Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Gemini 3.1 Pro is a highly intelligent model that outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro in reasoning and multimodal capabilities. It has improved safety performance and satisfied child safety evaluations, with results available in the Gemini 3 Pro model card.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Gemini 3.1 Pro is released with improved core reasoning, achieving a 77.1% score on ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the previous version. It enables advanced problem-solving in various applications, including code-based animation, complex system synthesis, and creative coding.

AI makes you boring

User argues AI-aided development has led to boring projects on Hacker News, lacking original thinking and discussion. AI models can't replace human immersion in a problem, resulting in shallow ideas.

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Log incidents with severity and location, link them to appliances and vendors, and resolve them when fixed. A vendor directory with contact info, quote history, and every job they've done for you. Attach filesβ€”manuals, invoices, photosβ€”directly to projects and appliances. Stored in the same SQLite file.

We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

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Young American scientists are leaving the US due to federal funding cuts and a hostile work environment under the Trump administration. This brain drain threatens the US's biomedical ecosystem and economy, as well as global public health.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

Paged Out! Institute's issue #8 is their biggest issue to date, with over 1 million downloads and a new web viewer for articles. The issue features various topics, including Breakout Model Synthesis, query-based compilers, and AgentRoam, a multimodal agent for exploring open-world games.

DOGE Track

An automatically-generated and frequently updated site for presenting data on DOGE’s rampage across government, designed to work on large screens and mobile phones.

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan

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Mojang is switching Minecraft Java from OpenGL to Vulkan for better performance and visual improvements. This change will require modders to update their work and may leave out old devices that don't support Vulkan.

Pebble Production: February Update

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Pebbleland is busy shipping 3 new hardware products with associated software. Production is in the final stages with waterproof testing and last minute tweaks.

California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves

South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

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A South Korean court sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour for leading an insurrection in December 2024. The court found Yoon guilty of disrupting the constitutional order and causing massive social costs to South Korean society.

European Tech Alternatives

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Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are GDPR compliant, and store data in Europe.

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

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The IRS tech arm lost 40% of its IT staff and 80% of tech leaders in a major reorganization. The agency aims to improve efficiency with cross-functional teams and AI, but faces challenges in digitizing paper returns and implementing tax changes.

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

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Economic shocks, not procrastination, are the dominant predictors of saving regret. Institutional design, such as Singapore's mandatory retirement savings, can mitigate the effects of shocks and reduce regret.

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

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Step 3.5 Flash is a capable open-source foundation model that delivers frontier reasoning and agentic capabilities with exceptional efficiency, rivaling top-tier proprietary models in reasoning depth and real-time interaction. It achieves a generation throughput of 100-300 tok/s and supports a cost-efficient 256K context window, making it a robust engine for coding, agents, and agentic tasks.

15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

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Nvidia's consumer GPUs have a 64:1 FP64:FP32 ratio, weakening double-precision performance. This is due to market segmentation, as most consumer workloads don't need FP64, but enterprise hardware relies on it.

Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial

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A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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The program displays real-time weather with animated effects and auto-location detection. It can be customized with a config file or flags to change settings such as units and HUD visibility.

DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

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Two inexperienced DOGE bros, Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, used ChatGPT to terminate National Endowment for the Humanities grants based on DEI keywords. They ignored expert staff and forged the director's signature on termination emails.

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

Companies that treat AI as an extension of their workforce, amplifying human capability, see transformative results. The AI exoskeleton model, where AI handles scale and humans interpret meaning, is a more effective approach than autonomous agents.

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

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Researchers integrated a physically-based GPU ray tracing pipeline into Makie, a Julia plotting ecosystem, to create photorealistic 3D scenes. This allows for interactive exploration and visualization of complex data in various fields.

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe

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European policymakers face a critical choice in adopting artificial intelligence, with optimists predicting a productivity boom and sceptics warning of uneven diffusion and inequality. A recent study found that AI adoption increases labour productivity by 4% on average in the EU, with benefits concentrated among medium and large firms.

Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript

User built a desktop app framework called Electrobun after being frustrated with existing tools. Electrobun is now stable and allows for cross-platform development with features like webview partitions and solid tooling.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus

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US researchers at Stanford University have developed a single nasal spray vaccine that may protect against all coughs, colds, flus, and bacterial lung infections. The vaccine works by mimicking immune cell communication and leaving white blood cells on high alert to fight off infections.

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)

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The Commodore 64 game Seawolves uses unique techniques like combining NMIs and IRQs for efficient raster management and rendering. The game also employs various tricks like sprite multiplexing, real-time water distortion, and animation techniques to create a visually appealing experience.

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

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To bridge the gap between Elixir and Python, Oban can be used to exchange durable jobs between the two languages, enabling collaboration and leveraging packages lacking in one ecosystem. A demo app called "Badge Forge" was built to print conference badges using WeasyPrint, a Python library, and Oban, which allows Elixir and Python to share a message queue and database.

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

Rick Bruner makes the case for micropayments to help legit news sites generate revenue and counter misinformation, citing the success of mobile games in getting users to spend money on in-app purchases. The survival of legit sites depends on marketers leveling up to more sophisticated methods, such as attribution tracking and randomized experiments, to counter Big Tech's manipulation of ...

Farewell, Rust for web

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The user tried to build a web application in Rust but faced issues with compilation time, lack of maturity in the web aspect, and difficulties with dynamic things like templates, i18n, and SQL. They eventually switched to Node.js, which provided a more suitable environment for web development, despite its imperfections, and allowed them to focus on their business.

Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial

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The Financial Times offers a limited time deal with savings based on annual price, then $75 per month after February 25th. Cancel anytime during the trial period for complete digital access to quality journalism on any device.

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is very encouraging. Incidence has dropped 46% since its peak and mortality has fallen 57%, thanks to colonoscopy screening, better treatment, and earlier detection. Indexed to 100 at 1995. Sources: NCI SEER*Stat, ACS CRC Facts & Figures 2023–2025, Siegel et al. CA Cancer J. Clin. (2023), Siegel et al. JAMA (2026).

Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app

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Mini Diarium is a private journal app with AES-256-GCM encryption and local-only storage. It offers password and key file authentication, with key file support for secure unlocking and revocation.

Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)

You read Oliver Sacks' book and learned about the Ginkgo biloba tree being a living fossil. You're interested in the oldest foods we consume today, noting Ginkgo nuts are an East Asian delicacy.

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

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The Cloud Tank is an old visual effect technique using a large water tank with salt and fresh water layers to create organic shapes, like clouds, by injecting paint into the tank. This technique was used in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Independence Day, but has since become obsolete with computer-generated effects.

Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications

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cmux is a native macOS app for managing multiple terminal sessions and agents like Claude Code. It features a customizable sidebar, notification system, and scriptable API for automating browser interactions.

Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'

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The US Internet Freedom programme, which funded technologies to evade internet controls, has been severely cut due to the Trump administration's budget reductions. This threatens internet freedoms worldwide, particularly in countries like Iran, China, and Myanmar, where censorship is becoming increasingly prevalent.

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

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Archaeologists in CΓ³rdoba, Spain, found a bone that may be from one of Hannibal's war elephants used in the Second Punic War. The bone, dated to the third century B.C.E, is the first elephant bone linked to that chronology found in Iberia and Europe.

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

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People are granting AI agents more autonomy as they gain experience, but the risk of agent actions varies widely, with most being low-risk and reversible, while some involve sensitive security-related actions, financial transactions, and medical information. Effective oversight of agents requires new forms of post-deployment monitoring infrastructure and human-AI interaction paradigms that ...

AI made coding more enjoyable

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Software engineer finds AI tools helpful for automating tedious tasks like code writing and testing, but still prefers to verify code manually. AI assistance has greatly reduced the time spent on mundane tasks, making software engineering more enjoyable.

Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container

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A Docker image is a piece of executable code that produces some output given some input. FROM docker-lisp/eval CMD ["(define fact (lambda (n) (if (number-equals n 0) 1 (multiply n (fact (subtract n 1))))))", "(fact 3)"]

Hitler's Greenland Obsession

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Hitler's interest in Greenland transitioned from personal to strategic in 1933, driven by a desire for economic self-sufficiency and access to cryolite, a mineral essential to aluminum production. The US responded by establishing a military presence in Greenland, signing an agreement with Denmark to defend the island against German aggression, and using it as a vital transit point in the war effort.

Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt

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A federal judge in Minnesota held a Trump administration attorney in civil contempt for disobeying court orders in an immigration case. The judge ordered the attorney to pay $500 daily until the immigrant's identification documents are returned.

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

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Shannonmax is a tool that helps optimize Emacs keybindings by analyzing logged data to determine the most efficient key sequences. It compares actual keybinding lengths to theoretical lengths based on usage frequency and keyboard size.

A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression

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Compass Pathways' psilocybin treatment showed strong results in late-stage trials for treatment-resistant depression. FDA approval could make it the first licensed psychedelic medicine.

Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey

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Laura Tacho presented research on AI's impact on developer productivity, showing 92.6% of developers use AI coding assistants and saving 4 hours a week. AI-authored code now makes up 26.9% of production code, with daily users merging nearly a third of code written by AI.

I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"

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The University of Texas System's Board of Regents approved a rule requiring universities to ensure students can graduate without studying "unnecessary controversial subjects." The rule does not define what qualifies as "controversial" or "broad and balanced approach."

C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime

The C++26 feature std::is_within_lifetime checks if a pointer points to an object within its lifetime during constant evaluation, primarily used to check which union member is active. This function is consteval-only, taking a pointer instead of a reference, and has a general name to solve problems in constant evaluation, not just unions.

Famous Signatures Through History

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Create a professional handwritten signature in seconds using a velocity-sensitive pen that responds to your speed and produces natural thick-and-thin strokes. Download your signature as a transparent PNG or scalable SVG for documents, emails, and print, with no account or watermark required.

Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?

The user found that Claude is great for most fullstack web development tasks except interface development and UX, where it struggles with layout and composition. To overcome this, the user uses specific instructions, baseline screenshots, and visual diff analysis to guide Claude's UI development, and also employs tools like Figma, Chrome Devtools, and Agentation for fine-tuning and testing.

UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours

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The UK government is requiring online platforms to remove non-consensual intimate images within 48 hours or face fines. The move aims to protect victims from further harm and follows outrage over Elon Musk's chatbot Grok generating explicit images.

Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists

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A left-wing commentator on Bluesky discussed the idea that "the left hates technology" due to AI hype, but this is confusing as leftists often support high-speed rail and mRNA vaccines.

Can random experimental choice lead to better theories?

YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users

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Google has blocked YouTube background listening on mobile web browsers for non-Premium users. Users can still access background listening by downloading videos or using third-party tools, but be cautious of malware.

Choosing a language based on its syntax?

The user argues that people often judge programming languages based on their syntax rather than their semantics, which is a misguided approach as semantics are the foundation of a language. Experienced programmers tend to focus on the actual language semantics rather than syntax, and language designers should ignore opinions on minor syntactic decisions from inexperienced programmers.

Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools

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Democratic states initially led in education, but Republican states have since caught up, particularly in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. This shift coincides with a broader trend of rollback in climate regulation, revealing deeper issues in American governance.

HUD proposes rule that would force noncitizens from public housing

Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast

The user created a native Node.js driver for Stoolap, an embedded SQL database written in Rust, allowing direct access to the database engine without HTTP server or serialization overhead. The driver outperforms SQLite in complex queries, with Stoolap achieving 10x to 100x faster results in analytical and multi-row operations.

/Deslop

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The user identifies 12 red flags that indicate AI-generated content, including overuse of dramatic pauses and repetitive phrases, and proposes a prompt to detect such writing. The prompt can be used to "deslop" AI-generated content, making it more readable and engaging.

Freedom.gov

Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression.Get ready.

Why applicant tracking systems are broken by design

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The applicant tracking system (ATS) market is broken due to decades of misaligned incentives, lazy buyers, and a lack of competition on product quality, leading to poor user experiences and ineffective tools. Building a better ATS requires a deep understanding of the recruiting process, careful data modeling, and a focus on simplicity and usability, as well as a willingness to challenge the ...

Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source)

Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Gemini 3.1 Pro is released with improved core reasoning, achieving a 77.1% score on ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the previous version. It enables advanced problem-solving in various applications, including code-based animation, complex system synthesis, and creative coding.

Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99

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The user discusses Gustav Mahler, a composer who combines Wagner's emotions and Stravinsky's ideas with modernism. To compile Mahler's music, use cmake with the src and inc folders included.