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IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup
theregister.com

: IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
blog.adafruit.com
CTO says 93% of developers use AI, but productivity is still 10%
shiftmag.dev

Ivan Brezak Brkan - AI adoption is skyrocketing among developers, but productivity improvements remain low. Discover the real impact of AI coding assistants.

Farewell Rust
yieldcode.blog

For now...

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
smithsonianmag.com

Sonja Anderson - The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict

South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection
theguardian.com

Ex-leader sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour over failed martial law declaration in 2024

AI makes you boring
marginalia.nu

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded Show HN projects are overall pretty boring. They generally don't have a lot of work put into them, and as a resul

DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'
techdirt.com

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
github.com/Veirt

a terminal weather app with ascii animation. Contribute to Veirt/weathr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hitler's Greenland Obsession
theatlantic.com

Timothy W. Ryback - After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

AI made coding more enjoyable
weberdominik.com
Gemini 3.1 Pro
deepmind.google

Gemini 3.1 Pro is the next iteration in the Gemini 3 series of models, a suite of highly capable, natively multimodal reasoning models.

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial
wsj.com
Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
micasa.dev
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Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash
inquirer.com

Barbara Laker | David Gambacorta - Anna Wakeman still questions why 7C Lounge bartenders didn’t stop serving the officer who crashed into her house and upended her life five years ago.

Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)
borischerny.com

I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
console.cloud.google.com
Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands
xcancel.com

#WATCH | Delhi | Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with global tech leaders including the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta, CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei pose for a group photograph at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in Delhi (Source: DD News)

America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks
governance.fyi

Dave Deek - Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
anthropic.com

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

Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Famous Signatures Through History
signatory.app

Draw your signature with a natural pen feel. Export as PNG or SVG. Free, fast, no signup.

C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime
sandordargo.com

When I was looking for the next topic for my posts, my eyes stopped on std::is_within_lifetime. Dealing with lifetime issues is a quite common source of bugs, after all. Then I clicked on the link and I read Checking if a union alternative is active. I scratched my head. Is the link correct? It is — and it totally makes sense. Let’s get into the details and first check what P2641R4 is about. What does std::is_within_

The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI
learningloom.substack.com

Shrijith Venkatramana - Why verification, not prompting, could shape the next decade of engineering

Pebble Production: February Update
repebble.com

February Pebble Production and Software Updates

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves
kodiak64.co.uk

Jon Woods - An in-depth overview of some of the unusual and very advanced technical tricks used in the Commodore 64 game, Seawolves.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
pagedout.institute
DOGE Track
dogetrack.info

An automatically-generated and frequently updated site for presenting data on DOGE’s rampage across government, designed to work on large screens and mobile phones.

UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours
theregister.com

: 'Why not 12?' says lawyer

Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
github.com/fjrevoredo
show

An encrypted local cross-platform journaling app. Contribute to fjrevoredo/mini-diarium development by creating an account on GitHub.

Without America to rely on, EU gearing up to be a global power in its own right
theatlantic.com

Joseph de Weck - Without America to rely on, the EU is gearing up to be a global power in its own right.

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
github.com/sstraust

maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! Contribute to sstraust/shannonmax development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
oban.pro

Parker and Shannon Selbert - Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.

I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
bsky.app/profile/thomasgermain.bsky.social

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
makie.org
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
bbc.com

It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

From Paris to New Delhi, the Push to Ban Teens from Social Media Is Going Global
wsj.com
Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial
ft.com

Big Tech chief takes stand in legal case over whether company’s products are addictive to children

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com

INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT Following my recent rants about computer generated effects ( here and here ), I thought it would be fun to look i...

US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'
theguardian.com

Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat

European Tech Alternatives
eutechmap.com

EU Tech Map - Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are GDPR compliant, and store data in Europe.

Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container
github.com/a11ce
show

A Docker image is a piece of executable code that produces some output given some input. - a11ce/docker-lisp

Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down
reddit.com/r/homeassistant
Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript
blackboard.sh
FDA reverses course and will review Moderna's mRNA flu shot, company says
cnn.com

Deidre McPhillips - The US Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and will review a new mRNA flu vaccine from Moderna, the pharmaceutical company said Wednesday,

Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
dpa-international.com
Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
code.claude.com

Legal agreements, compliance certifications, and security information for Claude Code.

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed
static.stepfun.com
Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
gamingonlinux.com

Work continues for the Vibrant Visuals update to come to Minecraft Java, and as part of that they're switching the rendering from OpenGL to Vulkan.

15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern
nicolasdickenmann.com
How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
cepr.org

Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce. This column uses survey data to examine how AI adoption affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run. Th

The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic
twitter.com
Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]
devblogs.microsoft.com

Pooja Kamath - LangChain Integration for Vector Support for Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric Microsoft SQL now supports native vector search capabilities in Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. We also released the langchain-sqlserver package, enabling the management of SQL Server as a Vectorstore in LangChain. In this step-by-step tutorial, we will show […]

Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption
github.com/LadybirdBrowser

List of issues preventing moving forward on moving Swift 6.0 support out of an experimental state: Swift issues: swiftlang/llvm-project#8998 Details: Swift's version of LLVM is missing the fix for ...

All Look Same?
alllooksame.com

Dyske Suematsu - Instead of editing this, edit front-page.php

Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]
youtube.com
What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents
georgeguimaraes.com

Python and JavaScript/TypeScript AI frameworks are reinventing what telecom solved in 1986. What 40 years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents.

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
reuters.com
Sizing chaos
pudding.cool

The Pudding - The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
reddit.com/r/MacOS
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
werd.io

"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect.

There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
science.nasa.gov

Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of

Over 65? Congratulations, You Own the Economy
wsj.com
R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth
github.com/phreda4

r3 programing language - ColorForth inspired. Contribute to phreda4/r3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

A solver for Semantle
victoriaritvo.com
Apple iWork apps send analytics data when "Share Analytics Data" is off
mastodon.social/@mysk

Attached: 1 image Forget about switching off "Share Analytics Data" in Pages settings. Keynote, Numbers, and Pages share it regardless of your choice. #Privacy #Apple #infosec

Discrete Structures [pdf]
kyleormsby.github.io
99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
arstechnica.com

Some adults over 40 have shoulder pain, but nearly all have "abnormal" joints.

What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization
spawn-queue.acm.org
Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
replay.software
show

A fast, modern SSH client for iOS and iPadOS, built for the new era of terminal tools and AI coding agents.

Cosmologically Unique IDs
jasonfantl.com

We are an exploratory species, just past the solar system now, but perhaps one day we will look back and call our galaxy merely the first. There are many problems to solve along the way, and today we will look at one very small one. How do we assign IDs to devices (or any object) so the IDs are guaranteed to always be unique?

OpenClaw is dangerous
12gramsofcarbon.com

theahura - We live in a world of miracles and monsters, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell which is which.

Disney trip turned into immigration detention
propublica.org

Mica Rosenberg - A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
letsencrypt.org

When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice. DNS-01 works well. It is widely supported and battle-tested, but it comes with operational costs: DNS p

Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock
finbold.com

Marko - Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway submitted its latest 13-F filing on February 17, revealing some interesting changes in the portfolio. 

Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps
reclaimthenet.org
The Perils of ISBN
rygoldstein.com

Last year I got into using Letterboxd, to complement my goal of watching more (good) movies. It’s got a really clean interface, the social features are useful but unobtrusive, and it makes remembering what I’ve watched and when I watched it easy. So why isn’t there a Letterboxd for books?

No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt
cnn.com

Patrick Oppmann - Cuba may be experiencing the most profound moment of economic uncertainty that the island’s residents have endured in decades if not over their entire lives.

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models
bloomberg.com
Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion
bloomberg.com
Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
tailscale.com

Work around hard NATs and tricky networks with production-grade connectivity nodes you control

Cistercian Numbers
omniglot.com
Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini
mnemom.ai
show

Transparent alignment verification, behavioral drift detection, and accountability protocols for the agent ecosystem.

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
chromereleases.googleblog.com

The Stable channel has been updated to 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/Mac  and  144.0.7559.75 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming d...

Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund
github.com/pocketbase

Unfortunate update: FLOSS/fund reached out to me again but due to some unforeseen regulatory constraints their partnership with GitHub didn't seem to work out. Instead they want to issue a wire tra...

The Future of AI Software Development
martinfowler.com
The only moat left is money?
elliotbonneville.com
Lyria 3
deepmind.google

Our most advanced music generation model yet

Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction
github.com/khalildh

Contribute to khalildh/garment-notation development by creating an account on GitHub.

Stephen Colbert going down swinging
nytimes.com
Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor
ekrsulov.github.io
show
Pixel 10a
store.google.com

All the essentials are at their best.

Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels
github.com/Park07
show

Contribute to Park07/amradio development by creating an account on GitHub.

What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
resobscura.substack.com

Benjamin Breen - "Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI

AI has fixed my productivity
blog.dmcc.io

Danny - Thousands of CEOs say AI hasn’t improved productivity. I think they’re measuring the wrong things.

AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation
blogs.remobjects.com

If you compile your app for AVX2 and it runs on Windows ARM under Prism emulation, is it faster or slower than compiling for SSE2-4.x? I assumed it would be roughly the same — maybe slightly slower due to emulation overhead, but AVX2's wider operations would compensate. The headline gives

Show HN: CEL by Example
celbyexample.com
show
Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony
dispatch.techoversight.org

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied

macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken
taoofmac.com

Rui Carmo - I have no idea of what is happening since I can’t even find any decent logs in Console.

Billionaires Gone Wild
paulkrugman.substack.com

Paul Krugman - Understanding the oligarchs’ power grab and the dire threat to American democracy

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