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Friday, 20 March 2026

• 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

• 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

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

• Monuses and Heaps
  doisinkidney.com · Discuss

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

• Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for faster VM boots
  shayon.dev · 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