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    Show HN: Respectify – a comment moderator that teaches people to argue better (respectify.org)
  • 0 4

    Access to a Shared Unix Computer (tilde.club)
  • 2 9

    Reverse engineering the KakaoTalk app so I can build a Beeper Bridge (jusung.dev)
  • 1 6

    Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments (www.linum.ai)
  • 2 8

    I made MCP cheaper in one command (kanyilmaz.me)
  • 11 55

    Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 1 5

    Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back (www.playlinex.com)
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    Show HN: Django-xbench – slow endpoint aggregation for Django (github.com)
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    Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism (david.alvarezrosa.com)
  • 1 8

    The Appeal and Reality of Recycling LoRAs with Adaptive Merging (arxiv.org)
  • 7 12

    Attyx – tiny and fast GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Zig (github.com)
  • 45 51

    I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus (github.com)
  • 2 17

    Scipy.stats. Chatterjeexi (docs.scipy.org)
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    Disabled woman put in nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' (www.bbc.com)
  • 46 126

    Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go (github.com)
  • 55 66

    The Slow Death of the Power User (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
  • 29 158

    om (www.om-language.com)
  • 52 39

    Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org)
  • 95 137

    The Pentagon threatens Anthropic (www.astralcodexten.com)
  • 77 82

    Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw (tachyon.so)
  • 11 34

    Text-Based Google Directions (gdir.telae.net)
  • 65 72

    Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' (www.theregister.com)
  • 123 120

    Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (simonlermen.substack.com)
  • 149 70

    Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (blogs.windows.com)
  • 177 272

    Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid (arstechnica.com)
  • 2 64

    Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (arxiv.org)
  • Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 13 47

    PL/0 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 14 20

    Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software dev (GOAL.md → working code) (github.com)
  • 368 227

    Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
  • 12 107

    Racket v9.1 (blog.racket-lang.org)
  • 1 15

    Our Computer Using agent just solved CAPTCHA up to Level 6
  • 62 87

    The Misuses of the University (www.publicbooks.org)
  • 1 15

    The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (www.popsci.com)
  • 30 77

    GNU Texmacs (www.texmacs.org)
  • 392 474

    New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 21 51

    Topological Naming Problem (wiki.freecad.org)
  • 44 88

    Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin (github.com)
  • 289 345

    US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives (www.reuters.com)
  • 82 72

    Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
  • 2 34

    The History of a Security Hole (www.os2museum.com)
  • 36 28

    Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats (app.teamout.com)
  • 70 72

    Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock (www.clocksimulator.com)
  • 103 38

    What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
  • 69 104

    Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build (thenewstack.io)
  • 37 52

    Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters (paultendo.github.io)
  • 183 144

    AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations (www.newscientist.com)
  • 346 589

    Never buy a .online domain (www.0xsid.com)
  • 30 219

    How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996) (web.archive.org)
  • 81 158

    100M-Row Challenge with PHP (github.com)
  • Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 20 24

    Read Locks Are Not Your Friends (eventual-consistency.vercel.app)
  • 3 18

    Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps (blog.popey.com)
  • 2 17

    Vinext – The Next.js API surface, reimplemented on Vite (github.com)
  • 238 426

    Claude Code Remote Control (code.claude.com)
  • 334 662

    Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)
  • 65 180

    Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play (llmskirmish.com)
  • 12 27

    Michael Pollan punctures the AI bubble (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 0 22

    30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1 (2024) (mahaloz.re)
  • 0 7

    Show HN: LookTake – Try anyone's makeup, outfit, or hairstyle on your photo (about.looktake.io)
  • 1 37

    Show HN: Scheme-langserver – Digest incomplete code with static analysis (github.com)
  • 134 198

    LLM=True (blog.codemine.be)
  • 5 50

    Meta problem with URPF our bundle in Boca raton (metafixthis.com)
  • 103 53

    Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo (www.dropbox.com)
  • 52 27

    Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app (shouldhavebought.com)
  • 6 20

    React just left meta. Here's what that means for developers (sulat.com)
  • 39 67

    Sovereignty in a System Prompt (pop.rdi.sh)
  • 35 132

    Japanese Death Poems (www.secretorum.life)
  • 9 35

    3D-Printed electric motor via multi-modal, multi-material extrusion (www.tandfonline.com)
  • 25 110

    Turing Completeness of GNU find (arxiv.org)
  • 23 72

    Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code (github.com)
  • 15 42

    Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They're Enforcing It (www.wsj.com)
  • 19 73

    Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp (github.com)
  • 69 88

    Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
  • 91 78

    Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years (www.wsetglobal.com)
  • 78 69

    What Happened to Fry's Electronics (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 124 96

    Code has always been the easy part (laughingmeme.org)
  • 1 10

    Capybara: A Unified Visual Creation Model (github.com)
  • 279 576

    Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge (time.com)
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    Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy (www.thebignewsletter.com)
  • 93 190

    US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards (www.theguardian.com)
  • 49 104

    Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty (matklad.github.io)
  • 3 22

    PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026 (www.geekwire.com)
  • Corgi Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
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    Aesthetics of single threading (ta.fo)
  • 121 333

    Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion (www.inceptionlabs.ai)
  • 73 63

    Fed's Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible unemployment rise (www.reuters.com)
  • 24 33

    Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
  • 4 27

    Proposal: Add "AI generated" as a flag reason (lobste.rs)
  • 170 160

    Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid (www.cape.co)
  • 4 30

    The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 81 123

    Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal (www.cnbc.com)
  • 15 84

    Optophone (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 13 21

    Dream Recorder AI – a portal to your subconscious (dreamrecorder.ai)
  • 4 9

    Show HN: Declarative open-source framework for MCPs with search and execute (hyperterse.com)
  • 70 308

    Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3 (github.com)
  • 281 562

    Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness (pi.dev)
  • 59 82

    We are changing our developer productivity experiment design (metr.org)
  • 5 25

    Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding (pattern-pathfinder.vercel.app)
  • 1 8

    Variable interpolatable smooth curves and outlines (thottingal.in)
  • 210 500

    How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 641 616

    Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston (www.apple.com)
  • 167 183

    Looks like it is happening (www.math.columbia.edu)
  • 13 47

    Why High FOV Sucks – Fixing It with Panini Projection (www.youtube.com)
  • 99 137

    Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah (www.cnn.com)
  • 35 62

    Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate (distrowatch.com)
  • 25 79

    Build Your Own Forth Interpreter (codingchallenges.fyi)
  • 86 322

    Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (www.mariannefeng.com)
  • 2 38

    Show HN: Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP) (github.com)
  • 106 269

    Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org)
  • 69 197

    Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment (github.com)
  • 22 94

    Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders (www.bbc.com)
  • 187 215

    OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B (www.cnbc.com)
  • 53 55

    I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone (macky.dev)
  • 274 223

    Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14% (electrek.co)
  • 181 135

    1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
  • 188 412

    Nearby Glasses (github.com)
  • 55 190

    Hugging Face Skills (github.com)
  • 195 625

    OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)
  • 10 17

    The 7-Year Bug That Took 3 Minutes to Fix (agilitza.com)
  • 6 35

    Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs
  • 9 5

    Will the U.S. confirm that aliens exist before 2027? (27%) (kalshi.com)
  • 43 123

    Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon (www.9news.com)
  • 3 23

    Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape (arstechnica.com)
  • 362 1075

    I'm helping my dog vibe code games (www.calebleak.com)
  • 101 139

    Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite (mketab.org)
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  • 362 436

    Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution (keepandroidopen.org)
  • 17 22

    Catherine of Braganza, the Queen Who Brought Tea to England (www.thecollector.com)
  • 108 104

    Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety (linkinghub.elsevier.com)
  • 14 63

    An AI doomsday report shook US markets (www.theguardian.com)
  • Verge (YC S15) Is Hiring a Director of Computational Biology and AI Scientists/Eng (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 105 217

    Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024) (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
  • 10 25

    The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year (www.wired.com)
  • 26 72

    Extending C with Prolog (1994) (www.amzi.com)
  • 236 228

    Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter (stripe.com)
  • 58 42

    Software 3.1? – AI Functions (blog.mikegchambers.com)
  • 107 177

    Samsung Upcycle Promise (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 11 11

    Show HN: Out Plane – A PaaS I built solo from Istanbul in 3 months (outplane.com)
  • 185 356

    We installed a single turnstile to feel secure (idiallo.com)
  • 24 61

    Trump Fake Electors Plot (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 190 537

    I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)
  • 217 216

    IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight (www.nytimes.com)
  • 27 39

    Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology (newatlas.com)
  • 324 439

    Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona (fortune.com)
  • 63 59

    xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems (www.axios.com)
  • 157 355

    Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 (hacks.mozilla.org)
  • 31 35

    Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings) (github.com)
  • 854 1999

    IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report (www.dropsitenews.com)
  • 40 65

    ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives (github.com)
  • 14 19

    The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die (www.wired.com)
  • 14 38

    Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r (github.com)
  • 38 161

    λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic (www.lix.polytechnique.fr)
  • 105 78

    Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 126 436

    The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026 (missing.csail.mit.edu)
  • 52 166

    A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage (turbopuffer.com)
  • 129 78

    AI-generated replies are a scourge these days (twitter.com)
  • 3 47

    Graph Topology and Battle Royale Mechanics (blog.lukesalamone.com)
  • 1 39

    Show HN: Cellarium: A Playground for Cellular Automata (github.com)
  • 99 456

    Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware (www.withdiode.com)
  • 17 34

    NPM install is stealing your passwords – I built a tool to catch it (westbayberry.com)
  • 19 33

    The Engine Behind the Hype (www.onuruzunismail.com)
  • 94 283

    Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 387 456

    Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)
  • 32 76

    Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music (journals.plos.org)
  • 12 26

    The Weird OS Built Around a Database [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 128 195

    Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes (github.com)
  • 48 61

    Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series (www.intel.com)
  • 30 53

    Typed Assembly Language (2000) (www.cs.cornell.edu)
  • 113 68

    Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare (www.lendingtree.com)
  • 37 88

    Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 13 19

    I turned off ChatGPT's memory (every.to)
  • 92 265

    Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)
  • 315 475

    Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 166 434

    Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (medicalxpress.com)
  • 4 11

    GPU Rack Power Density, 2015–2025 (syaala.com)
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    Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair (www.ifixit.com)
  • 87 321

    Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates (www.guidelabs.ai)
  • 4 17

    Unfavorable Semicircle (www.unfavorablesemicircle.com)
  • 13 49

    NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026) (www.federalregister.gov)
  • 27 47

    Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends (singh-sanjay.com)
  • 64 293

    I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270 (dork.dev)
  • 3 44

    Lords of the Ring (harpers.org)
  • 110 214

    Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons (www.guitarworld.com)
  • 26 46

    The rise of eyes began with just one (www.nytimes.com)
  • 20 16

    Psychology suggests making a shopping list is a sign of sharper thinking (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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    I discovered a hidden tragedy tied to Russia's most famous painting (www.theguardian.com)