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Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo
dropbox.com
Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code
github.com/mksglu
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Stop losing context to large outputs. Contribute to mksglu/claude-context-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

Turing Completeness of GNU find
arxiv.org

The Unix command \texttt{find} is among the first commands taught to beginners, yet remains indispensable for experienced engineers. In this paper, we demonstrate that \texttt{find} possesses unexpected computational power, establishing three Turing completeness results using the GNU implementation (a standard in Linux distributions). (1) \texttt{find} + \texttt{mkdir} (a system that has only \texttt{find} and \textt

Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
news.ycombinator.com
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What Happened to Fry's Electronics
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - Fry's had been struggling for years but it was still a bit of a surprise to see it go

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
time.com

Billy Perrigo - In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.

US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards
theguardian.com

Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield

Fed's Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible unemployment rise
reuters.com
Every privacy concession in history has been permanent
nbtv.substack.com

NBTV Media - Every privacy concession in history has been permanent. So why are we still making them?

Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion
inceptionlabs.ai

Today, we're introducing Mercury 2 — the world's fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant.

Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
cape.co

Cape is premium wireless coverage with an added layer of personal security. Talk, text, and live with the confidence that you’re protected.

Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal
cnbc.com
Anthropic digs in heels in dispute with Pentagon
reuters.com
Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
github.com/moonshine-ai
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Fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) for edge devices - moonshine-ai/moonshine

Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
pi.dev

A terminal-based coding agent

Looks like it is happening
math.columbia.edu

For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state…

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
apple.com

Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time.

LibreOffice Online: A Fresh Start
blog.documentfoundation.org

Mike Saunders - LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Boa

Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah
cnn.com

Hadas Gold - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

Why High FOV Sucks – Fixing It with Panini Projection
youtube.com
How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
blog.cloudflare.com

One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.

We are changing our developer productivity experiment design
metr.org
Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times
mariannefeng.com

Hacking an old kindle to display bus arrival times

Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
distrowatch.com
Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla's EU+EFTA+UK registrations fell 17% in January 2026 — down from already weak 2025 numbers. Without Tesla, BEV registrations would be up 16%.

Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders
bbc.com

Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being shot for refusing orders.

My lobster lost $450k this weekend
pashpashpash.substack.com

Nik Pash - Surprisingly, it wasn't an exploit or a prompt injection.

Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards
axios.com
Steel Bank Common Lisp
sbcl.org
OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
vmfunc.re

vmfunc - 53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.

OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B
cnbc.com
I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone
macky.dev

Velosify Private Limited - Access and control your Mac's terminal from your iPhone. Secure, real-time, end-to-end encrypted. Supports Zsh, Bash, Claude Code, and Codex.

Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment
github.com/generalaction
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Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment (🧡 YC W26). Run multiple coding agents in parallel. Use any provider. - generalaction/emdash

1Password Raising Prices ~33%
news.ycombinator.com
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Nearby Glasses
github.com/yjeanrenaud

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
news.ycombinator.com
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Hugging Face Skills
github.com/huggingface

Contribute to huggingface/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution
keepandroidopen.org

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
9news.com

Denver is getting rid of its automated license plate reading camera vendor Flock Safety.

I'm helping my dog vibe code games
calebleak.com

Caleb Leak - My cavapoo Momo vibe coded playable Godot games. All I had to do was teach her to type, route her input to Claude Code, and build the right tools.

Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End
steveblank.com

What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in Philanthropy.org A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new e…

Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety
linkinghub.elsevier.com
Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024)
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp

IZUMI-SANO, Osaka — Kansai Airport is proud to have never had a lost baggage incident in the 30 years since it opened in 1994, earning recognition as the airport with the world’s best baggage service.

An AI doomsday report shook US markets
theguardian.com

Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack

Software 3.1? – AI Functions
blog.mikegchambers.com

Moving beyond Software 3.0’s generate-and-verify loop, AI Functions execute LLM-generated code at runtime, return native Python objects, and use automated post-conditions for continuous verification. This is Software 3.1: where AI doesn’t just write code—it runs it.

Teen social media ban group funded and co-staffed by firm making gambling ads (2025)
crikey.com.au

Cam Wilson - The revelation comes as the government is expected to abandon plans for an online gambling ad ban, using the teen social media ban as cover.

Trump Fake Electors Plot
en.wikipedia.org
Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
stripe.com

Stripe announces tender offer to provide liquidity to current and former employees; publishes 2025 annual letter

Sovereignty in a System Prompt
pop.rdi.sh
Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite
mketab.org
Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
hacks.mozilla.org

Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM. Firefox 148 is the first browser to ship this standardized security enhancing API, advancing a safer web for everyone. We expect other browsers to follow soon.

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
wordglyph.xyz

A story about Disneyland's Space Mountain and a 10-year-old inventor.

Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)
github.com/hash-anu
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SNKV- key value store using sqlite b-tree APIs. Contribute to hash-anu/snkv development by creating an account on GitHub.

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
nytimes.com
xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
axios.com
IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
dropsitenews.com

Sharif Abdel Kouddous - A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15.

Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona
fortune.com

Catherina Gioino - Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

AI Will Never Be Conscious
wired.com

Michael Pollan - In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity
theatlantic.com

Matteo Wong - You don’t “train a human.”

AI-generated replies are a scourge these days
twitter.com
Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r
github.com/FirebirdSQL

Java library to encode and decode IEEE-754 decimals - FirebirdSQL/decimal-java

Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests
decrypt.co

Decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to India with a bold new defense of AI energy use: Humans are less efficient than data centers, when you really think about it.

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
serverhost.com

The latest update of Firefox, version 148, introduces a much-anticipated "AI kill switch" feature, allowing users to disable AI functionalities such as chatbot prompts and AI-generated link summaries. Mozilla emphasizes that once AI features are turned off, future updates will not override this choice. This decision reflects the company’s new revenue-focused strategy regarding AI integrations. […]

Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes
github.com/GreatScott
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ENVeil: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext. - GreatScott/enveil

Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series
intel.com
Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
medicalxpress.com
Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
lyra.horse
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x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026)
federalregister.gov
Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair
ifixit.com

John Deere is still trying to kill the Right to Repair, but Iowa farmers are pushing hard to retake their rights.

Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates
guidelabs.ai
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We release Steerling-8B, an 8B-parameter causal diffusion language model that is interpretable by construction — its predictions are routed through concepts you can measure, audit, and control.

Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
guitarworld.com

The cast of players is yet to be announced – there is no title either – but Shatner says the whole thing was inspired by a guest turn on a Nuclear Messiah record with Chris Poland

ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
news.ycombinator.com
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I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
dork.dev
It's Official: The Cybertruck Is More Explosive Than the Ford Pinto
fuelarc.com

We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data […]

Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends
singh-sanjay.com

Why zombie instances survive health checks, and what the choice between server-side and client-side load balancing means for how fast your system detects and reacts to failure.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
gizmodo.com

Bruce Gil - Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth.

Warm Oceans Turned a 3-Inch Forecast into a Record NYC Blizzard
umbrellatoday.app

UmbrellaToday.app - NYC was expecting a dusting. It got 20 inches. The culprit: warmer oceans, a last-minute model shift, and a climate paradox that is only getting stronger.

Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
writings.stephenwolfram.com

Wolfram's Foundation Tool supplements LLM foundation models with deep computation and precise knowledge. CAG (computation-augmented generation) underlies multiple access methods.

Ukrainian hackers uncover how Russian drone operators are using Belarus
informnapalm.org
You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer
twitter.com
Tesla is having a hard time turning over its FSD traffic violation data
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla secured a second extension in NHTSA's FSD traffic violation probe, pushing crash data delivery to March 9 — far past the original January deadline.

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

My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play with FreeBSD — an OS that I’d aspired to play with for a long while, but had never had a real reason to. During the recent holiday season, right after FreeBSD 15 re

Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
thenevadaindependent.com

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. Unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro funds the project with donor money funneled into a private foundati

IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL
zerohedge.com

Anthropic creator Dario Amodei is making Claude disruption personal...

Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone
0x19.co
Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances
videocardz.com
The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
colino.net

An in-depth write-up about how I made Shufflepuck Cafe run at 60 fps on an 1MHz computer - including two-player network games.

Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)
github.com/vignesh07
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Flows-first PCAP TUI (case files, gorgeous UX). Contribute to vignesh07/babyshark development by creating an account on GitHub.

“Car Wash” test with 53 models
opper.ai

The developer platform for reliable agents

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)
forums.atariage.com
India's VIP culture is out of control
economist.com
Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
nytimes.com
A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
techradar.com

Researchers say a new gel-based electrolyte could increase EV battery energy density while drastically lowering costs

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
techcrunch.com

Zack Whittaker - While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.

Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax
twitter.com
Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot
twitter.com
US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
futurism.com

Frank Landymore - The US government deployed xAI's Grok to give dietary advice -- and it's giving some eyebrow-raising advice.

Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks
anthropic.com

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

Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare
lendingtree.com

Families don’t make enough on average to afford child care for two children, according to government benchmarks.

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