Hacker News — AI Briefing Archive

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April 05, 2026 →

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

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Talk like caveman

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Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go

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Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

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German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function

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OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio

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April 04, 2026 →

Apple: Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation

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Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

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Some Unusual Trees

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The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS

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Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

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April 03, 2026 →

Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

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Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini

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TDF ejects its core developers

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Google releases Gemma 4 open models

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Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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April 02, 2026 →

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU

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Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

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IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

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Significant Raise of Reports

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Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

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April 01, 2026 →

Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

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CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

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I Quit. The Clankers Won

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Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust UI library powered by fine-grained reactivity

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Intuiting Pratt Parsing

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Is BGP Safe Yet? No. Test Your ISP

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March 31, 2026 →

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

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Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

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Artemis II is not safe to fly

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Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

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Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments

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Combinators

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March 30, 2026 →

How the AI Bubble Bursts

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Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

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Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

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I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

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March 29, 2026 →

Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves

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Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

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The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)

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Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist

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March 28, 2026 →

I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit

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Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

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Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly

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I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

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CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering

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Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

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March 27, 2026 →

Hold on to Your Hardware

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A Faster Alternative to Jq

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Schedule tasks on the web

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Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

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Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)

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The European AllSky7 fireball network

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March 26, 2026 →

Personal Encyclopedias

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Swift 6.3

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European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop

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From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures

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Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

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Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

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March 25, 2026 →

Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety

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TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

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Goodbye to Sora

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VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

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Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines

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Flighty Airports

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March 24, 2026 →

Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

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LiteLLM Python package compromised by supply-chain attack

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Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

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Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths

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Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

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Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home

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March 23, 2026 →

Migrating to the EU

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POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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General Motors Is Assisting with the Restoration of a Rare EV1

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Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online

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March 22, 2026 →

Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 48GB RAM

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Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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25 Years of Eggs

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My first patch to the Linux kernel

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Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us

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The three pillars of JavaScript bloat

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March 21, 2026 →

OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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Mamba-3

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FFmpeg 101 (2024)

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Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

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A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)

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Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone

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March 20, 2026 →

ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell

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Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout

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Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means

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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

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The Soul of a Pedicab Driver

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Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

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March 19, 2026 →

Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Ohio cops who raided home

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life

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Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe

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Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence

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2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews

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Warranty Void If Regenerated

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March 18, 2026 →

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

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JPEG Compression

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Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

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Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

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Write up of my homebrew CPU build

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March 17, 2026 →

Kagi Small Web

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Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech

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Building a Shell

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Font Smuggler – copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs

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Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering

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March 16, 2026 →

Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

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Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance

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Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

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The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind

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How I write software with LLMs

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The 49MB web page

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March 15, 2026 →

$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning

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Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I)

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Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data

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Rack-mount hydroponics

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The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ

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March 14, 2026 →

Claude Code conducts A/B tests on core features

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XML Is a Cheap DSL

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1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Baochip-1x: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now and How It Came About

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Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware

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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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March 13, 2026 →

Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead

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I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills

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Prompt-caching – auto-injects Anthropic cache breakpoints (90% token savings)

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TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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Willingness to look stupid

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Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference

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March 12, 2026 →

Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook

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Dolphin Progress Release 2603

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3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide

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Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)

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Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

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SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]

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March 11, 2026 →

Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs

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Building a TB-303 from Scratch

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Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes

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Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Cloudflare crawl endpoint

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U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

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March 10, 2026 →

I put my whole life into a single database

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Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy

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FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement

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The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)

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Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?

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Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++

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March 09, 2026 →

US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

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Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

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Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL

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Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

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Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc

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March 08, 2026 →

SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI

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Notes on Writing WASM

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The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp

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Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread

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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn

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March 07, 2026 →

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

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Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

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UUID package coming to Go standard library

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48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer (2023)

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this css proves me human

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March 06, 2026 →

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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System76 on Age Verification Laws

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GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation

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GPT-5.4

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Async Programming Is Just Inject Time

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Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

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March 05, 2026 →

Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift

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Google Workspace CLI

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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite

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Poor Man's Polaroid

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Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king

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March 04, 2026 →

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

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Agentic Engineering Patterns

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RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#

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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

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Bet on German Train Delays

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March 03, 2026 →

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

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The Xkcd thing, now interactive

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Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

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Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

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British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

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India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

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