Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

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Buses in the US have close stop spacing, slowing them down and reducing ridership. Optimizing stop spacing can speed up buses, increase ridership, and save resources.

om

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The Om language is a proof of concept at an early stage, requiring additional operations and optimizations before it can be useful. It is a concatenative language with prefix notation, using a unique panmorphic type system where all data values are represented as operands.

Never buy a .online domain

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The author bought a .online domain through Namecheap's promo and it was flagged as an unsafe site by Google, causing a serverHold status. The author is now stuck in a loop trying to get the flag removed and the domain reactivated.

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

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Researchers used LLMs to identify individuals from anonymous online posts with high precision, posing significant privacy concerns. To mitigate this, platforms should restrict data access and LLM providers should implement stronger safety guardrails.

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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gotreesitter is a Go implementation of tree-sitter that outperforms the CGo binding, supporting incremental parsing and query execution. It includes 205 grammars and supports language detection, highlighting, and tagging.

New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use em-dashes

User suspects HN has been overrun with bots, citing unusual posting patterns and comments. Analysis of comments from new accounts shows higher use of symbols and mentions of AI/LLMs.

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

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US electricity demand rose 2.8 percent in 2025, driven by increased coal use and solar growth. Solar power surpassed hydroelectric power for the first time, but coal use increased due to rising natural gas costs and tariffs.

GNU Texmacs

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GNU TeXmacs is a free editing platform for technical documents with a wysiwyg interface. It offers a user-friendly framework for editing text, math, graphics, and more, with export options to PDF and Postscript.

Scipy.stats. Chatterjeexi

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The xi correlation coefficient is a measure of association between two variables; the value tends to be close to zero when the variables are independent and close to 1 when there is a strong association. Unlike other correlation coefficients, the xi correlation is effective even when the association is not monotonic. The samples: corresponding observations of the independent and dependent ...

How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

Organization: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.

Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access

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Trellis builds AI agents to automate healthcare operations, providing patients with life-saving medicine access. The company is backed by top investors and seeks a detail-oriented professional for a client-facing role.

Racket v9.1

Racket documentation can be tailored to language families and includes features like curved syntax arrows and customizable shared object file conventions. Racket is an open source project with a community of contributors and welcomes new contributors to help improve the project.

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic

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The Pentagon is trying to renegotiate a contract with Anthropic, demanding access to their AI for mass surveillance, but Anthropic refuses, citing concerns about human rights. The Pentagon is threatening to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk" if they don't comply, which could be fatal to their business.

Claude Code Remote Control

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Remote Control allows you to start a task on your machine and pick it up from another device. It runs locally and keeps your environment and project configuration available.

Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin

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To install Django Control Room with specific panels, use pip install dj-control-room[redis,cache,urls]. Add the panels to INSTALLED_APPS and include their URLs in the main URL configuration.

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

Our AI engine creates customized venue lists in seconds, vetting properties for reliability and quality. Venue partners respond to requests within 24 hours with our smart quote system.

PL/0

PL/0 is a simple educational programming language introduced by Niklaus Wirth in 1976. It features limited language constructs and is often used in compiler construction courses to teach concepts like recursive descent parsing.

Text-Based Google Directions

Minimalistic directions service for feature phones and low-bandwidth users, suitable for public transport directions. No JavaScript required, supports screen readers and terminal-based browsers.

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)

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Denmark's digitalisation ministry plans to switch to open-source software to reduce US tech dependence. The move aims to achieve "digital sovereignty" and save costs by replacing Microsoft products with LibreOffice.

Topological Naming Problem

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

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LLM Skirmish is a benchmark where LLMs play 1v1 RTS games, testing in-context learning and coding abilities. It evaluates models' performance across five rounds, with notable increases in average win rate for four out of five models.

100M-Row Challenge with PHP

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The 100-million-row challenge in PHP is a two-week competition where participants must parse a data set of page visits into a JSON file. The top three fastest solutions will win a prize, with submissions due by March 15, 11:59PM CET.

Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw

The recent misbehavior of AI agents like OpenClaw has highlighted the need for secure deployment and agentic permissions, rather than relying solely on sandboxes for isolation. A new interface is required to grant agents limited latitude in each account, with features like pre-approval for specific actions and strict transaction limits to prevent misuse.

The Slow Death of the Power User

The technology industry has deliberately created a culture where users are treated as consumers rather than owners, and technical literacy is seen as a niche hobby, leading to a loss of understanding and control over technology. This has resulted in a generation of users who are dependent on managed platforms, lack the ability to audit and adapt, and are losing the skills and knowledge needed ...

Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software dev (GOAL.md → working code)

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Goal is to build a software with AI agents in 45 minutes. Agents plan, execute, and validate tasks with user control.

Why isn't LA repaving streets?

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Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

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Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness with powerful defaults and extensibility. It adapts to workflows with TypeScript extensions, skills, and themes, and can be extended or installed with third-party packages.

The History of a Security Hole

A security hole in OpenBSD 6.3 allowed user processes to read and write many I/O ports due to a bug in the I/O permission bit map (IOPB) in the Task State Segment (TSS). The bug was caused by incorrect padding in the struct pcb structure.

Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters

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To prevent homoglyph attacks, use confusables.txt to detect visually similar characters, but note that NFKC normalization can make some confusable entries unreachable. A filtered confusable map, excluding characters that NFKC handles, can be generated automatically using a script to keep the map clean and ensure correct visual detection results.

Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion

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Mercury 2 is a fast reasoning language model that generates responses through parallel refinement, producing multiple tokens simultaneously and converging over a few steps. It achieves >5x faster generation with a fundamentally different speed curve, making it suitable for real-time applications.