Astral to Join OpenAI

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Astral's tools will join OpenAI's Codex team to push AI and software development forward. The goal remains to make programming more productive with tools that feel fast, robust, and integrated.

Afroman found not liable in defamation case

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Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, was found not liable for defamation in a lawsuit filed by seven Ohio cops over a satirical music video. Foreman was sued for $3.9 million in damages but was cleared of all charges.

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

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Austin, Texas, implemented policy reforms to increase housing supply and affordability, resulting in a 30% increase in housing units and a 7% decline in rents from 2015 to 2024. The city's proactive policies, including zoning changes, density bonuses, and streamlined permitting, have made it one of the only major cities where rent has fallen since the pandemic.

A sufficiently detailed spec is code

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The author argues that agentic coding's claim to generate code from specifications is misleading, as these specifications often resemble code themselves. The author also claims that generating code from specifications doesn't reliably work.

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

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Google is introducing a developer verification program to combat malware on Android devices, requiring verified developers to provide identification and pay a $25 fee. Power users can bypass this verification through an advanced flow in developer settings, but it's not immediately accessible and has a 24-hour countdown.

“Your frustration is the product”

The author criticizes modern websites for prioritizing ads over user experience, leading to frustrating and intrusive designs. This is driven by an auction system that rewards publishers for keeping users on their pages.

Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️
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Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos

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macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Kitten TTS v0.8 is out with 15M, 40M, and 80M parameter models for high-quality voice synthesis on CPU. It supports various voices and offers commercial support for teams integrating it into their products.

Conway's Game of Life, in real life

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The user created an interactive display for Conway's Game of Life using a 17x17 matrix of switches and LEDs, with a Microchip AVR128DA64 MCU controlling the display and user input. The project involved designing a PCB, adding MOSFETs and transistors for row and column switching, and implementing safety features such as a watchdog timer and blackout window for screen updates.

Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code

A reviewer checks quality, and a gate decides to either pass to Ralph or iterate. Ralph then decides to either exit or advance to the next task.

An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD

OpenTTD developers collaborated with Atari on Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release, allowing new Steam and GOG players to purchase TTD first then access OpenTTD for free. This compromise balances Atari's commercial interests with OpenTTD's availability, ensuring the project's continued independence and development.

4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

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Ofcom fined 4Chan £520,000 for failing to comply with UK's Online Safety Act. 4Chan's lawyer responded with an AI-generated image, claiming the platform breaks no law in the US.

Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence

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Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149

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Mozilla is introducing a free browser-integrated VPN in Firefox 149 on March 24, 2026, providing 50GB of monthly data to users in the US, France, Germany, and the UK. The feature aims to offer safer browsing with no hidden tradeoffs, aligning with Firefox's long-standing data minimization stance.

Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)

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Juggalo face makeup can evade facial recognition due to its black bands obscuring key features. However, Apple's Face ID uses depth perception, making Juggalo makeup ineffective against it.

Waymo Safety Impact

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Waymo's safety impact research uses best practices to align ADS and human crash data, comparing Waymo's crash performance to the current human driving fleet from the areas where Waymo operates. The results show that Waymo has 70-90% fewer crashes than the benchmark, with statistical significance achieved due to the large number of miles driven by Waymo.

What 81,000 people want from AI

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Tens of thousands of Claude users shared their hopes and fears about AI, revealing a desire for AI to help them live better, more enjoyable lives, and alleviate current burdens, with many seeking to use AI for productivity, personal growth, and societal transformation. However, concerns about AI's impact on human autonomy, job displacement, and potential negative consequences, such as ...

2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews

ICML 2026 implemented rules to handle AI usage in peer review, with 506 reviewers violating LLM usage rules. 497 papers were desk-rejected due to reviewers using LLMs despite agreeing not to.

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

OpenBSD's PF packet filter now supports 64-bit bandwidth values, removing a 4.29 Gbps limit. This change allows correct configuration for high-speed interfaces up to 999G.

Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]

The investigation will assess Tesla's FSD system in degraded roadway conditions, evaluating its performance and updates to the degradation detection system. The system's ability to detect and alert drivers to impaired camera visibility has raised concerns, with potential under-reporting of crashes due to data limitations.

Autoresearch for SAT Solvers

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An AI agent learns MaxSAT strategies without human guidance, refining its toolbox and pushing improvements to a shared repo. It uses git for communication and low parallelism, but can focus on a single instance for hours.

OpenAI to Acquire Astral

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OpenAI acquires Astral to bring powerful open source developer tools into its Codex ecosystem. This move aims to accelerate Codex's work and enable AI systems to participate in the entire software development lifecycle.

Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust

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The noq team has created a general-purpose QUIC implementation with multipath and NAT traversal support, which is a separate codebase from Quinn but aims for collaboration. noq's headline feature is a full implementation of the QUIC Multipath spec, enabling latency improvements and supporting various network conditions.

How to defer US taxes

Reinvest taxable income in business expenses and depreciate assets to defer US taxes. The US tax code rewards entrepreneurial pursuits, allowing you to create wealth and pay taxes later.

Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

I politely clarify the limitations of LLMs, explaining that they can provide helpful information but may not always be accurate or reliable. I encourage users to verify information through reputable sources and think critically about the answers they receive.

A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta

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Meta employee received inaccurate AI advice, exposing company and user data for 2 hours. Incident resolved, no user data mishandled, according to Meta spokesperson.

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster

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We used Claude Code to automate neural network training with 16 GPUs on a Kubernetes cluster, achieving a 2.87% improvement in val_bpb and discovering a strategy to exploit performance differences between H100 and H200 GPUs. The agent ran for 8 hours, submitting ~910 experiments and finding that scaling model width mattered more than any single hyperparameter, with a total cost of under $300.

How many branches can your CPU predict?

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Processors can learn to predict branches over time, especially with repeated use of the same random values. AMD processors performed well in this benchmark, while Intel processors showed disappointing results.

World Happiness Report 2026

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John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R., Sachs, J. D., De Neve, J.-E., Aknin, L. B., & Wang, S. (Eds.). (2026). World Happiness Report 2026. University of Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre.

Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80

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ENIAC, the first large-scale electronic digital computer, was unveiled in 1946 and revolutionized mathematics and engineering. It paved the way for modern computing and transformed industries with its high-speed, general-purpose computing capabilities.

Translate Garry Tan's LinkedIn-speak to plain English

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Prompt Injecting Contributing.md

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The user's GitHub repository, awesome-mcp-servers, has been flooded with AI-generated pull requests, making manual review unsustainable. The user is exploring ways to distinguish human contributions from bot-generated ones to maintain open-source projects efficiently.

NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute

Researchers achieved 10x data efficiency with NanoGPT Slowrun by ensembling 1.8B parameter models and applying architectural tweaks. This allows scaling with compute rather than data, potentially leading to significant model performance improvements.

The Shape of Inequalities

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You've created animations to help people understand inequalities in a geometrical way, using classic shapes like circles, triangles, and squares. Your visualizations show how the Arithmetic Mean (AM), Geometric Mean (GM), Quadratic Mean (QM), and Harmonic Mean (HM) relate to each other, and how they can be represented using geometric shapes.

Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields

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Gas prices jumped to four-year highs after Israel and Iran escalated attacks on energy facilities, causing damage to Qatar's LNG export capacity. Oil prices rose by 8% to $116 a barrel, with Brent crude soaring 60% since the US-Israeli war on Iran started.

US national debt surges past $39 Trillion

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US national debt surpassed $39 trillion, a record milestone, due to competing priorities and rising government spending. Experts warn of unsustainable borrowing and long-term financial burden on future generations.

I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI

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Eric Schmidt predicts UIs will go away, replaced by agents generating UIs on the fly. A prototype uses markdown as a protocol for agentic UI, combining code execution with text and data in a single stream.

Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm

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A study found that direct marketing from gambling accounts increased bets by 23% and spending by 39% among participants. The study suggests tighter regulations are needed to limit gambling marketing and protect consumers from harm.

Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence

Memory prices areloading… DUTCH MARKET PRICES — LOADING…

We Have Learned Nothing

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The New Punditry's advice on building successful startups has failed to make a difference, with startup success rates remaining flat over the past 30 years despite widespread adoption of their methods. To build a true science of entrepreneurship, we need to break the rules of science as traditionally practiced and encourage a proliferation of competing theories, rather than converging on one, ...

Clockwise acquired by Salesforce and shutting down next week

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Clockwise will remove Smart Hold events and Flexible Meetings, then delete user data on March 27, 2026. Users will get a prorated refund for prepaid subscriptions and can transition to Reclaim for AI-powered scheduling.

Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla

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Xiaomi's next-gen SU7 electric sedan offers up to 902 km range, standard LiDAR, and 897V charging. It starts at 229,900 yuan, undercutting the Tesla Model 3 in China by about 5,600 yuan.

From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)

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The user decoded UDP packets from raw voltage waveforms captured by an oscilloscope connected to a high-speed active differential probe soldered to a rack switch. They implemented a parser to extract the packets from the waveform data, which involved decoding QSGMII protocol and rate adaptation to convert the data into conventional Ethernet packets.

Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment

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The user discusses the importance of language and its malleability, arguing that semantic drift is a feature of language that enriches it, and that policing language usage can be limiting. A recent research paper on corporate bullshit found that people who are susceptible to it are often those who are bad at analytical reasoning and easily convinced, and that this can create a feedback loop ...

Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase

To maintain a well-structured codebase, use semantic functions as building blocks that are minimal, self-describing, and unit-testable, and pragmatic functions as wrappers around complex logic. Effective data modeling involves enforcing correctness, using precise names, and avoiding loose typing to prevent bugs and make code easier to understand and maintain.

Consensus Board Game

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The user is explaining the mathematical concept of consensus, specifically the Paxos algorithm, through a series of illustrations of a committee of five members trying to choose a color for a bike shed. The user is focusing on the logical structure of the universe that makes consensus possible, and will eventually discuss the pragmatics of consensus in a future post.

The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets

Lawmakers and advocates are concerned that facial recognition technology in stores could lead to profiling and dynamic pricing without clear regulations. Proposed legislation in New York City and Congress aims to ban the use of facial recognition for setting prices without customer consent.

EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages

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Researchers created EsoLang-Bench to evaluate large language models on esoteric programming languages with limited training data. The results show a significant gap between models' performance on mainstream languages and their genuine programming ability.

Store birth date in systemd for age verification

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The user is trying to apply a suggestion to a GitHub conversation but is encountering various errors such as no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request status. The suggestion cannot be applied due to these restrictions.

Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War

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WFH is becoming a benefit again

Remote work may become more prevalent due to high gas prices and supply issues. Companies may shift to flexible, team-led in-office decisions rather than strict requirements.

Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API

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A self-hosted reverse geocoding service built from OpenStreetMap data returns street addresses from latitude and longitude coordinates. It's part of the Traccar open source GPS tracking platform and available as a hosted service or Docker container.

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

Voltair Labs is developing weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones for power utility inspections, aiming to replace foot patrols and helicopters with a cost-effective solution. The company's first product is a long-range, fixed-wing drone that recharges inductively on stripped-down charging pads, enabling inspections of entire transmission line corridors with reduced costs and increased efficiency.

UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place

Ofcom fined 4chan £450,000 for lacking age checks on its site. The company must implement age assurance by April 2 or face daily penalties.

The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is causing a "paralyzing problem" for US defense readiness due to disruptions in sulphur and mineral supplies. This could lead to a doubling or more of costs to replace damaged equipment and a precarious situation for US military readiness.

The day I discovered type design

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The author's interest in type design began at 20 years old in 1976 while studying commercial art at North Hennepin Community College. A lettering project sparked this interest, leading to the creation of an original alphabet, Uncial Sans, which ignited a lifelong passion for designing typefaces.

Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect

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Two geographers in Connecticut discovered that having solar panels near you is the biggest predictor of getting them yourself, with neighbors within one kilometer being most influential. This proximity principle applies beyond solar panels, influencing people's choices on health, technology, and other priorities.

No AI in Node.js Core

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Node.js community members petition the TSC to reject AI-assisted development in core internals due to concerns over diluting hand-written code and reputational impact. A 19k line Pull Request using LLM was submitted, sparking debate over Developer's Certificate of Origin compliance.

Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code

Aakash and Viswesh from Canary built AI agents to test code changes and user workflows, closing the gap in code verification. Canary outperforms GPT, Claude Code, and Sonnet in code verification benchmark QA-Bench v0.

Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

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We're providing different identity verification paths to fit users' needs, including free limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists. These accounts allow sharing with up to 20 devices without ID or fee, ensuring Android remains open for learning and experimentation.

Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science

Francisco, a Spanish researcher, created P2PCLAW, a peer-to-peer network for AI agents and humans to share results and validate claims with formal mathematical proof. P2PCLAW uses GUN.js, IPFS, and Lean 4 for security and verification, with a small team behind it.

Minecraft Source Code Is Interesting

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Minecraft's PS3 source code reveals clever optimizations and workarounds used by 4J Studios to port the game from Java to C++ on a console with limited RAM. The codebase showcases a mix of clever algorithms, manual memory management, and creative solutions to performance issues, providing a unique glimpse into the inner workings of a real-world game engine.

Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?

You're looking for founding engineers with specific skills and traits, including technical ability, independence, low ego, passion, drive, and good judgment. You want to hire people who can ship products quickly, make good decisions, and work well with others, with a focus on builders who can create value for the company.

US national debt surges past $39T just weeks into war in Iran

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US national debt surpassed $39 trillion, a record milestone, due to competing priorities and rising government spending. Experts warn of unsustainable borrowing and long-term financial burden on future generations.

The Need for an Independent AI Grid

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Independent AI teams face a structural cost of low compute utilization and uncertain access due to unpredictable workloads. An AI grid can solve this by pooling compute needs, maximizing utilization, and providing shared automation, infrastructure, and security.

A survey on LLMs for spreadsheet intelligence

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Spreadsheets are being transformed by Large Language Models, moving from manual formulas to natural language interaction. This shift aims to reduce errors and increase efficiency in data analysis and manipulation.

Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff

I built a custom AI-powered building design consultancy to replace Wix, using Netlify and DeepSeek-R3, despite technical challenges and liability concerns. The system works, but requires constant tuning and optimization to balance tone and responsiveness.

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

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Google is introducing a developer verification program to combat malware on Android devices, requiring verified developers to provide identification and pay a $25 fee. Power users can bypass this verification through an advanced flow in developer settings, but it's not immediately accessible and has a 24-hour countdown.

Ask HN: AWS account restricted 18h despite remediation (Case 177385077300217)

Qcart's AWS account remains restricted 18 hours after resolving security flag due to exposed CircleCI access key. AWS support is unresponsive, citing a specialized team review despite remediation efforts.