We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

54 nnx 2026-02-27 14:32:26 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 18

The Web streams standard has fundamental usability and performance issues that cannot be fixed with incremental improvements, including locking models, BYOB reads, backpressure, and promise-heavy design, which add complexity and overhead. Implementers have resorted to non-standard internal optimizations to achieve acceptable performance, leading to fragmentation, inconsistent behavior, and a ...

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

2465 qwertox 2026-02-26 23:32:26 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 1315

Anthropic has worked with the US government to deploy AI models for national security, but refuses to allow their use in mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons due to democratic and safety concerns. The company is willing to continue serving the Department of War with safeguards in place, but may transition to another provider if their conditions are not met.

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

156 jsomers 2026-02-27 10:32:26 UTC blog.janestreet.com Llama Share 91

A neural network puzzle was created to test mechanistic interpretability, where the goal was to figure out what the network does by analyzing its structure. The puzzle was solved by Alex, who used a combination of analysis, reduction, and brute force to discover that the network was computing an MD5 hash.

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

94 edent 2026-02-27 10:32:26 UTC f-droid.org Llama Share 38

F-Droid is accepting nominations for up to four volunteer directors to serve two-year terms. Nominations should be sent by March 16th to [email protected] with a description of the nominee's qualifications.

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

49 lqs_ 2026-02-27 13:32:26 UTC retrotick.com Full Share 12

Run classic Windows and DOS executables directly in your browser. An x86 emulator with Win32, Win16, and DOS API support — drag and drop any .exe to play retro games, screen savers, and more.

Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window

7 jimminyx 2026-02-27 15:16:26 UTC github.com/qwibitai Full Share 1

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An interactive intro to quadtrees

116 evakhoury 2026-02-27 09:32:26 UTC growingswe.com Llama Share 10

A quadtree is a data structure that organizes points in two-dimensional space by dividing the space into smaller regions. It adapts to the data distribution, subdividing dense areas and keeping sparse areas coarse.

The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]

177 rendx 2026-02-27 07:32:26 UTC gwern.net Llama Share 84

Organizational corruption is a significant societal issue, often dwarfing the costs of street crime. It becomes normalized through three processes: institutionalization, rationalization, and socialization.

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

375 moultano 2026-02-27 04:32:26 UTC moultano.wordpress.com Llama Share 144

A man experiences a flash of insight that breakfast is a vector space with infinite possibilities. He searches for the "dark breakfast," a hypothetical breakfast that exists but has never been observed, and finds a clue in IHOP omelettes that contain pancake batter.

Breaking Free

88 Aissen 2026-02-27 10:32:26 UTC forbrukerradet.no Llama Share 15

The Norwegian Consumer Council's report Breaking Free highlights enshittification's impact on consumers and society, but offers solutions to resist it. Consumer groups are sending a joint letter to policymakers in Europe, the US, and the UK to address this issue.

Tenth Circuit: 4th Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices

22 hn_acker 2026-02-27 15:11:26 UTC eff.org Llama Share 1

US Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants for a protester's and a nonprofit's digital data. The Tenth Circuit ruled the warrants were overbroad and lacking in particularity, denying police qualified immunity.

The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game

60 nxobject 2026-02-27 09:32:26 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 11

Thousands of volunteers have collaborated on the Morrowind mod projects Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel, building a space comparable to a small country. The projects have endured through steady updates, a cohesive team, and improved development tools, with a goal to complete the next task and bring the team closer to the next release.

Reading English from 1000 Ad

44 LAC-Tech 2026-02-27 10:32:26 UTC lewiscampbell.tech Llama Share 20

A post about Old English has gone viral, sparking interest in the language. A non-expert was able to read and understand Old English from 1000 AD with some effort.

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

61 zhisme 2026-02-27 09:32:26 UTC claude.com Llama Share 36

Open-source maintainers and contributors receive 6 months of free Claude Max 20x through the Claude for Open Source Program. Eligible maintainers have 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads and recent commits or PR reviews.

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

18 zlatkov 2026-02-27 14:58:26 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 15

OpenAI raises funds in a new round, partnering with Amazon and Nvidia for infrastructure development. The company plans to use the funds to scale AI infrastructure and meet growing demand.

What Claude Code chooses

519 tin7in 2026-02-26 18:32:26 UTC amplifying.ai Llama Share 195

Claude Code builds custom solutions in 12 of 20 categories, often using established tools like GitHub Actions and Stripe. Newer models tend to pick newer tools, with sharp generational shifts and agreement on 18 of 20 categories within each ecosystem.

How to Allocate Memory

14 tosh 2026-02-27 13:32:26 UTC geocar.sdf1.org Llama Share 1

Optimizing memory allocation can lead to significant speed improvements by rethinking memory usage and using specific data structures like arrays and stacks. Custom allocators can be designed for each data structure, using techniques like reference counting and separate free lists for each class to minimize fragmentation and improve performance.

OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)

17 throwaw12 2026-02-27 14:47:26 UTC reuters.com Full Share 13

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Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA

0 2026-02-27 09:32:26 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Ubicloud is an open source cloud alternative to AWS, offering elastic compute, block storage, and managed services like Postgres and AI inference. They're hiring mid-stage software engineers in San Francisco, the Netherlands, and Turkey to help improve their products.

Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style

36 mpweiher 2026-02-27 09:32:26 UTC dionisiydk.blogspot.com Llama Share 1

BPatterns provide a fluent Smalltalk API for the rewrite engine, using blocks as patterns with a wildcard convention. This approach offers a more approachable interface with standard development tools support.

80386 Protection

106 nand2mario 2026-02-27 03:32:26 UTC nand2mario.github.io Llama Share 25

The 80386 processor implements protection through a dedicated PLA (Programmable Logic Array) called the Test PLA, which evaluates complex privilege rules in parallel, and a hardware state machine for page table walks, allowing for fast and efficient memory protection. The processor's protection architecture is a layered approach, using dedicated hardware for the fast path and microcode for ...

The complete Manic Miner disassembly

41 sandebert 2026-02-27 08:32:26 UTC skoolkit.ca Full Share 6

Compact disc story (1998)

27 pipeline_peak 2026-02-27 10:32:26 UTC researchgate.net Full Share 7

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

386 DamnInteresting 2026-02-26 16:32:26 UTC ndss-symposium.org Llama Share 172

Client isolation in Wi-Fi networks is not a standardized feature and can be bypassed by attackers using various techniques such as abusing shared Group Temporal Keys (GTKs) and gateway bouncing. This allows attackers to intercept and inject traffic, enabling them to become a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) and potentially launch higher-layer attacks.

Layoffs at Block

825 mlex 2026-02-26 21:32:26 UTC twitter.com/jack Full Share 909

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What does " 2>&1 " mean?

360 alexmolas 2026-02-26 20:32:26 UTC stackoverflow.com Llama Share 210

To redirect both stdout and stderr to the same destination, use the syntax "2>&1" or "&>file" which duplicates the file descriptor of stderr to stdout. The order of redirects matters in Bash, and using "&>file" is a shortcut for quickly redirecting both streams to the same destination.

The history of knocking on wood

40 benbreen 2026-02-27 06:32:26 UTC resobscura.substack.com Llama Share 7

The author reflects on the history of gesture, exploring how it is shaped by both nature and nurture, and how it differs across cultures and time. This inquiry into the history of gesture has implications for AI alignment, as machines lack embodied experience and cannot replicate human norms rooted in physicality.

The Origins of Agar

51 surprisetalk 2026-02-27 06:32:26 UTC asimov.press Llama Share 10

Agar, a jelly-like substance from seaweed, is crucial for growing microbes in labs and was first used in 1881. Its unique properties make it essential for vaccine production, antibiotic testing, and other scientific applications.

Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

93 noahkay13 2026-02-27 04:32:26 UTC github.com/frikallo Llama Share 26

Parakeet is a lightweight tensor library with automatic Metal GPU acceleration for speech recognition tasks. It provides fast and accurate transcription with various models and latency modes.

I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye

93 paultendo 2026-02-27 02:32:26 UTC paultendo.github.io Llama Share 45

confusable-vision is a tool that measures visual similarity between Unicode characters and Latin targets, providing a scored JSON artifact with SSIM scores per pair, per font. The tool's results show that font choice is a significant variable in confusable risk, with some fonts being more prone to visual confusion than others.