What Happened to Fry's Electronics

23 jnord 2026-02-25 04:09:03 UTC dfarq.homeip.net Llama Share 9

Fry's Electronics was a popular computer store chain that peaked at 34 stores in nine states, known for its huge selection and low prices, but also poor customer service. The chain struggled to compete with online sellers and was eventually forced to close its remaining 30 stores in 2021 due to a combination of factors.

I'm helping my dog vibe code games

739 cleak 2026-02-24 18:09:03 UTC calebleak.com Llama Share 213

The user trained their 9-pound cavapoo Momo to create games using Claude Code by routing her keyboard input through a Raspberry Pi and providing automated feedback tools. With a well-crafted prompt and strong guardrails, Momo's keyboard mashing produced playable games, demonstrating that the bottleneck in AI-assisted development is the quality of feedback loops, not the quality of ideas.

Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3

175 petewarden 2026-02-24 22:09:03 UTC github.com/moonshine-ai Llama Share 33

Moonshine Voice is a speech-to-text framework that offers fast, private, and accurate live voice interfaces with low latency, supporting multiple languages and platforms. It provides a high-level API for developers to build voice applications with features like transcription, speaker identification, and command recognition, making it easy to integrate voice interfaces into applications.

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

426 haunter 2026-02-24 22:09:03 UTC apple.com Llama Share 417

Apple is expanding its Houston factory operations, creating thousands of jobs and producing Mac mini in the US for the first time. The company will also expand AI server manufacturing and open an Advanced Manufacturing Center for hands-on training.

Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion

133 fittingopposite 2026-02-24 23:09:03 UTC inceptionlabs.ai Llama Share 74

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.

Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

247 kristianpaul 2026-02-24 22:09:03 UTC pi.dev Llama Share 104

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.

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy

239 toomuchtodo 2026-02-25 01:09:03 UTC thebignewsletter.com Llama Share 75

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging a widespread price-fixing scheme where Amazon forces vendors to raise prices and cooperate with other retailers. Bonta is seeking a temporary injunction to stop Amazon's alleged behavior until the trial concludes.

Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty

68 surprisetalk 2026-02-25 01:09:03 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 24

Safari implemented text-wrap: pretty in 2025, improving paragraph formatting. However, it still has issues with text-align: justify, causing uneven whitespace.

Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times

196 mengchengfeng 2026-02-24 20:09:03 UTC mariannefeng.com Llama Share 44

The user turned an old Kindle into a live bus feed display by jailbreaking it, installing custom apps, and setting up a server to generate and serve bus data as an image. They created a custom KUAL app to control when the dashboard is displayed and added a feature to exit dashboard mode by pressing the menu button.

Nearby Glasses

271 zingerlio 2026-02-24 18:09:03 UTC github.com/yjeanrenaud Llama Share 106

The Nearby Glasses app warns you when smart glasses are nearby by detecting Bluetooth signals from specific manufacturers. It uses company ID codes to identify devices, but may produce false positives due to similar devices.

Steel Bank Common Lisp

176 tosh 2026-02-24 19:09:03 UTC sbcl.org Llama Share 64

SBCL is a high-performance, open-source Common Lisp compiler with a permissive license. It provides an interactive environment with debugging tools and runs on various platforms including Linux and Windows.

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

414 wordglyph 2026-02-24 13:09:03 UTC wordglyph.xyz Llama Share 156

The author, a 10-year-old boy, invented a roller coaster model called the Quadrupuler with four loops and sent it to Disneyland, receiving a positive response from Disney Imagineering. This early validation gave him a resilient spirit that has guided him through various inventions and a career in acting.

Aesthetics of single threading

49 todsacerdoti 2026-02-25 00:09:03 UTC ta.fo Llama Share 8

The author argues that multitasking is a myth, as the human brain can't handle multiple tasks simultaneously like a multi-core processor, but rather switches between tasks quickly, wasting energy and causing burnout. The author longs for a simpler, more focused approach, like a single-threaded program, where one task is handled at a time.

Corgi Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring

0 2026-02-25 01:09:03 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Corgi Labs seeks a Founder's Associate to bring structure to chaos and execute operational details. The role involves supporting founders, tracking priorities, and coordinating teams to ensure project completion.

Hugging Face Skills

147 armcat 2026-02-24 18:09:03 UTC github.com/huggingface Llama Share 42

Hugging Face Skills are self-contained folders for AI/ML tasks like dataset creation and model training. They are interoperable with major coding agent tools like OpenAI Codex and Google DeepMind's Gemini CLI.

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

129 cwwc 2026-02-25 02:09:03 UTC time.com Llama Share 45

Anthropic is dropping its central safety pledge, allowing it to train AI models without guaranteeing proper risk mitigations. The company is instead committing to transparency and matching or surpassing competitors' safety efforts.

Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

123 onecommit 2026-02-24 19:09:03 UTC github.com/generalaction Llama Share 52

Emdash is a tool for parallel development and testing with multiple agents, supporting 21+ CLI providers. It securely connects to remote machines and stores app state locally, with optional GitHub features.

Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding

19 seveibar 2026-02-25 03:09:03 UTC pattern-pathfinder.vercel.app Full Share 4

Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years

7 Anon84 2026-02-25 03:09:03 UTC wsetglobal.com Prefix Share 0

Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8,000 years. Today, Georgia’s wine industry offers exceptional wines using both modern European and ancient winemaking techniques. Lasha Tsatava DipWSET, the first ever Georgian WSET Diploma Alum, gives us an introduction to this unique wine landscape. If you’re interested in philosophy, your studies will take you to Greece where ...

Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

181 jez 2026-02-24 15:09:03 UTC stripe.com Llama Share 192

Stripe generated $1.9 trillion in total volume, up 34% from 2024, and powers 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 80% of the Nasdaq 100. Stripe's Revenue suite is on track to hit $1 billion and the company is investing in product development and acquisitions.

Optophone

57 Hooke 2026-02-24 22:09:03 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 10

The optophone is a device invented in 1913 that scans text and generates tones to identify letters for the blind. It improved from one word per minute to 60 words per minute with later models.

We installed a single turnstile to feel secure

302 firefoxd 2026-02-24 11:09:03 UTC idiallo.com Llama Share 140

A large company acquired our company and prioritized security, installing key card readers and turnstiles. However, the implementation caused chaos and inefficiency, highlighting the importance of real security through proper engineering and authentication.

Looks like it is happening

145 jjgreen 2026-02-24 22:09:03 UTC math.columbia.edu Llama Share 100

User speculates about AI-generated papers flooding hep-th submissions, citing rising numbers on arXiv. User asks someone to analyze AI-generated papers and their impact on hep-th submissions.

Code has always been the easy part

76 Ozzie_osman 2026-02-25 02:09:03 UTC laughingmeme.org Llama Share 79

Etsy's shift to standardizing on PHP was critical to unlocking success, as it focused on delivering value through human-technology hybrids rather than code quality. The cost of producing code is plummeting, requiring a ton of change and rethinking of social contracts and team work.

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight

192 mitchbob 2026-02-24 13:09:03 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 202

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We are changing our developer productivity experiment design

62 ej88 2026-02-24 20:09:03 UTC metr.org Llama Share 38

Researchers studied AI's impact on developer productivity, but their experiment had selection effects due to lower pay and AI adoption. They found a likely speedup from AI tools, but their data is weak evidence due to biased developer selection.

IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

1506 Qem 2026-02-24 13:09:03 UTC dropsitenews.com Llama Share 564

Israeli soldiers fired nearly 1,000 bullets at 15 Palestinian aid workers in southern Gaza on March 23, 2025, killing them in a massacre. The investigation by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found that the soldiers executed some aid workers at point blank range and that the Israeli military's internal inquiry did not recommend any criminal action.

Build Your Own Forth Interpreter

63 AlexeyBrin 2026-02-24 20:09:03 UTC codingchallenges.fyi Llama Share 17

The challenge is to build a Forth-like interpreter that can run a subset of the Forth language, including generating the Fibonacci sequence and FizzBuzz, and can be built as a CLI tool or in-browser interpreter. The interpreter should support various features such as stack manipulation, word definition, conditionals, loops, and running code from a script file.

OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

512 rzk 2026-02-24 19:09:03 UTC vmfunc.re Llama Share 161

The authors of this document conducted a passive reconnaissance investigation into OpenAI's identity verification platform, Persona, and found that it serves facial recognition, watchlists, and SAR filings on a government endpoint with the door wide open. The platform's source code, which was publicly served without authentication, reveals a KYC/AML compliance platform that handles sensitive ...

Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite

97 wps 2026-02-24 15:09:03 UTC mketab.org Llama Share 71

KeePass's KDBX file format has limitations, including incompatibility with modern security features and large database sizes, which can be addressed by switching to an SQLite-based format. This change would allow for better scalability, security, and user experience, and would facilitate the addition of new features and backward compatibility.