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Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options
theregister.com

: Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'

EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and devices
techcrunch.com

Natasha Lomas, Romain Dillet - The European Union has sent Apple preliminary instructions on how it expects the iPhone maker to comply with interoperability provisions in the bloc’s

Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
blogs.windows.com

Kevin Babbitt, Patrick Brosset - Drawing separator lines between various sections of a webpage is a common design technique, which can help to structure the content and make it more readable, as well as more aesthetically pleasing. As we'll see in this article, there are techniques

Trump's US Commerce Secretary publicly recommends to buy TSLA
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Trump’s US Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, who indirectly owns Tesla (TSLA) stocks through his firm, has publicly recommended buying Tesla...

How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
fastcall.dev

fastcall - i <3 firebase

'More Than a Hint' That Dark Energy Isn't What Astronomers Thought
nytimes.com
Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities (2022)
borretti.me

Fernando Borretti - Introducing a new programming language.

Fetch-MCP: Playwright-Based MCP Server with Batch URL Fetching Support
github.com/jae-jae

MCP server for fetch web page content using Playwright headless browser. - jae-jae/fetch-mcp

The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
feldera.com

Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4B missing
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...

Silicon Labs Shrinks Wireless SoCs to Extend BLE to Miniature Devices
allaboutcircuits.com

Packing high performance in a small package, SiLabs' newest SoC enables BLE to be integrated into more advanced applications.

Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google
sre.google
GPascal – A Blast from the Past (2011)
gammon.com.au
$1.4B is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla
ft.com

When money spent on assets doesn’t result in assets

SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
group.softbank

(TOKYO, Japan) and (Santa Clara, CA) – SoftBank Group Corp. (TSE: 9984, “SoftBank Group”) today announced that it will acquire Ampere® Computing, a leading independent silicon design company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.5 billion.

Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090
github.com/Tencent
Doge to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
krebsonsecurity.com
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 10 – dropout
gilesthomas.com

Adding dropout to the LLM's training is pretty simple, though it does raise one interesting question

Introduction to Deep Learning (CMU)
deeplearning.cs.cmu.edu
The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now
science.org
DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet
newscenter.lbl.gov

jennynuss - A new data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore.

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
theguardian.com

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds
szymanowiczs.github.io
Orpheus-3B – Emotive TTS by Canopy Labs
canopylabs.ai
OpenAI's o1-pro now available via API
platform.openai.com
LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies
zacharyhuang.substack.com

Zachary Huang - Ever wondered how AI agents actually work behind the scenes?

Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - Examining software changes for hints on what Intel's next GPU architecture may bring

Stripe adds yet another additional $15 dispute fee, unless you use their AI
twitter.com
French researcher denied entry for a personal opinion on Trump administration
lemonde.fr

Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son ordinateur et son téléphone ne soient fouillés.

Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals
reuters.com
Pierogi in Space
esa.int

In a first for space cuisine, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will bring pierogi, the traditional Polish dumplings, to the International Space Station during the upcoming Axiom Mission 4.

Anonymous sources: Starship needs a major rebuild after 2 consecutive failures
behindtheblack.com
For Many of America's Aging Workers, 'Retirement Is a Distant Dream'
time.com

Alana Semuels/Waitsfield, Vt. - 'Retirement is a distant dream'

Notebooks as reusable Python programs
marimo.io

dylan - Designing a Python notebook that blends the best parts of interactive computing with the sanity of code

The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp
mssv.net

A conversation with lead producer Laura Kröger on the making of Odysseus and what it would take to become a permanent institution.

Fauna Service Winding Down
fauna.com

The truly serverless database that combines the power of a relational database with the flexibility of JSON documents.

Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software
news.ycombinator.com
launch
AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
ezyang.github.io

Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems.

Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3
unsloth.ai

Gemma 3, Google's new multimodal models. Fine-tune & Run them with Unsloth! Gemma 3 comes in 1B, 4B, 12B and 27B sizes.

How fast the days are getting longer (2023)
joe-antognini.github.io

Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days arequickly getting longer. One of my col...

Solar Generation Surge Sends European Power Prices Below Zero
bloomberg.com
The Business of Phish (2013)
priceonomics.com

Priceonomics - The most profitable band that you've never heard on the radio.

Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
theguardian.com

Class action lawsuit alleged company discriminated against minority background staff on pay and career opportunities

Memory safety for web fonts
developer.chrome.com

Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.

Show HN: Cursor Directory – From a 3-hour build to a 250k users/mo community
cursor.directory
show

Find the best cursor rules for your framework and language

An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content
blog.cloudflare.com

It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between web content produced by humans and web content produced by AI. In this post, we're going to look at a promising new approach to making AI content distinguishable as such without impacting the performance of the model.

Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value
blog.google

Learn more about Google’s latest Pixel A-series phone, Pixel 9a.

Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
engadget.com

The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) is a new industry-wide union operating in North America. Organizers will be on hand at GDC to pass out pamphlets and answer questions.

The clustering behavior of sliding windows
arxiv.org

Things can go spectacularly wrong when clustering timeseries data that has been preprocessed with a sliding window. We highlight three surprising failures that emerge depending on how the window size compares with the timeseries length. In addition to computational examples, we present theoretical explanations for each of these failure modes.

Ikemen-GO: open-source reimplementation of MUGEN
github.com/ikemen-engine

An open-source fighting game engine that supports MUGEN resources. - ikemen-engine/Ikemen-GO

Supply constraints do not explain house price, quantity growth across US cities
nber.org
Konva.js - Declarative 2D Canvas for React, Vue, and Svelte
konvajs.org

Konva is 2d Canvas JavaScript framework for drawings shapes, animations, node nesting, layering, filtering, event handling, drag and drop and much more.

The Origin of the Pork Taboo
archaeology.org

Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs

Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
zbeegnew.dev
Tesla Will Die
planetearthandbeyond.co

Will Lockett - The vultures are circling the tech giant.

Apple M4 MacBook Air review: I have no notes
arstechnica.com

The only things missing from these Airs are some Pro-only bells and whistles.

fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
github.com/sharkdp

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' - sharkdp/fd

Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets
restofworld.org

Tesla was once an EV leader, but now struggles to keep up as Chinese automakers outpace it in sales, pricing, and innovation, especially in emerging markets

This is How Tesla Will Die
planetearthandbeyond.co

Will Lockett - The vultures are circling the tech giant.

I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
theguardian.com

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of Conway's Game of Life
writings.stephenwolfram.com

Stephen Wolfram investigates the discovery of structures since the Game of Life was invented--searching possibilities versus invention by explicit effort. A thorough look at oscillators, modularity, glider guns.

Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla (2022)
hacks.mozilla.org

We've been working on the development of rust-minidump. The first in this two-part series explains what minidumps are and how we made rust-minidump.

Apple Loses Top Court Fight Over German Antitrust Crackdown
bloomberg.com
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
kasurian.com

Mariam Mahmoud - Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?

Chrome disabling uBlock Origin is a serious security threat
nuage.quimerch.com

Nuage - Nuage notes

The Molecule of the Month
chm.bris.ac.uk
The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)
fourmilab.ch
CVE-2024-9956 – PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers
mastersplinter.work

Me - Phishing PassKeys credentials using browser intents

Crew-9 Returns to Earth
spacex.com

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

Apple loses German antitrust fight, faces greater scrutiny
reuters.com
Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Show HN: I made a worldwide sexual life dashboard
worldsexmap.com
show

Worls Sex Map is a global study of sexual life. The study promotes deeper understanding of sexuality, providing information for exploration and learning.

WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts
wmo.int
Social Security Admin to require in-person ID checks for new&existing recipients
apnews.com

In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
gist.github.com

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them - jq.md

Dear hosters, you are selling wood, not furniture
berthub.eu

Earlier, I wrote that there isn’t just one type of cloud; it ranges from renting out servers to fully managed office software as a service. One relevant type of cloud use is what’s informally called “cloud-native.” I wrote in that earlier page that a “cloud-native developer” does not work based on servers. If you rent out virtual servers and call yourself a cloud company, a cloud-native developer won’t understand you

Would You Rather Have Married Young?
metropolitanreview.org

lillian fishman - Lena Dunham, Sally Rooney, and The End of Experience

Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months
theverge.com

Wes Davis - The iOS Passwords app was a phishing attack vector.

Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
phoronix.com
JFK Assassination Records – 2025 Documents Release
archives.gov

March 18, 2025 Release In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released. The National Archives has partnered with agencies across the federal government to comply with the President’s directive in support of Executive Order 14176. As of March 18, 2025,

Are you VC-funded? No, we're profitable
twitter.com
Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence
nature.com

Some attendees of a packed presentation were curious about the prospect of the first ‘topological’ qubits, but left with questions unanswered.

Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework
github.com/ai-dynamo

A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework - ai-dynamo/dynamo

Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president
reuters.com
A Tale of Four Kernels [pdf] (2008)
users.csc.calpoly.edu
'It's a Heist': Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by Doge
wired.com

Vittoria Elliott - WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming
github.com/sinclairtarget
show

Git blame for file trees. Contribute to sinclairtarget/git-who development by creating an account on GitHub.

Doge order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library
science.org
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl as 'weapon of mass destruction' per draft EO
thehandbasket.co

Marisa from The Handbasket - A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

The Best-Kept Secret of Dutch Biking: The Dutch Hardly Bike at All (2018)
peopleforbikes.org

Here is perhaps the most shocking chart in all of Dutch transportation:

Cellebrite Puts AI in Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence
techdirt.com

I honestly don’t understand this compunction to break things that are already working fine. Axon makes body cameras (and Tasers!), but it simply wasn’t enough to equip cops with cameras…

Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power
theverge.com

Tom Warren - Nvidia’s new pro GPUs are here

PeerTube v7.1 Is Out
joinpeertube.org

We're excited to release version 7.1 of PeerTube, which continues to evolve graphically, but also to simplify your discoverability! Let's take a close...

FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
wired.com

Makena Kelly - Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.

US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
reuters.com
Apache Kafka 4.0 Released
kafka.apache.org

Apache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform.

Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
techcrunch.com

Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane - Volkswagen's ultra-cheap EV called the ID EVERY1 — a small four-door hatchback revealed Wednesday — will be the first to roll out with software and

Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
gizmodo.com

Matthew Gault - As stock slumps and Americans turn against the automaker, its owners are paying higher insurance premiums.

Digital Hygiene
karpathy.bearblog.dev

A guide to basic digital hygiene.

Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?
news.ycombinator.com
ask

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