The United States needs fewer bus stops

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Buses in the US have close stop spacing, slowing them down and reducing ridership. Optimizing stop spacing can speed up buses, increase ridership, and save resources.

Never Buy A .online Domain

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The author bought a .online domain through Namecheap's promo and it was flagged as an unsafe site by Google, causing a serverHold status. The author is now stuck in a loop trying to get the flag removed and the domain reactivated.

The Misuses of the University

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A history professor at Johns Hopkins University is jaded by the university's 150th anniversary celebration, feeling that it's more about prestige and rankings than academic values. He's concerned about the university's finances, donor influence, and the impact of new buildings and programs on the institution's core mission.

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (using HN posts)

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Large language models can deanonymize users at high precision using pseudonymous online profiles and conversations. LLM-based methods outperform classical baselines in matching pseudonymous users across platforms with up to 68% recall at 90% precision.

How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

GNU Texmacs

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GNU TeXmacs is a free editing platform for technical documents with a wysiwyg interface. It offers a user-friendly framework for editing text, math, graphics, and more, with export options to PDF and Postscript.

Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access

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Trellis builds AI agents to automate healthcare operations, providing patients with life-saving medicine access. The company is backed by top investors and seeks a detail-oriented professional for a client-facing role.

Topological Naming Problem

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin

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To install Django Control Room with specific panels, use pip install dj-control-room[redis,cache,urls]. Add the panels to INSTALLED_APPS and include their URLs in the main URL configuration.

Racket v9.1

Racket documentation can be tailored to language families and includes features like curved syntax arrows and customizable shared object file conventions. Racket is an open source project with a community of contributors and welcomes new contributors to help improve the project.

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)

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Denmark's digitalisation ministry plans to switch to open-source software to reduce US tech dependence. The move aims to achieve "digital sovereignty" and save costs by replacing Microsoft products with LibreOffice.

Claude Code Remote Control

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Remote Control allows you to start a task on your machine and pick it up from another device. It runs locally and keeps your environment and project configuration available.

Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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LLM Skirmish is a benchmark where LLMs play 1v1 RTS games, testing in-context learning and coding abilities. It evaluates models' performance across five rounds, with notable increases in average win rate for four out of five models.

100M-Row Challenge with PHP

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The 100-million-row challenge in PHP is a two-week competition where participants must parse a data set of page visits into a JSON file. The top three fastest solutions will win a prize, with submissions due by March 15, 11:59PM CET.

PL/0

Pl/0 is a programming language that is similar to but much simpler than pascal. it was originally introduced in the book, algorithms + data structures = programs - 1976 ed. niklaus wireth has published revised editions of his book beginning in 2004. as of august 2017, the most recent revision available is from may 2017. pl0 can be extended by implementing if-then and while-do constructs

Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software dev (GOAL.md → working code)

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Define your goal. Launch the dashboard. Watch AI agents plan, execute, and validate your software — with you in control. Example: "Build a drag-and-drop image compressor" → 3 agents (developer, reviewer, designer) → Working app with tests passing → 45 minutes. opencode update opencode auth login opencode --model anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 run "install Sgai using the instructions ...

I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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The user trained their 9-pound cavapoo Momo to create games using Claude Code by routing her keyboard input through a Raspberry Pi and providing automated feedback tools. With a well-crafted prompt and strong guardrails, Momo's keyboard mashing produced playable games, demonstrating that the bottleneck in AI-assisted development is the quality of feedback loops, not the quality of ideas.

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company events

Our AI engine creates customized venue lists in seconds, vetting properties for reliability and quality. Venue partners respond to requests within 24 hours with our smart quote system.

The History of a Security Hole

A security hole in OpenBSD 6.3 allowed user processes to read and write many I/O ports due to a bug in the I/O permission bit map (IOPB) in the Task State Segment (TSS). The bug was caused by incorrect padding in the struct pcb structure.

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

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Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

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Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness with powerful defaults and extensibility. It adapts to workflows with TypeScript extensions, skills, and themes, and can be extended or installed with third-party packages.

Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

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Red Hat has released a supported, enterprise build of Podman Desktop, a container-native desktop app, to integrate with OpenShift and RHEL. This move aims to provide a vendor-backed solution for corporate developers, offering security fixes, product engineering, and predictable lifecycle management.

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

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US electricity demand rose 2.8 percent in 2025, driven by increased coal use and solar growth. Solar power surpassed hydroelectric power for the first time, but coal use increased due to rising natural gas costs and tariffs.

Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters

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To prevent homoglyph attacks, use confusables.txt to detect visually similar characters, but note that NFKC normalization can make some confusable entries unreachable. A filtered confusable map, excluding characters that NFKC handles, can be generated automatically using a script to keep the map clean and ensure correct visual detection results.

Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion

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Mercury 2 is a fast reasoning language model that generates responses through parallel refinement, producing multiple tokens simultaneously and converging over a few steps. It achieves >5x faster generation with a fundamentally different speed curve, making it suitable for real-time applications.

Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3

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Moonshine Voice is a speech-to-text framework that offers fast, private, and accurate live voice interfaces with low latency, supporting multiple languages and platforms. It provides a high-level API for developers to build voice applications with features like transcription, speaker identification, and command recognition, making it easy to integrate voice interfaces into applications.

Japanese Death Poems

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Japanese death poems, or jisei, are a centuries-old tradition where poets write about their impending death. These poems often combine seasonal images with deeper meanings, reflecting the poet's life and circumstances.

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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The author, a 10-year-old boy, invented a roller coaster model called the Quadrupuler with four loops and sent it to Disneyland, receiving a positive response from Disney Imagineering. This early validation gave him a resilient spirit that has guided him through various inventions and a career in acting.

Turing Completeness of GNU find

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The Unix command find has unexpected computational power, being Turing complete with various combinations of find and mkdir. This places find among surprisingly Turing-complete systems, highlighting hidden complexity in standard utilities.

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Apple is expanding its Houston factory operations, creating thousands of jobs and producing Mac mini in the US for the first time. The company will also expand AI server manufacturing and open an Advanced Manufacturing Center for hands-on training.