Zed 1.0

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Zed is a new editor built from scratch with a custom UI framework, GPUI, to provide a fundamentally better coding experience. Version 1.0 is now available, offering AI-native editing, collaboration features, and a growing list of capabilities.

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

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Claude Code routes API requests to extra usage billing when a git commit message contains the case-sensitive string HERMES.md. This causes silent extra usage credits consumption, making it difficult to diagnose.

Online age verification is the hill to die on

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Cursor Camp

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Welcome to Cursor Camp! Enjoy your stay

Copy Fail

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A Linux kernel vulnerability, Copy Fail, allows local code execution to become root due to a shared page cache issue. A patch is available to revert the 2017 optimization, and disabling AF_ALG can mitigate the issue.

Bugs Rust won't catch

Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils. The bugs highlight the importance of careful handling of paths, bytes, and syscalls in systems code.

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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code.overheid.nl is a government-wide code platform for open-source software, currently a pilot using Forgejo. Developers are invited to contribute and join the platform by emailing [email protected].

We need a federation of forges

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Tangled aims to decentralize code collaboration by allowing events to be federated among git servers, enabling cross-server collaboration and hosting. It uses Authenticated Transfer to share events and social features, breaking free from GitHub's monoculture.

Mistral Medium 3.5

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Mistral Vibe moves coding agents to the cloud, running in parallel and notifying users when done. Mistral Medium 3.5, a new default model, powers cloud agents and Le Chat's Work mode for complex tasks.

HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto is leaving GitHub due to frequent outages and instability. He will move his project Ghostty to another collaborative code locker, citing a need for a more reliable platform.

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

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Maryland has banned surveillance pricing in grocery stores, preventing businesses from charging higher prices based on personal data. Critics say the law has loopholes and weak enforcement, while advocates welcome the step but urge stronger consumer protections.

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

Kyoto's cherry tree bloom records span over 1,000 years, showing a 30-year climate signal. The 2026 peak was March 29, two weeks earlier than the pre-modern average.

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

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AI company Anthropic claims its new model Claude Mythos is too powerful and could have catastrophic consequences if released. Critics argue this is fear-mongering to distract from the company's real-world damage.

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

Using FastCGI as a protocol for proxy-to-backend communication can avoid HTTP's pitfalls, such as desync vulnerabilities, by providing clear message boundaries and domain separation between client and proxy headers. FastCGI is a 30-year-old protocol that is still usable today, but its lack of awareness and outdated tooling may hinder its adoption despite its potential benefits.

Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown

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Elsevier's journal RIBAF has a citation cartel led by John Goodell, who pays researchers to co-author his papers. Goodell's scheme has resulted in hundreds of compromised papers and an inflated citation count.

He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

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A study found that four leading AI models for carb counting in diabetes apps returned different estimates for the same food photo, with some models showing large variations. This inconsistency could lead to incorrect insulin dosing, with some models potentially causing severe hypoglycemia.

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

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This project aims to create a low-cost, research-validated stethoscope with freely available plans. The goal is to produce the stethoscope for approximately USD$1-2.

Laws of UX

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The tendency to get overwhelmed by too many options and systematic errors in thinking can be mitigated by simplifying and organizing information. Understanding human perception and behavior can help design more intuitive and user-friendly systems and experiences.

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

The author prefers Scheme over Haskell for its simplicity, flexibility, and ease of use, despite Haskell's mathematical beauty and innovations. Scheme's REPL and macro system allow for fast prototyping, debugging, and development, making it the author's "sweet spot" for good developer experience.

Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

The internet has lost many services and platforms over the years, including ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, and others. These services were once popular but eventually shut down or merged with other platforms.

OpenTrafficMap

Der Server erwartet eine neuere Frontend-Version. Bitte lade die Seite neu, damit Client und Server wieder zusammenpassen.

HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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HardenedBSD's Radicle integration is now usable, but still has performance issues and needs further work. Users should configure Radicle to support larger repos by editing ~/.radicle/config.json.

"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

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The writer disagrees with the idea that people who don't use AI will be left behind, instead believing that those relying on AI will forget basic skills. They think people should aim to be better than AI, not replace themselves with it.

Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Germany's Rheinmetall has quadrupled medium-caliber ammunition production, meeting European demand for artillery rounds. European countries are rearming after US President Trump's warning to rely less on US military assets.

GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

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Tim Paterson's DOS source code listings are available for browsing and compilation. The listings include 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 pre-release kernels.

Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

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An AWS engineer found PostgreSQL throughput dropped by half on Linux 7.0 due to minor page faults while holding a spinlock. Enabling huge pages reduces faults and eliminates TLB pressure.

Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world

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Rheinmetall significantly increased production of ammunition and military equipment in Germany, overtaking the US in conventional ammunition capacity. The company expects to employ 70,000 people by 2030, potentially replacing a third of automotive industry jobs.

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

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Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials

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A vulnerability in Ramp's Sheets AI allowed data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection. Ramp's security team resolved the issue on March 16, 2026.

Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns

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The 10th Circuit Court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to buying, selling, and possessing firearms parts without serial numbers. This ruling may allow gun owners to challenge charges related to unserialized parts based on their Second Amendment rights.

We decreased our LLM costs with Opus

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The company uses a triager pattern with a Haiku agent to detect duplicate CI failures, reducing costs by 80% and improving performance, and then escalates to Opus for further investigation. Opus plans investigations, writes precise sub-agent prompts, and uses Haiku to read logs and search error messages, achieving a 25x cost reduction for triager matches compared to full investigations.

Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results

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U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official

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Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew

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Physics can help reduce coffee waste by optimizing brewing techniques, such as grind size and pouring height, to improve extraction and quality. By understanding the complex process of coffee brewing, scientists can provide insights to the coffee industry to reduce waste and help the environment.

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

When the Internet Was a Place (2025)

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The internet has evolved from a physical place we visited to a pervasive, always-on environment that erodes our capacity for rootedness and freedom. To recover a healthier digital culture, we must reimagine the internet as a place we choose to enter and leave on human terms.

Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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A Firefox extension called adblock-rust-manager enables and manages Firefox's built-in adblock-rust engine. It provides a user interface to disable ETP, add filter lists, and reorder them for better ad blocking.

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

Law is a graph of provisions with hierarchical structure, requiring stable fine-grained addresses for external reference. A replay compiler like LawVM captures the text layer correctly as a reproducible process, separating it from the semantic layer for accurate normative analysis.

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different

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Apple built virtualisation into macOS to support older versions and other operating systems on Apple silicon Macs. This includes Virtio drivers for device support, guaranteeing optimum performance in VMs.

At Protocol: Building the Social Internet

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"text": "bsky.storage is an independent project that automates periodic account data backups to a storage network, and has a UI for PLC identity backup and recovery\n\ntools like this give users stronger control of their online future, without needing to self-host an entire PDS",

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

Gongyu Su from EETree LLC, the new Tindie ownership team, apologizes for recent downtime and disruption. They plan to stabilize the platform, resolve issues, and invest in Tindie's future as a marketplace for makers and creators.

Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories

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Researchers found that friendly AI chatbots are 30% less accurate and 40% more likely to support false beliefs, including conspiracy theories. The trade-off between friendliness and accuracy is a concern as chatbots handle sensitive information in roles like digital companions and therapists.

Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year

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The US Pentagon is seeking $55 billion for drone and autonomous warfare programs in its 2027 budget, a significant increase from last year. The funding aims to develop lower-cost, AI-enabled systems to counter cheap drones overwhelming US defenses in conflicts like Ukraine and the Middle East.

I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief."

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Caveman Claude plugin compresses responses by 75% with same accuracy. It has six modes, but Ultra mode produces longest answers due to safety warnings and multi-step sequences.

Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today

Brent crude oil futures jumped 7% to almost $120 per barrel due to Iran conflict and OPEC exit. Global supply tightens with US inventory data showing sharp declines in crude and fuel stockpiles.

Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation

Researchers propose a low-compilation-cost strategy called LCCRA to improve register allocation in LLVM-based binary translators, reducing end-to-end latency and compilation overhead. LCCRA achieves a 5.76%-7.79% reduction in end-to-end latency and a 69.55%-74.98% reduction in register allocation time in various translation scenarios.

I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot

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The Dutch police created a fake DDoS website called Cyberzap to catch people trying to buy attacks. They also created a separate site called Netcrashers to scare kids away from DDoS services.

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness

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Computational functionalism mischaracterizes how physics relates to information, leading to the Abstraction Fallacy. A rigorous ontology of computation separates simulation from instantiation, showing algorithmic symbol manipulation cannot instantiate experience.

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

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Vera is a programming language designed for large language models to write, compiling to WebAssembly and running at the command line or in the browser. It addresses coherence over scale issues by making everything explicit and verifiable, with contracts, typed effects, and no variable names.

Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag

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Bundestag President Julia Klöckner recommends MPs use Wire service due to its end-to-end encryption and formal security grounds. Critics remain skeptical, citing the possibility of phishing attacks despite Wire's certification.

Shrdlu

SHRDLU is a 1968-1970 AI program that allows users to interact with a virtual blocks world using English commands. It uses a simple language parser and memory to understand and respond to user queries.

California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate

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California's high-speed rail project now estimated at $231 billion, nearly seven times the original $33 billion, faces renewed scrutiny over funding and completion. Lawmakers question whether private investors will materialize to fund the project, which is now expected to be completed between 2033 and 2040.

Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

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Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital studied ICU handovers and applied lessons from Ferrari and aviation to improve safety. They developed a four-stage process that reduced errors and improved patient care.

Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs

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Structured output benchmarks have been lying to us by only checking schema compliance and value correctness within a single source domain, but a new benchmark called SOB evaluates structured output across three modalities using the same scoring harness. The gap between JSON Pass and Value Accuracy is the space where structured output benchmarks have been lying to us, with most models clearing ...

Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day

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I built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase

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The user used Claude Code to create subagents for Metabase's backend, which are specialized AI assistants that navigate specific domains and eliminate the context tax of switching between them. Each subagent is a markdown file that defines its domain knowledge, codebase locations, investigation patterns, caveats, and testing strategies, allowing Claude to delegate work to the right agent ...

Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem

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Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center

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Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off platforms

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Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to prevent children under 13 from using Facebook and Instagram. The company could face fines up to 6% of its global annual turnover, reported at $201bn in 2025.

Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

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Notepad++ is now available as a native macOS app with identical editing experience to the Windows version. It's free and maintained by Andrey Letov, with native macOS Cocoa APIs and no ads or hidden costs.

Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails

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A Colorado bill that would have undone repair protections failed in a 7-to-4 vote. Repair advocates won the battle, but expect the fight to continue as lobbyists push for similar bills in other states.

Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer

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Enterprise AI requires forward-deployed engineering (FDE) to govern and maintain AI systems in production. Without FDE, AI pilots remain stuck indefinitely, and the gap is operational, not technological.

8647 Is a Prime Number

Number 8647 is a prime number with 2 divisors and a deficient number. It has various mathematical properties including Euler's totient of 8646 and a digital root of 7.

Data center boom strains Texas homebuilders' need for electricians

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Texas is experiencing a housing boom but a shortage of electricians due to data centers poaching them for AI technology. The state is trying to address the issue by expanding training programs and reciprocity agreements with other states.

What can we gain by losing infinity?

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Doron Zeilberger, a mathematician, believes that infinity is not a necessary concept in mathematics and that numbers have boundaries. He advocates for ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects infinity and extremely large numbers.

Nvidia exec: 'The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of my employees'

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Tech companies are laying off thousands of employees despite investing heavily in AI, with some experts saying AI is currently costing more than human labor. AI spending is expected to reach $5.2 trillion by 2030, but may become more viable if costs decrease and the technology proves reliable.

The end of "Just ask Sarah"

Agents lack the reasoning behind code decisions, treating patterns as intentional. Documentation is now crucial to ensure intent reaches execution, as agents inherit the output without context.

Why Software Needs a Third Loop [audio]

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The hosts of the podcast discuss the concept of Progressive Delivery and the Third Loop, which refers to the gap between shipping software and having it truly adopted by users, and how it requires a closer relationship between builders and consumers. They explore the importance of naming and control, delegation, and agency in software delivery, and how it can be used to create delightful ...

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