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

522 speckx 2026-03-03 15:20:22 UTC neilzone.co.uk Llama Share 315

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.

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]

210 pcdavid 2026-03-03 16:20:22 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 31

MacBook Air with M5

205 Garbage 2026-03-03 14:20:22 UTC apple.com Llama Share 175

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.

Don't become an engineering manager

144 flail 2026-03-03 14:20:22 UTC newsletter.manager.dev Llama Share 101

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.

Claude's Cycles [pdf]

258 fs123 2026-03-03 11:20:22 UTC www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu Llama Share 123

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 Xkcd thing, now interactive

855 memalign 2026-03-03 11:20:22 UTC editor.p5js.org Full Share 117

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

MacBook Pro with new M5 Pro and M5 Max

413 scrlk 2026-03-03 14:20:22 UTC apple.com Llama Share 402

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.

Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports

46 neehao 2026-03-03 17:20:22 UTC nber.org Llama Share 46

Researchers studied US tariffs on European wines and found that producers absorbed 20% of the 25% tariff rate, while importers and retailers passed on the remaining 80% to consumers. The tariff increase led to a 6.9% retail price increase, exceeding the collected tariff revenue.

When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It?

23 todsacerdoti 2026-03-03 17:20:22 UTC leodemoura.github.io Llama Share 12

AI is rewriting the world's software at an astonishing speed, but verification is lagging behind, making it a systemic risk.

Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act

12 systima 2026-03-03 17:20:22 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 0

EU AI Act requires automatic event recording and append-only logging for high-risk systems. A free, open-source TypeScript library captures AI inference as an append-only log with tamper detection and 180-day retention.

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

29 atarus 2026-03-03 15:20:22 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 7

Cekura is a platform that simulates real user conversations to test AI agents and catch regressions before production. It uses synthetic users, real conversation import, and deterministic test cases to evaluate full conversational arcs, not just single turns.

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

280 devinitely 2026-03-03 14:20:22 UTC twitter.com/gavriel_cohen Full Share 137

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

Simplifying Application Architecture with Modular Design and MIM

17 codingfox 2026-03-03 16:20:22 UTC codingfox.net.pl Llama Share 0

The Module Infrastructure-Module Application Architecture (MIM) is a generic application architecture that uses modular software design to build an application with low cognitive load, high maintainability, and high extensibility. MIM divides the application into independent modules, each containing business logic representing a specific process, and separates infrastructure-related code into ...

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

216 ingve 2026-03-03 08:20:22 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 113

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.

TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean

15 matt_d 2026-03-03 16:20:22 UTC leandojo.org Llama Share 2

Researchers created TorchLean, a framework that treats neural networks as precise mathematical objects for verification and analysis. It unifies execution and verification with a shared semantics, enabling end-to-end formal verification of learning-enabled systems.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

529 danso 2026-03-03 01:20:22 UTC futurism.com Llama Share 325

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.

Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp

40 zdw 2026-03-03 15:20:22 UTC sny.sh Llama Share 8

The code defines a server handler and a function to construct an IP prefix matcher. It uses Tokio and regex for asynchronous operations and error handling.

Points on a ring: An interactive walkthrough of a popular math problem

22 evakhoury 2026-03-03 15:20:22 UTC growingswe.com Llama Share 2

The probability of N random points on a circle or sphere lying in the same semicircle or hemisphere is N/2N−1, which is derived from considering each point as a potential anchor and calculating the probability of the other points lying in the same semicircle or hemisphere. This formula holds because at most one anchor can work due to the complementary cap or arc being at least a full ...

Show HN: Effective Git

5 nola-a 2026-03-03 17:20:22 UTC github.com/nolasoft Prefix Share 0

This document wants to be a reference for best practices in the daily use of Git, despite the complexity of this tool it is worth mentioning that Git is a tool that tracks the changes in a repository (which is basically a directory containing a .git folder that has all the needed metadata to achieve file tracking). Some concepts are stressed by the author for a simple reason: The main goal of ...

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

73 wild_pointer 2026-03-03 11:20:22 UTC windowsread.me Llama Share 71

Windhawk is a free Windows tweaking tool that lets users customize their PCs with mods, but it may cause stability and security issues due to its DLL injection method. The tool's creator, Michael Maltsev, has a good reputation, but users should be cautious when installing mods from unknown authors and consider the potential risks before using Windhawk.

Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024

141 Growtika 2026-03-03 14:20:22 UTC growtika.com Llama Share 101

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.

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

299 tchalla 2026-03-03 12:20:22 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 159

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.

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

1311 sandbach 2026-03-02 23:20:22 UTC svd.se Llama Share 739

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.

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native

8 todsacerdoti 2026-03-03 17:20:22 UTC tonsky.me Prefix Share 2

Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good enough yet. They can do 90% of the work, so there’s still a substantial amount of manual polish, and thus, increased costs. But I think that’s not the real reason. The real reason is: native has nothing to offer. ...

Simple screw counter

234 jk_tech 2026-03-03 03:20:22 UTC mitxela.com Llama Share 66

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.

Computer Says No

69 vnglst 2026-03-03 12:20:22 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 33

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.

GPT‑5.3 Instant

12 meetpateltech 2026-03-03 17:59:22 UTC openai.com Llama Share 1

GPT-5.3 Instant is an updated model that improves everyday conversations with more accurate answers, richer results, and reduced unnecessary caveats, focusing on tone, relevance, and conversational flow. The model also reduces hallucinations, improves writing capabilities, and is available starting today to all users in ChatGPT, with updates to Thinking and Pro to follow soon.

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

1072 ireflect 2026-03-02 21:20:22 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 516

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.

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

144 darshkpatel 2026-03-03 08:20:22 UTC blog.replit.com Llama Share 53

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.

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

528 nicktikhonov 2026-03-02 22:20:22 UTC ntik.me Llama Share 152

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 ...