Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians

510 opengrass 2026-03-15 21:55:59 UTC michaelgeist.ca Llama Share 139

The Canadian government introduced Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which limits warrantless access to personal information but raises concerns about surveillance capabilities and data retention. The bill introduces new rules for telecom providers and internet platforms to assist law enforcement, sparking privacy and civil liberties concerns.

What is agentic engineering?

100 lumpa 2026-03-16 01:55:59 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 57

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.

Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

406 xnx 2026-03-15 19:55:59 UTC developer.chrome.com Llama Share 181

Chrome DevTools MCP server now allows coding agents to directly connect to active browser sessions, enabling seamless transition between manual and AI-assisted debugging. Users must enable remote debugging in Chrome and configure the MCP server with the --autoConnect option for auto connection.

The 49MB web page

388 kermatt 2026-03-15 19:55:59 UTC thatshubham.com Llama Share 196

The modern news website architecture is plagued by user-hostile design choices, such as excessive ads, modals, and tracking scripts, which prioritize short-term CPMs over long-term readership. To create a better user experience, publishers should adopt a privacy-first approach, enforce serialized onboarding, and reserve space for asynchronous content to reduce cognitive load and improve ...

Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators

17 o4c 2026-03-16 03:55:59 UTC robot-daycare.com Llama Share 1

The user discusses the fundamentals of robot actuators, specifically the relationship between motor size, torque, power dissipation, and reflected inertia, and proposes a figure of merit that is size-invariant. This figure of merit, normalized motor constant, is useful for comparing motors of different sizes and is primarily determined by power dissipation at a given torque, not gear ratio or ...

SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files

15 luu 2026-03-16 01:55:59 UTC github.com/jtsylve Llama Share 1

SpiceCrypt is a Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files in both text-based and binary formats. It supports automatic format detection and provides various decryption options.

LLM Architecture Gallery

305 tzury 2026-03-15 18:55:59 UTC sebastianraschka.com Llama Share 22

This page collects architecture figures and fact sheets for Open-Weight LLMs, focusing on panels and allowing users to report inaccuracies. It features a 27B model with local attention and a large vocabulary, including strong Indic language support.

LLMs can be exhausting

136 tjohnell 2026-03-15 22:55:59 UTC tomjohnell.com Llama Share 107

Working with LLMs requires metacognition to avoid mental fatigue and frustration, which can lead to poor prompts and outcomes. To optimize LLM interactions, focus on writing clear prompts, setting success criteria, and iterating towards faster feedback cycles to avoid context overload and improve results.

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

59 teleforce 2026-03-15 23:55:59 UTC man7.org Llama Share 4

Author of TLPI seeks university teacher feedback on book usage in courses. They want course outlines and suggestions for improving the book for university students.

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About FP Arithmetic (1991) [pdf]

18 jbarrow 2026-03-16 02:55:59 UTC itu.dk Llama Share 2

The IEEE floating-point standard discusses rounding error and its effects on various arithmetic operations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and proposes methods to reduce or eliminate these errors. The standard also introduces concepts such as guard digits, ulps, and NaNs to handle special cases and improve the accuracy and portability of floating-point arithmetic.

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

251 dpassens 2026-03-15 15:55:59 UTC isaacfreund.com Llama Share 120

River, a non-monolithic Wayland compositor, has broken from traditional architecture by splitting the window manager into a separate program. This allows for more control over window management policy and better performance.

Stop Sloppypasta

187 namnnumbr 2026-03-15 17:55:59 UTC stopsloppypasta.ai Llama Share 98

Sharing raw AI output reduces comprehension and trust due to effort asymmetry and lack of verification. It creates a negative feedback loop where the sender loses credibility and the recipient loses trust.

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

124 commotionfever 2026-03-15 18:55:59 UTC go.dev Llama Share 50

Go 1.26 introduces an all-new source-level inliner to help modernize Go code. The inliner replaces function calls with their bodies, enabling self-service API migration and upgrades with the //go:fix inline directive.

Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

47 pilingual 2026-03-16 02:55:59 UTC righttoprivacyact.github.io Llama Share 24

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.

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

192 walterbell 2026-03-15 15:55:59 UTC blog.zuthof.nl Llama Share 130

Intel Optane drives offer ultra-low latency, high durability, and high performance due to 3D XPoint Technology. However, they have high costs and low capacities, making them less appealing for most companies.

How I write software with LLMs

48 indigodaddy 2026-03-16 01:55:59 UTC stavros.io Llama Share 6

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 ...

Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories

241 robinhouston 2026-03-15 13:55:59 UTC aikido.dev Llama Share 150

Glassworm threat actor is back, compromising hundreds of GitHub, npm, and VS Code repositories with invisible Unicode characters. Aikido's malware scanning pipeline detects this threat, and a free tool called Aikido Safe Chain can block supply chain risks in real time.

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

11 qainsights 2026-03-16 01:55:59 UTC github.com/qainsights Full Share 11

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.

Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video]

39 surprisetalk 2026-03-15 23:55:59 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 2

The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

116 aerhardt 2026-03-15 18:55:59 UTC alexerhardt.com Llama Share 80

The author, a former avid reader, regained their reading habit and now reads 1.5 books per week, cherishing the act of reading for its own sake. They prefer physical books over eBooks and have a large private library, but are disappointed with Amazon's print-on-demand books, which are often of poor quality and more expensive than stock equivalents.

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

85 anjel 2026-03-16 00:55:59 UTC salk.edu Llama Share 51

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.

Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data

135 danielmorozoff 2026-03-15 15:55:59 UTC zzk273.github.io Llama Share 27

Researchers developed LATENT, a system that learns tennis skills from imperfect human motion data. LATENT successfully trains a humanoid robot to consistently hit and return tennis balls in real-world conditions.

Nasdaq's Shame

241 imichael 2026-03-15 22:55:59 UTC keubiko.substack.com Llama Share 79

Nasdaq proposes changes to its index methodology to favor large IPOs like SpaceX, allowing for near-immediate index inclusion and artificially inflating stock prices. This could lead to a massive liquidity squeeze and unfair wealth transfer from passive investors to corporate insiders.

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)

336 vismit2000 2026-03-15 10:55:59 UTC r2d3.us Llama Share 29

Machine learning uses statistical learning to identify patterns in data and make predictions, such as distinguishing homes in New York from homes in San Francisco. A decision tree is a machine learning method that uses if-then statements to identify boundaries and define patterns in the data, but can overfit if it learns irrelevant details.

Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

139 ks2048 2026-03-15 17:55:59 UTC kenschutte.com Llama Share 54

The user traveled from Lima, Peru to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by bus in 2025, taking a route through Puno and southern Bolivia. The trip was straightforward and easy, with frequent buses available, but safety concerns existed on mountainous routes in Bolivia.

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

13 baijum 2026-03-16 00:55:59 UTC towlion.github.io Llama Share 4

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.

A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites

33 gaplong 2026-03-15 21:55:59 UTC ulmer457718.substack.com Llama Share 3

The Hutterite community originated in 1525 in Zurich, Switzerland, and was persecuted for centuries, but survived due to tolerance in the Russian steppe. Today, 58,000 Hutterites live in North America, with a unique demographic record of high fertility and rapid growth, but now facing declining birth rates and changing social trends.

A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

57 zdw 2026-03-15 22:55:59 UTC msn.com Full Share 43

In the 1960s, a shaky film shot in the wilderness helped launch the Bigfoot industry, enriching and then upending the lives of the men behind it. “Capturing Bigfoot” chronicles the fallout.

In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor

109 herodotus 2026-03-15 17:55:59 UTC billwadge.com Llama Share 4

The author had John Addison as their PhD advisor at UC Berkeley, where they studied logic under his guidance and developed a lifelong appreciation for his teaching style and generosity. Addison's influence continued to shape the author's career in computer science, where they drew on his lessons to design the dataflow language Lucid.

Type systems are leaky abstractions: the case of Map.take!/2

38 tosh 2026-03-15 21:55:59 UTC dashbit.co Llama Share 19

Adding a type system to Elixir involves exploring the trade-offs between expressiveness and type safety, as seen in the example of a proposed Map.take!/2 function that raises if a key is not present in the map. The function's type signature is challenging to define due to the need to specify the exact shape of the return map, leading to discussions on the use of macros, distributive ...