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  • 0 3

    Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool (github.com)
  • 7 29

    British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time (www.cbc.ca)
  • 0 14

    LFortran Compiles Fpm (lfortran.org)
  • 101 31

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
  • 0 5

    OpenAI Just Got Anthropic's Pentagon Deal (tapestry.news)
  • 8 42

    Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels (gist.github.com)
  • 2 15

    Build your own Command Line with ANSI escape codes (2016) (www.lihaoyi.com)
  • 6 16

    Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback (github.com)
  • 4 33

    "That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction) (starlightconvenience.net)
  • 5 24

    19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack (www.npr.org)
  • 122 91

    A case for Go as the best language for AI agents (getbruin.com)
  • 82 108

    Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal (www.bbc.com)
  • 1 5

    Writing on Mount Hymettos in Duplo (viewsproject.wordpress.com)
  • 69 74

    Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage (9to5mac.com)
  • 83 108

    iPhone 17e (www.apple.com)
  • 17 34

    Language Model Contains Personality Subnetworks (arxiv.org)
  • 88 68

    Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit (www.economist.com)
  • 49 94

    Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts (govbase.com)
  • 5 9

    Show HN: I turned Claude Code into a personal assistant (github.com)
  • 3 60

    Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable (www.dhzdhd.dev)
  • Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers – Python (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 19 45

    Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming
  • 27 112

    Felix "fx" Lindner has died (blog.recurity-labs.com)
  • 33 61

    Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant (zclaw.dev)
  • 61 51

    Why Go Can't Try (niketpatel.com)
  • 152 121

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
  • 54 82

    Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs (schipper.ai)
  • 9 32

    Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 5 25

    A bit of fluid mechanics from scratch not from scratch (tsvibt.blogspot.com)
  • 87 96

    Why Objective-C (inessential.com)
  • 20 193

    First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study (health.ucdavis.edu)
  • 165 153

    Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case (northdakotamonitor.com)
  • 75 83

    A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 18 74

    An Interesting Find: STM32 RDP1 Decryptor (carlossless.io)
  • 169 338

    Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning (github.com)
  • 400 242

    New iPad Air, powered by M4 (www.apple.com)
  • 61 120

    Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase (understandlegacycode.com)
  • 249 220

    OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub (www.star-history.com)
  • 22 81

    AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991 (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 1 7

    Squidcasa/midipipe: ALSA Sequencer to plain text and back (codeberg.org)
  • 54 200

    Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (maderix.substack.com)
  • 16 48

    Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer) (codeberg.org)
  • 78 204

    Microslop Manifesto (microslop.com)
  • 15 50

    Go-Native Durable Execution (www.dbos.dev)
  • 39 74

    Claude Code LSP (karanbansal.in)
  • 4 50

    Show HN: Web Audio Studio – A Visual Debugger for Web Audio API Graphs (webaudio.studio)
  • 4 16

    Claude Seems to Be Down
  • 5 36

    How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart (www.nytimes.com)
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    Pluralism and the Modern Poet (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 405 927

    Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server (www.windowslatest.com)
  • 306 325

    U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs (www.science.org)
  • 116 186

    Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees (copyrightlately.com)
  • 97 93

    Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
  • 175 405

    Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative (commerce.jolla.com)
  • 4 32

    AWS data center hit by Iran (www.reuters.com)
  • 12 77

    Neocaml – Rubocop Creator's New OCaml Mode for Emacs (github.com)
  • 342 595

    /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem (e.foundation)
  • 39 144

    Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres (github.com)
  • 478 476

    How to talk to anyone and why you should (www.theguardian.com)
  • 2 17

    The Mini PET 40/80 (2022) (blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk)
  • 178 378

    Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) (www.noelberry.ca)
  • 652 1836

    Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS (motorolanews.com)
  • 49 90

    Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right (variantsystems.io)
  • 0 41

    The inner workings of TCP zero-copy (blog.tohojo.dk)
  • 17 119

    An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (growingswe.com)
  • 41 91

    Enable CORS for Your Blog (www.blogsareback.com)
  • 36 37

    Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity (www.bbc.com)
  • 47 145

    How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice (ellanew.com)
  • 3 24

    Have your cake and decompress it too (spiraldb.com)
  • 28 140

    Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor (deadlime.hu)
  • 56 53

    Frankensqlite a Rust reimplementation of SQLite with concurrent writers (frankensqlite.com)
  • 50 71

    Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs (github.com)
  • 140 434

    Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record (www.wltx.com)
  • 70 171

    You don't have to (www.scottsmitelli.com)
  • 10 61

    C64 Copy Protection (www.commodoregames.net)
  • 3 23

    Show HN: Logira – eBPF runtime auditing for AI agent runs (github.com)
  • 2 103

    Claude hits #1 on the App Store as users rally behind Anthropic (9to5mac.com)
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  • 61 246

    Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU (github.com)
  • 7 34

    Running Neural Amp Modeler on embedded hardware (www.tone3000.com)
  • 368 450

    If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? (github.com)
  • 30 178

    Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python (github.com)
  • 19 57

    Show HN: Vibe Code your 3D Models (github.com)
  • 42 40

    What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals (www.nytimes.com)
  • 65 63

    U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out (www.wsj.com)
  • 29 86

    Next-gen spacecraft are overwhelming communication networks (atempleton.bearblog.dev)
  • 51 96

    Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict (www.morningstar.com)
  • 85 160

    Little Free Library (littlefreelibrary.org)
  • 120 216

    Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023) (tovejansson.com)
  • 194 348

    WebMCP is available for early preview (developer.chrome.com)
  • 22 6

    Show HN: I'm 15. I mass published 134K lines to hold AI agents accountable (github.com)
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  • 198 124

    Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting (www.mysanantonio.com)
  • 29 23

    Psychology: Who dont maintain many close friends, learned independence too early (www.bolde.com)
  • 124 93

    Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 19 76

    South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto by Posting Password Online (gizmodo.com)
  • 0 19

    Working with memories can reduce fear of failure (medicalxpress.com)
  • 42 50

    Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health (www.cambridge.org)
  • 10 62

    Programming in K (github.com)
  • 12 111

    How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers (2013) (www.eff.org)
  • 138 146

    Why does C have the best file API (maurycyz.com)
  • 20 68

    Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024) (arxiv.org)
  • 64 94

    This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell (shawnfromportland.substack.com)
  • 4 13

    The third era of AI software development (twitter.com)
  • 11 475

    How to talk to anyone and why you should (www.theguardian.com)
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  • 47 298

    Microgpt explained interactively (growingswe.com)
  • 1 42

    Gzpeek: Tool to Parse Gzip Metadata (evanhahn.com)
  • 106 231

    Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE) (health.aws.amazon.com)
  • 105 140

    A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran (twitter.com)
  • 7 14

    'Employers are increasingly turning to degree and GPA' (fortune.com)
  • 5 24

    How Dada enables internal references (smallcultfollowing.com)
  • 5 61

    January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more (servo.org)
  • 11 15

    6 Practices that turned AI from prototyper to workhorse (106 PRs in 14 days)
  • 9 57

    Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents (github.com)
  • 49 58

    Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference (pyrefly.org)
  • 276 422

    When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)
  • 4 63

    Evil in the West Bank (www.nybooks.com)
  • 32 42

    I Built a Scheme Compiler with AI in 4 Days (matthewphillips.info)
  • 4 4

    Show HN: I made a iron dome game (deployclaw.com)
  • 318 180

    Long Range E-Bike (2021) (jacquesmattheij.com)
  • 3 42

    Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)
  • 234 185

    Setting up phones is a nightmare (joelchrono.xyz)
  • 102 308

    New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 149 222

    Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude (glthr.com)
  • 357 209

    AI is making junior devs useless (beabetterdev.com)
  • 138 184

    Ape Coding [fiction] (rsaksida.com)
  • 68 57

    US Military says 3 service members have been killed (apnews.com)
  • 34 83

    Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last (cen.acs.org)
  • 32 47

    Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak (www.theguardian.com)
  • 305 389

    AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder (www.ivanturkovic.com)
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  • 72 135

    Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017) (www.gimp.org)
  • 350 829

    Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org)
  • 19 33

    Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)
  • 50 241

    Flightradar24 for Ships (atlas.flexport.com)
  • 26 77

    Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio (phys.org)
  • 305 574

    I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported (99helpers.com)
  • 1 7

    I used 2D Base64 to bypass Gemini and expose Google's moderation flaws
  • 25 103

    The real cost of random I/O (vondra.me)
  • 7 56

    Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (www.pigeonsandplanes.com)
  • 35 127

    Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)
  • 23 22

    Show HN: Terminal-Style Portfolio on the Internet (kuber.studio)
  • 2 30

    Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat (adlrocha.substack.com)
  • 25 117

    Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (security.googleblog.com)
  • 78 535

    Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)
  • 28 152

    An ode to houseplant programming (2025) (hannahilea.com)
  • 268 574

    Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)
  • 60 253

    10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)
  • 6 25

    Cracking the Python Monorepo (gafni.dev)
  • 12 107

    Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (www.morling.dev)
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  • 19 49

    The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024) (dl.acm.org)
  • 18 103

    Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (www.nature.com)
  • 44 37

    Microsoft announces new "mini PCs" for Windows 365 (www.neowin.net)
  • 18 45

    SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support (discourse.threejs.org)
  • 58 173

    Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)
  • 314 1883

    Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)
  • 100 102

    Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10% (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 25 74

    Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster (www.amd.com)
  • 38 152

    H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery (www.inconspicuous.info)
  • 3 18

    War Is a Racket (Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC) (archive.org)
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  • 63 64

    Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2 (github.com)
  • 115 277

    Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store (apps.apple.com)
  • 65 141

    Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities (fortune.com)