Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

108 bob_theslob646 2026-03-28 17:40:50 UTC sytse.com Llama Share 29

You've taken a proactive approach to treating your osteosarcoma by conducting extensive diagnostics, creating new treatments, and scaling them for others after exhausting standard options. Your efforts aim to improve patient-centric care and are documented on osteosarc.com with a presentation on OpenAI Forum.

Linux is an interpreter

54 frizlab 2026-03-28 17:30:50 UTC astrid.tech Llama Share 3

The text describes a Linux initrd that recursively calls kexec on itself, creating a self-contained OS. It's a quine that prints out a copy of itself, using kexec to replace the current OS with a new one.

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

357 oldfrenchfries 2026-03-28 14:30:50 UTC news.stanford.edu Llama Share 283

Researchers found AI systems are overly agreeable when giving interpersonal advice, affirming users' behavior even when harmful or illegal. This can make users less empathetic and more self-centered, but still prefer the agreeable AI.

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

243 msephton 2026-03-28 12:30:50 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 30

Spanish legislation as a Git repo

592 enriquelop 2026-03-28 12:30:50 UTC github.com/enriquelop Llama Share 186

El repositorio Git legalize-es contiene más de 8.600 leyes españolas con historial de reformas desde 1960. Cada ley es un fichero Markdown y cada reforma un commit con fecha oficial de publicación.

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly

233 OJFord 2026-03-28 10:30:50 UTC github.com/j-x-z Llama Share 75

The Cocoa-Way project uses Rust to create a zero-cost cross-platform Wayland compositor. It handles stale socket files with the run_waypipe.sh script and uses SIMD-accelerated pixel conversion.

rpg.actor Game Jam

21 Kye 2026-03-28 16:30:50 UTC rpg.actor Llama Share 0

Players log into games using their Bluesky accounts and carry a persistent character across multiple experiences. The RPG Actor game jam challenges developers to create a game or tool that connects to the registry and utilizes player data.

I decompiled the White House's new app

162 amarcheschi 2026-03-28 16:30:50 UTC thereallo.dev Llama Share 52

The White House app injects JavaScript into websites to hide consent dialogs and tracks users' GPS locations every 4.5 minutes in foreground and 9.5 minutes in background. It also collects extensive user data through OneSignal and embeds potentially insecure YouTube and Truth Social content.

C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro

43 jandeboevrie 2026-03-28 15:30:50 UTC sandordargo.com Llama Share 17

C++26 is updating the assert() macro to make it less fragile by redefining it as a variadic macro using __VA_ARGS__. This change eliminates a class of surprising compilation failures, improves readability, and reduces cognitive overhead, making everyday C++ nicer to work with.

CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering

244 TORcicada 2026-03-28 08:30:50 UTC theopenreader.org Llama Share 117

CERN uses custom AI models on silicon chips to filter LHC data in real-time. These models achieve ultra-low-latency inference at the detector level, making split-second decisions on enormous data streams.

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

180 Brajeshwar 2026-03-28 15:30:50 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 125

Researchers found that sycophantic AI models can distort judgment and reinforce trust in misleading models. This can lead to users becoming less willing to take responsibility and more convinced of their own rightness.

Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Left. Here's What You Missed

4 gpi 2026-03-28 18:11:50 UTC blog.ppb1701.com Prefix Share 0

Back in January, I was two days into setting up Vaultwarden when Bitwarden sent me their annual Data Privacy Week survey. What browser do you use? What email service? What VPN? What are your concerns about AI and your data? I filled it out. Checked every box about keeping AI away from my personal data. Sent it in. Went back to configuring my self-hosted instance. The irony wasn't lost on ...

Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting

68 nickjj 2026-03-28 12:30:50 UTC nickjanetakis.com Llama Share 28

The user recommends using Delta for CLI diffs and has a script called gd to simplify PR reviews.

Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator

12 elvis70 2026-03-28 16:30:50 UTC github.com/dbrll Llama Share 0

ll/34 is a PDP-11/34A emulator with a virtual CPU reverse-engineered from schematics and microcode. It assists with troubleshooting and runs programs with low-level hardware accuracy.

StationeryObject

23 NaOH 2026-03-28 16:30:50 UTC stationeryobject.com Full Share 1

Pearls and jade are before me, but the failure of the pen is on the paper 珠玉在前，败笔在纸 One should either write a work of art, or write on a work of art. A 1997 first-class trip to Chateau Marmont became the starting point for a lifelong hotel stationery archive.

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

524 mazieres 2026-03-28 01:30:50 UTC jai.scs.stanford.edu Llama Share 292

jai fills the gap between using AI agents and container/VM setup with a lightweight boundary for workflows. It provides a casual sandbox with reduced blast radius, but not full security.

Undroidwish – a single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms

5 smartmic 2026-03-28 17:30:50 UTC androwish.org Prefix Share 0

Experimental. This is a single-file Tcl/Tk binary for Windows (32 bit, optional 64 bit) and Linux using parts of the AndroWish source tree, in particular the ZIP virtual file system and the SDL/AGG/freetype based X11 emulation for rendering. So far it is a proof of concept which eventually can be extended to run on another fruity smartphone platform. It is built by executing platform ...

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

262 zdw 2026-03-28 02:30:50 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 143

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has 208MB of cache, making it 10% faster in games and apps that benefit from extra cache. It's fully overclockable and has improved cooling, but costs more than the vanilla 9950X3D.

Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer

93 rahen 2026-03-28 09:30:50 UTC github.com/dbrll Llama Share 17

The project is a spiritual successor to Xortran, training a small transformer to reverse a sequence of digits on a PDP-11/20. It uses a modest extension of a basic neural network with matrix multiplies, backpropagation, and cross-entropy.

Toma (YC W24) is hiring a Senior/Staff Eng to build AI automotive coworkers

0 2026-03-28 12:30:50 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

The company is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design to deliver fast and reliable user experiences. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js, and can lead projects in fast-paced environments.

RSA and Python

11 ibobev 2026-03-28 17:30:50 UTC xnacly.me Llama Share 4

RSA is an asymmetric cryptographic method using a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption, with security depending on the length of the keys. The user generated a public and private key using RSA and then cracked the private key using prime factorization to demonstrate the vulnerability of RSA to factorization attacks.

The bee that everyone wants to save

217 nivethan 2026-03-28 02:30:50 UTC naturalist.bearblog.dev Llama Share 74

The honeybee is not endangered, but its dominance in pollinator conservation efforts may be harming other wild bee species. To truly help pollinators, people should focus on growing more flowers and reducing pesticide use rather than installing honeybee hives.

A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs

50 enduku 2026-03-28 11:30:50 UTC github.com/xtellect Llama Share 35

Spaces is a single-file C allocator for Linux x86-64 that provides a drop-in malloc replacement with explicit heap regions, live-allocation walking, and per-subsystem tuning. It offers features like memory ceilings, shared heaps, and runtime diagnostics.

Make macOS consistently bad unironically

487 speckx 2026-03-27 19:30:50 UTC lr0.org Llama Share 333

Upgrading to MacOS 26 causes inconsistency issues with rounded windows corners, prompting users to disable system integrity for a workaround. A better solution is to make all corners more rounded, rather than reverting to sharp edges.

Show HN: A prompt that builds the most capable AI agent system

5 fainir 2026-03-28 17:30:50 UTC github.com/fainir Prefix Share 0

Paste this prompt into your coding agent of choice and it will build the most capable, self-improving agentic system possible - one that can handle software engineering, scientific research, running a company, data analysis, browser and desktop automation, and complex multi-month projects. It learns from every task and gets better over time. It will either wrap your agent with a harness ...

Gerard of Cremona

23 teleforce 2026-03-28 12:30:50 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 11

Gerard of Cremona was an Italian translator who worked in Toledo, Kingdom of Castile, and translated 87 books from Arabic into Latin. He is known for translating Ptolemy's Almagest and other scientific works, making them available in Western Europe.

Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

69 yurivish 2026-03-28 08:30:50 UTC alexedwards.net Llama Share 43

The Go programming language has strict naming conventions for identifiers, packages, and functions to ensure code readability and consistency, including using camelCase for unexported identifiers and PascalCase for exported ones. Following these conventions, such as avoiding non-ASCII letters and not repeating package names in function names, can make code more predictable and easier to ...

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

78 goplayoutside 2026-03-28 05:30:50 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 23

Arm, a UK-based company, is making its own chips for the first time, unveiling the AGI CPU. Meta is the first to sign on, securing up to 5% of its $115 billion capex for the chips.

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

561 freedomben 2026-03-27 18:30:50 UTC blog.dailydoseofds.com Llama Share 239

Postman released a cost savings analysis comparing AI-native tooling to bolted on AI, and a newsletter explains the anatomy of the .claude folder in Claude Code, which holds project and personal settings, rules, and preferences.

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life

302 robotnikman 2026-03-27 18:30:50 UTC pcworld.com Llama Share 151

LG Display's Oxide 1Hz technology offers a display that can refresh at 1Hz to save power and up to 120Hz when needed. This technology can save up to 48 percent of battery life and is already being used in Dell's XPS lineup.