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Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

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This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century

Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.

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Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool

The AI-powered audiobook generation won't bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their generated audiobooks anywhere.

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Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

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Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.

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Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan

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I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

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Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

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Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive ‘universal’ AI interface

Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with

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The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy

The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.

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Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app optimized for well-being, not engagement

Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development. The startup has now raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its platform.

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Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

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Google is pitching an AI agent ecosystem to consumers who may not buy it

One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.

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Google's Antigravity bait and switch

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The new Flipper One is a pocket-sized Linux computer

It's been nearly six years since Flipper Devices introduced the Zero, its popular but controversial wireless hacking multi-tool. The company's latest creation (following a slight departure with a devi

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Resolving inter-service communication issue

This week was heck of a roller coaster of emotions, trying to solve an issue. All I faced is the same error again and again. Precisely, error code 307 and 422 that is Temporary Redirect Unprocessable

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I built an email cleaner. CSV parsing took longer than the actual validators.

I've been building databridge.so by myself for a while. It's an email list cleaner that explains every decision. Most cleaners give you back "74/100, risky" and that's all you get. You cannot audit it

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How I Would Learn Full-Stack Development in 2026 If I Started From Zero

If I had to start learning full-stack development from zero in 2026, I would not try to learn everything. That is the biggest mistake many beginners make. They search for a “full-stack developer roa

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Partition Evolution: Change Your Partitioning Without Rewriting Data

This is Part 4 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 3 covered metadata-driven performance. This article explains how Iceberg handles the problem that has plagued data lakes for over a decade:

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