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Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework
jido.run
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After 18 months of building and rethinking, Jido 2.0 ships with a simpler BEAM-first agent core, production-ready AI strategies, and a growing ecosystem.

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products
fortune.com

Catherina Gioino - Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of phishing sites we found in February
norn-labs.com
Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
phys.org
Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs
wsj.com
Good software knows when to stop
ogirardot.writizzy.com

Good software knows what problem it solves and what needs to be tackled by another tool

Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign
newrepublic.com

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling - Kristi Noem struggled to defend hiring a company linked to a political operative.

No right to relicense this project
github.com/chardet

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough
blog.lorenzano.eu

The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.

Poor Man's Polaroid
boxart.lt
Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
blog.ivan.digital
Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control
netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de

Jails for NetBSD is an experimental NetBSD-native isolation model with kernel-enforced boundaries, supervised service execution, and snapshot telemetry for practical host-side operations.

The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me
tim.blog

Tim Ferriss - “We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were cold. I sat with five men in the mountains of Montana. As the sun set, the fire […]

OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story
miod.online.fr
Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014)
relaxng.org
Zed new terms required to be 18 years old
zed.dev

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
tuananh.net

Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?

DOJ proposes policy aimed at limiting state bar ethics probes into its attorneys
abcnews.com

ABC News - The Justice Department is proposing a new policy that would seek to limit the ability of state bar associations to launch ethics probes into DOJ attorneys. 

You Just Reveived
dylan.gr
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
acko.net

Steven Wittens - Questioning the frame of inevitability in use of AI

Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships
poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app
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Poppy - Turn your contacts into a living garden. Gentle reminders, zero guilt. Free on iOS.

Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos
bbc.com

Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state
inngest.com

We tried Event, Condition, and Queue. Each one gets closer but still breaks under real concurrency. Here's the observable pattern that finally works.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic
techcrunch.com

Connie Loizos - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.

US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters
theguardian.com

Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills

Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors
fubardaily.com

The world's a mess. FUBAR delivers your daily hit of dystopian news and satire — curated slop for your morning coffee. Updated daily. Let's suffer together.

Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
ft.com

Dario Amodei holding discussions with deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology

What's driving rising business costs?
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org

An analysis of the cost increases that occurred among businesses in the New York-Northern New Jersey region in 2025, using the February regional surveys.

Google Workspace CLI
github.com/googleworkspace

Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills. - googlework...

Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
techcrunch.com

Amanda Silberling - Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.

NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]
nrc.gov
Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)
poetryfoundation.org

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And…

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time
press.bmwgroup.com

+++ BMW Group bringing Physical AI to Europe +++ Pilot project at BMW Group Plant Leipzig +++ New “Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production” accelerates global integration of AI and robotics in production +++ First pilot deployment of humanoid robots successfully completed at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, USA +++

Does that use a lot of energy?
hannahritchie.github.io
The View from RSS
carolinecrampton.com

What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.

Building a new Flash
bill.newgrounds.com
Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

Windows 1.0 didn't have overlapping windows; it wasn't until Windows 2.0 that overlapping windows were introduced. Obviously, with the small screen resolutions of the day, not having overlapping wi...

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
mas.to

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give y

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral
bbc.com

The case is the first wrongful death case against Google over alleged harms caused by Gemini.

Israel Spent Years Hacking Tehran Traffic Cameras to Track Khamenei
thedefensepost.com

Giulia Bernacchi - Israel has reportedly spent years monitoring the movements of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei through Tehran’s traffic camera network.

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores
engadget.com

Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.

You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents
justin.poehnelt.com

Justin Poehnelt - Human DX optimizes for discoverability. Agent DX optimizes for predictability. What I learned building a CLI for agents first.

An interactive map of Flock Cams
deflock.org

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs
cubiclenate.com

Explore the quirky notion that data has weight, especially in SSDs, and learn the science behind this fun idea!

Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection
gist.github.com

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B
iranwarcost.com

Estimated US military spending on the Iran conflict since April 2024. Operations, weapons, air defense, and military aid.

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
joshua.hu

Joshua Rogers - A practical about:config checklist to declutter Firefox right-click menus on macOS, disabling AI/chatbot prompts, link previews, OCR, visual search, and other low-value context menu items.

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
qlabs.sh
Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities
pebblebed.com
You Bought Zuck's Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop
blog.adafruit.com
Daemon (2006)
en.wikipedia.org
New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice
folding-sky.com

Folding Sky Co. - New York Senate Bill S7263 would make chatbot operators civilly liable when AI answers questions across 14 licensed professions plus law. Disclaimers will not protect operators. A private right of action opens the door to serial litigation.

Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns
steve-yegge.medium.com
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments
nature.com

Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs
pnas.org
1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT
forbes.com
CBP Tapped into the Online Advertising Ecosystem to Track Peoples' Movements
404media.co

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead
wsj.com
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …

Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction
retractionwatch.com

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals
experimental-history.com

Adam Mastroianni - OR: the long overdue forest fire

“It turns out” (2010)
jsomers.net
Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip
macrumors.com

Apple today announced the "MacBook Neo," an all-new kind of low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip for $599. The MacBook Neo is the first Mac to be powered by an iPhone chip; the A18 Pro debuted in 2024's iPhone 16 Pro models. Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads, and up to 2x faster for ta

MacBook Neo
apple.com

Introducing the new MacBook Neo. Stunning colors, durable aluminum design, 13” Liquid Retina display, all-day battery life, AI and Apple Intelligence.

MacBook Neo
apple.com

Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.

Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases
bepurple.ai
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Your spec, your standards, your repos. p0 is a Mac app and structured AI pipeline that turns specs into production-ready PRs across all your repos.

A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing
asimov.press

Asimov Press - How to “read” nucleic acids, from Sanger to nanopores.

Glaze by Raycast
glazeapp.com

Create software for you and your team. Lives on your Mac, connects to your files, tools and hardware.

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone
kth.se
Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?
venturebeat.com
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
theregister.com

: Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide
unsloth.ai

Learn how to fine-tune Qwen3.5 LLMs with Unsloth.

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.

Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules
theregister.com

: Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program
moss.town

A 128x128 pixel canvas with programmable brushes. Code a brush, see what it does, share it with your friends.

Bet on German Train Delays
bahn.bet

Predict Deutsche Bahn delays and win. Real-time prediction markets on ICE, IC & EC train delays.

The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws
eurosky.tech
To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps
nytimes.com
RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
rfc-editor.org
Better JIT for Postgres
github.com/vladich

Better JIT for Postgres. Contribute to vladich/pg_jitter development by creating an account on GitHub.

Agentic Engineering Patterns
simonwillison.net
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

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus
whatever.scalzi.com

Today in “Things that ‘AI’ has ruined”: No, I won’t be able to show up to your book club’s online/offline gathering, and the reason for this is simple: I, and li…

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.

Number Research Inc
numberresearch.xyz
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? 🤔

OpenAI is developing alternative to Microsoft's GitHub
reuters.com
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 →

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