Making the news available at no cost is a victory

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The Salt Lake Tribune hosted a review of the past legislative session and upcoming election session on March 25, 2026. The event featured a panel of Tribune reporters and editors discussing current issues.

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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To get a free locality domain in the US, you need to be a US citizen or resident, or have a US-based organization, and register with a delegated manager for your locality. You'll need to set up nameservers with Amazon Lightsail and fill out the Interim .US Domain Template to register your domain.

A History of IDEs at Google

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Google's main codebase had a uniform IDE issue until Cider, a web-based editor, was developed around 2016. Cider eventually became popular and was later replaced by Cider V, a VSCode frontend, which now handles 80% of development in the main Google codebase.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

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Linux crossed five percent of Steam's user base for the first time in March 2026, driven by Microsoft's end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 and the Steam Deck's adoption of Linux. NTSYNC, a kernel-level driver, offers great performance gains over previous versions of Wine by providing a native implementation of Windows-specific tools.

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

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The game generates new content and mechanics each run, with an inverted power curve and a reality engine that's difficult to control. The game features a unique blend of survival and strategy, with a focus on experimentation and chaos.

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

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Apple's MacBook Neo is a $599 laptop that uses the same A18 Pro chip as the iPhone 16 Pro, delivering M3-class single-core performance and 16 hours of battery life, but is limited by its 8GB RAM ceiling and lack of upgrade path. The laptop's design choice prioritizes comfort over sustained power, making it suitable for everyday tasks like web browsing and document editing, but not ideal for ...

S-100 Virtual Workbench

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The system supports various S-100 bus cards including processors, memory, I/O devices, and peripherals. These cards provide functionality such as memory, I/O operations, serial communication, and graphics display.

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

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Ardent provides a 1:1 production database clone for testing, scaling, and connecting RDS Postgres instances with zero config changes. It enables fast development and zero management, allowing agents and developers to work efficiently with databases.

The Emacsification of Software

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The author is frustrated with the current state of Markdown viewers and editors, particularly in the terminal and App Store. They created a custom Markdown viewer, MDV.app, using an AI agent in just 30 minutes.

GitHub Actions issued GitHub_TOKEN disclosure in GitHub Actions logs

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GitHub OAuth tokens with a hyphen (-) are leaked in Composer logs due to a regex bug. Tokens expire shortly after, but the leak can still occur in CI environments that capture stderr.

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

The US is winning the AI race due to its comprehensive infrastructure including chips, power, data centers, cloud platforms, and developer tools. The US owns global hyperscalers and platforms that generate and organize the world's data, giving it a significant lead over China and Europe.

The great memory panic of 2026 – Asymco

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Apple deals with memory price volatility by negotiating base load prices and using its scale to lock up suppliers. This could lead to Apple gaining market share as competitors struggle to obtain memory, potentially allowing Apple to launch low-end products at lower prices.

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

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Python 3.14 and 3.15 will revert to the generational GC due to memory pressure issues. 3.14 will release an early patch 3.14.5 and 3.15 may release an extra alpha 9.

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

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In the late 1990s, hackers used tools like Back Orifice and Sub7 to remotely control Windows machines, often through IRC channels. This era laid the groundwork for modern threat actors and cybersecurity professionals, who learned from the scene's operational security and technical innovations.

Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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I moved my code from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance due to concerns about Microsoft's ownership and control of GitHub, as well as the company's increasing reliance on AI and potential data collection practices. The Dutch government made a similar decision, and I chose Forgejo for its fully open-source nature and ability to maintain digital autonomy, despite some migration friction ...

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

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Two brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, were fired from their jobs at Opexus in February 2025 after their employer discovered their past crimes. They then deleted 96 US government databases and stole sensitive information before being arrested and charged with various crimes.

An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins

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Protein design involves generating new molecules that perform a specific function, and lead optimisation is a crucial step in improving the function of an existing template molecule. A machine learning-based system, such as the Cradle pipeline, uses a transformer-based protein language model to predict protein sequences and function, and can be fine-tuned to make more relevant suggestions for ...

New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

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A team at the University of Hong Kong developed a new "super steel" that resists corrosion in seawater, making it suitable for green hydrogen production. The steel uses a double-protection mechanism and could replace costly titanium parts, reducing production costs by 40 times.

Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving

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After a bit of time off from weaving after the PENELOPE project, it was great to visit Kristina Andersen, Pei-Ying Lin, Femke Vorselen and co in Wearable Senses lab in Eindhoven last year and explore hacking the TC/2 loom. This got me keen to get deeper into weaving, and I remembered Laura Devendorf enthusing about thinking in terms of shafts, and so we acquired a second hand 8-shaft table ...

I moved my digital stack to Europe

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The user migrated their digital infrastructure to European-based services to achieve digital sovereignty, choosing tools like Proton Mail, Scaleway, and Lettermint for email, hosting, and transactional email.

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

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A complete reverse engineering, documentation, emulation, and preservation of all Fisher-Price/Mattel Pixter device series and almost all the games was achieved, including the discovery of a 16-bit virtual machine that executes most simple opcodes in a dozen cycles or so. The Pixter Color device was found to use a unique audio system that involves a Melody Chip, which is controlled using a ...

Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager

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Substrate is hiring a Technical Success Manager to help healthcare clients with AI native BPO, focusing on RCM and reimbursement. The role requires deep technical understanding and client relationship ownership.

Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time

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Companies that rely on open source software should allow maintainers to work on it during work hours without needing permission. This is not a new idea, but rather treating open source maintenance as part of infrastructure work, not a hobby.

"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage

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Evicore is the product of a massive, decadeslong push by insurance companies to control health care costs. studies show 20% to 45% of some medical treatments are wasteful or ineffective. two of five medical experts who reviewed the guidelines even recommended not using them. the company has to demonstrate savings or clients will have little reason to continue their contracts. if you want to ...

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

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Gemini 3.1 was distilled into a 26m Simple Attention Network, Needle, for consumer devices. Needle outperforms other models in single-shot function calls but may be finicky and less effective in conversational settings.

Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

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The heritability of lifespan is estimated to be around 40% when extrinsic mortality is adjusted to modern levels, according to a mathematical model that simulates the lifespans of twins in a hypothetical world without non-aging related deaths. The model suggests that heritability would be higher in a world with lower extrinsic mortality, but the actual value depends on the level of extrinsic ...

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

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Elevator translates x86-64 executables to AArch64 without debug info or assumptions. It produces separate translations for each byte interpretation, enabling testing and validation before deployment.

ReactOS

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ReactOS celebrates 30 years since its first commit, with contributors continuing its mission to deliver open-source Windows apps and drivers. Carl J Bialorucki contributed to ReactOS, joined the core team, and led a release, then secured a full-time contract position with ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

Web Server on a Nintendo Wii

User runs a web server on a Nintendo Wii with NetBSD 10.1, serving IPv6 clients directly and proxying IPv4 clients through another server. They use a Realtek 8153 chip USB Ethernet adapter for networking.

Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors

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Kickstarter updated its "Mature Content" guidelines to prohibit violent, derogatory, and photo-realistic content. The change may be due to pressure from payment processor Stripe, which partially owns by Palantir Chairman Peter Thiel and X proprietor Elon Musk.