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Battery recycler Ascend Elements files for bankruptcy

Ascend Elements said that it will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of a canceled government grant and a challenging market for lithium-ion batteries.

Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go

Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/watgo-a-webassembly-toolkit-for-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722262

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/open-ai-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722096

Points: 28

# Comments: 10

Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

Hi all,

Finding a good data structure for a word processor is a difficult problem. My notebook diaries on the problem go back 25 years when I was frustrated with using Word for my diploma thesis - it was slow and unstable at that time. I ended up getting pretty hooked on the problem.

Right now I’m taking a professional break and decided to finally use the time to push these ideas further, and build MiniWord — a WYSIWYG word processor in Python.

My goal is to have a native, non-HTML-based editor that stays simple, fast, and is hackable. So far I am focusing on getting the fundamentals right. What is working yet is:

- Real WYSIWYG editing (no HTML layer, no embedded browser) with styles, images and tables.

- Clean, simple file format (human-readable, diff-friendly, git-friendly, AI-friendly)

- Markdown support

- Support for Python-plugins

Things that I found:

- B-tree structures are perfect for holding rich text data

- A simple text-based file format is incredibly useful — you can diff documents, version them, and even process them with AI tools quite naturally

What I’d love feedback on:

- Where do you see real use cases for something like this?

- What would be missing for you to take it seriously as a tool or platform?

- What kinds of plugins or extensions would actually be worth building?

Happy about any thoughts — positive or critical. Greetings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722011

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases

Amazon Luna announced a big change on Friday that will prevent players from purchasing third-party games and subscriptions. The cloud gaming service will remove previously purchased games on June 10th, 2026, though they'll still be available to play on other platforms through the EA, GOG, or Ubisoft accounts players used when purchasing the title. In […]

Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript

Hello HN users,

This is a CAD by code project I have been working on on my free time for more than year now.

I built it with 3 goals in mind:

- It should be familiar to CAD designers who have used other programs. Same workflow, same terminology.

- Reduce the mental effort required to create models as much as possible. This is achieved by:

    - Provide live rendering and visual guidance as you type.
    - Allow the user to reference existing edges/faces on the scene instead of having to calculate everything.
    - Provide interactive mouse helpers for features that are hard to write by code: Only 3 interactive modes for now: Edge trimming, Sketch region extrude, Bezier curve drawing.
    - Implicit coding whenever possible: e.g: There are sensible defaults for most parameters. The program will automatically fuse intersecting objects together so you do not have to worry about what object needs to be fused with what.

I think I have achieved these goals to a good extent. The program is still in early stages and there are many features I want to add, rewrite but I think it is already usable for simple models.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721997

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware

Article URL: https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721946

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Motorola’s Souped-Up Folding Phone Is Almost Half Off

Amazon has the Razr Ultra marked down by $600 for a limited time.

Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think

The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.

Microsoft finally lets Windows 11 testers unlock experimental features without ViVeTool

Microsoft is finally allowing Windows 11 testers to get access to experimental features without having to download a third-party app like ViVeTool. The changes are part of making the Windows Insider Program (WIP) less confusing, with Dev and Canary testing rings simplified into a new Experimental Channel alongside a refresh of the existing Beta Channel. […]