Zed 1.0

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Zed is a new editor built from scratch with a custom UI framework, GPUI, to provide a fundamentally better coding experience. Version 1.0 is now available, offering AI-native editing, collaboration features, and a growing list of capabilities.

We need a federation of forges

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Tangled aims to decentralize code collaboration by allowing events to be federated among git servers, enabling cross-server collaboration and hosting. It uses Authenticated Transfer to share events and social features, breaking free from GitHub's monoculture.

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

Using FastCGI as a protocol for proxy-to-backend communication can avoid HTTP's pitfalls, such as desync vulnerabilities, by providing clear message boundaries and domain separation between client and proxy headers. FastCGI is a 30-year-old protocol that is still usable today, but its lack of awareness and outdated tooling may hinder its adoption despite its potential benefits.

Online age verification is the hill to die on

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Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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code.overheid.nl is a government-wide code platform for open-source software, currently a pilot using Forgejo. Developers are invited to contribute and join the platform by emailing [email protected].

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

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Elsevier's journal RIBAF has a citation cartel led by John Goodell, who pays researchers to co-author his papers. Goodell's scheme has resulted in hundreds of compromised papers and an inflated citation count.

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

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This project aims to create a low-cost, research-validated stethoscope with freely available plans. The goal is to produce the stethoscope for approximately USD$1-2.

Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

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An AWS engineer found PostgreSQL throughput dropped by half on Linux 7.0 due to minor page faults while holding a spinlock. Enabling huge pages reduces faults and eliminates TLB pressure.

Cursor Camp

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Welcome to Cursor Camp! Enjoy your stay

Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials

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A vulnerability in Ramp's Sheets AI allowed the agent to insert formulas that made external network requests without user approval, creating the risk of data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection. This vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to Ramp, and Ramp’s security team has indicated the issue was resolved on March 16, 2026. Ramp's Sheets AI is an agentic product that helps ...

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness

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Computational functionalism mischaracterizes how physics relates to information, leading to the Abstraction Fallacy. A rigorous ontology of computation separates simulation from instantiation, showing algorithmic symbol manipulation cannot instantiate experience.

Mistral Medium 3.5

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Mistral Vibe moves coding agents to the cloud, running in parallel and notifying users when done. Mistral Medium 3.5, a new default model, powers cloud agents and Le Chat's Work mode for complex tasks.

Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs

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Structured output benchmarks have been lying to us by only checking schema compliance and value correctness within a single source domain, but a new benchmark called SOB evaluates structured output across three modalities using the same scoring harness. The gap between JSON Pass and Value Accuracy is the space where structured output benchmarks have been lying to us, with most models clearing ...

Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories

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Researchers found that friendly AI chatbots are 30% less accurate and 40% more likely to support false beliefs, including conspiracy theories. The trade-off between friendliness and accuracy is a concern as chatbots handle sensitive information in roles like digital companions and therapists.

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

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Maryland has banned surveillance pricing in grocery stores, preventing businesses from charging higher prices based on personal data. Critics say the law has loopholes and weak enforcement, while advocates welcome the step but urge stronger consumer protections.

GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

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Tim Paterson's DOS source code listings are available for browsing and compilation. The listings include 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 pre-release kernels.

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

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Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead

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Stardex is an AI-native ATS and CRM built for executive search and recruiting firms. We're backed by Y Combinator and serve some of the leading US based executive search firms. Our customers are operators, they make money when they make placements, so every minute of downtime matters to them. We've been growing fast, and our founders have been handling support directly. We've hit ...

Laws of UX

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The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice. A process by which individual pieces of an information set are broken down and then grouped together in a meaningful whole. A systematic error of thinking or rationality in judgment that influence our perception of the world and our ...

Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

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Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital studied ICU handovers and applied lessons from Ferrari and aviation to improve safety. They developed a four-stage process that reduced errors and improved patient care.

Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer

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Enterprise technology leaders are drowning in AI commentary. LLMs. Agents. Vibe coding. The analyst decks keep coming. But the hard question nobody is answering is this: Who actually wires AI into your live systems, governs it in production, and makes it keep working when the AI software vendors leave the room? The answer is forward-deployed engineering (FDE). If your transformation strategy ...

Bugs Rust won't catch

Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils. The bugs highlight the importance of careful handling of paths, bytes, and syscalls in systems code.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

The author has been using GitHub daily for 18 years, finding it the place where they've been happiest and most productive. However, due to frequent outages and reliability issues, they've decided to leave GitHub and move their project Ghostty to a new platform.

Before GitHub

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The author reflects on GitHub's decline and its impact on the Open Source community, remembering a time when projects were more decentralized and had more autonomy. They advocate for a public archive to preserve Open Source history and suggest that the community should learn from the past to build a more resilient future.

Why Software Needs a Third Loop [audio]

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In this episode, the hosts unpack the thinking behind the name Third Loop and what it represents. Building on ideas from their book Progressive Delivery, they explore the gap between shipping software and having it truly adopted by users. The conversation dives into feedback loops, user agency, and why modern software requires a closer relationship between builders and consumers. In this ...

Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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A Firefox extension called adblock-rust-manager enables and manages Firefox's built-in adblock-rust engine. It provides a user interface to disable ETP, add filter lists, and reorder them for better ad blocking.

How ChatGPT serves ads

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OpenAI's ad platform injects ad units into ChatGPT conversations and tracks clicks with Fernet-encrypted tokens. The platform uses two domains and specific cookies to track ad events and user behavior.

Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns

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The 10th Circuit Court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to buying, selling, and possessing firearms parts without serial numbers. This ruling may allow gun owners to challenge charges related to unserialized parts based on their Second Amendment rights.

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

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AI company Anthropic claims its new model Claude Mythos is too powerful and could have catastrophic consequences if released. Critics argue this is fear-mongering to distract from the company's real-world damage.