: https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695012 Points: 30 # Comments: 2