Global warming has accelerated significantly

Recent analysis found that global warming has accelerated after 2015, exceeding previous 10-year periods. Adjusted data account for natural variability factors like El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.

System76 on Age Verification Laws

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The author reflects on their childhood obsession with orderliness sparked by road trips and limited access to information, contrasting it with their child's ability to easily access knowledge and technology. The author argues that laws restricting minors' access to technology are ineffective and limit their potential.

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

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Where things stand with the Department of War

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Anthropic received a letter from the Department of War designating it as a supply chain risk to America's national security, which Anthropic plans to challenge in court. Anthropic will continue to provide its models to the Department of War and national security community at nominal cost to support warfighters during major combat operations.

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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A Cornell study found that employees who fall for corporate jargon struggle with practical decision-making. The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale measures susceptibility to empty organizational rhetoric, revealing a link to lower analytic thinking skills.

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

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AI models like Claude can now identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software at accelerated speeds. A collaboration with Mozilla using Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities, 14 of which were high-severity, in Firefox.

US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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US economy lost 92,000 jobs last month, with unemployment rate rising to 4.4%. Analysts question labor market stability amid concerns over oil prices and potential Fed response.

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting

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Moongate v2 is a modern Ultima Online server project built with .NET 10, aiming for a clean, modular architecture with strong packet tooling and deterministic game-loop processing. The project is open to contributors and welcomes pull requests with changes, following the project's coding standards and including tests, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Companies like Fivetran rely heavily on Slack for collaboration, but its closed API restricts AI access to tribal knowledge. A Slack competitor with open data access and interoperability could revolutionize the enterprise-data ecosystem.

Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Plasma Bigscreen is a free, open-source interface for Linux designed for TVs and HTPCs. It offers a customizable big-screen experience with app support and settings management via TV remote or game controller.

CT Scans of Health Wearables

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Experience the engineering behind today’s leading health wearables including Oura Ring, Dexcom G7, Omnipod, and Jabra Hearing Aids. Industrial CT scans reveal how these devices merge medical precision with consumer design.

We might all be AI engineers now

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The author is having more fun than ever building systems with AI, where the models do the heavy lifting and they do the thinking. They're shipping high-quality software in hours, not days, and debugging is on steroids with AI agents executing their problem-solving instincts.

Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

200 ants. One brain. No direct communication. Write a program to collect the most food. Win a luxury vacation to Hawaii.

this css proves me human

You're rewriting a blog post to appeal to technical readers by changing capitalization, using em dashes, and correcting grammar. You're also contemplating a deeper change in your writing style to better reflect your thoughts and engagement with the world.

TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner

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A woman is suing the TSA after her spinal cord implant was damaged in an Advanced Imaging Technology device at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport in 2024. She claims TSA agents ignored her request for a pat-down search and told her the only way to board the plane was to pass through the AIT device.

Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died

New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike

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US military allegedly responsible for strike on Iranian elementary school killing scores of children in deadliest civilian casualty incident of US-Israel war with Iran. CNN Intelligence Analyst says Iranian operatives have been plotting in the area for a long time.

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs

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OBLITERATUS is an open-source toolkit for removing refusal behaviors from large language models, making them respond to all prompts without artificial gatekeeping. It implements abliteration techniques, allowing users to contribute to a crowd-sourced dataset that powers the next generation of abliteration research.

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command

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It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard

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In 2008, iPhone users had to hack their devices to access emoji, with some developers creating apps that enabled the feature by toggling a hidden preference. It took until 2011 for Apple to include emoji support in iOS 5, but the early workaround was discovered by developer Steven Throughton-Smith in 2008.

Ada 2022

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The Ada 2022 standard was revised and published as ISO/IEC 8652:2023(E) by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 ARG. It includes new features and updates from earlier versions of Ada.

Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds

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Nintendo of America Inc sued US government over $200 billion in tariffs imposed under International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Court ordered refund of tariffs with interest.

Good Bad ISPs

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Several hosting providers allow Tor exit nodes with reduced exit policies, including Linode, MaxKO Hosting, and r0cket.cloud, while others prohibit them or have strict policies against abuse. Some providers, such as Ultra.cc and Hostinger, explicitly forbid Tor relays and exit nodes, while others, like Free Speech Host and Gigahost, allow Tor relays but not exit nodes.

How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page

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This is how much Jeff Bezos made... ...since you started reading this page.

The worst acquisition in history, again

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The Ellisons acquired Warner Bros. Discovery for $80 billion, combining it with Paramount to create a massive media conglomerate with significant debt and potential for layoffs. The deal may ultimately lead to the assets being sold at fire-sale prices to companies like Netflix, Apple, or Amazon.

Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale

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Scientists created Antscan, a 3D atlas of ant morphology with high-resolution images of 792 species. The dataset is now freely available online, allowing anyone to explore and analyze ant anatomy digitally.

GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation

The user discusses GPL-3.0-only and GPL-3.0-or-later licenses, finding neither ideal due to potential copyright holder disagreements. A proxy can be designated to accept future GPL versions, allowing the program to use the new version.

How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone

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Android is a versatile operating system used on various devices, but lacks documentation, making it difficult for users to learn and use efficiently. This manual aims to fill the gap by providing a comprehensive guide to using Android, covering topics such as installing the OS, building Android, and understanding its architecture.

TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

You can acquire TeX Live by downloading the repository or using an installation DVD. Updates can be done with tlmgr, but it's not necessary unless you need specific updates.

Astra: An open-source observatory control software

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Astra (Automated Survey observaTory Robotised with Alpaca) is an open-source observatory control software for automating and managing robotic observatories. It integrates seamlessly with ASCOM Alpaca for hardware control. Web Interface — Manage your observatory from any browser, use cloudflared or similar to access outside your network

70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)

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Bruno Schröder, a German mining engineer, collected over 70,000 books in his secret library, which he built and organized himself. After his passing in 2022, his massive book collection remains unsold due to its size and the difficulty of registering antique books for sale.

TypeScript 6.0 RC

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TypeScript 6.0 is a transition release preparing developers for TypeScript 7.0, with breaking changes and deprecations to align with the evolving JavaScript ecosystem. It introduces new features and improvements, including support for the es2025 target, Temporal API types, and upsert methods on Map and WeakMap.

The Shady World of IP Leasing

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The IPv4 address market has devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where companies can choose their IP geolocation, scrub history, and rent residential IPs to make traffic appear legitimate. This infrastructure undermines the trust systems the internet was built on, making spam blacklists, geolocation databases, and IP reputation scoring unreliable.

Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions

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Claude Code sessions can be shared interactively with claude-replay, converting logs into HTML replays. The tool generates a single self-contained HTML file with customizable themes and redacts sensitive information.

Elite Overproduction

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Peter Turchin's theory of elite overproduction suggests that a society with an excess supply of potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into power can lead to social instability. This can cause widespread discontent among those left out of power, leading to potential unrest and revolution.

C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper

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A Dapper query with a two-character type mismatch caused a significant CPU problem due to full index scans. The fix is to explicitly tell Dapper the parameter type matches the column type, such as using DbType.AnsiString for varchar columns.

Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)

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Scientists studied defecation in 34 mammalian species at Zoo Atlanta to understand the physics behind it. They found that bigger animals have longer feces, defecate at higher speeds, and have thicker mucus layers that enable high-speed defecation.

CBP says it can't comply with refund order

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US Customs and Border Protection cannot currently comply with a court order to refund $166 billion in illegal tariffs imposed by President Trump. The agency has over 330,000 importers to refund, with over 53 million entries affected.

Art Bits from HyperCard

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HyperCard was a 90s hypermedia system that influenced the web and included sample stacks like "Art Bits" with clip art. A user has collected over 700 clip art images from "Art Bits" for public use.

Never Bet Against x86

Arm's latest core design shows high performance but lacks standardization, making it difficult for users to find compatible operating systems and software. This lack of standardization will hinder Arm's potential and allow x86 to maintain its market lead despite its own limitations.

U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot

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US military's air defenses failed to stop Iranian drones, resulting in casualties and damage to US facilities. This highlights strain in the US military's capabilities and Trump's rejection of planning, expertise, and diplomacy.

I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS

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The user shares a story of how they accidentally wiped out their production infrastructure for the DataTalks.Club course management platform using Terraform, and how they had to restore it with AWS support. They learned from the experience and implemented new safeguards, including backups and a separate AWS account for development and production, to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Supertoast tables

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A startup, Hatchet, used Postgres for data storage but faced issues with large jsonb data filling up disk space. They developed a "write-and-swap" approach to offload infrequently accessed data to S3, reducing costs and improving performance.

The home computer war

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In the early 1980s, home computers became a mass market product, with companies like Commodore, Atari, and Texas Instruments competing to offer affordable computers with color graphics and sound. The price war that ensued led to Commodore emerging as the victor, but at a great cost, with the company losing key personnel and struggling to maintain profitability.

First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In

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The MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro chip, same as the iPhone 16 Pro, with slightly lower GPU performance. It's priced at $599 and suitable for everyday tasks like web browsing and streaming.

Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

Sam and Michael from Palus Finance are building a treasury management platform for startups to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. Their platform targets 4.5-5% returns vs 3.5% from money market funds with a flat 0.25% annual fee.

Strikes in Middle East since 28th Feb in real time

Multiple hostile UAV alerts and rocket alerts have been issued for various locations in Israel, including the northern border, Confrontation Line, and central Israel. Israeli forces have conducted airstrikes on Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.

Async Programming Is Just Inject Time

The user discusses various models for error handling and control flow, including exceptions, closures, and effects, and how they can be used to jump to different places in code while ensuring structured and safe execution. The user proposes integrating effects into the Swift language by listing effects between the argument list and the return type, using a do keyword to indicate effect usage, ...

Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials

Live timeline of the Los Angeles and New Mexico Meta child safety trials. Every claim sourced from verified news articles.

Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2)

Marcus and Gaius face disaster after Pompeii's destruction, but use new designs to build machines that save the community. The new industry creates a surplus that the old world can't handle.

Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health

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The author reflects on their childhood dream of space travel, but now sees it as unrealistic due to numerous health challenges, including confinement, radiation, and microgravity's impact on the body. Space travel poses significant risks to human health, making it unlikely that humans will spend more than a year in space without suffering serious consequences.

Show HN: Interactive 3D globe of EU shipping emissions

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Interactive 3D globe visualizing seven years of EU shipping emissions data (2018–2024) from THETIS-MRV. 12,000+ vessels per year, filterable by ship type, flag state, and emissions metrics.

Partnering with Mozilla to improve Firefox's security

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AI models like Claude can now identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software at accelerated speeds. A collaboration with Mozilla using Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities, 14 of which were high-severity, in Firefox.

If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?

Nvidia's growing supply chain risk is centered on massive expansion of purchase obligations, with $95.2 billion in non-cancellable purchase orders, and its customers are not profitable from AI, making a demand slowdown a catastrophic balance sheet event. The AI industry's infrastructure investment is driven by the expectation of future profit, not current profit, and the unit economics of ...

Wild crows in Sweden help clean up cigarette butts

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A Swedish startup Corvid Cleaning uses crows to collect cigarette butts in Södertälje, rewarding them with food. The project aims to reduce litter costs and raise questions about animal welfare and waste responsibility.