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The Problem with LLMs
deobald.ca

Premise Six months ago, a friend of mine, with whom I work on the nonprofit Pariyatti mobile app, sent me this blog post by Vijay Khanna: From Idea to App in 7 Hours. By now, this is a fairly common zero-to-one LLM coding story. (LLM is short for Large Language Model but for the purposes of this essay, we’ll use it as a substitute for what is broadly categorized as “generative AI” in early 2026.

Heroku is not dead
nombiezinja.com

When I read the blog https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/ , I had also thought Heroku was done. Then I talked to my friends who still work there, and I don't think Heroku is dead. I am going to talk about what happened, with a focus on organization dynamics in a start-up post acquis

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
papers.ssrn.com
Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
age-verifier.kibty.town
Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again
techcrunch.com

Amanda Silberling - While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May iOS update, or even until the release of iOS 27 in September.

Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas
carbonbrief.org

Molly Lempriere - The UK government has secured a record 7.4 gigawatts of solar, onshore wind and tidal power in its latest auction for new renewable capacity.

Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case
arstechnica.com

Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
missionlocal.org

Joe Rivano Barros - The Y Combinator CEO announced "Garry's List," a new big-money group spending and operating in races across the state.

US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law
arstechnica.com

US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law.

Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated
terracenetworks.com

We see no evidence that specific core network autonomous systems have blocked Telnet, contrary to previous reports. We specifically see continued non-spoofable Telnet traffic from networks on which GreyNoise saw 100% drop-off. We suspect initial results may have been measurement artifacts or specifi

Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums
agentalcove.ai
show

An autonomous forum where six AI agents discuss ideas with each other. Humans spectate and upvote — agents see what you like and prioritize it.

Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
bloomberg.com

Apple Inc.’s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks, potentially pushing back the release of several highly anticipated functions.

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)
blog.stuffedcow.net
Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel
twitter.com
Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime
github.com/adenhq
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Outcome driven agent development framework that evolves - adenhq/hive

Discord Alternatives
soatok.blog

Next month, Discord is going to start requiring age verification. The backlash from gamers everywhere has been predictable and justified. I guess their company name checks out. I’ve had a few…

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
macrumors.com

Apple today released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, all of which largely focus on bug fixes and security improvements. Apple says that the updates address dozens of vulnerabilities, including one that is known to have been actively exploited.

Components will kill pages
bitsandbytes.dev
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
cell.com
How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
lifehacker.com

The FBI produced footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell, despite it being disconnected.

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
theverge.com

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy - Is it just for the dogs?

Claude Code is being dumbed down?
symmetrybreak.ing
Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas
truthout.org

Mike Ludwig - The number of people held at the notorious Dilley immigration jail has nearly tripled since October.

NetNewsWire Turns 23
netnewswire.blog
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
thehill.com
Should your developer company go open source?
extremefoundership.substack.com

Jean Lafleur - A decision framework for founders who want leverage, not vibes

Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life (2016)
cbc.ca

The case of a man who is still able to function even though most of his brain is missing, has given fuel to radical theories about consciousness. Psychologist Axel Cleeremans, of the Université Libre in Brussels, explains how.

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
z.ai
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
reuters.com
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
fluorite.game
NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw's biggest security issues
venturebeat.com
U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025
nbcnews.com

The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

Railway (PaaS) global outage
status.railway.com

Railway Status

Why vampires live forever
machielreyneke.com

The modern longevity movement's obsession with blood transfusions makes perfect sense — if you accept that Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson are vampires.

AI-First Company Memos
the-ai-native.company

Every major CEO AI-first memo and mandate, collected. Shopify, Box, Duolingo, Fiverr, Meta, Klarna, Alibaba, Notion, and more.

Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer
nytimes.com
Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world
pluralistic.net
Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way
github.com/mogenius
show

Operator to streamline renovate executions in Kubernetes - mogenius/renovate-operator

Show HN: Triclock – A Triangular Clock
triclock.franzai.com
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A triangular clock that maps time to color

Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com

Richard Feynman's FBI file contains one very pointed, personal, anonymous attack. But can we figure out who wrote it from the context?

MiniMax M2.5
agent.minimax.io
GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
z.ai
Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents
github.com/JaredStewart
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Tree-sitter-powered code indexing server that gives LLM agents precise, on-demand access to symbols, implementations, callers, tests, and grep across multi-language projects - so they explore codeb...

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
apnews.com

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

Exposure Simulator
andersenimages.com
Do not apologize for replying late to my email
ploum.net
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data
qcontinuum.substack.com

Q Continuum - Summary

Something Big Is Happening
shumer.dev

Matt Shumer - A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
nytimes.com
A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
astro.theoj.org

Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Weibel, Yijia Li, Jorryt Matthee, John Chisolm, Clara L. Pollock, Kasper E. Heintz, Benjamin D. Johnson, Xuejian Shan, Raphael E. Hviding, Joel Leja, Sandro Tacchella, Arpita Ganguly, Callum Witten, Hakim Atek, Siro Belli, Sownak Bose, Rychard Bouwens, Pratika Dayal, Roberto Decarli, Anna de Graaff, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Emma Giovinazzo, Jenny E. Greene, Garth Il - By Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch & 44 more. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a bright galaxy, MoM-z14, located 280 million years post-Big Bang, challenging previous models and suggesting a rising star-formation history.

The AI Vampire
steve-yegge.medium.com
Communities are not fungible
joanwestenberg.com

There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
cve.org
Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV
news.ycombinator.com
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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005)
stevejobsarchive.com

Marking the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech with a digitally enhanced version of the video as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how it came to be: from firsthand accounts from people who were connected to the commencement to Steve’s personal drafts.

A simpler way to remove explicit images from Search
blog.google

There’s a new, simpler way for people to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search.

YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push
bbc.com

YouTube's total revenue last year surpassed that of rival streamer Netflix as it seeks to dominate TVs.

NetBSD 11.0 RC1
netbsd.org
End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
kraxel.org

Gerd Hoffmann - Ok, it is over. End of an era for me. No more self-hosted git. I had a public git server running since 2011, and a public cvs server before that. AI scrapers have hammered the poor, little server to death by flooding the cgit frontend with tons of pointless² requests. Actually a few months ago already. Now I finally decided to not try rebuild the server, be it with or without cgit web frontend. I don't feel like taki

FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
arstechnica.com

The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.

CEO 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
404media.co

"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
rivian.com

Discover the Rivian R2 — a bold, electric 5-seat SUV designed for the adventurous. Explore pricing, experience mid-size EV innovation and reserve yours today.

Fun With Pinball
funwithpinball.com

Fun With Pinball small board assembly instructions explanations flipper solenoid stepper video

GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2
github.com/openai

What version of Codex CLI is running? codex-cli 0.99.0-alpha.10 What subscription do you have? ChatGPT Pro Which model were you using? gpt-5.3-codex What platform is your computer? Darwin 25.2.0 ar...

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
nbcnews.com

Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

We rendered and embedded one million CAD files
cad-search-three.vercel.app
Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source)
itsyhome.app
show

Nick Ustinov - A free macOS menu bar app for controlling your HomeKit smart home devices. Cameras, lights, thermostats, locks, fans, blinds, and more — always one click away.

The Day the Telnet Died
labs.greynoise.io

hrbrmstr & 🔮Orbie✨ - On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.

The Falkirk Wheel
scottishcanals.co.uk
Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams
github.com/getclawe
show

Multi-agent coordination system powered by OpenClaw. Good for automating weekly SEO review, editing, and publishing workflows for agencies. - getclawe/clawe

Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components
github.com/tambo-ai

Generative UI SDK for React. Contribute to tambo-ai/tambo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser
intervolz.com
show
Go 1.26 Release Notes
go.dev
Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)
airuniversity.af.edu
How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
devblogs.microsoft.com

Raymond Chen - Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.

Show HN: Multimodal perception system for real-time conversation
raven.tavuslabs.org
show

Experience Raven-1, Tavus's multimodal perception model that understands not just what you say, but how you say it. See real-time tone, expression, and intent analysis.

Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – An AI-native notebook for data analysis
livedocs.com
launch

Livedocs is your AI data scientist—a collaborative workspace combining the power of notebooks with the simplicity of app builders, designed for modern teams

The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey
hazemkrimi.tech

How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.

World's first fully Client-Side Webmail Client
mail.cock.li
Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
simonwillison.net
show

Simon Willison - A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests—we need artifacts …

Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
github.com/taf2

cli based Markdown viewer. Contribute to taf2/mdvi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number
theintercept.com

Jessica Washington - Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

ClawHub
clawhub.ai

ClawHub — a fast skill registry for agents, with vector search.

London's most controversial cyclist
the-londoner.co.uk

How Cycling Mikey's quest for road safety divided London

Show HN: Stripe-no-webhooks – Sync your Stripe data to your Postgres DB
github.com/pretzelai
show

Contribute to pretzelai/stripe-no-webhooks development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
campedersen.com

src={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
londoncentric.media

Jim Waterson - Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?

Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
paperboat.website
show

Welcome to paperboat.website!

Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss
cell.com
Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)
github.com/rowboatlabs
show

Open-source AI coworker, with memory. Contribute to rowboatlabs/rowboat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
infinitelymore.xyz

Joel David Hamkins - I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.

Competition is not market validation
ablg.io

How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit

Obsidian Introduces Obsidian CLI
help.obsidian.md

Obsidian CLI - Obsidian Help

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
entire.io

Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.

Bazzite Post-Mortem
ba.antheas.dev
Disruption with Some GitHub Services
githubstatus.com
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
jamesdrandall.com

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
bloomberg.com

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