Astral to Join OpenAI

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Astral's tools will join OpenAI's Codex team to push AI and software development forward. The goal remains to make programming more productive with tools that feel fast, robust, and integrated.

Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]

The investigation will assess Tesla's FSD system in degraded roadway conditions, evaluating its performance and updates to the degradation detection system. The system's ability to detect and alert drivers to impaired camera visibility has raised concerns, with potential under-reporting of crashes due to data limitations.

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

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Google is introducing a developer verification program to combat malware on Android devices, requiring verified developers to provide identification and pay a $25 fee. Power users can bypass this verification through an advanced flow in developer settings, but it's not immediately accessible and has a 24-hour countdown.

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Kitten TTS v0.8 is out with 15M, 40M, and 80M parameter models for high-quality voice synthesis on CPU. It supports various voices and offers commercial support for teams integrating it into their products.

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game

Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust

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The noq team has created a general-purpose QUIC implementation with multipath and NAT traversal support, which is a separate codebase from Quinn but aims for collaboration. noq's headline feature is a full implementation of the QUIC Multipath spec, enabling latency improvements and supporting various network conditions.

NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute

Researchers achieved 10x data efficiency with NanoGPT Slowrun by ensembling 1.8B parameter models and applying architectural tweaks. This allows scaling with compute rather than data, potentially leading to significant model performance improvements.

From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story

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The user decoded UDP packets from raw voltage waveforms captured by an oscilloscope connected to a high-speed active differential probe soldered to a rack switch. They implemented a parser to extract the packets from the waveform data, which involved decoding QSGMII protocol and rate adaptation to convert the data into conventional Ethernet packets.

How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel

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Ross and Hugo Turner are genetically identical professional adventurers. By dressing one in cutting-edge technical apparel and the other in 100-year-old heritage kit on the world’s toughest expeditions, they are conducting the ultimate A/B test on modern gear. On the vast, blinding expanse of the Greenland Ice Cap, two figures struggle against the wind. To a distant observer, it looks like a ...

An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD

OpenTTD developers collaborated with Atari on Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release, allowing new Steam and GOG players to purchase TTD first then access OpenTTD for free. This compromise balances Atari's commercial interests with OpenTTD's availability, ensuring the project's continued independence and development.

4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

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Ofcom fined 4Chan £520,000 for failing to comply with UK's Online Safety Act. 4Chan's lawyer responded with an AI-generated image, claiming the platform breaks no law in the US.

EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages

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Current benchmarks for large language model (LLM) code generation primarily evaluate mainstream languages like Python, where models benefit from massive pretraining corpora. This leads to inflated accuracy scores that may reflect data memorization rather than genuine reasoning ability. We introduce EsoLang-Bench, a benchmark of 80 programming problems across five esoteric languages ...

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster

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We used Claude Code to automate neural network training with 16 GPUs on a Kubernetes cluster, achieving a 2.87% improvement in val_bpb and discovering a strategy to exploit performance differences between H100 and H200 GPUs. The agent ran for 8 hours, submitting ~910 experiments and finding that scaling model width mattered more than any single hyperparameter, with a total cost of under $300.

OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

OpenBSD's PF packet filter now supports 64-bit bandwidth values, removing a 4.29 Gbps limit. This change allows correct configuration for high-speed interfaces up to 999G.

Waymo 13x safer than human drivers

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Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)

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Juggalo face makeup can evade facial recognition due to its black bands obscuring key features. However, Apple's Face ID uses depth perception, making Juggalo makeup ineffective against it.

“Your frustration is the product”

The author criticizes modern websites for prioritizing ads over user experience, leading to frustrating and intrusive designs. This is driven by an auction system that rewards publishers for keeping users on their pages.

Clockwise acquired by Salesforce and shutting down next week

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Clockwise will remove Smart Hold events and Flexible Meetings, then delete user data on March 27, 2026. Users will get a prorated refund for prepaid subscriptions and can transition to Reclaim for AI-powered scheduling.

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

Voltair Labs is developing weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones for power utility inspections, aiming to replace foot patrols and helicopters with a cost-effective solution. The company's first product is a long-range, fixed-wing drone that recharges inductively on stripped-down charging pads, enabling inspections of entire transmission line corridors with reduced costs and increased efficiency.
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User is trying to apply a suggestion to a GitHub conversation but is encountering various errors such as no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request queue. The suggestion cannot be applied at this time due to these restrictions.

World Happiness Report 2026

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John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R., Sachs, J. D., De Neve, J.-E., Aknin, L. B., & Wang, S. (Eds.). (2026). World Happiness Report 2026. University of Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre.

Successes and Breakdowns in Everyday Non-Display Smart Glasses Use

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Researchers conducted a month-long study on non-display smart glasses to identify patterns of successes and breakdowns in voice-only interactions. The study aimed to inform the design of future voice-only interfaces and highlight unique affordances of non-display smart glasses.

The Shape of Inequalities

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You've created animations to help people understand inequalities in a geometrical way, using classic shapes like circles, triangles, and squares. Your visualizations show how the Arithmetic Mean (AM), Geometric Mean (GM), Quadratic Mean (QM), and Harmonic Mean (HM) relate to each other, and how they can be represented using geometric shapes.

macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta

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Meta employee received inaccurate AI advice, exposing company and user data for 2 hours. Incident resolved, no user data mishandled, according to Meta spokesperson.

I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI

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Eric Schmidt predicts UIs will go away, replaced by agents generating UIs on the fly. A prototype uses markdown as a protocol for agentic UI, combining code execution with text and data in a single stream.

Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect

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Two geographers in Connecticut discovered that having solar panels near you is the biggest predictor of getting them yourself, with neighbors within one kilometer being most influential. This proximity principle applies beyond solar panels, influencing people's choices on health, technology, and other priorities.

Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code

Aakash and Viswesh from Canary built AI agents to test code changes and user workflows, closing the gap in code verification. Canary outperforms GPT, Claude Code, and Sonnet in code verification benchmark QA-Bench v0.

Prompt Injecting Contributing.md

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The user's GitHub repository, awesome-mcp-servers, has been flooded with AI-generated pull requests, making manual review unsustainable. The user is exploring ways to distinguish human contributions from bot-generated ones to maintain open-source projects efficiently.