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

Chester Lam - A big, high performance core from Arm

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.

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

SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material
reuters.com
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
Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal
bbc.com

Beverage and cannabis company Tilray acquires the brewery, the brand and 11 bars after Brewdog went into administration.

Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage
9to5mac.com

Benjamin Mayo - Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that Apple was looking to host the much-delayed new Siri models on Google servers, rather...

Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
govbase.com
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Flock license plate readers cost city big, deliver little
sandiegouniontribune.com

Mass surveillance is ineffective and authoritarian.

Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable (2025)
dhzdhd.dev

dhzdhd's personal portfolio website

Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials
eli.thegreenplace.net
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
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Felix "fx" Lindner has died
blog.recurity-labs.com
Language Model Contains Personality Subnetworks
arxiv.org

Humans shift between different personas depending on social context. Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate a similar flexibility in adopting different personas and behaviors. Existing approaches, however, typically adapt such behavior through external knowledge such as prompting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or fine-tuning. We ask: do LLMs really need external context or parameters to adapt to different b

How OpenAI caved to The Pentagon on AI surveillance
theverge.com

Hayden Field - The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
health.ucdavis.edu

News - A UC Davis Health research team has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial. These results have been published today in The Lancet.

19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack
npr.org

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case
northdakotamonitor.com

Mary Steurer - A North Dakota judge officially ordered Greenpeace to pay $345 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline following a nearly yearlong tug-of-war over a Morton County jury’s verdict.

Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs
schipper.ai
Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
github.com/anthropics

Description After using the cowork feature, Claude Desktop becomes extremely slow - slow startup, UI lag, and slow responses. Performance degrades over time even during a single session. Investigat...

A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks
sciencedaily.com

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein. Researchers at Flinders University blended calcium caseinate with starch and natural nanoclay to form a thin, durable material designed to mimic everyday plastic. In soil tests, the film fully broke down in about 13 weeks, pointing to a realistic alternative for single-u

An Interesting Find: STM32 RDP1 Decryptor
carlossless.io

Buying and trying a cheap STM32 flash reader that bypasses Read-Out Protection Level 1

New iPad Air, powered by M4
apple.com

Apple announced the new iPad Air featuring M4 and more memory, giving users a big jump in performance and making it more versatile than ever.

Why Go Can't Try
niketpatel.com

Niket Patel - Go's refusal to add a try keyword isn't about loving boilerplate.

iPhone 17e
apple.com

Apple today announced the new iPhone 17e, a powerful and affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup.

OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
star-history.com

OpenClaw has overtaken React to become the most-starred non-aggregator software project on GitHub — just five weeks after passing Linux.

Pentagon head to military officers: You cannot study in these 22 universities
timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Tech News News: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed military officers to stop attending professional education and fellowship programmes at 22 universities.

Microslop Manifesto
microslop.com
AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - Intel tried everything, including trademarks and trying to revoke 286 rights

The Looming AI Clownpocalypse
honnibal.dev

Exploits will soon be cheaper to develop autonomously than they earn. What then?

Claude Experiencing Elevated Errors Across All Platforms
status.claude.com
How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
nytimes.com
Show HN: Web Audio Studio – A Visual Debugger for Web Audio API Graphs
webaudio.studio
show

Web Audio Studio - Write Web Audio API code and instantly see a live, interactive audio graph. Tweak parameters, visualize signals, and learn by doing.

Claude Code LSP
karanbansal.in

Karan Bansal - Every Claude Code user is running without LSP. That means 30-60s grep searches instead of 50ms precise answers.

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
thelancet.com
Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)
codeberg.org

nwellnhof - XML parser and toolkit, Enterprise Edition

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server
windowslatest.com

Abhijith M B - Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative
commerce.jolla.com

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
news.ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
news.ycombinator.com
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U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
science.org
/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
e.foundation
Can Europe break free of Visa and Mastercard? MEPs stall digital euro
euronews.com

MEPs are struggling to agree a position on the ECB-backed digital euro as Berlin pushes for progress and critics warn the file is being stripped back. #EuropeNews

Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres
github.com/getomnico
show

Workplace AI Assistant and Search Platform. Contribute to getomnico/omni development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to talk to anyone and why you should
theguardian.com

Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
motorolanews.com

marreroc - Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
growingswe.com

A hands-on introduction to elliptic curve cryptography. Start with curve geometry, build point addition and scalar multiplication, see why ECDLP is hard, and then use that math in ECDH, ECDSA, and ECIES.

Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity
bbc.com

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

The inner workings of TCP zero-copy
blog.tohojo.dk
Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right
variantsystems.io

A first-principles guide to process-based concurrency — what makes BEAM different, how OTP encodes resilience, and why everyone keeps reinventing it.

Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor
deadlime.hu

Virtual reality for a 286 processor

How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
ellanew.com

Stop re-learning things you've already figured out. Two simple ways to document any process, and find it again when you need it.

Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
wltx.com
Claude hits #1 on the App Store as users rally behind Anthropic
9to5mac.com

Zac Hall - AI chatbots currently take up the top three spots on the US App Store’s Top Downloaded charts. For Anthropic’s Claude,...

Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python
github.com/kossisoroyce
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Ollama for classical ML models. AOT compiler that turns XGBoost, LightGBM, scikit-learn, CatBoost & ONNX models into native C99 inference code. One command to load, one command to serve. 336x f...

If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
github.com/mandel-macaque

Keep track of you codex sessions per commit. Contribute to mandel-macaque/memento development by creating an account on GitHub.

Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU
github.com/AlexsJones

Hundreds models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. - AlexsJones/llmfit

U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out
wsj.com
Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict
morningstar.com
Little Free Library
littlefreelibrary.org

Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization with a mission to build community, inspire readers, and expand book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Libraries.

WebMCP is available for early preview
developer.chrome.com

Andre Bandarra - WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.

Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting
mysanantonio.com
Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health
cambridge.org

Big breakfast diet composition impacts on appetite control and gut health: a randomized weight loss trial in adults with overweight or obesity

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto by Posting Password Online
gizmodo.com

Kyle Torpey - The digital equivalent of snatching coins from someone's outstretched hands.

You don't have to
scottsmitelli.com

"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead of schedule, it's never been easier to tell the world "I didn't care about this and I don't care about you."

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?
quantamagazine.org

Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.

How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers (2013)
eff.org

Kurt Opsahl and Trevor Timm - ANDREA MITCHELL: “Why do you need every telephone number? Why is it such a broad vacuum cleaner approach?” JAMES CLAPPER: “Well, you have to start someplace.”—NBC Meet the Press, this past Sunday Concerned about the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans, last year Senator Ron Wyden asked...

"All Lawful Use": More Than You Wanted to Know
astralcodexten.com

Scott Alexander - ...

This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell
shawnfromportland.substack.com

Shawn K - AI and What We Do Next, What Hasn't Worked So Far

Why does C have the best file API
maurycyz.com
Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)
health.aws.amazon.com
A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran
twitter.com
Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga
axios.com
January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more
servo.org

The Servo Project Developers - The web works hard, but Servo contributors work harder.

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
maderix.substack.com

manjeet singh - How we bypassed CoreML and talked directly to the hardware

I Built a Scheme Compiler with AI in 4 Days
matthewphillips.info
When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
ejholmes.github.io
Evil in the West Bank
nybooks.com

David Shulman - As long as the daily horrors in the occupied territories continue and the extreme right remains in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core.

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