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LinkedIn scans users' computers for installed software without consent, collecting data on job search activity, religious beliefs, and competitor products. BrowserGate is a campaign to expose this corporate espionage and data breach scandal, seeking funds and public support to hold LinkedIn accountable.

Google releases Gemma 4 open models

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Build autonomous agents that plan, navigate apps, and complete tasks on your behalf, with native support for function calling. These models were evaluated against a large collection of datasets and metrics to cover different aspects of text generation. See additional benchmarks in model card.

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

The Swedish government is reintroducing physical textbooks and reducing digital devices in schools to improve reading and writing skills. They aim for every student to have a physical textbook for each subject, citing concerns about screen time and distraction.

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Steam on Linux reached an all-time high of 5.33% market share in March 2026, a 3.1% increase from February. Windows lost 4.28% to 92.33% while macOS gained 1.19% to 2.35%.

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU

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Using --no-mmap and increasing context size can speed up load times. Lemonade offers a unified API with various features like chat and image gen.

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents

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Qwen3.6-Plus is a significant upgrade to the Qwen series, offering enhanced agentic coding capabilities, improved multimodal reasoning, and a more stable and reliable foundation for developers. The model is now generally available through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API and supports various coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code, to streamline development ...

I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed

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A memorial for the 60,199 Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Each dot is a name. Each name was a life.

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?

Techniques to protect email addresses from spammers include HTML entities, CSS, JavaScript, and encryption, with varying levels of effectiveness. Most harvesters are unsophisticated, making even simple techniques effective, but no method is foolproof.

Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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NASA's Artemis II mission used a laser-based communications system to beam 4K moon footage to Earth at 260 Mbps. The system, called O2O, will also be used for fast transmission of procedures and data.

Tailscale's new macOS home

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Tailscale's macOS app had an issue where its icon would be hidden in the notch of some MacBooks. A small fix was implemented to notify users when the icon is hidden.

Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why

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right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

The Weather Channel – RetroCast

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Northwest winds of 30-40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph are possible. This may be hazardous to light weight or high profile vehicles.

Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it

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A subscription bombing attack targeted Suga's sign-up form, using bots to create fake accounts with real email addresses and then requesting password resets to flood victims' inboxes with unwanted emails. The attack was mitigated by implementing Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA and limiting email sends until user verification, preventing further damage to victims.

Cursor 3

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Cursor 3 is a unified workspace for building software with agents, bringing clarity to agent work and a higher level of abstraction. It's faster, cleaner, and more powerful, with a multi-repo layout and seamless handoff between local and cloud agents.

Significant raise of reports

The kernel security list has seen a huge increase in bug reports, from 2-3 per week to 5-10 per day, with most being correct and leading to faster bug fixes. This shift is expected to change the approach to security fixes, making embargoes obsolete and encouraging periodic updates.

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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The author joined Microsoft's Azure Core team in May 2023 as a senior member, only to find the team planning to port half of Windows to a tiny Linux-running chip. The author was shocked by the team's unrealistic plan and felt it was a "death march."

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

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Delve team allegedly used Sim.ai's open source tool SimStudio without permission, violating Apache software license. Delve's founders deny allegations, but Sim.ai's CEO confirms no license agreement was in place.

IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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IBM and Arm collaborate to develop dual-architecture hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads. The collaboration aims to create flexible and scalable computing platforms for the future with greater reliability, security, and scalability.

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

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Caltech and Google announced quantum computing breakthroughs, lowering overhead for fault-tolerance and Shor's algorithm. This may make Bitcoin signatures vulnerable to quantum attack sooner than expected.

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

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Nepal's fake rescue scam involves staging medical emergencies to claim insurance, with guides and hospitals involved in the scheme. The scam has been ongoing since 2018, with investigators finding 171 confirmed fake rescues between 2022 and 2025, resulting in millions of dollars in insurance claims.

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year

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Renewable energy expanded by 15.5% in 2025, with solar accounting for nearly three-quarters of new capacity additions. However, the world is still behind pace to meet its renewable energy commitments by 2030.

The Claude Code Leak

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Claude Code's leaked source code reveals that good code isn't necessary for a successful product. The real value lies in integration and product market fit.

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

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The user designed a reference data system for manufacturing using Clojure, a dynamic functional programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, due to its benefits in data manipulation and prototyping. The user found Clojure's REPL environment, code-as-data semantic, and macro system particularly useful for rapid development and prototyping, and recommends considering it for ...

r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming

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Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had

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SQLite offers flexible data storage and querying with JSON support, full-text search, and analytical queries. It also provides strict typing, generated columns, and write-ahead logging for improved performance and reliability.

'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

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Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)

The author learned from business school that good ideas don't need lies to gain acceptance and that dishonest forecasters are worthless. This principle helped the author predict the Iraq War's failure due to false claims about WMDs and the importance of audit to prevent such errors.

OpenAI Acquires TBPN

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OpenAI acquired TBPN, a daily tech talk show, to support its mission of bringing AGI to the world and facilitate a constructive conversation about AI. TBPN will maintain editorial independence and report to Chris Lehane within OpenAI's Strategy org.

New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds

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New laws will make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds for unwanted auto-renewals, saving the average person nearly £170 a year. The laws will give consumers a 14-day cooling off period and force companies to provide clear information upfront.

Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers

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Amazon is adding a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge for US and Canadian third-party sellers due to increased costs from the Iran war. The surcharge will take effect on April 17 and is lower than those applied by other major carriers.

Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone

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NASA has developed a new toilet system called the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) for astronauts. The system features handles for stability, simultaneous urine and feces processing, and a door for privacy in microgravity environments.

Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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President Donald Trump has ousted Pam Bondi as attorney general, replacing her with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Trump praised Bondi's work but sources say he was frustrated with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and not investigating his opponents enough.

George Goble has died

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George Harry Goble, a 73-year-old pioneer in computing, passed away on March 18, 2026. He was a founding member of Purdue Engineering Computer Network and made significant contributions to computing and refrigeration technology.

March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels

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Snowpack in the American west is at record-low levels due to a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures. Experts warn that even with potential for more snow, it will be too little too late to mitigate the effects of the dry season.

The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms

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The Australian government has introduced new measures to limit gambling ads, capping TV ads and banning online ads unless users are logged in and over 18. The move has been opposed by gambling agencies and some community groups who want a full ban.

A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses

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SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion IPO valuation in June 2026, but a sum-of-the-parts analysis suggests it may be overvalued by $500 billion. The valuation gap could be due to investors being overly bullish on all business segments simultaneously.

Yggdrasil Network

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Yggdrasil is a future-proof, decentralized routing scheme providing end-to-end encrypted IPv6 routing between nodes. It's an alpha-stage project with a stable implementation for day-to-day use, available on GitHub for contribution and feedback.

The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes

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SpaceX's IPO is unlikely to mirror Amazon or Google's returns due to changed IPO landscape. The company's valuation is overpriced due to scarcity value fallacy and narrative overpowering financials.

Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?

User had issues submitting content and receiving updates on European-alternatives.eu, with no response from the owner. They're looking for alternative platforms to list EU alternatives to US software/hardware.

Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker

Full FD01–FD10 view based on NASA's Artemis II Overview Timeline. Mission zero is anchored to 00/0 = 6:35 PM ET on April 1, 2026.

Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries

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numa is a portable DNS resolver built in Rust that blocks ads, resolves local services, and caches DNS queries. It runs as a system service on macOS and Linux, and auto-starts on Windows, providing a secure and private DNS experience.

Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm

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Balcony solar installations have become popular in Germany and other parts of the world, allowing people to generate their own power and reduce their energy bills. However, some experts have raised concerns about the safety of these installations, citing the risk of electrical shock and fires, but many governments and regulatory bodies have deemed them safe with proper installation and precautions.

Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data

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User analyzed 10GB Hacker News dataset with Codex and Modolap to compare Rust and Go mentions and MySQL vs Postgres. Initial findings suggest a gradual decline in comment length over time.

The case for zero-error horizons in trustworthy LLMs

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Researchers propose Zero-Error Horizon (ZEH) for trustworthy LLMs, which measures maximum problem-solving range without errors. Evaluating ZEH of state-of-the-art LLMs reveals surprising mistakes on simple problems, providing insights for safety-critical domains.

ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026

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The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep

EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS

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Cloudflare's EmDash is a new open source CMS built on Astro and TypeScript, aiming to be a modern WordPress alternative. It features a secure sandboxed plugin model, AI-first design, and a solid database structure, but may not address the main frustrations with WordPress.

Trinity Large Thinking

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OpenRouter routes requests to best providers based on prompt size and parameters with fallbacks for uptime. It supports reasoning-enabled models showing step-by-step thinking with the reasoning parameter.

We sped up bun by 100x

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A deep dive into rewriting git in Zig and integrating it into Bun for a 100x speedup

US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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The US military has fired 850+ Tomahawk missiles in 30 days, exceeding 14.9 years of production, and is now deploying ground troops into Iran. The war is depleting US strategic reserves, including missile stockpiles and energy reserves, and may lead to a global food and energy crisis.

A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company

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Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

UK adults are becoming more selective with social media use, with 49% actively posting and 67% concerned about screentime. AI tool adoption is widespread, especially among younger adults, with 54% using tools like ChatGPT.

Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?

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A crowd gathered on the A Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville to witness the Artemis II launch, a historic moment in space exploration. The mission aims to send the first humans to the moon's orbit in over 50 years, with a crew of four astronauts on board.

Hugo's New CSS Powers

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The release of Hugo v0.158.0 introduced css.Build, which offers styling enhancements but has limitations, requiring consideration of browser compatibility and newer CSS features. css.Build provides bundling, minification, and speed advantages, but may not be suitable for sites requiring complex CSS features or older browser support.

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

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Iran's IRGC claims it targeted Oracle's Dubai data center and an Amazon facility in Bahrain, amid escalating tensions with the US and Israel. The conflict has resulted in over 3,000 civilian fatalities in Iran and Lebanon.

Every Law a Commit – US Law in GitHub

User had to be reminded of their blog and wrote about someone turning Spanish law into a Git repository. They created a similar US law repository in 48 hours using an autonomous pipeline.

Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor)

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Kiyeovo is a beta app with rough edges, tested on Linux and macOS, offering two network modes: Fast (clearnet) and Anonymous (Tor). It stores offline messages in the DHT and supports file transfer, groups, and calls in fast mode.

Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

Space weather: NOAA SWPC (live) · Trajectory: computed from NASA Artemis II mission plan · All times UTCUpdates every 5s

Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?

Luxembourg has the highest average hourly wage in Europe at €49.7, followed by Iceland and Norway.

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents

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Qwen3.6-Plus is a significant upgrade to the Qwen series, offering enhanced agentic coding capabilities, improved multimodal reasoning, and a more stable and reliable foundation for developers. The model is now generally available through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API and supports various coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code, to streamline development ...

Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code

memo is a coding environment that saves state and forgets code as you type. It uses commas, ands, or both to separate list elements and ignores numerals.

A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s

The author reminisces about popular magazines from the late 1970s to the 1980s, including BYTE, Dr. Dobbs, and Omni, which expressed optimism for technology and the future. These magazines provided valuable information on programming languages, hardware projects, and emerging technologies.

We will all work for AGI

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Being part of early stage venture capital, I get to watch where capital goes before the world notices. The bets being placed today are not on AI. They are on what AI makes possible, and those bets have already started paying out in ways most people haven't connected yet. Weather does not begin as weather. It begins as water. Then heat. Then pressure. Then cloud. Each phase invisible, each ...

The Beginning of Programming as We'll Know It

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AI coding assistants like Claude and Codex are powerful tools, but human developers are still valuable due to their ability to harness AI's power while adding human taste, wisdom, and caution. For now, AI-generated code needs human review to meet standards of quality and maintainability.

The IDE Is Dead. Long Live the ADE

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Author deleted IDEs and switched to AI-powered tools, seeing a significant productivity boost. They're now building Lanes to manage multiple agent terminals and create a unified development environment.

A Founder Tried to Pitch – and Got a Restraining Order

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Salomi, a research repo on extreme low-bit transformer quantization

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SALOMI is a research repository exploring extreme low-bit transformer quantization and inference methods. It presents rigorous evidence on the limitations of naive sub-1-bit claims and promising methods around 1.2-1.35 bpp.

Post-mortem of the EU Europa breach: A masterclass in IAM misconfiguration

The European Commission's Europa.eu platform was breached by ShinyHunters, exposing 90GB of sensitive data including emails, SSO directory, and DKIM keys. The breach is considered an e-crime story with a larger blast radius than a state-sponsored attack, and institutions must take immediate action to secure their data and prevent follow-on attacks.