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.

Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock

A clean, fullscreen analog clock simulator. View the current time with rendered clock.

How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

Organization: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.

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.

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.

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 powerful AI matching engine creates a customized list of venues that meet your exact requirements, in seconds. No more waiting days to hear back from planners. Access our catalog of hand-selected venues across the globe. Every property has been vetted by our team for reliability, quality, and proven track record with corporate groups. Stop waiting weeks for pricing. Thanks to our smart ...

Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?

I understand there's a difference between the stated values and actual values of individuals and organizations, and so I want to ask this in the most pragmatic and consequentialist way. I know that labs, institutions, and so on have safety teams. I know the folks doing that work are serious and earnest about that work. But at this point are these institutions merely pandering to the ...

The History of a Security Hole

Warning: If you do not care for the finer points of x86 architecture, please stop reading right now—in the interest of your own sanity. A while ago I was made aware of a strange problem causing a normal user process running on 32-bit i386 OpenBSD 6.3 to crash the OS (i386 only, not amd64). The problem turned out to be a security hole with history that goes back more than three decades. The ...

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.

Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring

Event Horizon Labs is hiring a Founding Infrastructure Engineer in San Francisco to build autonomous research infrastructure from scratch. The role involves designing orchestration, data pipelines, observability, and trading systems for AI infrastructure.

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.

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.

LLM=True

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The user has a monorepo with a Typescript project using turbo for build management, which dumps irrelevant build output to stdout. They want to optimize this and set environment variables to reduce context pollution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Show HN: Scheme-langserver – Digest incomplete code with static analysis

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WANG, Z. has developed scheme-langserver, a language server protocol implementation for Scheme, providing completion, definition, and type inference. The project aims to improve the Scheme programming environment and is open-source, with ongoing development and testing, and seeking donations and funding.

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.

Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp

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cl-kawa enables deep interoperability between Common Lisp and Scheme with no serialization or process boundaries. It allows Scheme code to be evaluated and Scheme procedures to be called from Common Lisp.

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.

Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times

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The user turned an old Kindle into a live bus feed display by jailbreaking it, installing custom apps, and setting up a server to generate and serve bus data as an image. They created a custom KUAL app to control when the dashboard is displayed and added a feature to exit dashboard mode by pressing the menu button.

Nearby Glasses

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The Nearby Glasses app warns you when smart glasses are nearby by detecting Bluetooth signals from specific manufacturers. It uses company ID codes to identify devices, but may produce false positives due to similar devices.

Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Emdash is a tool for parallel development and testing with multiple agents, supporting 21+ CLI providers. It securely connects to remote machines and stores app state locally, with optional GitHub features.

Steel Bank Common Lisp

SBCL is a high-performance, open-source Common Lisp compiler with a permissive license. It provides an interactive environment with debugging tools and runs on various platforms including Linux and Windows.

Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries

Traditional dictionaries often ignore multi-word expressions, leaving gaps in language understanding. A vast combinatorial space of English words allows for billions of possible combinations, with some crystallizing into meaningful expressions that carry conceptual weight.

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging a widespread price-fixing scheme where Amazon forces vendors to raise prices and cooperate with other retailers. Bonta is seeking a temporary injunction to stop Amazon's alleged behavior until the trial concludes.