Israel Strikes Iran’s Giant Gas Field!

JPEG Compression

Key Points

• JPEG converts RGB to Y’CbCr to separate luminance from chroma.
• Chroma subsampling (4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0, 4:1:1) reduces color detail with minimal perceived loss.
• Specific RGB-to-Y’CbCr formulas and chroma centering (+128) are provided.

Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP

Key Points

• BGP’s design lacks native route ownership verification, enabling persistent attacks.
• Patches like RPKI, BGPsec, and ROA help but don’t fix core weaknesses.
• SCION from ETH Zürich, led by Adrian Perrig, proposes a secure-by-design routing architecture.

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

Key Points

• Remote, full-time role leading symbolic RL search guidance for AGI systems
• Requires strong RL/search experience and interest in symbolic methods
• Offers equity, competitive compensation, and aggressive compute budget

Robotocore · a Digital Twin of AWS

Key Points

• 147 AWS services with 6,400+ operations supported in a single-container, MIT-licensed local emulator
• High-fidelity behaviors (Lambda execution, SQS visibility timeouts, SigV4 auth) with 38 native providers and 109 Moto-backed services
• Ready-to-use examples for Docker, SDKs/CLI, docker-compose, and GitHub Actions with multi-account support

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

Key Points

• Stores repos in PostgreSQL for full SQL-queryable history with Git-like workflow.
• Delta compression via pg-xpatch outperforms git gc --aggressive in most tested repos.
• Built-in analyses and SQL examples enable rapid, programmatic codebase insights.

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

Key Points

• SMT-first planning conflicted with breadboard prototyping; DIP parts are recommended for early testing.
• A custom EEPROM Programmer Board, driven by an Arduino Nano and Python tooling, enabled microcode uploads.
• A control-pin wiring choice blocked page writes, stretching 8 KB EEPROM programming to ~80s instead of ~1.3s.

Review of Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (2005)

Key Points

• ClearType for Longhorn adds y-direction antialiasing and finer (~1/6 pixel) spacing.
• Six ClearType-optimized fonts will ship with Longhorn, leveraging OpenType features.
• Multiple Master and optical scaling are not included, despite Calibri’s MM design roots.

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

Key Points

• Tony Hoare passed away at age 92; this article is a tribute outlining his legacy.
• Hoare’s Turing Award lecture and his recursion reasoning rule exemplify his integrated research-and-writing style.
• He had an industry start and a classics education at Oxford, with no formal doctorate beyond honorary degrees.

Aggregated File System (AGFS), a modern tribute to the spirit of Plan 9

Key Points

• Unifies diverse backend services as filesystem operations over HTTP/REST and FUSE.
• Provides Docker and curl-based installation, with Linux FUSE mounting support.
• Includes examples for KV store, message queue, SQL sessions, and agent heartbeat.

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

Key Points

• MoQ uses explicit, pull-based track subscriptions to limit bandwidth usage.
• Moq-relay merges subscriptions and supports clustered, CDN-like global scaling.
• QUIC prioritization ensures critical tracks are delivered first under congestion.

Animation 10k Starlink Satellites

Key Points

• NOAA forecasts a March 19 CME with potential G2 geomagnetic storm.
• Starlink surpasses 10,000 active satellites after a March 16 Falcon 9 launch.
• Research warns severe solar storms could rapidly trigger satellite collision cascades.

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

Key Points

• Open-source karaoke app converts local audio/video to karaoke with word-level synced lyrics.
• Uses UVR Karaoke/Demucs for separation and WhisperX/LRCLIB for lyrics; supports pitch scoring and gamepads.
• Single-binary distribution with bundled dependencies and optional GPU acceleration (CUDA/Metal).

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

Key Points

• Connectome-based LIF brain with ~140k neurons integrated with a visual pathway model.
• Embodiment uses NeuroMechFly v2 (87 joints) in MuJoCo with gait controllers.
• Demonstrated behaviors include food-seeking, grooming, and feeding in a simulated environment.

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

Key Points

• Measure before optimizing; avoid guessing performance hotspots.
• Prefer simple algorithms and data structures, especially for small inputs.
• Prioritize data structure selection; the right data often reveals the algorithm.

Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier

Key Points

• Kagi Assistant to be offered as a standalone subscription.
• Pro and Starter plans may shift to a fixed-cap trial for Assistant access.
• Continued use after the cap would require Ultimate or the standalone Assistant subscription.

OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)

Key Points

• The article ties OpenAI’s focus push to an IPO race with Anthropic and SpaceX/xAI.
• It highlights product sprawl and internal messaging (“side quests,” “code red”) as narrative tools.
• Reuters reports a ~$10B JV in the works and consulting alliances to expand enterprise sales.

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America

Key Points

• Judge orders VOA restored after yearlong shutdown, calling basis unprincipled.
• Trump nominates Sarah Rogers to lead USAGM; role needs Senate confirmation.
• VOA previously served 362 million across 49 languages; hundreds of staff to return.

Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?

Key Points

• Document processes comprehensively and early to prevent knowledge gaps and slow onboarding.
• Define and align on company values to navigate inevitable culture shifts during growth.
• Hire experienced leaders early to mitigate scaling complexity and improve long-term outcomes.

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

Key Points

• The paper proposes a 10-ability cognitive taxonomy and a human-referenced evaluation protocol.
• Kaggle launches a hackathon to build benchmarks for five priority cognitive abilities.
• $200,000 in prizes; submissions March 17–April 16; results on June 1.

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

Key Points

• Runs entirely in-browser with no server or installation requirements.
• Covers Series/DataFrame creation, indexing, and combination tasks.
• Includes set operations and basic descriptive statistics and frequency analyses.

Using calculus to do number theory

Key Points

• CRT reduces the modulus 3000 problem to mod 8, 3, and 125.
• Residue checks yield x ≡ 0, 4 (mod 8) and x ≡ 1 (mod 3).
• Newton’s method is introduced to motivate refining a mod 5 solution toward mod 125.

Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts

Key Points

• $96 3D-printed, shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype detailed by Alisher Khojayev
• ESP32-based electronics, IMU sensors, and Wi‑Fi telemetry/control link power the system
• Cost is contrasted with Stinger and USAF CAMP, highlighting massive price disparity

A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid

Key Points

• Hidden corridor confirmed using muography, radar/ultrasound, and a 6 mm endoscope.
• Passage is ~9 m long, ~2.1 m wide, located above the main entrance behind chevron masonry.
• Likely role in load management; may relate to additional unmapped internal spaces.

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It

Key Points

• FedRAMP approved Microsoft’s GCC High despite incomplete security documentation and unresolved questions.
• Microsoft products were tied to recent Russian and Chinese cyber intrusions into U.S. government systems.
• Third‑party assessors are paid by vendors, raising potential conflicts in the cloud authorization process.

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

Key Points

• DarkSword silently compromises iOS 18 devices via infected websites; latest updated iOS not affected.
• Used by Russian-linked spies and others, including campaigns on Ukrainian sites and in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Malaysia.
• Apple has issued security updates, including emergency patches for older devices unable to run iOS 26.

A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source

Key Points

• Open-source Rust tunneling server with TLS, HTTP/TCP proxying, dashboard, and Prometheus.
• Hosted edge server in Helsinki available now; access via manually issued GitHub-requested tokens.
• Detailed Ubuntu/systemd and Docker deployment guides, with architecture and port layout specified.

A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer

Key Points

• A fuzzer generates random load/store/escape programs to test a toy optimizer.
• Correctness is checked by comparing pre- and post-optimization heap states under aliasing and non-aliasing.
• An interpreter models memory and values via a heap and SSA-like mapping to serve as the oracle.

Restoring the first recording of computer music (2018)

Key Points

• 1951 BBC acetate disc of Turing’s Manchester computer was pitch-corrected to restore authentic sound.
• Turing’s lab generated computer tones by 1948, predating Bell Labs (1957) and a Sydney-based claim.
• The Mark II’s ‘hoot’ instruction produced tones; Turing used them for program status cues, not full music.

FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

Key Points

• FDA links Raw Farm raw cheddar to E. coli outbreak across three states; seven cases, two hospitalizations.
• Genetic testing suggests a common source; interviewed patients reported eating Raw Farm cheese.
• Raw Farm rejects FDA findings and declined a voluntary product removal; testing results are pending.

Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

Key Points

• Open standard MPP enables agent-initiated, programmatic payments
• Stripe integration via PaymentIntents API and Shared Payment Tokens
• Early adopters show practical use cases across digital and physical services

Death to Scroll Fade

Key Points

• Scroll fade animations can harm accessibility and usability; prefer opt-in motion and honor prefers-reduced-motion.
• They may negatively impact Core Web Vitals, especially LCP; measure before deploying.
• Cross-platform behavior varies; test on Apple, Windows, Linux, and Android and use resilient techniques.

Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15

Key Points

• VR access to Horizon Worlds ends after June 15, 2026; app removed from Quest.
• Listings and access in the Quest Store end by March 31 as part of the wind-down.
• Hyperscape Capture sharing features are discontinued; mobile access remains via Meta Horizon app.

A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

Key Points

• Self-hosted, client-side console using two static files (index.html and wander.js).
• Randomized, transitive hopping across linked consoles for decentralized discovery.
• Caution: some sites block embedding via X-Frame-Options or CSP frame-ancestors; test links before adding.

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web

Key Points

• Wander consists of two files (index.html and wander.js) placed under /wander/ on a web server.
• Users can jump between consoles hosted on different domains within the community.
• Setup guidance and community coordination are provided via the Codeberg repository and issue thread.

Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

Key Points

• Unvalidated process substitution enabled approval bypass and arbitrary command execution.
• Indirect prompt injection from untrusted content led Cortex to download and run malware.
• Snowflake fixed the issue in Cortex Code CLI v1.0.25 (Feb 28, 2026) and published an advisory.

Nvidia NemoClaw

Key Points

• Open-source, alpha-stage stack for securely running OpenClaw assistants via NVIDIA OpenShell.
• Guided installation sets up a sandbox with policies and configures inference (cloud or local).
• Inference is intercepted in-sandbox and routed to providers like NVIDIA cloud, NIM, or vLLM.

OpenRocket

Key Points

• 6-DoF simulation with 50+ variables and advanced analysis tools.
• CAD-based design with component catalogs, custom parts, and PDF export.
• Real-time metrics, AI-assisted optimization, staging/clustering, and ThrustCurve motor integration.

A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine

Key Points

• Residents report persistent turbine noise from a Vantage data center in Sterling, VA.
• Vantage says the site is permitted; it found no anomalies but will investigate.
• The case intersects with national pushes for data-center-specific power amid AI demand.

Wide logging: Stripe's canonical log line pattern

Key Points

• Emit one structured log per request with all key fields to create a pre-joined, request-shaped record.
• Use a stable schema (including build_id and error_slug) and harden emission so logs persist through exceptions.
• Leverage these events beyond debugging by warehousing and powering analytics and product surfaces.

North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim

Key Points

• Report attributes ~$500M/year to a 100k-strong North Korean IT workforce operating across ~40 countries.
• Scheme relies on structured roles, deceptive identities (often U.S.-based), and platforms like Upwork/LinkedIn/Freelancer.
• Mitigations include detecting AI-based interview fakery and resume–interview discrepancies; watch for VPN/IPMsg use.

Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m

Key Points

• Archive covers all HN items since 2006 and updates every 5 minutes as Parquet.
• Monthly Parquet files plus 5-minute live blocks; daily merge at midnight UTC.
• Direct DuckDB querying from Hugging Face; compatible with datasets, pandas, and huggingface_hub.

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel

Key Points

• Sashiko is open-source and reviews all Linux kernel mailing list submissions.
• Measured detection of ~53% of sampled bugs using Gemini 3.1 Pro.
• Backed by Google funding and moving to Linux Foundation hosting.

Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

Key Points

• Three-step prediction: airline adoption, aircraft body type, and specific tail number.
• Examples: all JSX ERJ-145s equipped; Air France A320s not equipped.
• Early queries return probabilities; definitive tail assignments appear days before departure.

Iran's South Pars Gas Field Is Attacked by Israel, Sending Energy Prices Soaring

Key Points

• Iran and Qatar say Israel attacked the South Pars gas field.
• The field is part of a major shared gas reservoir.
• Energy prices surged on the news.

AI Coding Is Gambling

Key Points

• AI-generated code accelerates work but often falters on detailed correctness.
• The author likens AI-assisted coding to gambling due to prompt-driven unpredictability.
• Reliance on AI can shift work from creative problem-solving to cleanup and verification.

2025 Turing award given for quantum information science

Key Points

• Bennett and Brassard receive the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational quantum information science.
• BB84 (1984) introduced practical, physics-guaranteed secure key distribution; variants are deployed via fiber and satellites.
• Their later work on quantum teleportation (1993) and entanglement distillation (1996) underpins quantum networks and a future quantum internet.

CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

Key Points

• CVE-2026-3888 enables LPE to root on default Ubuntu Desktop 24.04+ via snap-confine and systemd-tmpfiles interaction.
• Exploitation depends on timing with systemd-tmpfiles’ /tmp cleanup cycles, creating a 10–30 day window.
• A separate uutils coreutils issue in Ubuntu 25.10 was identified and mitigated ahead of release.

I haven't used a mouse for 14 years

Key Points

• Use macOS “Three Fingers Drag” to drag without pressing the trackpad.
• Enable “Tap to Click” for light-tap clicking and reduced finger force.
• Find Three Fingers Drag at System Settings > Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad Options > Dragging style.

Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE

Key Points

• Agent-first tmux layout with lead and teammate-ready Claude panes.
• YAML-defined, reproducible layouts with live updates via ide.yml.
• Automatic Claude Code skill registration for workspace setup and CLI commands for init/launch/restart.

Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike

Key Points

• Brent rose above $109 after reported strikes on South Pars and damage at Qatar’s Ras Laffan.
• Iran vowed retaliation; Qatar reported a controlled fire with no injuries.
• The U.S. issued a 60‑day Jones Act waiver; Iran cut gas supplies to Iraq.

Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find

Key Points

• Voters favor worker protections over AI innovation incentives by a wide margin.
• Majority support limiting AI profits and holding tech firms responsible for job losses.
• AI has rapidly risen in voter issue importance and is likely to influence upcoming elections.

DOGE canceled NC Museum grant for HVAC systems after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI

Key Points

• Lawsuit claims DOGE used ChatGPT to flag and cancel NEH grants, including High Point Museum’s HVAC project.
• AHA says an AI-generated DEI list replaced NEH staff assessments in cut decisions.
• High Point Museum recouped ~70% of its ~$349k grant after termination.

Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

Key Points

• Paid Spotify user reports ads on the desktop client; claims the issue is widespread.
• Alleges related discussions are being removed from the Spotify subreddit.
• Proposes a self-hosted solution using Gonic (Subsonic server) and a client such as Symfonium.

Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks

Key Points

• Benchmarks face strong technical and ethical critiques but remain central to ML progress.
• ImageNet and MMLU illustrate benchmarks’ historical and current influence, including market impacts.
• The book analyzes holdout and cross-validation guarantees and how adaptivity undermines them.

Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends

Key Points

• Fly.io-hosted Freeciv Longturn server with 23-hour turns and status/notification tooling.
• Cron-driven status generation, FIFO-based command control, and persistent storage for saves and JSON.
• OpenAI-powered in-game newspaper, plus utilities for player management and admin tasks.

EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime

Key Points

• Optional EU-wide regime (“EU Inc.”) to harmonise corporate, insolvency, labour, and tax rules.
• Fast, low-cost, fully digital company incorporation (48 hours; max EUR 100) and streamlined corporate procedures.
• Digital insolvency, once-only data sharing with safeguards, and an optional harmonised deferred-tax ESOP scheme.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: The Privacy Screen

Key Points

• Built-in Privacy Display reduces side viewing and can auto-activate per app; Max mode is manual and more aggressive.
• Incremental upgrade over recent Ultras; around $1,300 may not justify upgrading from a recent flagship.
• Rounded-corner design and integrated S Pen remain key Ultra identifiers.

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste

Key Points

• 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds introduced, unique to SVGBackgrounds.com
• Customizable to brand colors, with some featuring motion/transform effects
• Designed for easy export and quick integration into projects

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

Key Points

• FBI resumed buying Americans’ commercially available location data for investigations.
• Agencies can obtain ad-tech-sourced location data, such as via RTB, without a warrant.
• Proposed Government Surveillance Reform Act would require warrants for such purchases.

I reverse-engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from marketing photos

Key Points

• The author contrasts TiinyAI’s Pocket Lab with prior disappointing experience on NVIDIA’s DGX Spark, highlighting memory bandwidth as a critical bottleneck.
• TiinyAI claims the Pocket Lab can run 120B-parameter models at 20 tokens per second using 80 GB LPDDR5X and 190 TOPS of NPU compute for around $1,299.
• The Pocket Lab’s Kickstarter campaign rapidly surpassed its $10,000 goal, raising about $1.7 million, while the company promotes media praise, a world record, and CES exposure despite having a very small visible team.

Warranty Void If Regenerated

Key Points

• Software repair is replaced by plain-language spec generation in the story’s setting.
• Domain expertise becomes more valuable than traditional software skills.
• The protagonist retrains and runs a hybrid hardware/software-spec repair shop.

Explore 19th Century Scientific Correspondence

Key Points

• Cross-searchable platform unifies 50,000+ 19th-century scientific letters.
• Disaggregates and recombines collections to contextualize famous and lesser-known figures.
• Developed by Cambridge institutions with partnerships and long-term funding.

NYC High School Student Freed After 10 Months in ICE Detention

Key Points

• Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high school student, was released after about 10 months in federal immigration detention.
• His arrest at a New York immigration courthouse was the first widely known case of a New York City public school student detained by federal agents after Trump’s return to office.
• He was held at Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania and was picked up by immigration advocates following his pre-dawn release.

The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

Key Points

• The central limit theorem explains why bell curves appear widely across diverse datasets.
• Historical context links the CLT’s roots to Abraham de Moivre’s 18th-century gambling analyses.
• A coin-flip example demonstrates how repeated aggregation produces a bell-shaped distribution.

The TOMY Spinjas

Key Points

• Spinjas launched internationally in 1988 and in the U.S. in 1989 via TOMY U.S. and Parker Brothers.
• Trademark records list January 21, 1989 as first U.S. use; Europe marketed it as Battling Tops before the 1989 Toy Fair.
• Spinjas links earlier Beigoma, Wiz-z-zer, and Battling Tops to Takara’s later Beyblade.

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

Key Points

• Austin added 120,000 units (2015–2024), a 30% increase, far above U.S. growth.
• Median rent fell from $1,546 (Dec 2021) to $1,296 (Jan 2026), despite population growth.
• Policy toolkit: zoning for density/mixed use, $250M bond, permitting and ADU/parking reforms.

Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training

Key Points

• Layer-duplication of specific 3–4-layer blocks boosts reasoning without training or weight edits.
• Benchmarks show large gains on Devstral-24B and Qwen2.5-32B, with no reported degradations.
• Toolkit and commands provided to reproduce, apply, and validate results on consumer GPUs.

An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn

Key Points

• x86-64 backend delivers ~2× speedup over the Rust Uxn interpreter.
• ~2000 lines of ARM64 assembly were ported with Claude Code’s autonomous assistance.
• The implementation passed unit tests and fuzz testing; effort cost ~$29 and required minimal hands-on time.

Autoresearch for SAT Solvers

Key Points

• Autonomous agent solved 220/229 weighted MaxSAT instances and beat several 2024 competition bests.
• Multi-agent workflow shares knowledge via GitHub; deployment automated on Amazon EC2 with tmux.
• Discovered techniques include core-guided methods, local search (SATLike), tabu search, and multi-init with CaDiCaL/glucose4.

RX – a new random-access JSON alternative

Key Points

• Drop-in stringify/parse with random access and reduced parsing overhead
• Benchmarked gains: up to 18x smaller and 23,000x faster single-key lookup
• Binary and CLI tooling, plus options for indexes, refs, and streaming

Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

Key Points

• All human-created information systems carry bias, affecting notions of objectivity and reputation.
• Google Search involves user-selected sources; Gemini provides aggregated, “average” answers.
• Future AI systems may have explicit training biases, as suggested by Grok and DeepSeek.

Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold

Key Points

• Mold dates to ca. 1350 B.C.E. and cast socketed lanceolate spearheads.
• Geological sourcing points to northern Hungary–southeastern Slovakia origins, implying long-range material transport.
• Linked to the Urnfield culture, with heat wear indicating repeated, intensive use.

Show HN: ATO – a GUI to see and fix what your LLM agents configured

Key Points

• Multi-LLM desktop control panel for Claude, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes with MCP-based status.
• Comprehensive tooling: skills management/creation/marketplace, automation builder, cron monitor, context visualizer, subagents.
• Open Source vs Pro split: OSS core features; Pro adds real-time alerts, cloud analytics/sync, teams.

Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code

Key Points

• CLI orchestrates iterative and comparative workflows for coding agents
• Install via npm or as a Claude Code skill
• Supports review loops, task-list gating (ralph), and parallel version races in isolated git worktrees

LotusNotes

Key Points

• DoD-funded university research shaped early computing and education initiatives.
• PLATO (University of Illinois) is highlighted as the pioneering computerized teaching system.
• PLATO addressed pre-Internet challenges in networking, graphics, and multi-user real-time use.

A sufficiently detailed spec is code

Key Points

• The post challenges two misconceptions about spec-to-code approaches: simplicity and guaranteed quality.
• OpenAI’s Symphony SPEC.md is cited as an example of a spec that functions as pseudocode.
• The SPEC includes schema, concurrency control, and retry/backoff logic—implementation-level details.

Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149

Key Points

• Free built-in VPN-style proxy arrives in Firefox 149 on March 24 with 50GB/month in four countries.
• Feature masks IP/location for browser traffic only; Mozilla did not disclose the provider.
• Firefox 149 also brings Split View, Tab Notes, Smart Window, and builds on the Sanitizer API and AI controls.

We Have Learned Nothing

Key Points

• Popular startup methods are reviewed and argued to drive convergence and limited differentiation.
• Proponents’ claims of a ‘scientific’ basis are documented and questioned.
• The author calls for empirical proof that these methods improve startup outcomes.

Conway's Game of Life, in real life

Key Points

• 17×17 illuminated switch matrix driven by a Microchip AVR128DA64 MCU
• Multiplexed rows/columns with ~150 mA per LED and MOSFET drivers for safe current handling
• Firmware safeguards: blackout updates and ~15 ms watchdog reset

What 81,000 people want from AI

Key Points

• 80,508 interviews across 159 countries and 70 languages using an AI interviewer.
• AI classifiers categorized open-ended responses by needs, fears, occupations, and sentiment.
• Findings show coexisting benefits and concerns; a Quote Wall makes responses explorable.