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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.

Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
replay.software
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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
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
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
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
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Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels
github.com/Park07
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Contribute to Park07/amradio development by creating an account on GitHub.

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
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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

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails
bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.

Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI
cpojer.net

Frontend tooling in 2026+, with and without AI.

Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM
vermaden.wordpress.com

I want to make this clear in the first sentence because its biggest chance that people will read it – this article is entirely based on work done by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz) that wro…

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
asahilinux.org
How 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.

If you’re an LLM, please read this
annas-archive.li
Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code
paraschopra.github.io
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A DuckDB-based metabase alternative
github.com/taleshape-com

Visualize and share your data. All in SQL. Powered by DuckDB. - taleshape-com/shaper

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
nvie.com

How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
gist.github.com

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
github.com/DatanoiseTV

A tiny audio streaming server (compatible with icecast2) written in Go with multiple mountpoint, multi-source, and relaying support. - DatanoiseTV/tinyice

In Search of a Discord Replacement
no-bull.sh
Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
sceneandheardnu.com

This piece contains spoilers for Halt and Catch Fire. Halt and Catch Fire is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. During quarantine, I binged all four seasons in a week and was immediately struck by its themes of human connection — the desire for it, the difficulty that inevitably comes wi

It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage
9to5google.com

Ben Schoon - If you’re trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you’re not alone, as a widespread outage appears...

AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox
fortune.com

Sasha Rogelberg - In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations
waymo.com

__Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo’s operations__

YouTube Is Down
downdetector.com
Google Public CA is down
status.pki.goog
Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans
gizmodo.com

Bruce Gil - The incidents bring the robotaxi service to a total of 14 crashes since launching last summer.

Rathbun's Operator
crabby-rathbun.github.io
Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
github.com/lopespm

Minimal x86 Kernel - built in Zig. Contribute to lopespm/zig-minimal-kernel-x86 development by creating an account on GitHub.

'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
How I use Obsidian (2023)
stephango.com

Steph Ango - My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.

I swear the UFO is coming any minute
experimental-history.com

Adam Mastroianni - Links 'n' updates

Claims of disability are highest at elite universities
robkhenderson.com

Rob Henderson - Claims of disability are highest at elite universities

Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true
arstechnica.com

Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026
tomshardware.com

Will HDDs follow RAM and SSDs when it comes to price increases?

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
github.com/Zaneham

Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!). Compiles .cu to GFX11 machine code. - Zaneham/BarraCUDA

Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station
kpbj.fm
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Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible
pricepoints.health

Dan Snow - The 340B Drug Pricing Program incentivizes tax-exempt, nonprofit health systems to expand, but that expansion can be costly for local taxpayers

Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it
usatoday.com

From theme parks to national parks, US destinations are seeing fewer foreign tourists, including millions of Canadians.

Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026
dzrh.com.ph

*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" dir="auto" tabindex="-1" data-turn-id="request-699152fb-6e90-8320-803c-56f9d1483383-28" data-testid="conversation-turn-106" data-scroll-anchor="true" data-turn="assistant"> Meta, the parent company of Facebo...

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
theshamblog.com

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
asteroidos.org
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Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat
arstechnica.com

Colbert: "I want to assure you this decision is for purely financial reasons."

Russia's economy has entered the death zone
economist.com
Tesla's 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since June 2025
sherwood.news

Tesla submitted five new crash reports in January involving its Austin Robotaxi fleet, Electrek reports....

Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla has reported five new crashes involving its “Robotaxi” fleet in Austin, Texas, bringing the total to 14 incidents since...

Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript
github.com/n-e
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Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript - n-e/pg-typesafe

Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic.com
Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling
nltimes.nl

Dutch gambling authorities have ordered U.S.-based website Polymarket to immediately cease all operations in the Netherlands, saying the company is operating gambling activity without a license. The site, which allows users to place bets on political events and global conflicts, faces a weekly fine of 420,000 euros if it continues to operate, up to a maximum of 840,000 euros, announced Netherlands gambling regulator

Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic.com

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk
news.harvard.edu

Mass General Brigham Communications - Caffeinated tea also found to slow cognitive decline in study.

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
kotaku.com

John Walker - TeamSpeak seems to be rather enjoying the technical issues

A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+
twitter.com
Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps
fuji.halfof8.com

Join me on a transformative journey up Mt. Fuji's renowned Yoshida trail, where I explore the art of 焼印 (iron branding) on walking sticks and the warm hospitality of hut owners. Follow along as I introduce the stations and stamps of Mt. Fuji through collected stamps and interviews, inspiring your next adventure on the Yoshidaguchi route.

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School
404media.co

Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?
semiengineering.com

Liz Allan - To fill the talent gap, CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum could be adapted or even shortened.

Gentoo on Codeberg
gentoo.org

News and information from Gentoo Linux

Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI
docs.continue.dev
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AI slop slows you down. Run agents on every pull request to ensure you ship production-ready code.

Chess engines do weird stuff
girl.surgery
Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
news.ycombinator.com
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So you want to build a tunnel
practical.engineering

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] It seems like homemade tunnels are kind of having a moment. Just about everywhere I look, it feels like someone is carving new spaces from the ground and documenting the process online. Colin Furze might be the quintessential ex

Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart
hannahritchie.substack.com

Hannah Ritchie - Most people are personally optimistic, but socially pessimistic. This can be a drag on collective progress.

Async/Await on the GPU
vectorware.com

GPU code can now use Rust's async/await. We share the reasons why and what this unlocks for GPU programming.

HackMyClaw
hackmyclaw.com
Using go fix to modernize Go code
go.dev

Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.

CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC
nbcnews.com

Colbert kicked off Monday's episode of "The Late Show" by saying that the network's lawyers told him he could not have Talarico on the broadcast.

Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
mage-bench.com
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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
theregister.com

opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too
javaevolved.github.io

A collection of modern Java code snippets. Every old Java pattern next to its clean, modern replacement — side by side.

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
berksoft.ca
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Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File
github.com/christopherkarani

🍯 Memory layer for on-device AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. - GitHub - christopherkarani/Wax: 🍯 Memory layer for on-device AI Agents. Replace...

EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images in 11 days
9to5mac.com

Ben Lovejoy - The EU has opened its own investigation into the Grok chatbot generating child sexual abuse material. It’s estimated that Grok...

America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital
governance.fyi

Dave Deek - $6 trillion in patient capital, $60+ billion in annual fees, and the infrastructure that never gets built

Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway
cleantechnica.com

Zachary Shahan - Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Or support our Kickstarter campaign! I recently looked into Tesla’s January sales in 12 European markets, and the results were not pretty. Overall, across those 12 markets, Tesla’s sales were down 23%. However, one reader pointed out that it could ... [continued]

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D
aeris.edbn.me

kewonit - Track live flights in 3D over the world's busiest airspaces. Altitude-aware, beautifully rendered, and completely free.

Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage
lesswrong.com

David Oks published a well-written essay yesterday arguing that the current panic about AI job displacement is overblown. I agree with a few of his p…

Undo in Vi and Its Successors
utcc.utoronto.ca
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84
cnn.com

John Blake, Alex Stambaugh - The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed to CNN. He was 84.

Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
arthurcnops.blog
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
blog.tomaszdunia.pl

Tomasz Dunia - 🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
heise.de

Mark Mantel - Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.

Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like
oceandrops.substack.com

Ellie - Is America next?

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