I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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A man experiences a flash of insight that breakfast is a vector space with infinite possibilities. He searches for the "dark breakfast," a hypothetical breakfast that exists but has never been observed, and finds a clue in IHOP omelettes that contain pancake batter.

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices

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US Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants for a protester's and a nonprofit's digital data. The Tenth Circuit ruled the warrants were overbroad and lacking in particularity, denying police qualified immunity.

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Open-source maintainers and contributors receive 6 months of free Claude Max 20x through the Claude for Open Source Program. Eligible maintainers have 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads and recent commits or PR reviews.

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died

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Dan Simmons was born in 1948 in Peoria, Illinois, and went on to become a renowned author and teacher. He wrote 31 novels and short story collections, including the critically acclaimed "Hyperion cantos" and "Song of Kali", and was honored with numerous awards.

Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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The author left Google due to its declining search quality and introduction of generative AI in Gmail, switching to Proton for email and Brave/DuckDuckGo for search.

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

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OpenAI raises funds in a new round, partnering with Amazon and Nvidia for infrastructure development. The company plans to use the funds to scale AI infrastructure and meet growing demand.

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript

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The Web streams standard has fundamental usability and performance issues that cannot be fixed with incremental improvements, including locking models, BYOB reads, backpressure, and promise-heavy design, which add complexity and overhead. Implementers have resorted to non-standard internal optimizations to achieve acceptable performance, leading to fragmentation, inconsistent behavior, and a ...

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

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California requires operating system providers to implement age verification for users. This law, Assembly Bill No. 1043, aims to provide a signal regarding a user's age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.

Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic

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The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]

Organizational corruption is a significant societal issue, often dwarfing the costs of street crime. It becomes normalized through three processes: institutionalization, rationalization, and socialization.

The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic

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Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei is resisting Pentagon demands to waive restrictions on military use of its AI model Claude. The Pentagon threatens to retaliate by invoking the Defense Production Act or declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk.

Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

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Rob Grant, co-creator of Red Dwarf, has passed away. Tributes have been paid by Red Dwarf cast and crew, including Craig Charles and the Official Red Dwarf Facebook page.

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a revised Artemis moon program plan, adding a 2027 test flight to lay groundwork for lunar landings. The revised plan aims to accelerate launches and reduce risk by testing technologies in low-Earth orbit before attempting moon landings.

ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study

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ChatGPT Health frequently fails to detect medical emergencies and suicidal ideation, potentially leading to unnecessary harm and death. Experts warn that the AI platform's lack of clear safety standards and independent oversight poses a significant risk to users.

Breaking Free

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The Norwegian Consumer Council's report Breaking Free highlights enshittification's impact on consumers and society, but offers solutions to resist it. Consumer groups are sending a joint letter to policymakers in Europe, the US, and the UK to address this issue.

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives

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House Republicans introduced H.R. 7661 to ban books with "sexually oriented material" in public schools nationwide. The bill targets LGBTQ+ books and aims to erase queer people from American life.

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

Run classic Windows and DOS executables directly in your browser. An x86 emulator with Win32, Win16, and DOS API support — drag and drop any .exe to play retro games, screen savers, and more.

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

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The agent uses a SQL interface to query a ClickHouse database with 48 columns of metadata per log line, allowing it to investigate novel failures quickly. The system throttles ingestion to prevent rate limit issues and uses durable execution to handle rate limits without crashing or retrying.

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

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F-Droid is accepting nominations for up to four volunteer directors to serve two-year terms. Nominations should be sent by March 16th to [email protected] with a description of the nominee's qualifications.

Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries

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Palantir is providing technology to track aid in Gaza, raising concerns about profit-driven aid delivery. The company's presence is part of a larger system where corporations and governments prioritize profit over humanitarian needs.

Trump orders US Government to cut ties with Anthropic

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The Pentagon set a 5:00 p.m. ET deadline for Anthropic to agree to a deal, but the AI company refused due to concerns over mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. President Trump ordered US agencies to stop using Anthropic's products, threatening major consequences if they don't comply.

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

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As a consequence of recent legislative activity in [California][cal] and [Colororado][col]: * California residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2027. * Colorado residents may no longer u...

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation

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A Chinese influence operation used ChatGPT to intimidate dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials and spreading false information. OpenAI banned the user after discovering the activity, which involved hundreds of operators and thousands of fake online accounts.

Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users

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Lovable's vibe-coding platform hosted an app with 16 vulnerabilities, including 6 critical ones, that exposed over 18,000 users' data. The platform's AI-generated code was flawed due to a lack of explicit security features, allowing unauthenticated attackers to access user records and more.

Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

The user discusses the risks of relying on digital IDs and payment systems, citing the recent MitID outage in Denmark as an example, and argues that physical money and IDs are more secure and less vulnerable to single points of failure. The user also compares the Danish system to other European countries, highlighting the trade-offs between convenience, security, and individual freedom, and ...

Allocating on the Stack

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Go developers are optimizing performance by reducing heap allocations. They're using stack allocations instead, which are cheaper and don't incur garbage collector overhead.

Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993

The author proposes that computers should have stopped evolving in 1993 due to the simplicity and predictability of technology at that time. They cite the MIPS R4000 CPU, OSF/1 with DCE, and safe programming languages like Modula 3 as desirable features that should have been left unchanged.

Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

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Parakeet is a lightweight tensor library with automatic Metal GPU acceleration for speech recognition tasks. It provides fast and accurate transcription with various models and latency modes.

Let's discuss sandbox isolation

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Isolation techniques for untrusted code vary, from Docker's namespace isolation to gVisor's user-space kernel boundary and microVMs' hardware boundary. Each approach has its trade-offs, and the choice depends on the threat model, performance requirements, and the type of workload being run.

Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025

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Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case

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Dyson agreed to settle a lawsuit with 24 migrant workers who alleged forced and abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory making its parts. The settlement was reached without admitting liability, setting a precedent for British companies to be held accountable in UK courts for supplier actions abroad.

PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI

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postmarketOS had a busy month with FOSDEM, hackathon, and updates on PMCR 0009, AI policy, and contributor changes. Several contributors made significant progress on various projects, including hardware CI, kernel command-line handling, and deviceinfo validation, and the community is welcoming new contributors and thanking departing ones.

Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window

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Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM

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OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that requires deep access to the machine it runs on, posing security risks. Running it on a cloud VM provides isolation and protects personal data.

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

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The author learned about SDF font rendering in 2024 and initially created incomplete notes on their site. They decided to recreate the content as a top search result for "sdf fonts" in 2025.

Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style

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BPatterns provide a fluent Smalltalk API for the rewrite engine, using blocks as patterns with a wildcard convention. This approach offers a more approachable interface with standard development tools support.

The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock

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Robot hands struggle with dexterity due to high-ratio gearboxes that destroy sim-to-real transfer and force transparency. A low-ratio transmission preserves actuator information capacity and enables delicate manipulation.

The complete Manic Miner disassembly

OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)

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Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX

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US military used a laser to shoot down a drone near the US-Mexico border, but it was a Customs and Border Protection drone. The incident prompted the FAA to close airspace around Fort Hancock.

Compact disc story (1998)

Sam Altman: We raised a $110B round from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank

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Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure

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We isolated our web agents by putting the entire agent in a sandbox, talking to the outside world through a control plane that holds all credentials. This setup allows for scale-to-zero, stateless operation, and prevents the agent from accessing sensitive information, with the tradeoff of an extra network hop and increased operational complexity.

The Most-Seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages

Cloudflare redesigned its Turnstile and Challenge Pages to make security verification more human-friendly, accessible, and secure, after conducting a comprehensive audit and testing with diverse users. The redesign aims to reduce frustration, improve user experience, and increase security, with measurable metrics to track its success and ongoing iteration to stay ahead of evolving security threats.

US Customs destroys rare floppy disk

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Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions

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Claude Code file recovery tool recovers lost files from JSONL session transcripts. It replays Write, Edit, and Read operations to reconstruct files in chronological order.

Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults

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Daily AI use by US adults is associated with greater depressive symptoms, particularly among younger users. The association may be heterogeneous across age groups, with significant effects observed among individuals aged 25 to 44 and 45 to 64 years.

Two insider cases we've recently closed

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Kalshi exchange banned insider trading, freezing 12 active cases and penalizing 2 traders with 5-year ban and 2-year suspension, respectively. Fines will be donated to a non-profit for consumer education on derivatives markets.

Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux

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Legend: ✅ = built in / directly documented, — = not built in (or not documented in the referenced source). This starts the emulator daemon and attaches an interactive console. You'll see the kernel boot and get a shell prompt. Keyboard shortcuts: Use emuko dow (see Quick Start above) or grab pre-built images from DQIB (Debian Quick Image Baker). To download a specific set:

Tech people keep falling for the same scam

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The writer expresses skepticism about the tech industry's future, arguing that its products will eventually become exploitative due to investor interests. They believe the current trend of liberating technology will give way to data-mining and advertising.

Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself

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Theory of Constraints: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing (2007)

A consultant was sent to a plant with a capacity problem in the welding department. He observed that the welders were busy but only had blue light (welding torches on) for a small percentage of the time, revealing a major inefficiency.

Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health

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Estuaries face threats from pollution and climate change, requiring effective monitoring. Otters can serve as integrative sentinels due to their reliance on clean water and diverse habitats.

Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm

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Kevin O'Buckley left Intel Foundry after 2 years to join Qualcomm as EVP of Global Operations and Supply Chain. Naga Chandrasekaran now leads Intel Foundry as EVP and Chief Technology and Operations Officer.

Your device identity is probably a liability

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The UK National Cyber Security Centre emphasizes the importance of strong device identity in Zero Trust architecture, which is often lacking due to portable credentials. Smallstep provides automated, certificate-based device and workload identity at scale to enforce Zero Trust principles.

Show HN: I built a site where you hire yourself instead of applying for jobs

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Write the contract. Sign it. The milestones are real. The consequences are real. What happens next is up to you. After REDACTED days in the role of REDACTED, the Employee has been formally terminated for REDACTED...

Daniel Joseph Simmons Passed Away

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Dan Simmons was born in 1948 in Peoria, Illinois, and went on to become a renowned author and teacher. He wrote 31 novels and short story collections, including the critically acclaimed "Hyperion cantos" and "Song of Kali", and was honored with numerous awards.