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  • 2 12

    Why High FOV Sucks – Fixing It with Panini Projection (www.youtube.com)
  • 11 38

    Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah (www.cnn.com)
  • 4 22

    Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate (distrowatch.com)
  • 1 17

    Build Your Own Forth Interpreter (codingchallenges.fyi)
  • 15 62

    Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (www.mariannefeng.com)
  • 2 15

    Show HN: Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP) (github.com)
  • 25 90

    Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org)
  • 20 50

    Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment (github.com)
  • 13 68

    Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders (www.bbc.com)
  • 127 149

    OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B (www.cnbc.com)
  • 36 42

    I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone (macky.dev)
  • 187 191

    Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14% (electrek.co)
  • 83 85

    1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
  • 50 129

    Nearby Glasses (github.com)
  • 29 90

    HuggingFace Agent Skills (github.com)
  • 104 330

    OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)
  • 3 16

    The 7-Year Bug That Took 3 Minutes to Fix (agilitza.com)
  • 4 14

    Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs
  • 8 4

    Will the U.S. confirm that aliens exist before 2027? (27%) (kalshi.com)
  • 32 85

    Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon (www.9news.com)
  • 2 16

    Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape (arstechnica.com)
  • 126 427

    I'm helping my dog vibe code games (www.calebleak.com)
  • 52 59

    Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite (mketab.org)
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  • 220 286

    Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution (keepandroidopen.org)
  • 12 19

    Catherine of Braganza, the Queen Who Brought Tea to England (www.thecollector.com)
  • 77 79

    Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety (linkinghub.elsevier.com)
  • 8 45

    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)
  • 68 178

    Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024) (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
  • 10 24

    The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year (www.wired.com)
  • 17 50

    Extending C with Prolog (1994) (www.amzi.com)
  • 166 153

    Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter (stripe.com)
  • 54 41

    Software 3.1? – AI Functions (blog.mikegchambers.com)
  • 92 155

    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)
  • 93 223

    We installed a single turnstile to feel secure (idiallo.com)
  • 15 47

    Trump Fake Electors Plot (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 175 160

    IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight (www.nytimes.com)
  • 128 349

    I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)
  • 25 33

    Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology (newatlas.com)
  • 279 378

    Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona (fortune.com)
  • 62 51

    xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems (www.axios.com)
  • 136 300

    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)
  • 156 734

    IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report (www.dropsitenews.com)
  • 35 57

    ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives (github.com)
  • 11 17

    The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die (www.wired.com)
  • 14 34

    Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r (github.com)
  • 35 126

    λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic (www.lix.polytechnique.fr)
  • 100 63

    Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 100 344

    The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026 (missing.csail.mit.edu)
  • 48 151

    A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage (turbopuffer.com)
  • 118 51

    AI-generated replies are a scourge these days (twitter.com)
  • 3 41

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

    Show HN: Cellarium: A Playground for Cellular Automata (github.com)
  • 91 415

    Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware (www.withdiode.com)
  • 16 31

    NPM install is stealing your passwords – I built a tool to catch it (westbayberry.com)
  • 19 32

    The Engine Behind the Hype (www.onuruzunismail.com)
  • 87 249

    Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme (unsung.aresluna.org)
  • 365 442

    Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)
  • 31 66

    Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music (journals.plos.org)
  • 11 25

    The Weird OS Built Around a Database [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 117 185

    Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes (github.com)
  • 45 59

    Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series (www.intel.com)
  • 30 51

    Typed Assembly Language (2000) (www.cs.cornell.edu)
  • 105 67

    Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare (www.lendingtree.com)
  • 30 87

    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)
  • 83 251

    Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)
  • 278 457

    Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)
  • 162 416

    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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  • 44 171

    Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair (www.ifixit.com)
  • 87 308

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

    Unfavorable Semicircle (www.unfavorablesemicircle.com)
  • 12 49

    NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026) (www.federalregister.gov)
  • 25 47

    Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends (singh-sanjay.com)
  • 59 283

    I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270 (dork.dev)
  • 3 43

    Lords of the Ring (harpers.org)
  • 103 209

    Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons (www.guitarworld.com)
  • 26 45

    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)
  • 3 19

    NZ health app breach: Alive patients marked dead, names changed to Charlie Kirk (www.stuff.co.nz)
  • 10 47

    Tesla is having a hard time turning over its FSD traffic violation data (electrek.co)
  • 263 276

    AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says (gizmodo.com)
  • 159 294

    Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 172 223

    You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer (twitter.com)
  • 0 24

    Sam Altman's anti-human worldview (disconnect.blog)
  • 23 30

    Disappointing Phones (cadence.moe)
  • 7 28

    How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 31 41

    What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics (jamesoswald.dev)
  • 7 15

    HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons (duti.dev)
  • 6 33

    US ambassador to France banned from meeting French government (www.reuters.com)
  • 340 415

    FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)
  • 10 34

    AI-powered reverse-engineering of Rosetta 2 (for Linux VM) (github.com)
  • 1 32

    Scent, in Silico (www.asimov.press)
  • 45 137

    Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com)
  • 16 83

    The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II (www.colino.net)
  • 78 112

    Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances (videocardz.com)
  • 102 255

    Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight (thenevadaindependent.com)
  • 106 111

    IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL (www.zerohedge.com)
  • SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 423 356

    “Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)
  • 67 202

    UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (forums.atariage.com)
  • 48 11

    Yes there is a right way to stack the dishwasher. Here are the 5 rules (www.bbc.com)
  • 11 35

    India's VIP culture is out of control (www.economist.com)
  • 466 689

    Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)
  • 250 540

    Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (www.nytimes.com)
  • 35 71

    A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs (www.techradar.com)
  • 17 22

    Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine (ghostklan.com)
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  • 6 33

    Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf] (sites.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 140 145

    Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot (twitter.com)
  • 104 359

    ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (www.reuters.com)
  • 75 75

    US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables (futurism.com)
  • 93 126

    Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (old.reddit.com)
  • 24 89

    The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020) (www.newscientist.com)
  • 262 178

    What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
  • 93 42

    Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries (www.linguabase.org)
  • 428 334

    Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  • 67 83

    AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 61 69

    Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index (www.anthropic.com)
  • 4 42

    Ed's Stratego Site (www.edcollins.com)
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  • 56 312

    Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com)
  • 45 175

    Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
  • 113 88

    Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later (text.npr.org)
  • Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 21 46

    Dow drops 600 points as confusion grows after U.S. tariffs (www.cnbc.com)
  • 179 170

    ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (www.science.org)
  • 104 84

    AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data (arstechnica.com)
  • 110 65

    Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs (restofworld.org)
  • 27 110

    Show HN: C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm (github.com)
  • 76 51

    If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 0 38

    First, They Came for the Journalists (www.codastory.com)
  • 224 300

    A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
  • 23 57

    Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (terezi.pyrope.net)
  • 88 65

    How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon (www.governance.fyi)
  • 13 64

    NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade (www.theregister.com)
  • 8 10

    Artist who "paints" portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer (simonbergerart.com)
  • 22 100

    Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com)
  • 60 46

    Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026 (www.coinerella.com)
  • 1258 1629

    The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 115 255

    The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
  • 9 28

    Microspeak: Escrow (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 15 141

    femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com)
  • 32 67

    What Is a Centipawn Advantage? (win-vector.com)
  • 14 40

    I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab) (idonutbelieve.com)
  • 120 112

    VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev)
  • 52 88

    Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt (blog.nytsoi.net)
  • 57 65

    Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel" (prql-lang.org)
  • 45 47

    What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile (dinkomarinac.dev)
  • 3 454

    Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (old.reddit.com)
  • 2 6

    The Oracle of Bacon: Thirty Years Later (3quarksdaily.com)
  • 691 1240

    Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
  • 57 167

    Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
  • 146 219

    Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)
  • 57 60

    A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident (www.thedrive.com)
  • 76 93

    Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation (www.404media.co)
  • 14 28

    QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021) (www.theresistornetwork.com)
  • 23 89

    SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iopscience.iop.org)
  • 126 389

    Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
  • 591 457

    Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% (docs.hetzner.com)
  • 5 23

    Cursor’s debug mode is arguably its best feature (davidgomes.com)
  • 103 551

    Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (www.chrisbrunet.com)
  • 14 11

    A bug is a bug, but a patch is a policy: The case for bootable containers (tuananh.net)
  • 440 566

    Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (www.ewtnnews.com)
  • 559 412

    Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 42 35

    Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?
  • Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in AI for Summer 2026 in Austria (bitmovin.com)
  • 62 191

    Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
  • 42 80

    What I learned designing a barebones UI engine (madebymohammed.com)
  • 38 70

    How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)
  • 1 20

    JIT: A header-only, cross-platform JIT compiler library in C (github.com)
  • 116 343

    0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
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    What size should I use for my queue (www.syntacticbrownsugar.tech)
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  • 2 29

    Rhythms the Compendium: Life aboard an aircraft carrier (2021) (thelexicans.wordpress.com)
  • 0 10

    LGP to take Mister Car Wash private in $3.1B deal (www.alternativeswatch.com)
  • 72 265

    Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
  • 136 245

    The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
  • 16 80

    How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
  • 35 64

    Agentic Software Engineering Book (agenticse-book.github.io)
  • 32 75

    Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com)
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  • 24 84

    The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
  • 235 225

    $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (www.yahoo.com)
  • 34 52

    The power of daily rituals (2021) (www.bbc.com)
  • 188 377

    My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 25 40

    IT Staffing Firms (TCS, Cognizant, Infosis Underpay Developers by 80–100% (h1bdatahub.com)
  • 43 45

    Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
  • 11 49

    Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com)
  • 44 96

    Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss (www.nytimes.com)
  • 21 118

    Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative (old.reddit.com)