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1.The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie2.Startup Battlefield winner Salva Health is changing the game in breast cancer detection3.Khosla’s Keith Rabois leads $11.5M Series A for startup Roam, calls it ‘the future of the housing market’4.Actively AI raises $22.5M to offer sales ‘superintelligence,’ says AI SDRs failed5.Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud6.CaaStle board confirms financial distress, furloughing employees7.Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology8.Meet Ponte Labor, a startup matching Hispanic immigrants to jobs using WhatsApp9.Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model10.Less than 24 hours to save $300+ on founder and investor passes for TechCrunch All Stage11.Temporal lands $146 million at a flat valuation, eyes agentic AI expansion12.Perplexity CEO denies having financial issues, says no IPO before 202813.Just 2 days to secure your founder or investor pass with $300+ off for TechCrunch All Stage14.Sam Altman firing drama detailed in new book excerpt15.Here are Africa’s biggest startups based on valuation16.Only 3 days left to save $300+ on investor and founder tickets for TechCrunch All Stage17.Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup purchase18.Startups Weekly: Mercury more than doubled its valuation, and other news19.4 days left to lock in $300+ savings for investor and founder tickets for TechCrunch All Stage20.Lucid to ramp customer deliveries for Gravity SUV by end of April
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1.Leadership Lessons from Cory Booker’s Filibuster: Focus on the Message, Not the Spotlight2.Trump Unveils a 10% Blanket Tariff-and 34% Reciprocal Tariff for China3.Trump Announces Tariffs— Get Ready for a Recession4.SEO is Changing for the Better, Thanks to AI5.Your Google Search Results Are Your CV6.Trump Import Taxes Could Fall Heaviest on the Midwest and Southeast7.Elon Musk May Soon Leave DOGE, Trump Hints8.The Tesla Takedown Puts a Big Dent in Tesla’s Sales 9.Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariff Details May Not End Companies’ Wait-and-See Spending Strategy10.Cory Booker and the Art of Authentic Communication11.Amazon Bids to Buy TikTok as Deadline Looms, ‘The New York Times’ Reports12.Brooklinen Just Proved It’s Never Too Late to Make Changes Based on Customer Feedback13.‘Revenge Quitting’ Is a Rising Threat to Employers Despite Tightening Job Market14.AI’s Impact on Manufacturing Suggests We All May Need to Invent a New Way of Working15.Anthropic’s New Claude AI for Universities Touts ‘Responsible AI Adoption’16.Nintendo Offers New Switch 2 Details Ahead of June 5 Launch17.How Well-Meaning Systems Stifle Business Growth18.Tesla’s First-Quarter Deliveries Slump on Musk Backlash, Weak Demand19.5 Tips for Motivating Employees When Times Are Tough20.Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Is Here. It Could Unlock the Stock Market21.How to Create Peak Experiences for Leaders and Teams22.How to Master the Art of Doing Cool Stuff and Take Bold Action23.Can I Poach an Employee From a Professional Contact?24.5 Reasons Why Writing Well Is a Superpower in Today’s Economy25.Tariff Chaos Is Causing Companies—and Consumers—to Hit the Bottle 26.Psychology Discovered the Secret to Being More Likable Is Liking Yourself 27.After 19 Years, Facebook Just Rolled Out a Nostalgic Feature That People Will Love (but It’s Probably Too Late)28.How Innovations in Helicopter Technology Could Save Lives29.Neuroscience Says Doing 1 Hard Thing Can Make You Smarter, More Insightful, and Even Increase the Size of Your Brain30.Triggered? Why Workplace Conflicts Can Feel Personal31.This Futuristic Solar-Powered EV Just Took a Road Trip Across the American West32.Billionaires, MrBeast, and Mr. Wonderful. Here’s Who Might Own TikTok Within a Week33.VC Math Is Still Broken And It’s Going to Stymie Innovation34.CaaStle Co-Founder Christine Hunsicker Is Accused of Financial Misconduct35.Could the World Cup Become a World Snub of the U.S. Over Tariffs?
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1.Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline2.Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator3.TV Garden4.An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server5.Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers6.Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders7.Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)8.The Reality of Working in Tech: We're Not Hired to Write Code9.Multi-Token Attention10.MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks11.Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection12.Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball13.Restructuring Announcement14.Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS15.Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure16.UpCodes (YC S17) Is Hiring SWEs and CSMs to make construction more productive17.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)18.When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI19.Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations20.How Google built its Gemini robotics models21.The Carbon Bankroll 2.0 [pdf] (2024)22.Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?23.Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL24.Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.25.Hacking the call records of millions of Americans26.Show HN: OpenTariffs – Tariff Percentages by Country27.Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code28.Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam29.Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 36530.Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
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1.HTC’s Viverse Creator Program opens globally for 3D artists2.Beyond generic benchmarks: How Yourbench lets enterprises evaluate AI models against actual data3.The tool integration problem that’s holding back enterprise AI (and how CoTools solves it)4.What you need to know about Amazon Nova Act: the new AI agent SDK challenging OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce5.How Amex uses AI to increase efficiency: 40% fewer IT escalations, 85% travel assistance boost6.Nintendo offers Switch 2 editions of Zelda, Mario Party and more7.Anthropic flips the script on AI in education: Claude’s Learning Mode makes students do the thinking8.Uplimit raises stakes in corporate learning with suite of AI agents that can train thousands of employees simultaneously9.Drag X Drive uses Nintendo Switch 2’s new mouse features10.Donkey Kong: Bananza is a new platformer featuring Nintendo’s OG11.Direct-to-consumer is redefining mobile game monetization12.Nintendo shows off From Software’s The Duskbloods for Switch 213.Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launches on Switch 2 in winter14.Nintendo will add GameCube library of classic games to Switch 215.Nintendo details the redesigned hardware behind the Switch 216.Nintendo Switch 2 launches on June 517.Nintendo’s mysterious ‘C’ button is for online game chat — with a camera too18.Nintendo reveals Mario Kart World, a launch title for the Switch 219.Zencoder’s ‘Coffee Mode’ is the future of coding: Hit a button and let AI write your unit tests20.Immutable RavenQuest becomes most-streamed Web3 game with 1M-plus streams21.Augment Code debuts AI agent with 70% win rate over GitHub Copilot and record-breaking SWE-bench score22.Gamescom strikes deal to remain in Cologne, Germany23.Gladia launches Solaria as AI-based multi-lingual speech recognition model for speech-to-text transcription24.ZeniMax workers vote to strike over Microsoft negotiations25.Discord says 1st year of Quests generated 70 campaigns and millions of gamer rewards26.Roblox launches Rewarded Video Ads, expands ad partnership with Google27.I asked an AI swarm to fill out a March Madness bracket — here’s what happened
1.Chinese tech giants bought $16b in Nvidia H20 chips in Q1 20252.Trump-linked Truth Social operator plans $2.3b stock sale3.WordPress.com owner Automattic lays of 280 over legal challenges4.SG now has 49 billionaires, up from 39 in 2024: Forbes5.Tech stocks drop after Trump’s new tariffs announcement6.Google’s Gemini AI leader Sissie Hsiao steps down7.AI insurance platform FurtherAI bags $5m seed funding8.Asia layoff tracker: AI shift triggers layoffs at Zomato9.Amazon reportedly makes last-minute bid to acquire TikTok10.Tesla Q1 deliveries fall 13%, miss investor estimates11.Southeast Asia tech ecosystem report12.Meta under US Senate review for alleged China market efforts13.TikTok to shut down its photo-sharing app in May 202514.A16z said to consider TikTok investment as part of Oracle-led bid15.The 3-minute shows making billions16.Meet the 50 top-funded startups and tech companies in Singapore17.AC Ventures sells 6.5% of GCash to Mitsubishi for $321.5m18.China launches plan to boost financial services for tech firms19.UK authors push for action against Meta over AI copyright use20.OpenAI faces $10b funding cut unless it goes for-profit21.Tesla’s stock falls 36% as Musk’s political role affects sales22.Amazon resumes Prime Air drone deliveries after 2-month pause23.US court allows most of New York Times’ AI lawsuit to proceed24.50 rising startups in Singapore25.US clothing startup CaaStle faces collapse after fraud allegations26.Australian retail tech startup Flagship nets $3.75m seed funding27.ByteDance founder denies acquiring Singapore citizenship28.Asia prepares for Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs29.Japan’s Metaplanet buys 160 BTC, now holds 4,206 BTC30.US video game retailer GameStop raises $1.5b to buy BTC31.Circle paid $210m to acquire Coinbase’s stake, IPO filing reveals32.Indian startup funding up 41% to $3.1b in Q1 202533.Coinbase shares drop 30% due to US economic concerns34.Tether acquires 8,888 bitcoins, raising holdings to $7.8b35.China’s Guangdong province launches AI, robotics hub36.9gag co-founder leads Asia’s first public virtual asset hub
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1.“Changes nothing”: Canadian tech still in limbo as country escapes worst of US tariff wave2.Former Blue Origin CEO to advise General Fusion on energy strategy3.Canadian founders face rising costs, wasted time ahead of trade war escalation4.Crypto exchange Kraken gains restricted dealer licence and new leader of Canadian operations5.Kensington acquires One9 to establish a defence tech VC platform6.Raven Capital cultivates Indigenous-led biotech company AdvancedAg with $2-million seed investment7.Canadian holding company Tiny buys controlling stake in DJ software company Serato for $94.5 million8.Ontario subsidizes Siemens’ new R&D facility after CEOs plead province to prioritize homegrown production9.How to land a tech job without the hassle10.Well Health to exercise call options that give majority controlling interest in strategic partner Healwell AI11.Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promises to defer capital gains taxes if proceeds reinvested in Canada12.Optimism continues in Canadian decentralized finance as DeFi and WonderFi report major gains year-over-year13.Inside the push to get Ontario’s mobility startups moving14.Are you going to Web Summit Vancouver?15.Canadian foodtech has a scale-up problem16.Fractional real estate investment platform Addy becomes exempt market dealer after BCSC fine17.BioAlert secures $2.5 million to help companies detect and manage harmful pathogens in water18.Trump’s group chat, Knix makes a splash, Lightspeed slows its roll19.The first medical X-ray to go to space will use Canadian imaging tech20.Movement51 appoints former DMZ leader Emily Smiley as executive director21.Nanoprecise closes Series C to predict industrial equipment failures with AI22.Consensus 2025 to spotlight builders with PitchFest and three-day blockchain hackathon23.Basetwo emerges from CIX Summit 2025 as Canada’s representative for the Startup World Cup24.Québec budget overhauls innovation tax credits, earmarks millions for tariff impacts25.SRTX founder and CEO Katherine Homuth to step down amid fundraising push and tariff threat26.Lightspeed to expand and revamp sales team as part of revised go-to-market effort27.FreshBooks’ data shows many small businesses treat taxes as an afterthought, and it’s costing them28.Descartes nabs another American company with $164.4-million acquisition of 3Gtms29.Vooban hiring up to 25 AI roles in Ontario as it welcomes surge in enterprise AI adoption30.Xanadu teams up with glass giant Corning to network quantum computing chips31.ExxonMobil takes CoLab Software’s AI tool out to sea with $5.6-million oil rig partnership32.US deep tech VC Celesta Capital adds BDC alum Charles Lespérance as Canadian partner33.Seventy-five Ontario CEOs sign open letter calling on Premier Doug Ford to prioritize homegrown innovation34.As online threats get worse, Styx raises $2.7 million for digital risk protection platform35.Nokia, Honeywell partner with Québec’s Numana to develop quantum-safe communication networks36.Lightspeed scales back fiscal 2025 revenue outlook as “several macroeconomic conditions have deteriorated”37.Atomic discovery made at University of Ottawa could one day advance quantum computing, medical imaging 38.The future of Canadian tech runs through Waterloo39.AI roundup: Cohere commands attention, Apple Intelligence delays, a vibe coding PSA40.FreshBooks reveals new CEO Shaheen Javadizadeh after securing $179 million in debt from Morgan Stanley41.Google eyes AdHawk, Nvidia’s Canadian partner, and a red light for Tesla42.Liberals’ capital gains tax hike is dead, lifetime exemption limit increase to stay43.Paging Dr. Cube: UniDoc to buy software from AMD Telemedicine to improve remote healthcare offering44.Sprout Family raises $1.7 million pre-seed round to make fertility benefits more accessible in Canada45.It started as a testbed. Now it’s changing how BC tech grows46.As trade war rages, Page raises $4.1 million to help organizations track government changes with AI47.CEOs of Clio and StackAdapt, VC leaders from OMERS and Panache among headliners at CIX Summit 2025  48.Summit Nanotech closes $36.5-million funding round to commercialize lithium extraction tech49.How meaningful is D-Wave’s claim to quantum supremacy?50.Shopify to transfer US stock listing to Nasdaq, remain on TSX51.A tech founder’s love letter to Markham52.Doormat becomes Ownright, closes $4.5 million to help more Ontarians seal real estate deals53.Telus partners with Nvidia to transform its data centre into a Canadian “Sovereign AI Factory”54.Canada invests $36.6 million in Strategic Innovation Fund technology networks55.Why a Canadian bank launched an e-commerce platform 56.Taiv acquihires fellow Canadian adtech startup Local Reach to aid expansion plans57.Former Klue sales reps secure $500,000 to make cold calling easier with Quack58.Google reportedly close to buying Canada’s AdHawk for its eye-tracking smart glasses tech59.Mining magnate Pierre Lassonde donates $50 million to establish deep tech institute at Polytechnique Montréal60.Consensus 2025 crypto conference will feature WonderFi’s Dean Skurka and Coinbase Canada’s CEO61.Shopify acquires search startup Vantage Discovery for undisclosed amount62.Did Cohere give Canada its DeepSeek moment?63.An election primer on what Canadian innovators need64.Softchoice taken private, moved stateside by WWT after $1.48-billion acquisition closes65.Carney’s first cut, Cohere finds speed, and Severance’s real HQ66.Anita Anand named innovation minister, Champagne moved to finance in new Carney cabinet67.General Fusion takes major step in quest for Canadian fusion reactors68.Web Summit Vancouver 2025 speaker lineup includes CEOs of Bluesky and Clio69.Vertu Capital promotes principal and “employee number two” Eric Kafka to partner70.Kraken Robotics looks to peer further under the sea with $24.5-million acquisition of 3D at Depth71.Cohere says Command A model edges out LLM competition in speed and energy efficiency72.Clio acquires UK-based ShareDo to move into serving large law firms, fuel global expansion73.Two new AI tools to help you land a job74.Phoenix secures equity funding from Valspring, venture debt from CIBC for prescription drug service geared to men75.Novarc Technologies raises Series B round led by Export Development Canada76.US-based neobank Zolve to bring newcomer-targeted services to Canada this summer77.Waabi develops realism metric to gauge reliability of autonomous vehicle simulators78.Québec’s dismal seed-stage performance could spell trouble for province’s startup pipeline79.Augmenta closes $14.4 million CAD to advance quest towards AI-driven building design80.Redbrick acquires New York-based newsletter advertising platform Paved81.Xatoms and Knead take home top prizes amid strong Canadian showing at SXSW pitch competition82.Federal government revs up funding for EV charging83.Deloitte Canada acquires grant matchmaker Pocketed for undisclosed amount84.TBDC pitches a new narrative for Canadian startups85.Canadian government opens $300-million AI Compute Access Fund in latest AI commitment86.Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney says Liberals will kill their own capital gains tax changes87.Federal investment to help Telesat take on Starlink with new Québec campus 88.Why Simon De Baene keeps killing his own products89.Y Combinator is stealing Canadian startups90.What is Build Canada trying to construct?91.An incomplete list of Canadian tech programs and organizations supporting women’s initiatives92.Ten things worth reading on International Women’s Day93.Government of Canada commits over $6 billion to help businesses weather trade war94.DMZ Women Innovation Summit boosts women-led AI, farming, and health startups with $535,000 investment95.Richard Sutton passes Turing test, Doug Ford is done with Starlink, and #CDNtech on the moon96.Leaders discuss the right speed for innovation and regulation at Remarkable AI conference97.Three things Canadian small businesses can do instead of spiralling98.WonderFi plots expansion beyond crypto into multi-asset trading with Eightcap99.Toast wants women to take a radical step this International Women’s Day: rest100.“My god, this is exhausting”: US delays some tariffs against Canada until April101.Thinkific created positive cash flow in 2024, but found GMV “headwinds”102.Facit and OBIO reveal first cohort of women founders working on health and cancer innovation with WeSEED103.Healthtech Connex snags $3.7 million from PacifiCan to help measure brain health  104.Ireland is where Canadian tech lands in Europe105.British neobank Revolut reportedly recruiting talent for a return to Canada106.The ‘buy Canadian’ movement is fuelling growth for TruLOCAL’s food subscription107.Toronto and Ottawa area companies receive $32 million in AI-focused FedDev funding108.Winnipeg tech hubs merge to revitalize Manitoba’s startup ecosystem109.Shopify merchants can now prompt AI to design a store theme110.New Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls doomers “out of line,” talks path to human-like AI111.The51 appoints Highline Beta founder Lauren Robinson as managing partner112.The trade war has begun. Here’s what Canadian tech is saying113.“It’s done, it’s gone”: Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancels $100-million Starlink contract in tariff response114.The in-demand job that blends AI, engineering, and design115.BDC Capital taps Jason Baibokas to lead $100-million Black Entrepreneurs Fund116.SDTC funding flowing again with applications for projects under NRC IRAP to open “early” fiscal 2025–2026117.Canada wants a whole-of-society approach to cybersecurity118.Rejecting the rejection of DEIA with AccessNow’s Maayan Ziv119.Temu and the Oscars buy Canadian, Sam Bankman-Fried weighs in on DOGE120.Startupfest doubles down on diversity commitment, announces return of HardtechFest and OceanFest121.FinTech VC Holt Xchange turns to FrontFundr’s equity crowdfunding platform to raise capital122.Shopify’s latest SEC filings show potential to become US-domiciled, TD analyst warns123.Sanctuary AI, Nexera, and Novarc make deals and developments in busy week for Vancouver robotics companies124.TandemLaunch closes $37-million Fund IV to create and back deep tech startups125.Rewind inks data protection partnership with workflow software giant Monday.com126.Former EventMobi, Voiceflow leaders secure $2 million CAD to tackle retail merchandising with Merchkit127.Avitia launches AI-powered cancer diagnostics platform with assets from defunct Imagia Canexia128.Paperplane Therapeutics raises $1.5 million to ease anxious patients with VR gaming129.Promise Robotics opens second factory to help increase Canadian housing supply130.Vault rebrands to Venn following $21.5-million Series A round131.Opal announces $1.5 million USD to build “the operating system for ad agencies”132.Prosus to acquire SkipTheDishes parent company JustEat Takeaway in $6.2-billion deal133.Non-profit organizations receive nearly $40 million as part of latest AI-focused CanCode program134.Temu opens marketplace to Canadian vendors as ‘buy Canadian’ push picks up135.Using AI, University of Toronto team claims development of strongest nanomaterial yet136.Dispersa closes $5.8 million to turn food waste into chemicals for everyday products137.DEI rollback is the “wrong direction for Canada,” open letter says138.CMD Capital halts fundraising amid “tough” VC market139.Who are Canadian tech’s most ambitious?140.How is Canadian tech responding to the trade war?141.Black merchants disheartened after Shopify guts another Equitable Commerce program142.Hyperlume raises $17.8-million seed round to commercialize its AI data centre tech143.Tribe Network among second round of federal 2SLGBTQI+ Ecosystem Fund recipients144.GameStop shorts Canada, Microsoft’s eureka moment, a Raptor returns to Toronto145.Koru helps unlock innovation in the classroom146.Sherbrooke’s quantum sector gets $8.1-million boost from federal government147.New government-backed tech hub The Foundry launches in PEI148.Shopify expands Affirm partnership to bring BNPL offering to Canadian merchants149.Former Toronto Raptor Pascal Siakam teams up with DMZ to launch EdTech accelerator150.FinTech startup Reach sells majority stake to US-based Primus Capital
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1.Unpopular Opinion: Building MVPs Without Validation Isn’t a Mistake - I will not promote2.Has anyone ever "found a co-founder" that ended up having a *successful* startup? (I will not promote)3.What’s the most ridiculous thing you did to keep your startup alive? (I will not promote)4.Launched v1.0 After 7 Years. Now I’m Burnt Out and Considering Selling - I will not promote5.Is it realistic enough to aim for a Pre Seed funding as a first time startup founder? - [I will not promote]6.Best Startup Companies you thought would NEVER Work - Here's Mine (I will not promote)7.I feel numb inside, I will not promote.8.Curious to see what you guys are building! [I will not promote]9.How to solve the cold start / chicken and egg problem - I will not promote10.Closing Down Successful Business Due To No Longer Wishing To Be A Manager / Employer. (I will not promote)11.The golden handcuffs are so real! I will not promote12.An investor wires you $1 million and says “go build a sustainable and profitable company,” what’s the first thing you spend it on? (I will not promote)13.Need help with cold outreach for my startup to get new inboud leads without dropping the ball (I will not promote)14.7 days a week position I will not promote15.Bombed accelerator interview :/ - I will not promote16.You ever drive yourself nuts treating everything like a startup? (I will not promote)17.How to market my startup | I will not promote18.How much equity to give a co-founder who joins 1 year in? - I will not promote19.Non Technicals - let’s grieve I will not promote20.I will not promote21.Cold emailing for early users? Here’s what I wish I knew first | I will not promote22.Startups that have Bricks and Mortar operations? I will not promote23.Is this enough traction for a seed round? (B2B SaaS) (I will not promote)24.Beyond 'Minimal': Debunking Common MVP Misconceptions for Founders I will not promote25.Any folks in SF who has got into accelerator or got rejected, but overall aggressively building, how about just 3 people sign an apartment and work heads down on our dreams and support each other? (“I will not promote”)
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