Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

1602 defly 2026-03-16 12:00:06 UTC timesofisrael.com Llama Share 1055

A journalist reported on an Iranian missile attack in Israel, but received death threats and harassment from gamblers on Polymarket who had bet on the outcome, demanding a change to the report to ensure they would win. The journalist refused to comply, and the police are now investigating.

Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

1252 tartoran 2026-03-16 18:38:14 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 412

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Khaled, witnessed his parents and two brothers being shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank. Khaled was beaten and questioned by the forces after trying to intervene.

Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering

781 Poudlardo 2026-03-16 20:59:40 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 192

Researchers release Leanstral, an open-source code agent for Lean 4, designed for efficient proof engineering tasks. Leanstral outperforms competitors in benchmarks, offering competitive performance at a fraction of the cost, and can be used for zero-setup vibe coding and proving.

Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

741 PaulHoule 2026-03-16 11:25:31 UTC frontiersin.org Llama Share 388

Corruption in democracies erodes trust more than in autocracies due to normative amplification and representative contagion. This results in a stronger association between corruption perceptions and lower generalized trust in democracies.

MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security

675 vrganj 2026-03-16 11:57:33 UTC thenerve.news Llama Share 294

Two anonymous MoD insiders claim Palantir poses a national security threat to the UK due to its access to vast amounts of personal data. They say Palantir can extract insights from this data, potentially creating a complete profile of the UK population.

The “small web” is bigger than you might think

557 speckx 2026-03-16 17:17:57 UTC kevinboone.me Llama Share 241

The author is exploring the concept of a "small web" for non-commercial, personal use, and has been using the Gemini protocol. They attempted to create a feed aggregator for the small web but found it impractical due to its large size and activity.

How I write software with LLMs

543 indigodaddy 2026-03-16 01:24:09 UTC stavros.io Llama Share 527

The user has been using Large Language Models (LLMs) to create various projects, including a secure LLM personal assistant, a voice note recorder, and a whimsical multiplayer canvas, and has developed a workflow that involves using multiple models to review and implement code. The user's workflow consists of an architect, a developer, and reviewers, and involves a series of steps, including ...

Why I love FreeBSD

524 enz 2026-03-16 11:23:14 UTC it-notes.dragas.net Llama Share 261

The author discovered FreeBSD in 2002 and was impressed by its complete and accurate documentation, leading to a long-term relationship with the operating system. They valued FreeBSD's stability, performance, and community-driven approach, which has remained consistent over the past twenty years.

The American Healthcare Conundrum

523 rexroad 2026-03-16 17:13:27 UTC github.com/rexrodeo Llama Share 645

The US spends $3 trillion more on healthcare than Japan, with issues like overpriced prescription drugs and hospital procedures contributing to the gap. Policy fixes like step therapy reform, international reference pricing, and capping commercial hospital payments could redirect billions in unnecessary spending.

Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc

514 hahahacorn 2026-03-16 18:12:32 UTC engineering.fb.com Llama Share 240

Meta is renewing focus on jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, to modernize the codebase and adapt to latest hardware and workloads. The goal is to reduce maintenance needs, remove technical debt, and improve efficiency, reliability, and usability.

US Job Market Visualizer

502 andygcook 2026-03-16 15:10:30 UTC karpathy.ai Llama Share 356

exposure": 8, "rationale": "The occupation is predominantly done on a computer with core tasks in domains where AI is rapidly improving, such as writing, coding, and analyzing, indicating a high level of AI exposure." }

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game

466 PaulHoule 2026-03-16 22:56:13 UTC forums.tigsource.com Full Share 59

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

437 dcreager 2026-03-16 15:12:50 UTC better-simple.com Llama Share 171

Using LLMs to generate code and PR descriptions without understanding is hurting Django's community and quality. Django contributors want to collaborate with humans, not facades, so use LLMs as a tool to aid comprehension, not replace it.

My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)

425 Vaslo 2026-03-16 13:09:58 UTC community.home-assistant.io Llama Share 140

User switched from Google Home to HomeAssistant's local assist backed by Llama.cpp, testing various hardware and models for optimal performance. They customized their setup to achieve reliable voice control and improved functionality.

Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games

337 htdt 2026-03-16 16:07:29 UTC github.com/htdt Llama Share 205

An AI pipeline generates a complete Godot 4 project with organized scenes and code, handling 2D and 3D, and runs on commodity hardware. The pipeline uses Claude Code skills, Gemini art generation, and visual QA to create a game, with a single run taking several hours.

Starlink Mini as a failover

323 jkpe 2026-03-16 08:07:29 UTC jackpearce.co.uk Llama Share 226

You purchased a Starlink Mini for backup internet and found the £4.50 Standby plan reasonable for low-speed data. The device has decent latency and works anywhere with a clear view of the sky, making it a reliable backup solution.

AirPods Max 2

321 ssijak 2026-03-16 13:22:03 UTC apple.com Llama Share 558

AirPods Max 2 features Adaptive EQ, Lossless Audio, and ultra-low latency for a richer listening experience. It also includes Personalized Spatial Audio, Live Translation, and Loud Sound Reduction for a more immersive experience.

Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn

293 speckx 2026-03-16 12:13:59 UTC politico.eu Full Share 230

China, India and EU countries were among the signatories of a report that criticized the prevailing measures of economic success.

FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic

262 m463 2026-03-16 19:49:20 UTC fsf.org Llama Share 130

The FSF received a notice about a settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit over copyright infringement of works used to train LLMs. The FSF urges Anthropic to provide LLMs to users in freedom, including complete training inputs and source code.

Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

230 masterpos 2026-03-16 12:05:08 UTC github.com/emin-ozata Full Share 65

A simple terminal UI for video trimming. Contribute to emin-ozata/lazycut development by creating an account on GitHub.

'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images

225 wslh 2026-03-16 13:05:33 UTC popsci.com Llama Share 100

Pokémon Go data is being repurposed to help delivery robots navigate using Niantic's Visual Positioning System. This crowdsourced data was collected from millions of players and will improve the accuracy of robots in areas where GPS falls short.

Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line

219 rmason 2026-03-16 20:59:49 UTC plantbasednews.org Llama Share 589

Beyond Meat rebranded as Beyond The Plant Protein Company, focusing on plant-based foods with real ingredients. CEO Ethan Brown believes plant-based meat will be a dominant choice in the future, but not currently due to confusion around ultra-processed foods.

Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

214 tathagatadg 2026-03-16 10:24:02 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 202

Professors emphasize the importance of adapting to industry demands, citing emerging technologies and shifting job market needs. Students are skeptical, questioning whether the curriculum matches reality and prepares them for the workforce.

The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

205 ibobev 2026-03-16 16:51:32 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 124

The central limit theorem states that averages of many random outcomes follow a normal distribution, allowing scientists to make predictions about the world. This theorem is a fundamental concept in modern science, enabling researchers to infer patterns from chaotic data.

Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)

178 anjel 2026-03-16 00:22:48 UTC salk.edu Llama Share 113

THC reduces beta amyloid proteins in human neurons, potentially offering insight into Alzheimer's disease treatment. Lab studies suggest THC may help remove toxic amyloid beta and reduce inflammation in nerve cells.

Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI

177 lewismenelaws 2026-03-16 20:01:02 UTC nvidianews.nvidia.com Llama Share 101

NVIDIA Vera CPU delivers twice the efficiency and 50% faster results than traditional CPUs. It is available from partners in the second half of this year for use in AI factories and agentic AI workloads.

What is agentic engineering?

164 lumpa 2026-03-16 01:07:47 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 94

Coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can write and execute code to achieve goals. Humans use these agents to navigate software problems, specifying goals and verifying results to produce high-quality code.

Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)

147 wek 2026-03-16 17:07:37 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 81

Researchers studied the impact of a popular AI tool, Cursor, on software development. They found Cursor increased development speed initially but led to quality issues and long-term slowdowns due to increased code complexity.

Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them

145 1659447091 2026-03-16 23:55:39 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 48

Teenagers sue xAI and Elon Musk's company for creating and sharing child pornography using the Grok chatbot. The lawsuit seeks damages and a ban on Grok's ability to create explicit images.

The return-to-the-office trend backfires

140 penguin_booze 2026-03-16 18:13:18 UTC thehill.com Full Share 136

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Just Put It on a Map

140 surprisetalk 2026-03-16 10:53:10 UTC progressandpoverty.substack.com Llama Share 83

The Center for Land Economics has developed tools like CivicMapper and PutItOnAmap to analyze land values and provide insights into urban development, with features such as 3D visualization, data cleaning, and time adjustment for mass appraisal workflows. These tools aim to help assessors, urban planners, and policymakers make informed decisions about land use and development, and are ...

Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP

137 gertjandewilde 2026-03-16 15:25:36 UTC apideck.com Llama Share 123

The article discusses the limitations of using MCP (Model Configuration Protocol) for integrating APIs with AI agents due to context bloat and high token costs. A CLI (Command Line Interface) approach is proposed as a more efficient and secure alternative for progressive disclosure and structural safety.

Using calculus to do number theory

135 cpp_frog 2026-03-16 14:12:45 UTC hidden-phenomena.com Llama Share 21

Kurt Hensel used calculus to solve a number theory problem by improving an approximate solution to a polynomial equation modulo 125. He applied Newton's method to find a solution modulo 25 and then upgraded it to a solution modulo 125.

Even faster asin() was staring right at me

123 def-pri-pub 2026-03-16 12:30:16 UTC 16bpp.net Llama Share 64

The author optimized the arcsine function using Estrin's Scheme, reducing dependency chain length and allowing for instruction-level parallelism. This resulted in significant speedups on Intel chips, but minimal improvements on AMD and Apple M4 Mac Mini.

Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance

119 ocamoss 2026-03-16 12:25:18 UTC pyrefly.org Llama Share 60

Python type checkers like mypy, Pyright, and Pytype have varying levels of conformance to the Python typing specification, with some tools passing only 57% of test cases. Conformance is an important metric, but it's not the only factor to consider when choosing a type checker, as developer experience also depends on third-party package support and other features.

Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

118 pilingual 2026-03-16 01:58:56 UTC righttoprivacyact.github.io Llama Share 74

Private data is being collected and sold without consent, creating a shadow profile of individuals. A proposed bill aims to impose limits on surveillance and restore rule-based protections for individuals' right to privacy.

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student

114 doener 2026-03-16 08:59:13 UTC science.org Full Share 110

Language model teams as distributed systems

104 jryio 2026-03-16 17:19:13 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 46

Researchers propose using distributed systems to create and evaluate LLM teams, drawing from insights in distributed computing. This approach aims to address key questions about LLM team performance and effectiveness.

MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)

104 carlos-menezes 2026-03-16 11:16:39 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 105

Researchers at UCSF are testing MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, to treat generalized anxiety disorder, showing significant results in reducing symptoms by promoting neuroplasticity. A single dose outperformed standard treatments, offering hope to those who have found little relief elsewhere.

Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals

98 Tim25659 2026-03-16 02:02:12 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 92

Staying strong in computer science fundamentals is crucial even with AI assistance, as it allows you to judge AI-generated solutions and make informed decisions. AI can enhance learning, but it's essential to have a strong foundation to direct AI correctly and identify its mistakes, making fundamentals more relevant than ever.

Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive

95 voctor 2026-03-16 09:04:43 UTC willwhang.dev Llama Share 29

A user reverse-engineered a 0.85-inch Toshiba hard disk drive, the MK4001MTD, to read its data using an 8-bit SD/MMC interface and OpenClaw, a reasoning-focused LLM. The user successfully created a USB bridge to expose the drive as USB mass storage, achieving a functional proof of concept and making the drive's data accessible.

Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code

92 peterlavigne 2026-03-16 10:52:33 UTC peterlavigne.com Llama Share 85

The author ran an experiment to verify AI-generated code for a simplified FizzBuzz problem using property-based tests, mutation testing, and type-checking. This approach allows trusting generated code without manual review, with a small remaining space of invalid-but-passing programs.

Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold

84 bookofjoe 2026-03-16 12:06:32 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 40

A man in the Czech Republic discovered a 3,350-year-old stone mold used to cast Bronze Age spearheads. The mold, made from rhyolite tuff, was likely used to produce dozens of spearheads and originated from northern Hungary or southeastern Slovakia.

Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily

82 p0u4a 2026-03-16 13:01:48 UTC hackerbrief.vercel.app Llama Share 48

Scientists at the Salk Institute found that THC and other compounds in marijuana may help remove toxic amyloid beta protein linked to Alzheimer's disease, and could lead to new therapeutic approaches. The researchers observed that exposing human neurons to THC reduced amyloid beta levels and eliminated inflammatory responses, enhancing nerve cell survival.

Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

80 ymarkov 2026-03-16 16:21:07 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 60

Voygr is building an infinite, queryable place profile combining accurate data with fresh web context to address stale place information. Their Business Validation API detects whether a business is operating, closed, or invalid, addressing the 40% of Google searches and 20% of LLM prompts involving local context.

Why Cloudflare rule order matters?

66 redfr0g 2026-03-16 09:51:18 UTC brzozowski.io Llama Share 13

Cloudflare rules have terminating actions that stop rule evaluation. This means a Block rule after a Challenge action will not be executed.

What if Python was natively distributable?

62 bzurak 2026-03-16 11:58:49 UTC medium.com/@bzurak Llama Share 61

The Python ecosystem has overcomplicated distributed execution by bundling it with orchestration, forcing developers to adopt complex frameworks that sacrifice simplicity and flexibility. A new library called Wool aims to simplify distributed execution by making it transparent and allowing developers to write regular async functions that can be executed on remote worker processes without ...

Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan

57 johncole 2026-03-16 12:09:44 UTC siliconimist.com Llama Share 15

Nursultan Kabylkas led a team to design Kazakhstan's first chip, using verification expertise to bypass the need for a massive manufacturing plant. His strategy, now a blueprint for emerging economies, focuses on niche expertise and talent development to create a sovereign industry.

Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps

53 sgolem 2026-03-16 08:51:10 UTC borderhold.io Full Share 36

Launch Borderhold in your browser for a live strategy game about land, fleets, pressure, and direct conflict. Desktop only.

ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007)

46 exvi 2026-03-16 04:09:50 UTC cl.cam.ac.uk Llama Share 29

The use of ASCII character 0x60 (backquote) as a left quotation mark is discouraged in favor of using 0x27 (apostrophe) on both sides. Modern fonts and systems follow the ISO and Unicode standards, which define 0x27 as a neutral vertical glyph and 0x60 as a grave accent.

Linux 7.1 to Retire UDP-Lite – Allows for Better Performance with Cleansed Code

44 doener 2026-03-16 10:41:01 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 13

The Linux 7.1 kernel will retire UDP-Lite support due to years of breakage and unused code. Removing UDP-Lite will yield a performance advantage for non-UDP-Lite users with a 3-10% increase in packets per second.

White House administration set to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal

44 Jimmc414 2026-03-16 00:33:37 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 20

The Trump administration is set to receive $10bn from investors in a deal to create a US-controlled version of TikTok. The payment is considered a transaction fee for the US government's role in the deal, reportedly valued at 70% of the $14bn deal.

I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy

39 st0ffregen 2026-03-16 11:27:47 UTC stoffregen.io Llama Share 10

The user created a solver for the geography game Countryle using feedback from the game to narrow down the search space and determine the most informative next guess, using a combination of modules including direction, temperature, and population. The solver was able to reach the target country in 2.85 guesses on average and identified Libya as the best starting guess, but further ...

My Random Forest Was Mostly Learning Time-to-Expiry Noise

38 iluxonchik 2026-03-16 18:16:26 UTC illya.sh Full Share 5

After the first level of tuning of the random forest’s parameters, it came time to optimize the features on which the random forest gets trained on. I’ve already did a minor cleanup, but I didn’t...

Agent Skills – Open Security Database

36 4ppsec 2026-03-16 17:35:58 UTC index.tego.security Llama Share 9

The Skills Security Index provides a centralized repository for security risk analysis of AI skill definitions, helping engineers understand potential risks before deployment. It scans skills for instructional risks, such as sensitive operations or excessive permissions, and assigns a risk level based on three dimensions.

Twelve-Tone Composition

33 ibobev 2026-03-16 12:51:13 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 15

The twelve-tone row is a technique used in atonal music to create a sequence of 12 notes that are recycled over and over in order. Composers use operations like retrograde and inversion to create variations of the tone row, forming an Abelian group with elements P, R, I, and RI.

Last love: a romance in a care home (2023)

30 NaOH 2026-03-16 15:59:10 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 19

Mary Turrell, nearly 80, lived at Easterlea Rest Home in Denmead, where she met Derek Brown, a charming and flirtatious man who sang and charmed her. They fell deeply in love and got married in a small ceremony at the home.

Event Publisher enables event integration between Keycloak and OpenFGA

29 mooreds 2026-03-16 14:21:07 UTC github.com/embesozzi Llama Share 6

This Keycloak extension publishes Identity events to OpenFGA over HTTP using the OpenFGA Java SDK for fine-grained authorization. It listens to Keycloak events, transforms them into OpenFGA requests, and publishes them to the OpenFGA server for authorization checks.

Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure

26 jshen96 2026-03-16 17:09:34 UTC usechamber.io Llama Share 7

Chambie is an AIOps teammate that automates ML team tasks, accelerating velocity and reducing wasted compute. It provides full GPU workload observability, advanced cross-cloud orchestration, and secure deployment within users' infrastructure.

Show HN: Hecate – Call an AI from Signal

26 rhodey 2026-03-16 14:41:17 UTC github.com/rhodey Llama Share 3

You used Docker and Chrome for video calls but had high CPU usage. You suggest installing OBS Studio to improve performance and discuss safety features with a changing safety number.

I reverse-engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from marketing photos

23 gravelturnip88 2026-03-16 06:41:59 UTC bay41.com Llama Share 6

The user was scammed by TiinyAI's "pocket-sized AI supercomputer" that claimed to run a 120-billion-parameter model at 20 tokens per second for $1,299, but after digging deeper, they found it was a custom-built device with a CIX P1 SoC and a VeriSilicon VIP9400 NPU accelerator card. The device's architecture is a Linux SBC with an NPU accelerator card, serving an OpenAI-compatible API over a ...

Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects

23 qainsights 2026-03-16 01:21:39 UTC github.com/qainsights Full Share 36

Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects - expressed through the language of authorship. Not a judgment. Just transparency. Quillx: 2/5 · Prose - Architecture and logic are mine. AI scaffolded the boilerplate and tests. Code has style. It has voice. A codebase written with intent reads differently from one that was generated and accepted without scrutiny.

Gluon: Explicit Performance

22 matt_d 2026-03-16 15:20:01 UTC lei.chat Llama Share 0

Gluon is a Python frontend to Triton GPU ttg IR, providing explicit controls and optimizations for GPU programming. It strikes a balance between portability and performance, suitable for domain-specific languages in the era of agentic AI.

An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS

22 baijum 2026-03-16 00:51:18 UTC towlion.github.io Llama Share 13

A complete deployment platform lives in GitHub, handling everything from deployment to logging with zero configuration. It allows self-hosting with automated security updates, backups, and resource limits.

Show HN: Trackm, a personal finance web app

21 iccananea 2026-03-16 23:36:43 UTC trackm.net Llama Share 24

Trackm is a secure budgeting app with end-to-end encryption and no data sharing. It forecasts negative balances and allows 90-day recurring rule projections.

I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers

19 zRinexD 2026-03-16 01:11:52 UTC ephemchat.vercel.app Full Share 15

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Methods in Languages for Systems Programming (2023)

18 surprisetalk 2026-03-16 16:51:29 UTC blog.xoria.org Llama Share 8

The author discusses the debate over methods in systems programming languages, citing examples of languages like Odin and Hare that don't have methods, and others like Zig and C3 that do. The author argues that methods can be useful for grouping functions that operate on the same data.

A curated list of AI slops

16 xiaoyu2006 2026-03-16 07:45:47 UTC github.com/yikerman Full Share 9

Mindbogglingly stupid as fuck people who really should go fucking with finance and politics rather than doing programming. chardet/chardet: You can tell it's bad when the maintainer works in a company called "Monarch Money".

Skillfile, the declarative skill manager, now with search for 110K+ skills

13 _juli_ 2026-03-16 13:41:39 UTC github.com/eljulians Llama Share 4

Skillfile is a declarative tool for managing AI coding skills and agents across platforms, providing reproducibility and customization without losing upstream updates. It uses a single config file (Skillfile) to declare skills and agents, and supports 7 platforms, including Claude Code and Codex.

David Altrath Photography Diary

12 mooreds 2026-03-16 13:51:59 UTC davidaltrath.com Llama Share 2

David Altrath ist ein erfahrener Architekturfotograf, der professionelle Bilder für Architekten, Designer und Immobilienentwickler anbietet. Er kombiniert künstlerische Ästhetik mit technischer Perfektion und ist bekannt für seinen einzigartigen Stil.

Building a Shell

12 healeycodes 2026-03-16 13:28:09 UTC healeycodes.com Llama Share 1

The user built a toy shell to learn about low-level process APIs and Unix commands, implementing features like env var expansion, pipes, and basic tab completion using the readline library. The shell is incomplete but can handle simple use cases like launching programs, basic pipes, and some git commands, with the user learning about the performance implications of shells and the importance ...