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A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
github.com/robertcprice

nCPU: model-native and tensor-optimized CPU research runtimes with organized workloads, tools, and docs - robertcprice/nCPU

Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
terriblesoftware.org

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
runxiyu.org
Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD)
arxiv.org

Autoregressive decoding is bottlenecked by its sequential nature. Speculative decoding has become a standard way to accelerate inference by using a fast draft model to predict upcoming tokens from a slower target model, and then verifying them in parallel with a single target model forward pass. However, speculative decoding itself relies on a sequential dependence between speculation and verification. We introduce s

Just Send the Prompt
justsendtheprompt.com
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
arstechnica.com

Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 (2022)
bjango.com

Since writing about Mac external displays in 2016, not much has changed. LG, Dell, Samsung, and other display makers have either never catered for the specs many Mac designers and developers want, or they’ve reluctantly produced products that have been short-lived or compromised.

Graphics Programming Resources
develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app

Graphics programming resources and learning materials

Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities
github.com/Ataraxy-Labs

Entity-level semantic merge driver for Git. Resolves conflicts that git can't by understanding code structure via tree-sitter. 31/31 clean merges vs git's 15/31. - Ataraxy-Labs/weave

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
bbc.com

TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

Marcus AI Claims Dataset
github.com/davegoldblatt

Systematic extraction and analysis of every testable AI claim Gary Marcus made on his Substack (2022-2026). Dual-pipeline analysis by Claude and ChatGPT with hybrid reconciliation. - davegoldblatt/...

The largest acidic geyser has been putting on quite a show
usgs.gov
Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
grapheneos.social

@luana@wetdry.world It will fully support using other operating systems including users making their own builds of GrapheneOS. It's part of our hardware requirements. We'll likely be able to make hardened builds of firmware and drivers which can be released in an official way for easy builds without needing to extract anything from the GrapheneOS or Motorola OS factory images.

You can't use a code editor when you're under 18 now?
mastodon.online

Attached: 1 image Wait what, you can't use a *code* editor when you're under 18 now? 🤔

Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
euronews.com

A growing protest movement is encouraging people to cancel their subscriptions to the popular AI chatbot.

My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
ddmckinnon.com

dmckinno@gmail.com - I shared this internally at Meta in response to a deluge of clout-chasing posts celebrating PMs landing prod diffs. The response was positive and the message generalizes, so here we are on the open www. PMs shouldn’t waste time landing … Continue reading →

Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
ifixit.com

Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.

Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks
talos.wtf
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
politico.eu

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

Don't make me talk to your chatbot
raymyers.org

It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.

Rubio to World: Stop Doing the Exact Same Thing the US Just Did
techdirt.com

The State Department wants US diplomats to fight data localization around the world. The policy position is correct. It’s just that the messenger has spent the last few months systematically …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff
wsj.com
Ubuntu Planning Mandatory Age Verification
twitter.com
CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack
washingtonpost.com
Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
elbowgreasegames.substack.com

John Graham - VoxRay Games has added a new Crystal Cathedral world and grenades alongside a wealth of other assets and world building features while Voxile goes 40%-off on Steam

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell
gamehistory.org

Phil Salvador - We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

I audited the privacy of popular free dev tools, the results are terrifying
toolbox-kit.com

I tested what happens when you paste code into popular online developer tools. Some sites contact 96 external domains, set 540 cookies, and run real-time ad auctions on your data. Here is everything I found.

Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands
wired.com

Andy Greenberg - A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)
jakelazaroff.com

CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.

GitHub having issues [resolved]
githubstatus.com
Iran War Cost Tracker
iran-cost-ticker.com

Track the cost of the Iran war in real time. Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on Operation Epic Fury — updated every second.

Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
tomshardware.com

Intel unveils x86 CPU with the industry's highest core count.

Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's
boringops.sh

Introducing the AI Executive Officer (AEO) and the A-suite (AxOs).

Payment fees matter more than you think
cuencahighlife.com

One of the small advantages of riding in the front seat of a Cuenca taxi, apart from the superior view of traffic misdemeanors and roadside drama, is that the dashboard […]

Trump Threatens to Cut Off Trade After Spain Denies Air Base Use
bloomberg.com
You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools (2025)
newsletter.danielpaleka.com

Daniel Paleka - The best AI tools will become far more expensive. Andy Warhol famously said:

GPT‑5.3 Instant
openai.com
Someone needs to go to jail
edwardelson.substack.com

Ed Elson - A solution to the Epstein problem

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
tonsky.me

Nikita Prokopov - Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

FCC Chair Wants Networks to Pledge Loyalty for America's Big Bday
gizmodo.com

Justin Caffier - Fealty and Sousa marches in lieu of gifts, please.

My accent costs me 30 IQ points on Zoom. So we built an ML model to fix it
krisp.ai

Arto Minasyan - Accent bias and cognitive load are invisible taxes on global teams. Here’s why it’s an engineering problem, not a language one.

Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports
nber.org
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
blog.google

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
leodemoura.github.io
Why No AI Games?
franklantz.substack.com

Frank Lantz - I have a theory.

Drizzle Joins PlanetScale
planetscale.com

Drizzle joins PlanetScale.

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]
youtube.com
Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers
wusf.org

State officials say they will try to root out abuses in the H-1B program during the moratorium, but can make exceptions if they find a critical need for workers.

Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents
news.ycombinator.com
launch
I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
neilzone.co.uk

Identity verification and age verification is an increasinly common policy conversation at the moment, in numerous countries.

Don't become an engineering manager
newsletter.manager.dev

Anton Zaides - Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he'd been offered a promotion, to an Engineering Manager role.

MacBook Air with M5
apple.com

Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with M5, bringing exceptional performance and expanded AI capabilities to the world’s most popular laptop.

MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
apple.com

Apple announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max.

Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
apple.com

Apple today announced a new family of displays, Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, that takes pro workflows to the next level.

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review
theverge.com

Emma Roth - A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
growtika.com

Growtika - We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 63 million monthly visits.

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
twitter.com
We automated everything except knowing what's going on
eversole.dev

Kenneth Eversole, kenneth@eversole.dev - The personal site of whom Kenneth has designed and built impactful systems that power global-scale operations, improve security, and drive efficiency. From leading infrastructure transformations at Cloudflare to optimizing AI-driven platforms at Balto, his career reflects a deep understanding of how technology shapes industries. He thrives at the intersection of engineering, business, and innovation, advising startup

Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK
lbc.co.uk

Flaminia Luck - So-called "barely legal" pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned amid efforts to regulate intimate image sharing.

Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours
llmhorrors.com

Stories you never want to feel on your own skin

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

In several recent instances, AI has disrupted court proceedings in India and elsewhere.

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]
youtube.com
ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal
techcrunch.com

Sarah Perez - Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.

Claude's Cycles [pdf]
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu
The Xkcd thing, now interactive
editor.p5js.org
The beauty and terror of modding Windows
windowsread.me

Chris Hoffman - Let's talk about the "Windows Baseline Security Mode," too.

China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built
executivetraveller.com
Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act
news.ycombinator.com
show
Simplifying Application Architecture with Modular Design and MIM
codingfox.net.pl

Andrzej Nowik - 1. Intro tl;dr Instead of forcing your application into a prescriptive template like Clean or Hexagonal Architectures, get back to basics and use patterns from Modular Software Design. Divide the application into independent modules, each containing business logic representing a specific process. For modules with complex business logic, extract the infrastructure-related code into separate Infrastructure-Modules. Thi

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials
blog.cryptographyengineering.com

This post has been on my back burner for well over a year. This has bothered me, because every month that goes by I become more convinced that anonymous authentication the most important topic we c…

AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
bbc.com

The incidents highlight the vulnerability of key technology infrastructure during military conflicts.

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - A big, high performance core from Arm

I built a pint-sized Macintosh
jeffgeerling.com

To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. Since the original Pico's RAM is fairly constrained, you get a maximum of 208 K

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies
newyorker.com

Burkhard Bilger - With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?

Daily Driving GrapheneOS
blog.matthewbrunelle.com

I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!

Intent-Based Commits
github.com/adamveld12

Git is the coding agent. Contribute to adamveld12/ghost development by creating an account on GitHub.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"
jonathanlarsen.substack.com

Jonathan Larsen - Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Elevated Errors in Claude.ai
status.claude.com
OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard
openclaw.allegro.earth

OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard lists publicly reachable active OpenClaw instances for defensive security awareness. Verify your deployment, enforce authentication, and remove unsafe public exposure.

Excommunicated devs making games with AI
tyleo.com

And the games are getting pretty good.

Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?
siliconsnark.com

Everyone online says AI agents are printing money in 2026. So where are the real receipts? We investigated Mac Minis, OpenClaw setups, and the uncomfortable truth.

Iran unleashes Shahed drones aimed at targets across Middle East
theguardian.com

Bulky and noisy Iran-made unmanned attack drones have hit buildings in Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and elsewhere

Zuckerberg's internal emails rendered as Facebook Messenger
zuckmail.vercel.app

Every internal email the FTC made public. Rendered as Facebook Messenger.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
futurism.com

Maggie Harrison Dupré - Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source
physics.aps.org
Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada
rac.ca

Alan Griffin - Radio Amateurs du Canada réagit à la fermeture du service Radio-Météo au Canada For immediate release | February 25, 2026Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) is saddened to learn about the closure of the Weatheradio service provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada.For decades, Weatheradio has been a trusted and resilient source of real-time weather alerts and

Seed of Might Color Correction Process (2023) [pdf]
andrewvanner.github.io
Japan Radio Begins 24-Hour Shortwave Transmission in Response to Iran Attacks [pdf]
www3.nhk.or.jp
Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
svd.se

Erik Norman - Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

The 185-Microsecond Type Hint
blog.sturdystatistics.com
Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
ntik.me
show

Nick Tikhonov's blog

Welcome (back) to Macintosh
take.surf
Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool
github.com/vustagc
show

Linux CLI tool to assign shell commands to keys on a USB MIDI Keyboard - vustagc/pianoterm

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
cbc.ca

March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels
gist.github.com
show

Nuke Insta Slop. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material
reuters.com
Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback
github.com/RelistenNet
show

Gapless audio playback javascript plugin (for seamless audio playback) - RelistenNet/gapless.js

A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
getbruin.com

Pull up your agents folks, I'll convince you why Go is the best language for them.

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

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