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Wednesday, 18 March 2026

• Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• What 81,000 people want from AI
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149
  cyberinsider.com · Discuss

• We Have Learned Nothing
  colossus.com · Discuss

• A sufficiently detailed spec is code
  haskellforall.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
  pew.org · Discuss

• Shooting-Free Days Decline in Major U.S. Cities
  publichealth.columbia.edu · Discuss

• What’s on HTTP?
  whatsonhttp.com · Discuss

• Warranty Void If Regenerated
  nearzero.software · Discuss

• Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer
  hamiltonnolan.com · Discuss

• FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
  tmux.thijsverreck.com · Discuss

• EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
  commission.europa.eu · Discuss

• I haven't used a mouse for 14 years
  axelk.ee · Discuss

• Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• AI coding is gambling
  notes.visaint.space · Discuss

• Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel
  phoronix.com · Discuss

• North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim
  theregister.com · Discuss

• A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
  codeberg.org · Discuss

• Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
  svgbackgrounds.com · Discuss

• Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web
  susam.net · Discuss

• Wide logging: Stripe's canonical log line pattern
  blog.alcazarsec.com · Discuss

• Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15
  engadget.com · Discuss

• CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
  blog.qualys.com · Discuss

• Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
  promptarmor.com · Discuss

• Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
  stripe.com · Discuss

• Death to Scroll Fade
  dbushell.com · Discuss

• Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
  propublica.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Elisym – Open protocol for AI agents to discover and pay each other
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts
  tomshardware.com · Discuss

• Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
  blog.google · Discuss

• Judge orders restoration of Voice of America
  apnews.com · Discuss

• OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
  om.co · Discuss

• 2025 Turing award given for quantum information science
  awards.acm.org · Discuss

• Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
  cs.unc.edu · Discuss

• Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier
  kagifeedback.org · Discuss

• Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
  nightingale.cafe · Discuss

• Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
  susam.net · Discuss

• Animation 10k Starlink Satellites
  spaceweather.com · Discuss

• Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead
  ndea.com · Discuss

Tuesday, 17 March 2026

• Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science
  bertrandmeyer.com · Discuss

• Show HN: The Lottery of Life
  claude.ai · Discuss

• Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP
  theregister.com · Discuss

• SSH has no Host header
  blog.exe.dev · Discuss

• Review of Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (2005)
  typographica.org · Discuss

• Have a fucking website
  otherstrangeness.com · Discuss

• The pleasures of poor product design
  inconspicuous.info · Discuss

• A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel
  rovarma.com · Discuss

• Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Mistral AI Releases Forge
  mistral.ai · Discuss

• Warranty Void If Regenerated
  nearzero.software · Discuss

• Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
  communityforums.atmeta.com · Discuss

• A Decade of Slug
  terathon.com · Discuss

• Java 26 is here
  hanno.codes · Discuss

• Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
  ilga.gov · Discuss

• Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox
  wasmer.io · Discuss

• If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems
  andrewmurphy.io · Discuss

• GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano
  openai.com · Discuss

• Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Specialist
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Why Are We Still Doing This?
  wheresyoured.at · Discuss

• Qwen3.5-397B at 4.74 tok/s using 5.9GB RAM
  xcancel.com · Discuss

• 'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)
  theasc.com · Discuss

• A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer
  bernsteinbear.com · Discuss

• Unsloth Studio
  unsloth.ai · Discuss

• Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
  tomshardware.com · Discuss

• FFmpeg 8.1
  ffmpeg.org · Discuss

• Node.js needs a virtual file system
  blog.platformatic.dev · Discuss

• OpenSUSE Kalpa
  kalpadesktop.org · Discuss

• A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)
  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih · Discuss

• Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back
  governance.fyi · Discuss

• Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only
  Bracketmadness.ai · Discuss

• Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks
  phys.org · Discuss

• Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech
  gadgetreview.com · Discuss

• Kagi Small Web
  kagi.com · Discuss

• Building a Shell
  healeycodes.com · Discuss

• Grace Hopper's Revenge
  thefuriousopposites.com · Discuss

• Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source
  matijacniacki.com · Discuss

Monday, 16 March 2026

• Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL
  oseifert.ch · Discuss