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Saturday, 21 March 2026

• Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
  therecord.media · Discuss

Friday, 20 March 2026

• Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500
  old.reddit.com · Discuss

• Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
  pbxscience.com · Discuss

• FFmpeg 101 (2024)
  blogs.igalia.com · Discuss

• purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment
  purl.dev · Discuss

• Traces of Evil
  tracesofevil.com · Discuss

• Why I'm Not Worried About Running Out of Work in the Age of AI
  kellblog.com · Discuss

• We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
  openui.com · Discuss

• Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
  nautil.us · Discuss

• OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
  opencode.ai · Discuss

• A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas
  nippon.com · Discuss

• The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it
  world.hey.com · Discuss

• NumKong: 2'000 Mixed Precision Kernels for All
  ashvardanian.com · Discuss

• Our commitment to Windows quality
  blogs.windows.com · Discuss

• BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
  electrek.co · Discuss

• Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser
  demo.define.app · Discuss

• Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System
  sharpai.org · Discuss

• 90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective
  mollywhite.net · Discuss

• Meme Buildings
  misfitsarchitecture.com · Discuss

• Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'
  portlandtribune.com · Discuss

• Having Kids (2019)
  paulgraham.com · Discuss

• Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot
  forbes.com · Discuss

• Chuck Norris has died
  variety.com · Discuss

• Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration
  linuxiac.com · Discuss

• Java is fast, code might not be
  jvogel.me · Discuss

• I'm OK being left behind, thanks
  shkspr.mobi · Discuss

• HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice
  news.northwestern.edu · Discuss

• The Social Smolnet
  ploum.net · Discuss

• France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
  lemonde.fr · Discuss

• Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving
  slab.org · Discuss

• Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
  blogs.embarcadero.com · Discuss

• AI (2014)
  blog.samaltman.com · Discuss

• Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
  entsoe.eu · Discuss

• 3M's PFAS exit killed the supply chain for two-phase immersion cooling in DCs
  thecoolingreport.com · Discuss

• The Soul of a Pedicab Driver
  sheldonbrown.com · Discuss

• Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• CAIveat Emptor: What You Tell AI Can and Will Be Used Against You
  natlawreview.com · Discuss

• FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
  fsfe.org · Discuss

Thursday, 19 March 2026

• ArXiv declares independence from Cornell
  science.org · Discuss

• Physicists Trace Sun's Magnetic Engine, 200k Kilometers Below Surface
  news.njit.edu · Discuss

• Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
  trustedsec.com · Discuss

• Push events into a running session with channels
  code.claude.com · Discuss

• Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
  omar.yt · Discuss

• The day I discovered type design
  marksimonson.com · Discuss

• Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
  bristol.ac.uk · Discuss

• Minecraft Source Code Is Interesting
  karanjanthe.me · Discuss

• Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase
  aicode.swerdlow.dev · Discuss

• The Need for an Independent AI Grid
  amppublic.com · Discuss

• Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla
  electrek.co · Discuss

• EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages
  esolang-bench.vercel.app · Discuss

• Waymo Safety Impact
  waymo.com · Discuss

• Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
  static.nhtsa.gov · Discuss

• Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
  getclockwise.com · Discuss

• From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)
  mattkeeter.com · Discuss

• Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute
  qlabs.sh · Discuss

• Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust
  iroh.computer · Discuss

• Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect
  alearningaday.blog · Discuss

• US has "lost control of its own foreign policy", Oman says
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place
  ofcom.org.uk · Discuss

• An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD
  openttd.org · Discuss

• Gauntlet AI (YC S17): Fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give you $200k+ job
  gauntletai.com · Discuss

• How to defer US taxes
  taylor.town · Discuss

• Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster
  blog.skypilot.co · Discuss

• Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment
  pluralistic.net · Discuss

• World Happiness Report 2026
  worldhappiness.report · Discuss

• Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Prompt Injecting Contributing.md
  glama.ai · Discuss

• Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
  bbc.com · Discuss

• The Shape of Inequalities
  andreinc.net · Discuss

• OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier
  undeadly.org · Discuss

• I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
  fabian-kuebler.com · Discuss

• Astral to Join OpenAI
  astral.sh · Discuss

• OpenAI to Acquire Astral
  openai.com · Discuss

• Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)
  consequence.net · Discuss

• How many branches can your CPU predict?
  lemire.me · Discuss

• WFH is becoming a benefit again
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence
  ramtrack.eu · Discuss

• An FAQ on Reinforcement Learning Environments
  epoch.ai · Discuss

• Ask HN: AWS account restricted 18h despite remediation (Case 177385077300217)
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
  bsky.app · Discuss

• “Your frustration is the product”
  daringfireball.net · Discuss

• 2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews
  blog.icml.cc · Discuss

• Afroman found not liable in defamation case
  nypost.com · Discuss

• Heisuke Hironaka Has Died
  japannews.yomiuri.co.jp · Discuss