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Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation

The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.

What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke

The US is home to some of the most polluted air on the planet as smoke from 120 out-of-control Canadian wildfires drifts across the border.

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says his 30-day warranty is all about trust

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says buyers of its new e-paper smartwatches should know what they're signing up for and trust Pebble to make things right if they run into issues, despite the short warranty. "I think the most important thing is trust," Migicovsky told me in an interview this week. "Do people trust the product […]

Florida man arrested for allegedly stealing over $200,000 in crypto using Steam game malware

Federal authorities have arrested a Florida man suspected of stealing at least $220,000 in crypto through malware-infected Steam games, as reported earlier by local news outlet Local10. In the complaint, officials accuse 21-year-old Zyaire Wilkins and co-conspirators of launching eight malware-embedded games from around May 2024 to February 2026, allowing them to infect about 8,000 […]

Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

I'm building a journal app in Kotlin Multiplatform and for this purpose I have created a zoomable timeline interface.

This is a side-project where I reuse the timeline interface to display 4 million events imported from Wikipedia / Wikidata, scored using PageRank. There is more information on the about page.

If you're interested in the stack: I use Kotlin Multiplatform extensively, with Compose Multiplatform for the UI, communicates with the backend using Kotlinx-RPC and behind the hood a simple Postgres database on a Hetzner machine.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950774

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The manosphere’s testosterone obsession reaches the highest levels of US military

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I was in the middle of writing a different Optimizer column this week when I learned that Pete Hegseth is […]

A Year On: The DOGE Disaster

Article URL: https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-the-doge-disaster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950667

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Polymarket’s Corporate Structure Is a Mystery—Even to Some of Its Former Employees

The prediction market’s Panamanian operation seems odd, even for a company whose CEO had his apartment raided by FBI agents.

SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-stock-drops-new-low-ipo-price-starship-launch-scrubbed-2026-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950580

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Apple Music is getting a price hike

Apple Music is more expensive now. In the US, an individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, a $1 bump up from the previous $10.99 price. A family plan now costs $19.99 per month, up from $16.99, and a student plan costs $6.99 per month, up from $5.99. Apple, in a statement to Music Business […]