I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services

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The user is concerned about identity and age verification policies being proposed in various countries, which they believe could lead to censorship and loss of privacy. They are willing to opt out of services that require verification, such as YouTube, Reddit, and some forums, but may have to compromise on others like Teams/Zoom due to professional obligations.

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

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India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge used AI-generated fake judgements in a property dispute case. The court will examine the case and issued notices to the Attorney and Solicitor General and the Bar Council of India.

Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5

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Apple announced the new MacBook Air with M5, featuring faster performance, expanded AI capabilities, and double the starting storage. It comes in 13- and 15-inch models with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and up to 18 hours of battery life.

Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Apple announced the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, offering up to 4x faster AI performance and up to 24 hours of battery life. The new MacBook Pro features a Liquid Retina XDR display, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6, and starts at 1TB of storage for M5 Pro and 2TB for M5 Max.

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.

Don't Become an Engineering Manager

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The user's friend was offered an Engineering Manager role but decided not to take it due to concerns about losing time for experimentation and adapting to change. The user agrees that being an IC is a smarter choice in 2026, but advises waiting a couple of years to see how things look before making a decision, unless the person truly wants to pursue management.

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

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Meta's smart glasses collect user data, including private videos and conversations, which are then processed by subcontractors in Kenya. The data is shared with Meta's AI systems, raising concerns about user privacy and data protection.

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents

Hey HN - we're Tarush, Sidhant, and Shashij from Cekura (https://www.cekura.ai). We've been running voice agent simulation for 1.5 years, and recently extended the same infrastructure to chat. Teams use Cekura to simulate real user conversations, stress-test prompts and LLM behavior, and catch regressions before they hit production. The core problem: you can't manually QA an AI ...

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

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Arm's Cortex X925 CPU achieves performance parity with AMD's Zen 5 and Intel's Lion Cove in high-performance desktop applications. It has a 10-wide core with high per-cycle frontend throughput, large out-of-order execution engine, and strong branch predictor.

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

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British Columbia will permanently adopt daylight time after March 8, ending clock changes. Residents have 8 months to prepare for the change, set for November 1, 2026.

Claude's Cycles: Claude Opus 4.6 solves a problem posed by Don Knuth [pdf]

Claude Opus 4.6 solved an open problem in automatic deduction and creative problem solving by finding a generalization for odd values of m. The solution was discovered through a series of explorations and involved a novel approach called fiber decomposition.

The Internet's Top Tech Publications Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024

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Ten major tech publications lost a combined 63 million monthly Google visits between 2024 peaks and January 2026, with four sites losing over 84% of their traffic. The decline coincides with Google's AI Overviews expansion, increased Reddit rankings, and growing use of AI assistants for product research.

Computer Says No

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Richard Sennett's material consciousness emphasizes hands-on knowledge through touching and feeling materials. AI taking over coding may lead to a loss of deep knowledge and understanding of software systems.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

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Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after an article with AI-fabricated quotes was retracted. Edwards took responsibility for the error, saying he used an AI tool while sick and made a serious journalistic mistake.

History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) Of WIMP Design

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The Graphical User Interface (GUI) evolved over 60 years from command lines to the WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) paradigm, with key milestones including Spacewar!, Sketchpad, and the Alto computer. The Alto, developed at Xerox PARC, refined the WIMP elements and introduced overlapping windows, icons, and menus, influencing the industry and leading to the development of the Lisa and ...

Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR

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Apple announced two new displays, Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, with improved cameras, audio, and connectivity. They start at $1,599 and $3,299 respectively, and are available for pre-order on March 4.

We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

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The user's company built a video renderer that captures web pages with animations by making the browser believe time moves only when they say it does, allowing for smooth video playback. The renderer uses a JavaScript file to replace the browser's time-related APIs, preprocesses the video server-side, and decodes it in-browser to produce a high-quality video file.

Simple screw counter

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The user created a precision clock kit business and automated parts counting with a laser-cut nut and screw dispenser. The user improved the design with a longer track and a small hopper for weight reasons.

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted (Supreme Court declines review)

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The US Supreme Court declined to reconsider a decision that AI-created art is ineligible for copyright protection. The ruling upholds a requirement of human authorship for copyright, affecting AI-generated artwork and inventions.

Show HN: React-Kino – Cinematic scroll storytelling for React (1KB core)

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Tiny -- the core scroll engine is under 1 KB gzipped. GSAP ScrollTrigger alone is 33 KB. Declarative -- compose <Scene>, <Reveal>, <ScrollTransform>, <Parallax>, <Counter>, <StickyHeader>, <Marquee>, and <TextReveal> like regular React components. No imperative timelines. import { Kino, Scene, Reveal, Counter } from "react-kino"; ...

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]

C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work

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The author has successfully implemented a C64 version of the game Lights-Out that matches the NES version's display quality, using 33 sprites and mid-screen interrupts to animate button presses. The project involved revising the game's design to efficiently update sprite data and character graphics, and implementing a complex interrupt handler to manage the display's various states.

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials

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The user discusses the importance of anonymous authentication in a world where routine age-verification and human identification are becoming increasingly common, and proposes the use of anonymous credentials to protect user privacy. Anonymous credentials, such as those proposed by David Chaum, allow users to prove their identity without revealing their real-world identity, and can be ...

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

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The author built a custom voice agent from scratch, achieving a 2x latency improvement over off-the-shelf providers like Vapi, by optimizing model choice, pipelining the agent turn, and carefully managing geography and service placement. The key takeaway is that voice is an orchestration problem, requiring careful coordination of multiple models and services in real-time, and that building a ...

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

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The user built a tiny Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico with a Raspberry Pi Pico Micro Mac firmware, which outputs to a 640x480 VGA display and allows USB keyboard and mouse input. The setup has limitations due to the Pico's SRAM, but it can run early Mac OS versions and some applications within the 208 KB of available RAM.

How to sew a Hyperbolic Blanket (2021)

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Helaman Ferguson invented a hyperbolic blanket design with evenly spread curvature. To make one, cut and sew pentagons from fleece, aligning seams for precise assembly.

DOS Memory Management

DOS memory management is simple but has several pitfalls, including zero-sized memory blocks and coalescing free memory. DOS 5.0 introduced UMB support and new memory allocation strategies, making memory management less simple but more flexible.

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source

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First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

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UC Davis Health researchers successfully combined fetal surgery with stem cells to treat spina bifida in a Phase 1 clinical trial, showing great safety and potential for improved outcomes. The trial, funded by a $9 million state grant, aims to enroll 35 patients to evaluate long-term safety and improved movement.