We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

304 mmcclure 2026-03-26 20:26:57 UTC derekthompson.org Llama Share 192

Online sports betting and prediction markets have led to cheating, distrust, and cynicism, with the potential to extend to politics and other institutions. The normalization of betting on future events, including wars and famines, raises concerns about morality and the erosion of shared values in society.

CERN to host Europe's flagship open access publishing platform

118 JohnHammersley 2026-03-26 20:26:57 UTC home.cern Llama Share 8

CERN hosts Open Research Europe, a community-led open access publishing platform, to promote equity and transparency in scholarly communication. The platform, built on open source software, will provide a neutral environment for researchers to share their work freely.

John Bradley, author of xv, has passed away

132 linsomniac 2026-03-26 19:26:57 UTC voxday.net Llama Share 47

John Bradley, founder and lead guitarist of Booster Patrol, died at 61. A song was written in his style to pay tribute, with lyrics describing his music in Heaven.

Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)

361 Amorymeltzer 2026-03-26 17:26:57 UTC bethmathews.substack.com Llama Share 66

A Graphic Designer shares their discovery of a specific seafoam green color used in 1940s industrial design, particularly in the Manhattan Project's control rooms. This color was chosen for its non-distracting and restful properties, as advocated by color theorist Faber Birren.

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack

224 Fibonar 2026-03-26 16:26:57 UTC futuresearch.ai Llama Share 106

A supply chain attack was discovered on the litellm package on PyPI, which steals credentials and attempts to exfiltrate them to a malicious domain. The attack was reported to PyPI and the litellm maintainers via email, and a tracking issue was created to monitor the situation.

Doom entirely from DNS records

142 Venn1 2026-03-26 17:26:57 UTC github.com/resumex Llama Share 38

A PowerShell script uses Cloudflare's DNS TXT records to serve the entire DOOM game, compressed into 1964 records across a single zone. This allows users to play DOOM without storing the WAD file on disk, using a .NET game engine and public DNS queries.

Fermented foods shaped human biology

82 mailyk 2026-03-26 18:26:57 UTC press.asimov.com Llama Share 37

Fermented foods like sauerkraut may have helped shape human biology, with our immune system evolving to recognize microbial metabolites from fermented foods. Consuming fermented foods can reduce inflammation and promote gut health, but more research is needed to understand the complex interactions between fermented food microbes, metabolites, and human biology.

Deploytarot.com – tarot card reading for deployments

14 rembish 2026-03-26 20:54:57 UTC deploytarot.com Llama Share 5

A high-pressure situation is unfolding with a deploy that needs to be fixed before an announcement and a board meeting. The deploy has caused issues and bugs, and the person involved is struggling to understand the project's scope and risks.

How much precision can you squeeze out of a table?

22 nomemory 2026-03-26 20:26:57 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 2

Feynman said that looking into details makes things interesting, and interpolation is used to fill gaps in tabulated data. Interpolation error depends on the spacing between points and the precision of tabulated values, not the order of interpolation.

Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3

63 russellthehippo 2026-03-26 19:26:57 UTC github.com/russellromney Llama Share 16

turbolite is a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves point lookups and joins directly from S3 with sub-250ms cold latency. It offers page-level compression and encryption for efficiency and security.

Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

88 todotask2 2026-03-26 18:26:57 UTC colibri.social Llama Share 40

Colibri is a social app built on the AT Protocol, allowing users to own their identity and data, and move it freely between platforms. It uses the same protocol as Bluesky, enabling seamless sign-in and data transfer.

Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

455 jslakro 2026-03-26 14:26:57 UTC unterwaditzer.net Llama Share 231

The user is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, finding the process easier than expected for issues, pull requests, and releases, but more challenging for CI due to lost free macOS runners and infinite capacity.

OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha

119 tanelpoder 2026-03-26 16:26:57 UTC opentelemetry.io Llama Share 13

OpenTelemetry Profiles has entered public Alpha, introducing a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling. The Profiles signal allows capturing low-overhead performance profiles in production, improving troubleshooting, user experience, and reducing computation costs.

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

47 chrisjj 2026-03-26 20:35:57 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 11

New York City's public hospital system is ending its contract with Palantir due to controversy over data privacy. The UK's National Health Service is also facing scrutiny over its £330m agreement with Palantir.

The Little Book of C

10 ghostrss 2026-03-26 20:36:57 UTC little-book-of.github.io Llama Share 0

C is a powerful language that teaches you how computers work, giving you control over memory, data, and execution. By mastering C, you'll gain a deep understanding of programming fundamentals, including types, variables, functions, and memory management.

HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents

79 andyg_blog 2026-03-26 17:26:57 UTC github.com/facebookresearch Llama Share 33

To install and set up the Hyperagents repository, run installation commands and create a virtual environment. This involves executing potentially untrusted code with associated safety risks.

Personal Encyclopedias

767 jrmyphlmn 2026-03-26 07:26:57 UTC whoami.wiki Llama Share 160

The user created a personal encyclopedia called whoami.wiki using MediaWiki and a language model to organize and connect their family photos, videos, and data exports, revealing forgotten memories and strengthening relationships. The project is now open source, allowing others to create their own personal encyclopedias and run it on their machine with their own data.

Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI

79 piinbinary 2026-03-26 17:26:57 UTC projects.dev Llama Share 19

Stripe Projects automates app stack provisioning from the CLI. It manages services, credentials, and billing in a single workflow.

Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools

8 jxmorris12 2026-03-26 20:26:57 UTC cursor.com Llama Share 2

The author discusses various techniques for indexing textual data to speed up regular expression searches, including inverted indexes, suffix arrays, and sparse n-grams, and presents a novel approach using a hash function to minimize the amount of posting lookups. The author also explains why they are building and querying the indexes in the users' machines, citing reasons such as latency, ...

Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix

58 shintoist 2026-03-26 17:26:57 UTC jola.dev Llama Share 3

The user built a blog using Elixir and Phoenix with server-side rendered pages, leveraging NimblePublisher for Markdown posts and Tailwind CSS for styling. The blog is hosted on a self-hosted Dokploy instance on Hetzner with a fast and zero-effort publishing pipeline.

Show HN: Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer

3 vicioussquid 2026-03-26 20:58:57 UTC github.com/vicioussquid Full Share 0

Liminal 3D World editor and game engine - inspired by Radiant and Hammer - ViciousSquid/Fio

Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

7 jandeboevrie 2026-03-26 20:26:57 UTC jeffgeerling.com Prefix Share 0

After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear. I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a 'DV' port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the dual G4 MDD above) with FireWire—or even a modern Mac running macOS < 26, with some dongles—and transfer ...

From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures

251 andros 2026-03-26 09:26:57 UTC en.andros.dev Llama Share 78

The user built a local LLM-based chat tool for company engineers with fast response and natural language question answering capabilities. They overcame numerous challenges, including memory management, problematic files, and indexing large datasets, to create a reliable and useful system.

The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)

30 taubek 2026-03-26 17:26:57 UTC deborahcourtbooks.com Llama Share 35

The author discusses the importance of grammar, specifically the comma, in writing. They argue that while rules are essential, exceptions and creativity are also crucial in effective communication.

Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

829 driesdep 2026-03-25 21:26:57 UTC bugs.xdavidhu.me Llama Share 291

The user successfully set up a Tesla Model 3 car computer on their desk by purchasing parts on eBay and using Tesla's electrical reference to connect the components. After several challenges, including a burned power controller chip, the user was able to get the system running and is now exploring the car's operating system and network interfaces.

Taming LLMs: Using Executable Oracles to Prevent Bad Code

21 mad44 2026-03-26 18:26:57 UTC john.regehr.org Llama Share 6

To effectively use LLM-based coding agents, we need to limit their freedom to make poor choices by incorporating executable oracles that provide clear and actionable feedback. By doing so, we can constrain the set of possible solutions and prevent the agent from gaming the system, ultimately leading to better results and more reliable software.

My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf

93 ibobev 2026-03-26 13:26:57 UTC ratfactor.com Llama Share 27

The user set up a computer to act as a main router between their ISP and home network using OpenBSD, replacing a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway, and implemented a pf packet filter to block internet access at bedtime with exceptions for certain servers and devices. They also created a shell script called 'bedtime' to manage the rules and automate the schedule, and set up a cron table to ...

End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance

498 amarcheschi 2026-03-26 12:26:57 UTC patrick-breyer.de Llama Share 254

The European Parliament rejected the mass surveillance of private messages by US tech companies, ending the EU derogation on April 4. This victory for digital privacy clears the path for modern child protection through targeted surveillance and secure app design.

Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events

166 RestlessMind 2026-03-26 15:26:57 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 369

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Interoperability Can Save the Open Web (2023)

158 janandonly 2026-03-26 15:26:57 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 48

Cory Doctorow argues in his book The Internet Con that Big Tech's dominance is due to legal structures, not technical superiority. He proposes forcing interoperability to break down walls and make the Internet freer and more democratic.