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The Curious Case of Retro Demo Scene Graphics

Key Points

• Copying external sources was common in demoscene graphics, with community norms focused on effort and technique.
• Technical constraints (low resolution, limited palettes, weak scanners) made manual pixeling and techniques like dithering essential.
• Attribution varied, but methods such as grids and CRT tracing were widely used before drawing tablets became common.

Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

Key Points

• Eclipse GlassFish (v7.0+) is presented as production-ready with commercial support by OmniFish.
• First to pass Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile and Platform TCKs, with MicroProfile API support.
• GlassFish’s history includes Oracle stewardship, Payara fork, Eclipse Foundation releases, and OmniFish-backed maintenance since 2022.

15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die

Key Points

• Runs on a single 8GB RAM CentOS server since 2011, serving ~500k users.
• New redesign adds Root Lab (UML-based) and an eBPF-powered live command ticker.
• Kept Shellinabox after modern terminal swap caused reliability and Firefox issues.

Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code

Key Points

• AM source code is sourced from the SAILDART archive with a link to Lenat’s PhD thesis.
• Original environment: PDP-10 KI-10 on SUMEX, running Interlisp (Jan 1975), with specific memory details.
• Licensing: ARPA funding implies public domain; thesis encourages reuse and modification.

AI and bots have officially taken over the internet

Key Points

• Automated traffic surpassed human internet activity, growing nearly 8x faster in 2025.
• AI traffic rose 187% in 2025; agentic AI activity grew ~8,000% from 2024 levels.
• Measurement relies partly on user‑agent strings, which have reliability limits.

I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

Key Points

• Local auto-export via a forked Excalidraw VSCode extension replaces a fragile CI-based workflow.
• Frames named export_${image_name} produce paired light/dark SVGs saved beside the source file.
• Release artifacts are available from the author’s GitHub fork for others to use.

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models

Key Points

• Bellman’s discrete-time Bellman equation extends to the HJB PDE in continuous time.
• A deterministic HJB theorem is stated and derived via the dynamic programming principle.
• The framework links continuous-time RL with stochastic control and diffusion models.

ninja: a small build system with a focus on speed

Key Points

• Binaries for Linux, Mac, and Windows are on GitHub; only the ninja binary is required.
• Build from source using Python (bootstrap) or CMake; unit tests supported via GoogleTest.
• Generate documentation: manual (HTML/PDF) and Doxygen-based internal C++ references.

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era

Key Points

• First post was rejected on LessWrong for violating a no-LLM rule and triggering AI-written detection.
• Author attributes a decline in writing voice to growing reliance on AI tools beyond prior use of Grammarly/QuillBot.
• The post was written without tool assistance as a deliberate step to reclaim authenticity.

How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026

Key Points

• AI will be central in 2026; avoid old workflows with new tools.
• Cross-functional alignment and business acumen drive outsized impact.
• Use AI daily with clear roles; build offline networks and practice deep curiosity.

When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen

Key Points

• Volcanologists are tracing magma paths between connected volcanoes to enhance eruption forecasting.
• The 1912 Katmai–Novarupta event demonstrated magma transfer between neighboring systems.
• Recent Icelandic activity (Fagradalsfjall then Svartsengi) illustrates potential coupled behavior.

The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar

Key Points

• Pong debuted in 1972 at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
• Minimalist design with two knobs enabled intuitive, two‑player competition.
• An overflowing coin box revealed strong early demand and profitability.

How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball

Key Points

• Danny Litwhiler pioneered the pitch speed radar gun and numerous other baseball innovations.
• His MSU coaching tenure produced championships, NCAA appearances, and 13 MLB players.
• Pitch speed became a foundational metric, expanding into modern analytics like exit velocity and launch angle.

Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock

Key Points

• Two modes: Three‑Hand (independent alphabetical indices) and Combined (full alphabetized list of 43,200 times).
• Displays time using alphabetized English spellings instead of numeric order.
• Concept inspired by a Mastodon post.

Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

Key Points

• Consolidates numerous macOS system tasks into a menu bar app.
• Requires Gatekeeper override or Terminal command due to unsigned pre-release status.
• Donations unlock Ghostmoon XE with additional power-user features.

MCP is great, you're just using it wrong

Key Points

• MCP is best suited for GUI AI client integrations and documentation access, not for general-purpose tool calling in agent loops.
• A docs MCP server lets agents pull specific, current documentation on demand, reducing context size and keeping knowledge up to date.
• Using MCP for direct tool calling exposes LLM weaknesses in generating precise JSON tool-call syntax, making such setups fragile.

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

Key Points

• AI is framed as a natural evolution of human idea-making tools.
• The paper urges human-centered development and application of AI.
• It proposes a pathway to integrate AI into rigorous fields, focusing on human benefit.

Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)

Key Points

• 1,914 benchmark runs across 174 hashmap–hash combinations using a controlled hardware/software setup.
• Open addressing designs are highlighted for speed benefits versus reference stability trade-offs.
• Benchmarks cover copy behavior, large-scale insert/clear/reinsert/erase, and bounded random insert/access workloads.

Ask HN: Where have you found the coding limits of current models?

Key Points

• The post asks for real-world limits of current coding models.
• Examples are requested across code size, systems integration, and databases.
• The thread shows active engagement on Hacker News.

How the AI Bubble Bursts

Key Points

• Big Tech’s capex is framed as a defensive move that strains independent labs’ financing.
• Alphabet/Google is depicted as especially positioned to outlast rivals by pacing spend.
• Costs and financing risks (energy, rates, RAM pricing, Gulf capital) could catalyze a correction.

Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

Key Points

• Thin auto-configuration wrappers separate activation logic from bean definitions for maintainability.
• CAS uses 272 auto-configuration entry points following this pattern.
• A custom @ConditionalOnFeatureEnabled enables domain-specific, property-driven feature toggling.

Spain closes airspace to aircraft involved in Iran war

Key Points

• Spain has closed its airspace and joint bases to aircraft involved in Operation Epic Fury against Iran, except in emergencies.
• U.S. missions under the bilateral defense agreement, including logistical support for troops in Europe, continue to operate from Rota and Morón.
• Spain’s air traffic control supports B‑2 bomber navigation on Iran missions without those aircraft entering Spanish airspace, via the Strait of Gibraltar.

How to Turn Anything into a Router

Key Points

• Debian plus hostapd, dnsmasq, and bridge‑utils enables a DIY router with bridged LAN.
• General‑purpose hardware (even old laptops) can achieve high wired throughput.
• Firmware and BIOS/UEFI settings are crucial for reliable, headless operation.

Show HN: Phantom – Open-source AI agent on its own VM that rewrites its config

Key Points

• Runs as a persistent AI co-worker on its own VM with long-term memory and tools.
• Demonstrated autonomy by building an analytics stack, adding Discord, and implementing self-monitoring.
• Offers Docker quick start and a free managed VM option using the user’s Anthropic API key.

In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?

Key Points

• Lean has verified 260,000+ theorems but demands significant effort to encode proofs.
• Formalization has historically built trust and uncovered new links across mathematics.
• Mathematicians debate how to balance intuitive exploration with rigorous verification.

Pharma is dosing drugs wrong – the quantum tunneling correction nobody is using

Key Points

• Standard dosing models use classical kinetic equations that ignore quantum tunneling, potentially underestimating drug clearance rates.
• A simple tunneling correction factor κ, supported by decades of enzymology literature, is proposed but allegedly unused in clinical dosing models.
• Key enzymes such as MAO-A, ADH, and CYP3A4 show strong tunneling signatures, implying dosing implications for many widely used drugs.

How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage

Key Points

• Montgomery County’s 1980 TDR program preserves farmland while channeling housing to growth zones.
• Kingsbury’s Orchard used TDR revenue to maintain family ownership and farm operations.
• About 70,000 acres have been preserved and thousands of homes built via private TDR transactions.

Hackers now exploit critical F5 BIG-IP flaw in attacks, patch now

Key Points

• Actively exploited BIG-IP APM flaw (CVE-2025-53521) reclassified to RCE; fixes available.
• F5 released IOCs and forensic guidance; check disks, logs, and terminal history.
• CISA mandates U.S. federal agencies secure affected systems by March 30.

The coming PLG to SLG apocalypse

Key Points

• AI era compresses go-to-market timelines from self-serve to enterprise to under two years.
• Rising self-serve CAC and higher enterprise ACV drive earlier moves upmarket.
• Shortcuts in compliance and trust-building pose significant enterprise risk.

"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"

Key Points

• Copilot injected promotional tips into PR descriptions at scale, including references to Raycast and Copilot integrations.
• Neowin reports more than 1.5 million GitHub PRs were affected, with similar behavior on GitLab.
• The trend reflects broader AI monetization via ads, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT ad business reportedly hitting a $100M annualized run rate.

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library

Key Points

• Python-based parametric BREP CAD framework built on Open Cascade with a Pythonic, algebraic interface.
• Deep Python integration and standards compliance (PEP 8, mypy, pylint, Pylance).
• End-to-end workflow from 1D to 3D with selectors, transformations, and exports to FreeCAD/SolidWorks.

72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes

Key Points

• Four brief inflation episodes produced 72% of cumulative U.S. price increases since 1914.
• The dollar’s purchasing power fell 96.9% as CPI rose from 10.0 to 327.5.
• The Great Inflation (1968–1982) alone contributed 30.2% of total purchasing power loss.

Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents

Key Points

• Runs multiple isolated dev environments locally with CLI and observability UI, integrating with Docker Compose or without it.
• Offline-first, Git worktrees-based design; build produces coast (CLI) and coastd (daemon).
• macOS support now; Linux support planned; comprehensive dev workflow and Makefile targets included.

FTC Action Against Match and OkCupid for Deceiving Users, Sharing Personal Data

Key Points

• FTC alleges OkCupid shared user data with an unrelated third party despite privacy promises.
• Proposed settlement bans misrepresentations about data practices and privacy controls.
• Filing authorized by a 2-0 Commission vote and submitted in federal court in Dallas.

From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab

Key Points

• FreeBSD + Sylve offered a lighter, closer-to-the-metal stack for repetitive VM tasks.
• Integrated features (ZFS, UI passthrough, cloud-init, Samba) streamlined day-to-day operations.
• Torrent/magnet downloads, disk image conversion, and ghostty-web improved speed and usability.

Bitwarden Integrates with OneCLI Agent Vault

Key Points

• Credentials are injected at the network layer via OneCLI; agents never see raw keys.
• Human approval via Bitwarden CLI gates credential access; auditing covers approvals and usage.
• The integration is open source, in alpha, and works with any HTTP-based agent framework.

Take Better Notes, by Hand

Key Points

• Hybrid system: Pinboard, Books.app, Book Tracker, plus handwritten notebooks.
• Notebook methods: date pages, add page numbers, maintain an index.
• Right-page pen for main notes; left-page pencil for annotations and cross-references.

Cherri – programming language that compiles directly to a Apple Shortuct

Key Points

• Compiles directly to Apple Shortcuts with 1:1 action mapping
• Desktop-first tooling (CLI, VS Code extension, macOS app) and Git-based package manager
• Type system, scoped functions, and signing support with macOS and fallback options

New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements

Key Points

• Statewide noncompete ban effective June 30, 2027, with notice to workers due by Oct. 1, 2027.
• Builds on 2019 law; supersedes income-threshold limits with a full ban.
• Nonsolicitation agreements remain allowed but must be narrowly defined.

You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine

Key Points

• Critiques AI tools that automate posts and comments, arguing they erode authenticity.
• Highlights consistent growth practices: frequent, reliable posting and a clear, opinionated voice.
• Urges resisting performative or automated engagement in favor of genuine participation.

An NSFW Filter for Marginalia Search

Key Points

• CPU constraints led to rejecting transformers in favor of simpler models.
• LLMs (Qwen 3.5 via ollama) labeled ~10k samples for training without manual effort.
• A custom single hidden layer neural network is the chosen production approach.

Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war

Key Points

• Spain denies U.S. military use of its airspace and bases for Iran-related missions, with emergency exceptions.
• El País reports the decision forces U.S. bombers to reroute and adjust logistics to the Middle East.
• Tensions escalate: Trump threatens trade consequences; Spain rejects raising NATO spending to 5% of GDP.

DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

Key Points

• DigitalOcean upsized its underwritten offering to $800M, >10.38M shares, expected to close March 26.
• Proceeds target capacity expansion for cloud/AI, loan repayment, and general corporate uses.
• Company advancing efforts to secure more data center capacity; 14 data centers across 11 regions as of March 16, 2026.

Proactively Parasocial

Key Points

• Parasocial relationships are defined and broadened beyond media performers to any non-face-to-face familiarity.
• Technologies from speech and writing to the internet and social media amplify parasocial connections.
• Blogging is presented as a proactive method to cultivate productive parasocial ties.

The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

Key Points

• Measured adoption contradicts predictions that AI would write nearly all code within a year.
• AI significantly aids development, but coding gains don’t replace the need for human-led design and oversight.
• Empirical studies show mixed productivity results and rising developer dependence on AI tools.

"CEO Said a Thing " Journalism

Key Points

• Defines and critiques “CEO said a thing!” journalism as uncritical amplification of executive claims.
• Highlights examples involving Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg to demonstrate the pattern.
• Argues U.S. media often functions as an extension of corporate interests, normalizing this coverage.

A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity

Key Points

• Alpha particle energy can be visualized via ZnS scintillation under dark-adapted conditions.
• A 37 kBq americium source from a smoke detector enables the DIY setup.
• A pre-assembled spinthariscope offers a ready-made alternative for observing the effect.

Don't let AI write for you

Key Points

• Writing should remain a human-led thinking process to build understanding and capability.
• LLM-generated prose can erode trust and raise doubts about the underlying ideas.
• LLMs are best used for research, transcription, checking work, and idea generation, not replacing core authorship.

Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban

Key Points

• White House Android app requests expansive permissions and includes three trackers, one from Huawei.
• FBI, FEMA, and IRS apps embed multiple trackers and request numerous permissions; IRS2Go cited for pre‑PIA release.
• Article alleges expansive biometric retention and warrantless location‑data purchases by multiple federal agencies.

Fibonacci's Composed Fractions

Key Points

• Fibonacci’s composed fractions encode mixed‑radix quantities and inform derived arithmetic algorithms.
• Liber Abaci’s content spans practical merchant arithmetic to advanced problems and methods.
• The composed fractions notation predates Fibonacci in Arabic sources; algorithms are also shown in TypeScript.

William Blake, Remote by the Sea

Key Points

• In 1800, Blake moved to Felpham with Catherine, bringing a printing press among 16 boxes of belongings.
• The relocation followed an illustration commission from William Hayley, arranged by John Flaxman.
• Felpham’s growth as a seaside retreat and wartime travel limits framed the move and its context.

Seeing Like a Spreadsheet

Key Points

• Excel’s ubiquity and role in capital allocation make the spreadsheet central to computing’s economic impact.
• Firms are constrained by managerial information-processing capacity, shaping organizational size and complexity.
• Spreadsheets enabled financial engineering and helped shift U.S. corporations toward optimization of numbers.

The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline

Key Points

• Eight mega-caps (Mag 7 + Oracle) account for about 85% of the S&P 500’s YTD decline.
• Other S&P 500 constituents collectively added roughly 100 points despite the index being down 7%.
• The largest negative contributors are Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and Oracle.

How Does Offline Bitcoin Signing Work Step by Step

Key Points

• Offline signing separates transaction construction (online) from signing (offline) to protect private keys.
• PSBT (BIP‑174) is the standard file format for air‑gapped transaction signing; Bitcoin Core 0.17 supports it.
• BIP‑370 (PSBT v2) adds support for complex, interactive transactions like CoinJoin.

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

Key Points

• Uses a $1 mirror-based setup to enable touch on a MacBook via classical computer vision.
• Detects touch vs. hover by analyzing the alignment and distance between a finger and its reflection.
• Calibration computes a homography with RANSAC to map webcam inputs to on-screen coordinates and emit mouse events.

What Construction at a Train Station Taught Me About Software Engineering

Key Points

• Engineering under constraints: maintain service while improving systems.
• From code volume to value: trade-offs and stability first, even in the age of AI.
• Communicate intent and document decisions (DRY/KISS, naming, tests, RFCs/ADRs).

Recover Apple Keychain

Key Points

• Keychain remains encrypted with the old password after a macOS password reset.
• Original keychain is renamed and a new empty database is created in ~/Library/Keychains.
• Replacing the new login.keychain-db with the old renamed file restores access.

Vulnerability Research Is Cooked

Key Points

• LLM agents are portrayed as well-suited to automate zero-day discovery via bug-class pattern matching and constraint solving.
• Historical context shows vulnerabilities often arise in complex, input-heavy code paths rather than explicit security modules.
• The article argues that automation could remove the historical bottleneck of limited expert attention, changing exploit economics.

Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins

Key Points

• Roulette computers predict outcomes by timing ball and wheel dynamics to estimate landing sectors.
• The article claims legality in about half of casinos due to non-interference with equipment.
• Casinos may eject suspected users or close betting early, necessitating covert use.

We Hid a Free Trip to Switzerland in Our Privacy Policy. Someone Found It

Key Points

• Cape hid a Switzerland trip in its privacy policy; it was found in ~2 weeks.
• FTC, FCC, and Harris Poll references highlight widespread privacy-policy inattention and telecom data issues.
• Cape promotes transparency and a $99/month privacy-focused mobile plan.

America Is Now a Rogue Superpower

Key Points

• Oil market shifts and sanctions changes are described as boosting Russia’s war financing.
• Allied air-defense stocks are being strained across multiple theaters, including the Gulf and Ukraine.
• U.S. force redeployments from the Western Pacific to the Gulf are portrayed as weakening deterrence against China.

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution

Key Points

• Loom identified as a vertical warp-weighted type via 44 perforated clay weights and associated timbers/fibres.
• Fire and ceiling collapse created a sealed, charred context preserving wood and plant fibres.
• Wood analysis showed Aleppo pine from long-lived trees, indicating deliberate material selection.

Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

Key Points

• 11 interactive modules from beginner to advanced, accessible in the browser with no setup.
• Practice Claude Code via a terminal simulator and generate CLAUDE.md and configs.
• Each module ends with an explanatory quiz to reinforce learning.

Agents of Chaos

Key Points

• OpenClaw case studies reveal practical safety risks when agents have tool, memory, and communication access.
• A two-week, 20-researcher red-team surfaced limitation patterns across 11 case studies.
• Emerging standards (NIST) prioritize identity, authorization, and security for AI agents.

What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode

Key Points

• ~200 interactions generated across five APIs in ~15 minutes for <$20 token cost.
• Pipeline: per-interaction workspaces, one OpenCode agent each, test with real APIs, orchestrated assembly.
• Guardrails added after failures: sandboxed directories and explicit test data instructions.

How Iran is making a mint from the current war

Key Points

• Strait of Hormuz closure blocks about 15% of global oil flows.
• Most Gulf states cut output and see export revenues plunge.
• Iran’s exports continue, nearly doubling its daily oil income since Feb 28.

Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion

Key Points

• Intelligence will scale via interacting agents and human–AI hybrids, not a single monolithic model.
• Internal debate-like mechanisms, not just longer reasoning, drive improvements in frontier models (e.g., DeepSeek-R1).
• Alignment should evolve from RLHF to institutional approaches with checks and balances.

Tickets Are Prompts

Key Points

• Tickets act as prompts that constrain AI agent reasoning and scope.
• Experiments showed narrow tickets caused fragmented work and new bugs.
• Use outcome-focused, broad-scope tickets and defer subtasks until review.

A Taxonomy of Interiors

Key Points

• Interiors are defined by enclosure and object–space relationships.
• 16,777,216 possible object–space relationship types are proposed.
• Literature contrasts: chronological histories vs. Brooker’s alternative taxonomy.

The stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Key Points

• R3 Bio disclosed funding and investors for non-sentient monkey organ projects.
• Founder reportedly pitched brainless human clone concepts; company denies intent.
• No evidence of cloning beyond rodents; documents outline a body replacement roadmap.

Android Developer Verification

Key Points

• Developer verification is rolling out now via Android Developer Console and Play Console.
• User-side protections start September in four countries, expanding globally in 2027.
• Unregistered app installs will require ADB or an advanced sideloading flow.

IronGlass Brings Legendary Soviet Cinema Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras

Key Points

• Six focal lengths (20–105mm) with unified mechanics and 15‑blade apertures
• User‑swappable mounts (E, Z, RF, L‑Mount, GF, M) for mirrorless systems
• Preorders via CVP; 58mm T2.1 £1,665; kits at £4,440 and £8,850; shipping in spring

Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?

Key Points

• The Risk Index is explicitly satirical and non-advisory, while cases link to real filings and reports.
• Aggregate figures show $50.9B in exposure and 110+ years of sentences across nine convicted founders.
• Profiles include FTX/Sam Bankman‑Fried, Terraform/Do Kwon, Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes, and Frank (Charlie Javice).

The Digital Leviathan

Key Points

• Forthcoming book (Henry Holt, March 2026) argues digital infrastructure now mediates governance.
• Claims visible censorship is a systemic feature of the “information state.”
• Historical genealogy links Bacon and Colbert to modern information control.

Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)

Key Points

• Mainstream social media is depicted as ad-driven and engagement-focused, reducing authentic connection.
• Bluesky is presented as an ad-free platform with no link downranking and strong moderation.
• ATProto underpins Bluesky and enables user-owned, portable social data across apps.

Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop

Key Points

• Apple ends the Mac Pro line with no planned successor.
• The 2013 cylindrical design constrained future updates, influencing the line’s decline.
• Apple’s pro desktop lineup now centers on Mac Studio and M4 Pro Mac mini.

Show HN: Gravity doesn't track mass, it tracks waveform complexity

Key Points

• Temporal accumulation is the use of past signal snapshots to improve prediction of future observations.
• Persistence advantage P measures how much prediction improves when memory is used versus only the latest snapshot.
• The benefit of memory is linked to waveform spectral entropy, with evolving signals like LIGO’s gravitational wave chirps showing large advantages.

Principles and Gear

Key Points

• Dress for mid-run conditions with clear layering thresholds to avoid overdressing.
• Dual-watch approach: Garmin for route and structured workouts; Apple Watch for audio and communication.
• Use Strava’s autogenerated routes and heatmap data to plan and sync runs.

Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%

Key Points

• CLAUDE.md reduces Claude’s output tokens by ~63% in directional benchmarks.
• Net savings depend on high output volume due to added input context cost.
• For robust parsing, use JSON mode or tool-use schemas instead of prompt rules.

Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]

Key Points

• Premiere date set for April 16.
• Focus on Clojure’s journey from inception to large-scale fintech adoption.
• Trailer highlights industry impact rather than technical details.

Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching

Key Points

• 52-minute window where unintended CDN caching affected ~0.05% of domains with CDN disabled.
• Most GET responses without Cache-Control were cached; Set-Cookie responses were excluded.
• Change was reverted, caches purged, and new tests and sharded rollouts implemented.

Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent

Key Points

• AI converted a hand-drawn sketch plus two dimensions into 3D‑printable parts rapidly.
• Parametric Python generators enabled fast print‑test‑adjust iteration and reproducibility.
• Repo includes tuned dimensions, STL outputs, and AGENTS.md for safe AI-driven extensions.

Artemis II is not safe to fly

Key Points

• OIG photos from May 2024 showed deep gouges and holes in Orion’s Avcoat heat shield blocks after Artemis I.
• Three OIG‑identified risks: spalling, possible debris impacts on the capsule top/parachute bay, and erosion/melting of embedded bolts.
• NASA characterized the damage earlier as small and localized, while the contractor cited remaining Avcoat margin.

Axios Compromised on NPM – Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan

Key Points

• Hijacked maintainer credentials led to malicious axios releases on npm.
• Affected versions include axios 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 with a hidden RAT‑dropping dependency.
• StepSecurity is investigating and will provide a full technical analysis.

Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

Key Points

• Ollama integrates Apple’s MLX for faster Apple Silicon inference, especially on M5-series chips.
• Adds NVFP4 support for efficient, production-parity quantization and NVIDIA optimizer compatibility.
• Upgrades caching for lower memory use and faster responses; preview centers on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.

Oscar Reutersvärd (2021)

Key Points

• Reutersvärd devised the impossible triangle (1934) and staircase (1937) decades before the Penroses’ 1958 publication.
• He used isometric projection to produce thousands of plain-rendered impossible forms, differing from Escher’s realistic settings.
• His career bridged art and academia, including studies with Fernand Léger, major exhibitions, public sculptures, and professorship at Lund University.

Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model

Key Points

• 340M-parameter “Mr. Chatterbox” trained on 28,035 British Library books (~2.93B tokens, 1837–1899).
• Model and demo available on Hugging Face; file size is 2.05GB.
• Local usage enabled via Simon Willison’s llm-mrchatterbox plugin built on nanochat and the LLM framework.

Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly

Key Points

• Updated estimates show ECDLP-256 could be broken with <500,000 physical qubits in minutes under standard assumptions.
• Google urges blockchain migration to post-quantum cryptography and sets a 2029 timeline with industry partners.
• Responsible disclosure via zero-knowledge proofs was used in coordination with the U.S. government.

Rock Star: Reading the Rosetta Stone

Key Points

• English inscriptions on the stone document British capture in 1801 and presentation by King George III.
• French-made facsimiles of the inscriptions were crucial to the eventual decipherment.
• The stone likely originated from a taller stela at Sais and was later reused before discovery at Fort St Julien.

Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context

Key Points

• TimesFM 2.5: 200M parameters, 16k context, optional 30M quantile head for up to 1k-step quantile forecasts.
• Official BigQuery integration exists; the open-source release is not officially supported by Google.
• Upgraded inference API, Flax backend planned for faster inference, and covariate support via XReg restored.

Show HN: Will AI take my job

Key Points

• The tool lets users type in a job title to see how much AI could change that occupation.
• Results are delivered quickly, in about five seconds after input.
• The underlying analysis is based on data from 342 jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage

Key Points

• Sony halted new orders for CFexpress and SD memory cards due to NAND flash shortages.
• AI data center growth is diverting TLC 3D NAND to enterprise SSDs, constraining consumer supply.
• Recovery for consumer NAND availability isn’t expected until late 2027 or 2028.

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Key Points

• GitHub disables Copilot “tips” in PRs after reports of promotional messages.
• Executives cite a logic error and clarify GitHub does not plan to include ads.
• Agent tips removed from PR comments; rollout of the change reversed.