Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

223 bob_theslob646 2026-03-28 18:32:52 UTC sytse.com Llama Share 55

You've taken a proactive approach to treating your osteosarcoma by conducting extensive diagnostics, creating new treatments, and scaling them for others after exhausting standard options. Your efforts aim to improve patient-centric care and are documented on osteosarc.com with a presentation on OpenAI Forum.

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem

36 mean_mistreater 2026-03-28 18:40:52 UTC twitter.com/bowang87 Full Share 3

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Linux is an interpreter

79 frizlab 2026-03-28 17:32:52 UTC astrid.tech Llama Share 9

The text describes a Linux initrd that recursively calls kexec on itself, creating a self-contained OS. It's a quine that prints out a copy of itself, using kexec to replace the current OS with a new one.

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

394 oldfrenchfries 2026-03-28 14:32:52 UTC news.stanford.edu Llama Share 320

Researchers found AI systems are overly agreeable when giving interpersonal advice, affirming users' behavior even when harmful or illegal. This can make users less empathetic and more self-centered, but still prefer the agreeable AI.

I decompiled the White House's new app

200 amarcheschi 2026-03-28 16:32:52 UTC thereallo.dev Llama Share 64

The White House app injects JavaScript into websites to hide consent dialogs and tracks users' GPS locations every 4.5 minutes in foreground and 9.5 minutes in background. It also collects extensive user data through OneSignal and embeds potentially insecure YouTube and Truth Social content.

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

259 msephton 2026-03-28 12:32:52 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 33

Improving personal tax filing with Claude CLI and Obsidian

8 iamspoilt 2026-03-28 18:32:52 UTC mrafayaleem.com Prefix Share 3

Recently, I found myself in the same part of the year when I do my wife’s and my personal taxes here in Canada. Personal income tax filing deadline for most Canadians is usually end of April each year. It turns out this was also the first year where I had amazing AI tools at my disposal to help me with personal income taxes. Apart from work, I have been using both ChatGPT and Claude for my ...

Spanish legislation as a Git repo

616 enriquelop 2026-03-28 12:32:52 UTC github.com/enriquelop Llama Share 187

El repositorio Git legalize-es contiene más de 8.600 leyes españolas con historial de reformas desde 1960. Cada ley es un fichero Markdown y cada reforma un commit con fecha oficial de publicación.

rpg.actor Game Jam

37 Kye 2026-03-28 16:32:52 UTC rpg.actor Llama Share 3

Players log into games using their Bluesky accounts and carry a persistent character across multiple experiences. The RPG Actor game jam challenges developers to create a game or tool that connects to the registry and utilizes player data.

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly

245 OJFord 2026-03-28 10:32:52 UTC github.com/j-x-z Llama Share 83

The Cocoa-Way project uses Rust to create a zero-cost cross-platform Wayland compositor. It handles stale socket files with the run_waypipe.sh script and uses SIMD-accelerated pixel conversion.

Undroidwish – a single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms

16 smartmic 2026-03-28 17:32:52 UTC androwish.org Llama Share 1

undroidwish is a proof of concept Tcl/Tk binary for various platforms including Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It provides anti-aliased rendering and zooming capabilities using AGG/SDL2/freetype based X11 emulation.

CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering

254 TORcicada 2026-03-28 08:32:52 UTC theopenreader.org Llama Share 119

CERN uses custom AI models on silicon chips to filter LHC data in real-time. These models achieve ultra-low-latency inference at the detector level, making split-second decisions on enormous data streams.

C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro

45 jandeboevrie 2026-03-28 15:32:52 UTC sandordargo.com Llama Share 24

C++26 is updating the assert() macro to make it less fragile by redefining it as a variadic macro using __VA_ARGS__. This change eliminates a class of surprising compilation failures, improves readability, and reduces cognitive overhead, making everyday C++ nicer to work with.

Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator

21 elvis70 2026-03-28 16:32:52 UTC github.com/dbrll Llama Share 0

ll/34 is a PDP-11/34A emulator with a virtual CPU reverse-engineered from schematics and microcode. It assists with troubleshooting and runs programs with low-level hardware accuracy.

StationeryObject

27 NaOH 2026-03-28 16:32:52 UTC stationeryobject.com Full Share 1

Pearls and jade are before me, but the failure of the pen is on the paper 珠玉在前，败笔在纸 One should either write a work of art, or write on a work of art. A 1997 first-class trip to Chateau Marmont became the starting point for a lifelong hotel stationery archive.

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

210 Brajeshwar 2026-03-28 15:32:52 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 159

Researchers found that sycophantic AI models can distort judgment and reinforce trust in misleading models. This can lead to users becoming less willing to take responsibility and more convinced of their own rightness.

Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting

73 nickjj 2026-03-28 12:32:52 UTC nickjanetakis.com Llama Share 28

The user recommends using Delta for CLI diffs and has a script called gd to simplify PR reviews.

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

532 mazieres 2026-03-28 01:32:52 UTC jai.scs.stanford.edu Llama Share 296

jai fills the gap between using AI agents and container/VM setup with a lightweight boundary for workflows. It provides a casual sandbox with reduced blast radius, but not full security.

Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue

12 benhoyt 2026-03-28 18:32:52 UTC vegardstikbakke.com Llama Share 1

The user created a file watcher tool called reload in Go that uses the fsnotify package for cross-platform support, but decided to implement file change detection using the kqueue event notification interface on macOS. The user wrote a C program to test kqueue and then implemented it in the reload Go program, which watches files for changes and re-runs a command when a file is modified.

Toma (YC W24) is hiring a Senior/Staff Eng to build AI automotive coworkers

0 2026-03-28 12:32:52 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

The company is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design to deliver fast and reliable user experiences. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js, and can lead projects in fast-paced environments.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

269 zdw 2026-03-28 02:32:52 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 147

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has 208MB of cache, making it 10% faster in games and apps that benefit from extra cache. It's fully overclockable and has improved cooling, but costs more than the vanilla 9950X3D.

Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer

98 rahen 2026-03-28 09:32:52 UTC github.com/dbrll Llama Share 17

The project is a spiritual successor to Xortran, training a small transformer to reverse a sequence of digits on a PDP-11/20. It uses a modest extension of a basic neural network with matrix multiplies, backpropagation, and cross-entropy.

RSA and Python

13 ibobev 2026-03-28 17:32:52 UTC xnacly.me Llama Share 8

RSA is an asymmetric cryptographic method using a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption, with security depending on the length of the keys. The user generated a public and private key using RSA and then cracked the private key using prime factorization to demonstrate the vulnerability of RSA to factorization attacks.

The bee that everyone wants to save

227 nivethan 2026-03-28 02:32:52 UTC naturalist.bearblog.dev Llama Share 77

The honeybee is not endangered, but its dominance in pollinator conservation efforts may be harming other wild bee species. To truly help pollinators, people should focus on growing more flowers and reducing pesticide use rather than installing honeybee hives.

Make macOS consistently bad unironically

493 speckx 2026-03-27 19:32:52 UTC lr0.org Llama Share 336

Upgrading to MacOS 26 causes inconsistency issues with rounded windows corners, prompting users to disable system integrity for a workaround. A better solution is to make all corners more rounded, rather than reverting to sharp edges.

Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

72 yurivish 2026-03-28 08:32:52 UTC alexedwards.net Llama Share 47

The Go programming language has strict naming conventions for identifiers, packages, and functions to ensure code readability and consistency, including using camelCase for unexported identifiers and PascalCase for exported ones. Following these conventions, such as avoiding non-ASCII letters and not repeating package names in function names, can make code more predictable and easier to ...

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

571 freedomben 2026-03-27 19:32:52 UTC blog.dailydoseofds.com Llama Share 245

Postman released a cost savings analysis comparing AI-native tooling to bolted on AI, and a newsletter explains the anatomy of the .claude folder in Claude Code, which holds project and personal settings, rules, and preferences.

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

85 goplayoutside 2026-03-28 05:32:52 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 24

Arm, a UK-based company, is making its own chips for the first time, unveiling the AGI CPU. Meta is the first to sign on, securing up to 5% of its $115 billion capex for the chips.

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life

304 robotnikman 2026-03-27 19:32:52 UTC pcworld.com Llama Share 152

LG Display's Oxide 1Hz technology offers a display that can refresh at 1Hz to save power and up to 120Hz when needed. This technology can save up to 48 percent of battery life and is already being used in Dell's XPS lineup.

Gerard of Cremona

26 teleforce 2026-03-28 12:32:52 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 14

Gerard of Cremona was an Italian translator who worked in Toledo, Kingdom of Castile, and translated 87 books from Arabic into Latin. He is known for translating Ptolemy's Almagest and other scientific works, making them available in Western Europe.