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Courts move in as Instagram and YouTube stand accused of designing feeds that keep kids locked in... In Europe, lawmakers tell big platforms to stop scanning private email and messages, shifting the fight over privacy into high gear... Apple shutters the Mac Pro dream while Vizio ties new TVs to Walmart logins, blurring the line between hardware and account... Palantir loses its grip on New York hospitals as the Pentagon gets checked in court over a blacklist on Anthropic... In the AI world, Sora burns cash, a poisoned LiteLLM release exposes fragile supply chains, and a tuned Qwen3‑14B on a cheap GPU outguns bigger models... A startup rebuilds engines like JSONata with AI in hours, and we see how fast software, money, and power now move together.
Jury Says Instagram And YouTube Hooked Our Kids
A Los Angeles jury decided Instagram and YouTube were deliberately built to addict kids, not just entertain them. The verdict paints the feeds as engineered slot machines and looks like the first big crack in the ‘we just host content’ defense tech companies love.
Europe Tells Email Scanners To Back Off
The European Parliament voted to end Chat Control 1.0, forcing big names like Gmail, LinkedIn, and Microsoft to stop quietly scanning private messages. Privacy fans are treating it like a rare victory, while child‑safety hawks warn of darker corners online.
New Vizio TVs Now Locked Behind Walmart Login
Fresh Vizio TVs now want a Walmart account before you get the ‘smart’ features, turning your TV into another loyalty card. People are grumbling that a screen they bought outright should not demand sign‑ups just to stream shows and change inputs.
Apple Kills Mac Pro And The Pro Dream
Apple axed the Mac Pro and admits it has no plans for another modular tower. Creative pros see this as the final shove toward glued‑shut M‑series boxes and pricey Mac Studio setups, with repairability and upgrades left on the cutting‑room floor.
New York Hospitals Dump Palantir’s Patient Data Crystal
New York City’s public hospitals ditched controversial data firm Palantir after activist pressure over its government and NHS work. For many, it’s proof that hospital analytics don’t have to come from a company better known for spying than bedside manners.
Sora Burned Millions A Day To Make Clips
A cost breakdown of OpenAI’s video generator Sora claims it was chewing through around $15M a day in compute while only pulling in a tiny $2.1M over its life. It turns the product from ‘movie studio of the future’ into a brutal lesson in AI hype versus bills.
Judge Tells Pentagon To Stop Blacklisting Anthropic
The Pentagon tried to slap Anthropic with a scary ‘supply chain risk’ label that could freeze it out of government deals. A federal judge hit pause, suggesting agencies can’t quietly kneecap AI labs without solid proof, no matter how nervous they are about frontier models.
Cheap GPU Plus Smart Tricks Beats Fancy AI
Using ATLAS on a tuned Qwen3‑14B model, researchers hit higher coding scores than Claude Sonnet using just a $500 GPU. It’s a pointed reminder that clever software and open tooling can make small models punch above their weight, and that price tags still matter.
Startup Rewrites Core Engine With AI In Hours
A startup says it rewrote JSONata with AI in a single day, then followed Cloudflare’s lead and used models to rebuild complex internals for a fraction of hiring costs. Devs are impressed and uneasy: it’s thrilling that AI can do this, and scary for long‑term job security.
AI Library Hack Shows Supply Chains Are Fragile
A poisoned LiteLLM release slipped into the wild, and one engineer’s minute‑by‑minute account shows how quickly AI tooling can spread malware and how fast defenders now move using tools like Claude Code. It feels like a preview of software supply‑chain battles to come.
Twenty Dollar Robot Kit Aims For Every Kid
Every Kid Gets a Robot ships sub‑$20 ESP32‑powered bots and curriculum to young people for free, aiming to make robotics as normal as crayons. It’s a rare tech project that feels like it actually widens opportunity instead of just chasing the next funding round.
Hackers Cram Doom Into DNS Server Records
Because of course they did: someone figured out how to serve DOOM entirely through DNS TXT records on Cloudflare. It’s half ridiculous stunt, half sharp reminder that internet plumbing is wildly flexible and that nerds will run games on absolutely anything.
Cloudflare Swaps Cache For Cores To Go Faster
Cloudflare showed off its Gen 13 servers, leaning on beefy AMD EPYC chips and fewer SSDs to double performance. Instead of hoarding cached data, they’re betting on raw CPU muscle, and the crowd loves the ruthless focus on watts, latency, and bang for buck.
CERN To Run Europe’s Big Open Science Press
CERN was picked to host Open Research Europe, turning the lab that found the Higgs boson into a major open‑access publisher. Researchers see it as a welcome push against paywalled journals, with public money finally backing public science again.
Raspberry Pi Becomes Refuge For Orphaned FireWire Gear
With Apple finally killing FireWire support in macOS, one tinkerer turned a Raspberry Pi into a lifeboat for old cameras and audio gear. It’s exactly the kind of stubborn, DIY refusal to let perfectly good hardware die that Hacker News quietly celebrates.
A Los Angeles jury ruled that Instagram and YouTube were designed to addict children, opening the door to more lawsuits and forcing social platforms to defend how their apps are built, not just how they’re used.
The European Parliament voted to end automatic scanning of private messages under so‑called Chat Control, a rare clear win for privacy advocates and a sharp rebuke to surveillance‑heavy child safety plans.
A federal judge stopped the Pentagon from slapping Anthropic with a scary supply‑chain risk label, signaling that Washington’s new AI gatekeeping powers will face real pushback in court.
Apple discontinued the Mac Pro with no replacement planned, effectively ending the era of truly upgradeable Macs and confirming that the company’s future is sealed boxes, soldered parts, and cloud‑tied workflows.
A deep dive into OpenAI’s video tool Sora claims it cost around $15M per day to run while only earning a couple million total, turning a hyped ‘future of video’ into a textbook case of AI economics gone wild.
Researchers showed a tuned 14B‑parameter model on a $500 GPU beating Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks, feeding the growing belief that clever training and tooling might matter more than giant, secret models.
New Vizio TVs reportedly require a Walmart account for smart features, turning a living‑room screen into another retail login funnel and sparking anger from people who just wanted a TV, not yet another data‑harvesting account.
This article by Joonas Javanainen examines how different Game Boy flash cartridges affect power consumption, battery life, and system behavior compared with genuine game cartridges. The author outline...
Ashby, a YC W19 startup focused on recruiting software, is hiring a full‑stack product engineer across a broad set of European locations. The posting, written by Co‑Founder and VP of Engineering Abhik...
An established data-broker market aggregates information from mobile apps and web browsing and sells it both to advertisers and U.S. government agencies, including bulk cell phone location records. De...
The article explains that Intel’s Pentium succeeded the 80486 and was introduced on March 22, 1993. It outlines key technical differences, notably the Pentium’s faster front side bus and a new socket,...
This article highlights practical, portable shell shortcuts that streamline command-line work, especially in environments where advanced customizations aren’t available. It splits guidance into two gr...
A family history project transforms a trove of 1,351 scattered photographs into a structured “personal encyclopedia.” The author first sorted prints by physical characteristics to uncover patterns but...
The Maxell MXCP-P100 is a wireless cassette player positioned to combine classic tape listening with contemporary convenience. Its design centers on a stabilized transport that uses a precision brass ...
This guide cautions casual, non-technical, budget-conscious buyers against purchasing retro game consoles—defined here as Wii-era and older—because they typically lack HDMI support, are harder to conn...
Swift 6.3 broadens Swift’s cross-platform capabilities and improves developer workflows with a set of language, tooling, and packaging enhancements. The release introduces the @c attribute to expose S...
This article examines William T. Vollmann’s protracted attempt to publish A Table for Fortune, a novel about the CIA that he delivered in 2022 at around 3,000 pages. After roughly three decades with V...
This article frames a review of Paul Kingsnorth’s “Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity” through Agatha Christie’s “The Cornish Mystery,” where slow poisoning serves as a metaphor for grad...
Obsolete Sounds is a curated audio project dedicated to documenting and reimagining disappearing and extinct sounds. Framed as the world’s largest collection of its kind, it invites listeners to explo...
This article spotlights three niche cultural sites. First is the Mossman Lock Collection, assembled by bank vault engineer John M. Mossman in New York City and donated in 1903 to the General Society o...
The article argues OpenAI’s decision to shut down its Sora video generator on March 24, 2026 stemmed from unsustainable unit economics. Citing Forbes, it reports Sora’s peak inference costs at about $...
Relay is an open-source Electron desktop application designed as a control plane for OpenClaw, offering a local, governed alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. It preserves Cowork’s workflow patte...
An engineer documents the journey of building an internal, fast-response chat system grounded in company documents using a local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) stack. Driven by confidentiality, ...
LibreOffice will add a periodic donation banner to the Start Centre in version 26.8. The banner will occupy roughly the bottom quarter of the start screen, appear occasionally (not at every launch), a...
This post presents optimization techniques developed while building a tool to find rare, naturally formed “bedrock prisons” in Minecraft. These enclosed spaces arise from the game’s random bedrock gen...
The article details a decisive outcome in the European Parliament that halts mass scanning of private messages in the EU, known as “Chat Control.” Following a prior rejection on 13 March and an attemp...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found that Instagram and YouTube were negligently designed to addict young users, ruling in favor of a 20-year-old California plaintiff. After seven weeks of p...
This article examines the data-ink ratio—the share of a graphic’s ink that conveys non-redundant data—and contrasts it with “chartjunk,” or decorative elements that do not encode information. Building...
The article announces that the European Parliament has decided to halt “Chat Control 1.0,” portraying this as a win for privacy. It claims that, effective April 6, 2026, platforms such as Gmail, Linke...
This article walks through implementing a high-performance, single-producer single-consumer ring buffer in C++. It begins with a basic, single-threaded array-based FIFO using head and tail indices, le...
Agent Skill Harbor is introduced as an open-source, GitHub-native platform designed to fill a gap in how teams and organizations manage AI agent skills. While public discovery and personal skill manag...
A developer outlines a pragmatic approach to moving projects from GitHub to Codeberg, emphasizing that the ease of migration depends on project needs. The straightforward part is importing issues, pul...
Walmart is deepening its integration of Vizio by requiring Walmart accounts on select new Vizio OS TVs to complete onboarding and access smart features. The change builds on Vizio’s prior requirement ...
This article documents a home networking project to enforce a scheduled “bedtime” that disables Internet access while allowing certain devices to keep working overnight. To meet these goals and gain f...
An Amsterdam IT consultant, Dennis Biesma, began experimenting with ChatGPT in late 2024 and created a persona he called “Eva” from a character in his own writing. Extended voice-mode conversations le...
In an IEEE Spectrum interview, author Cory Doctorow outlines the central argument of his book “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation”: that Big Tech’s walled gardens persist due to l...
Intel introduced two new workstation‑focused GPUs, the Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65, aimed at advanced AI compute workloads, local inferencing, professional visualization, and multi‑GPU rack deployment...
This instructional piece outlines how French diacritics on the letter “e” (ë, è, é, ê) guide pronunciation by deviating from base rules for the vowel. It first notes that French “e” can be pronounced ...
This article presents a minute-by-minute Claude Code transcript capturing how an AI-assisted investigation uncovered and responded to a LiteLLM 1.82.8 supply-chain attack on March 24, 2026. Starting f...
OpenTelemetry has advanced its observability ecosystem by moving the Profiles signal into public Alpha, positioning continuous production profiling alongside traces, metrics, and logs. The release cen...
Buyer Eval is a Claude-based skill designed to streamline and strengthen the evaluation of B2B software vendors. Instead of manually filling out extensive forms, users provide their company name and t...
This article outlines why the author built Retro Game Engine, a specialized tool intended to authentically reproduce CRT-era visuals. After years of using multipurpose engines like Unreal and Unity, t...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has instituted a ban on transgender athletes competing in the women’s category at the Olympic Games. The policy, described as the most significant decision si...
This article explains how a blog was implemented using Elixir and the Phoenix framework with traditional server-side rendering. Instead of a static site generator, the author chose Phoenix to allow fu...
Stripe Projects is a new CLI-based workflow designed to streamline the provisioning and management of software stacks across multiple services. It allows developers or agents to set up hosting, databa...
This article investigates why mid-20th century industrial control rooms often featured seafoam green, beginning with an observation at the X-10 Graphite Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It traces the ...
HyperAgents is an open-source framework for building and running self-referential, self-improving agents designed to optimize for any computable task. The repository outlines a two-agent structure—a t...
Colibri is an open-source chat platform designed for community interactions and built on the AT Protocol. By default, Colibri’s communities are public and discoverable, aligning with the protocol’s em...
A technical project demonstrates delivering and running the DOOM shareware game entirely through DNS. The author compresses the DOOM WAD and a .NET-based engine into approximately 1,964 DNS TXT record...
Orloj introduces an infrastructure-as-code approach to running multi-agent AI systems in production. Users define agents, tools, and policies as YAML manifests, while Orloj schedules, executes, and go...
A 2019 study from a German laboratory identified a potent link between fermented foods and immune signaling: phenyllactic acid (D‑PLA), produced by lactic acid bacteria in foods like sauerkraut, enter...
This article examines comma usage in English writing, using a light cultural reference to Fawlty Towers to segue into a focused discussion on grammar. It begins by highlighting a common error—stringin...
The article argues that large language model (LLM) coding agents are reliable only when tightly constrained by executable oracles—automated tests and metrics that validate correctness and quality. Tra...
Turbolite is an experimental SQLite Virtual File System (VFS) written in Rust that enables executing point lookups and JOINs directly from object storage, achieving sub-250ms cold latencies. It introd...
The article details three recent cases illustrating how gambling and prediction markets can intersect with real-world events in ways that threaten integrity. It first describes a November 2025 federal...
This article explains how precisely one can estimate function values between entries of a numerical table using interpolation. It introduces an upper bound on nth-order interpolation error: c·h^(n+1) ...
CERN has been selected to host the next phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), the European Commission–supported open access publishing platform. The initiative aligns with the 2022 Action Plan for Diam...
Layerleak is an open-source secret scanner tailored for public Docker Hub/OCI images. It inspects image layers and metadata—including environment variables, labels, history, and artifacts from deleted...
A system maintainer describes a legacy client-server setup where the server ingests high-frequency sensor/controller data into a legacy database. The bottleneck is the client application, which is tig...
New York City’s public hospital network (NYC Health + Hospitals) will end its contract with Palantir by October, concluding a short-term engagement focused on revenue cycle optimization. Testifying be...
This research post explains why, even with modern semantic indexing, AI coding agents still need fast regular-expression search and how traditional tools struggle at enterprise scale. While ripgrep re...
Deploytarot.com is a playful web experience that recasts software deployment decisions as tarot card guidance. The site invites users to seek “counsel” before shipping changes, asking what they need a...
“The Little Book of C” provides a structured pathway for learning C programming, presented through a detailed table of contents. It begins with getting started topics—why C remains relevant, installin...
This article outlines a practical method to continue using legacy FireWire (IEEE 1394) equipment—such as DV cameras and storage—with modern hardware after Apple removed FireWire support in macOS 26 “T...
Fio is an open-source 3D world editor and integrated game engine that combines a brush-based CSG level editor with a unified renderer. Drawing on the workflows of classic tools like Radiant and Worldc...
Cloudflare has introduced its 13th‑generation edge server platform, shifting from the cache‑heavy AMD EPYC Genoa‑X used in Gen 12 to the core‑dense AMD EPYC 5th Gen “Turin.” The company previously tun...
A concise technical note (dated 2026-03-13) introduces and motivates a claim useful for parallel sorting: anti-diagonal sorting preserves the Young tableau property. The idea originates from efforts t...
This article traces the evolution and normalization of targeted assassination in Israeli state practice, framing a recent killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other officials as part of a long...
Iran’s oil income has climbed amid wartime disruptions as it remains the only major producer able to ship through the Strait of Hormuz. With Brent prices above $100 and Iranian Light trading at its ti...
A developer showcases a self-hosted AI agent architecture built to deliver specific, code-backed answers about their portfolio rather than generic resume summaries. The system runs on a budget-friendl...
Reco applied an AI-and-test-suite methodology, inspired by Cloudflare’s AI-based Next.js-on-Vite rewrite, to rebuild its JSON transformation pipeline. Facing high costs and latency from running the Ja...
Veil is an open-source tool designed to deliver a true dark mode experience for PDF documents by inverting text while preserving the integrity of images. Aimed at readers who work in low-light conditi...
The article introduces Whistler, a Common Lisp-based DSL and optimizing compiler for eBPF that enables live kernel and userspace instrumentation from the Lisp REPL. Whistler claims to generate highly ...
Chicago illustrator Steve Shanabruch has developed a series of tourism-style posters celebrating the city’s neighborhoods and landmarks, visually inspired by 1930s Works Progress Administration nation...
A judge in the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction in Anthropic PBC’s suit against the U.S. Department of War. The court distinguished between policy choices about which A...
A short post claims Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro and that there are no plans for future Mac Pro hardware. It characterizes the news as marking an end to serviceable and upgradable Macs, though t...
A legal blog post analyzes Upper Deck’s case against print-on-demand vendor Pixels over prints showing Michael Jordan trading cards. Upper Deck claims rights in both the Jordan imagery (under license)...
A US federal court in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon from designating Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” a move that would have pressured military contractors to prove they do not u...
Apple has ended the Mac Pro product line, confirming to 9to5Mac that the desktop is discontinued and that no future Mac Pro hardware is planned. The Mac Pro’s purchase page now points to Apple’s gener...
ATLAS (Adaptive Test-time Learning and Autonomous Specialization) presents a self-hosted inference pipeline that elevates a frozen, quantized 14B model (Qwen3-14B-Q4_K_M) to 74.6% pass@1 on LiveCodeBe...
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Symbolica reports that its Agentica SDK achieved an unverified 36.08% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, marking a Day 1 milestone. The run solved 113 of 182 playable levels and fully completed 7 of th...
Chroma unveiled Context-1, a 20B-parameter agentic search model aimed at improving multi-hop retrieval, where information must be gathered across multiple documents with intermediate reasoning steps. ...
Axel Delafosse presents “loop,” a lightweight CLI that places Claude and Codex into a tmux session and bridges their dialogue to enable agent‑to‑agent pair programming. Drawing on research from Cursor...
HandyMKV is introduced as a productivity tool that integrates MakeMKV and HandBrake to automate and simplify home media workflows. Designed to remove manual, sequential steps, it targets both time sav...
Lone Lisp has added a dedicated generator type intended to be the language’s foundation for iteration. The article demonstrates generators with a simple example: a function yields three computed value...
Every Kid Gets a Robot (EKGAR) is an educational robotics initiative that manufactures kits for under $20 and ships them to youth at no cost, aiming to expand access to STEM—particularly for Indigenou...
Claude Code on the web introduces scheduled tasks that run prompts on recurring schedules in either Anthropic’s cloud or on a user’s machine. Cloud tasks operate autonomously without requiring a local...
This open-access book consolidates a broad body of research on the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces, spanning more than a century for reading on paper and over five decades for reading on ...