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    BREAKING: California's one-time "billionaire wealth tax" all but officially confirmed to be on the ballot. 93% chance.
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    Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained || 34 Comments
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    NAVARRO: TRUMP ADMIN IS LOOKING INTO HIGH MEAT PRICES
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    S&P 500 HIGHS MASK WAR-DRIVEN EARNINGS HIT The S&P 500 is at record levels, but earnings reports show mounting damage from the Middle East war. Companies like Honeywell and Sonoco cite rising energy and logistics costs, while disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz keep pressure on
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    German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking to schoolchildren today, warned that the U.S. does not have an exit strategy for the Iran war and “an entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership." -Reuters
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    ISRAELI MILITARY SAYS IT HAS BEGUN TO STRIKE HEZBOLLAH INFRASTRUCTURE SITES IN LEBANON'S BEQAA VALLEY AND IN ADDITIONAL AREAS ACROSS SOUTHERN LEBANON
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    $MSTR - STRATEGY BUYS 3,273 BITCOIN FOR AGGREGATE PURCHASE PRICE $255.0M STRATEGY BUYS 3,273 BITCOIN FOR AVG. PURCHASE PRICE $77,906 APRIL 20 TO APRIL 26
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    It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024) || 50 Comments
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    HORMUZ TRAFFIC STEADY AS TANKER DISRUPTIONS CONTINUE Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains stable, with about seven ships crossing in the past 24 hours, mostly cargo and dry bulk vessels. However, disruptions persist: U.S. forces recently turned back six tankers carrying
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    $AAPL - APPLE IPHONE SALES SURGE, LOW-END DEMAND HITS MARGINS Apple iPhone revenue rose ~13% YoY in March, with units up ~10%, according to Bernstein SocGen Group. Growth was driven by strong demand for lower-priced models like the iPhone 17e, which boosted volumes but pressure
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    $TSLA - TESLA FILES MUSK 2018 STOCK — SALES COULD FOLLOW Tesla registered ~304M shares tied to Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package, allowing them to trade once exercised. It doesn’t mean an immediate sale, but Musk is likely to sell some for taxes when options are used before they expi
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    US GAS CLIMBS TO $4.11 AS OIL RISKS LINGER U.S. gas prices rose to $4.11 a gallon, marking a fifth straight daily increase, according to AAA. Prices remain below the recent $4.17 peak hit after Donald Trump announced an Iran ceasefire, but gains are returning as supply fears pe
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    WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF TO HOLD MEETING THIS WEEK ON PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY PROTOCOLS -SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL
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    Question for a payments expert. What I pay for something by card in Spain, the reader offers me the choice to pay in euros or dollars. Obviously dollars are removed from my account. And the cafe gets euros. So what’s really going on in the transaction that requires this step?
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    🇺🇸 PRESIDENT’S MONDAY SCHEDULE: MEETINGS, ROYAL VISIT, POLICY TALKS 🔸8:00 AM – Executive Time (closed press) 🔸9:00 AM – In-town pool call 🔸1:30 PM – Policy meeting (Oval Office, closed press) 🔸4:15 PM – Greeting with UK King & Queen (White House, press pool) 🔸4:20 PM – Te
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    The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination || 48 Comments
    HN 4h ago 10.0/hr +1.6σ
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    GOLDMAN LIFTS OIL OUTLOOK ON SUPPLY RISKS Goldman Sachs raised its oil forecasts, seeing Brent at ~$90 and WTI at ~$83 in Q4, citing reduced Middle East supply and prolonged disruption from the Iran war. Prices have already jumped ~40% since the conflict began, with risks skewe
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    EU ENERGY BILL SURGES $32B AMID WAR SHOCK Ursula von der Leyen says Europe has paid about $32 billion extra for oil and gas since the war began, exposing the bloc’s reliance on imported fossil fuels. The latest energy crisis is hitting growth and households, prompting calls for
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    *UNITED CEO SAYS PURSUIT OF TALKS WITH AMERICAN HAS ENDED
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    MAERSK - ON STRAIT OF HORMUZ: SECURITY IN REGION REMAINS UNPREDICTABLE MAERSK - ON STRAIT OF HORMUZ: SAFE TRANSITION CANNOT BE ASSURED, IS MAKING NO CHANGES IN SPECIFIC SERVICES
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    GERMANY'S MERZ ON IRAN WAR: STRAIT OF HORMUZ PARTIALLY MINED
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    $AAPL - APPLE SHARES DOWN 1.7% PREMARKET
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    AI can cost more than human workers now || 49 Comments
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    GERMANY'S MERZ ON IRAN WAR: AT THE MOMENT, I DON'T SEE WHAT EXIT STRATEGY THE AMERICANS ARE CHOOSING
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    GERMANY'S MERZ ON IRAN WAR: IRANIANS ARE OBVIOUSLY NEGOTIATING VERY SKILLFULLY
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    Israel confirms it has restarted airstrikes in Lebanon, currently bombing Hezbollah targets in the Beqaa Valley and Southern Lebanon.
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    Ask HN: Is anyone building/selling VT220-type terminals? || 3 Comments
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    GOLD PRICE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE $4,916/OZ IN 2026, $5,100 IN 2027 - POLL SILVER EXPECTED TO AVERAGE $78/OZ IN 2026, $73.15 IN 2027 - POLL
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    Breaking news: China has blocked Meta’s $2bn acquisition of artificial intelligence platform Manus, after regulators reviewed whether the deal violated Beijing’s investment rules. ft.trib.al/JnwLniN || ft.trib.al
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    In which Lisp generates music || 3 Comments
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    Good Morning from Germany, where fear is back in the economy – and recovery hopes are fading. War in Iran and rising inflation fears are crushing consumer confidence. GfK consumer climate fell to -33.3, the lowest since Feb2023. Willingness to spend is at a 2y low, and 42% plan t
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    CHART OF THE DAY: A favourite chart whenever the price of natural gas in Europe and Asia rises. Meanwhile, in West Texas the price goes deeply negative, reaching a record low of nearly -$10 per mBtu over the weekend (so it costs a producer money to get rid of the molecules). For
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    Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock || 10 Comments
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    I didn’t realize this before. I naturally assumed Intel would have a supply advantage over AMD in CPUs. But Qualcomm and MediaTek apparently cut their TSMC 4/5nm orders because mid- to low-end smartphone shipments literally collapsed. AMD seems to have taken over that capacity.
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    Just a reminder that the Secret Service accidentally deleted nearly every text message sent by agents on Jan. 6
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    I get the impression that the contemporary left exists (to the extent it even exists), not really to affect societal change, but to provide a shared community and discussion space for people who are repelled by capitalism or other aspects of modern life in the West.
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    Introduction to Machine code for beginners - Usborne(1983) [pdf] || 3 Comments
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    Northland Downgrades $AMD to Market Perform, PT $260 Analyst comments: "We initiated coverage of AMD 11 years ago with an Outperform rating, and people thought we were clueless. At the time, AMD was catching up to Intel, and Intel was falling behind TSMC. Now Intel is catching u
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    France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American || 4 Comments
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    China orders Meta to unwind $2B buy of AI startup Manus || 1 Comments
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    Securing AI Agents and MCP at the network layer with Tailscale and Highflame || 1 Comments
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    LogMeIn – Instant Login Links, No Password Sharing || 1 Comments
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    Chatting with myself about AI || 1 Comments
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    Choo Choo Words: Spell words to make train tracks, stop the train from crashing || 1 Comments
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    Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings || 1 Comments
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    LLMs are not a higher level of abstraction || 7 Comments
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    * Just in: Samsung Electro-Mechanics is pushing for a 5–10% price hike on MLCCs, according to Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper.
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    Morgan Stanley expects SanDisk’s Q2 gross margin to reach 78.4%. $SNDK
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    The USAF airbridge supporting operations in the Middle East continued at full tilt overnight, with traffic ramping up into bases in the UAE and Qatar.
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    According to @Axios, Iran has given the US a new proposal for reaching a deal on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the naval blockade first, and postponing nuclear negotiations for a later stage. axios.com/2026/04/27/iran-us… || axios.com
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