India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

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India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge used AI-generated fake judgements in a property dispute case. The court will examine the case and issued notices to the Attorney and Solicitor General and the Bar Council of India.

Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours

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Conclusion: Always set billing caps and alerts on cloud API keys. A compromised key without spending limits can bankrupt you overnight. tldr: A stolen Google Cloud API key generated $82,314 in Gemini charges in 48 hours — normal monthly spend was $180.

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

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Meta's smart glasses collect user data, including private videos and conversations, which are then processed by subcontractors in Kenya. The data is shared with Meta's AI systems, raising concerns about user privacy and data protection.

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

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Arm's Cortex X925 CPU achieves performance parity with AMD's Zen 5 and Intel's Lion Cove in high-performance desktop applications. It has a 10-wide core with high per-cycle frontend throughput, large out-of-order execution engine, and strong branch predictor.

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

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British Columbia will permanently adopt daylight time after March 8, ending clock changes. Residents have 8 months to prepare for the change, set for November 1, 2026.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

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Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after an article with AI-fabricated quotes was retracted. Edwards took responsibility for the error, saying he used an AI tool while sick and made a serious journalistic mistake.

We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On

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Software is being democratized. The cost of building just collapsed in a way most people haven't fully processed yet. Anyone with an idea and access to an AI agent can ship a product. What used to take a team of twenty and six months now takes one person and a weekend. That's not hype. It's happening right now, everywhere, all at once. But here's what nobody's talking ...

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]

We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

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The user's company built a video renderer that captures web pages with animations by making the browser believe time moves only when they say it does, allowing for smooth video playback. The renderer uses a JavaScript file to replace the browser's time-related APIs, preprocesses the video server-side, and decodes it in-browser to produce a high-quality video file.

C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work

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The author has successfully implemented a C64 version of the game Lights-Out that matches the NES version's display quality, using 33 sprites and mid-screen interrupts to animate button presses. The project involved revising the game's design to efficiently update sprite data and character graphics, and implementing a complex interrupt handler to manage the display's various states.

Simple screw counter

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The user created a precision clock kit business and automated parts counting with a laser-cut nut and screw dispenser. The user improved the design with a longer track and a small hopper for weight reasons.

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

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The author built a custom voice agent from scratch, achieving a 2x latency improvement over off-the-shelf providers like Vapi, by optimizing model choice, pipelining the agent turn, and carefully managing geography and service placement. The key takeaway is that voice is an orchestration problem, requiring careful coordination of multiple models and services in real-time, and that building a ...

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

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Windhawk is a free Windows tweaking tool that lets users customize their PCs with mods, but it may cause stability and security issues due to its DLL injection method. The tool's creator, Michael Maltsev, has a good reputation, but users should be cautious when installing mods from unknown authors and consider the potential risks before using Windhawk.

How to sew a Hyperbolic Blanket (2021)

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Helaman Ferguson invented a hyperbolic blanket design with evenly spread curvature. To make one, cut and sew pentagons from fleece, aligning seams for precise assembly.

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials

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The user discusses the importance of anonymous authentication in a world where routine age-verification and human identification are becoming increasingly common, and proposes the use of anonymous credentials to protect user privacy. Anonymous credentials, such as those proposed by David Chaum, allow users to prove their identity without revealing their real-world identity, and can be ...

Computer Says No

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According to American sociologist Richard Sennett, craftspeople have a 'material consciousness' - a relationship with the material they use. They are in dialogue with it, which can be physical (wood, stone) or abstract (software, research, care). It is a form of knowing that arises through touching, trying, correcting, feeling resistance, and through 'hands that think.' The ...

DOS Memory Management

DOS memory management is simple but has several pitfalls, including zero-sized memory blocks and coalescing free memory. DOS 5.0 introduced UMB support and new memory allocation strategies, making memory management less simple but more flexible.

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

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The user built a tiny Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico with a Raspberry Pi Pico Micro Mac firmware, which outputs to a 640x480 VGA display and allows USB keyboard and mouse input. The setup has limitations due to the Pico's SRAM, but it can run early Mac OS versions and some applications within the 208 KB of available RAM.

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

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UC Davis Health researchers successfully combined fetal surgery with stem cells to treat spina bifida in a Phase 1 clinical trial, showing great safety and potential for improved outcomes. The trial, funded by a $9 million state grant, aims to enroll 35 patients to evaluate long-term safety and improved movement.

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source

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New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Apple announced the new iPad Air with M4, offering a big jump in performance at the same starting price. The new iPad Air features a faster CPU and GPU, improved AI capabilities, and Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.

Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev)

Thomas Wouters, a core Python developer, shares his story of how he first discovered Python through LambdaMOO, a text-based online community, and was drawn to its simplicity and ease of use. He reminisces about his early days on the Python-List, meeting other developers like Tim Peters and Fredrik Lundh, and contributing to the language, including implementing augmented assignment and working ...

Guilty Displeasures

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The author has guilty displeasures, things they dislike but feel they should like due to their self-image, such as opera and math. They're a snob who enjoys high culture but struggles with certain art forms.

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

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Motorola announced new consumer and enterprise solutions at Mobile World Congress, including a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation for enhanced security. The company introduced Moto Secure and Moto Analytics to expand its B2B ecosystem with advanced security and operational insights.

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies

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A Singapore Airlines flight experienced severe turbulence over Myanmar, resulting in 104 passengers being treated for injuries and six having skull and brain injuries. The incident highlights the challenges of predicting and preparing for turbulence, which is becoming increasingly common due to climate change.

Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming

Rohan and Paul, co-founders of OctaPulse, are building a robotics layer for seafood production, starting with automated fish inspection, to address the $350B global industry's lack of data visibility. They're using computer vision and robotics to handle live fish in humid and wet environments, and are seeking feedback from experts in computer vision, edge deployment, and aquaculture.

iPhone 17e

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Apple announced iPhone 17e with A19 chip, 48MP Fusion camera, and C1X modem for faster performance and connectivity. iPhone 17e starts at $599 with 256GB storage and is available for pre-order on March 4.

Plugtest

Plugtests are events where manufacturers test their products' interoperability with others to ensure compliance with a standard and its effectiveness. These events can be formal or informal and help improve transparency on compliance and awareness about the standard.

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

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The user reverse engineered Apple's Neural Engine, mapping the software stack from CoreML to the IOKit kernel driver and discovering direct access to the ANE without CoreML. They found the ANE is a graph execution engine with 16 cores, supports a queue depth of 127, and has a unique compilation path using MIL and E5 binaries.