Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons

69 mhb 2026-02-24 01:17:19 UTC guitarworld.com Llama Share 34

William Shatner is releasing a metal album with an all-star cast of guitarists, including Zakk Wylde and Chris Poland. The album promises massive guitars, cinematic arrangements, and raw emotion, with Shatner hand-picking 35 metal icons for the project.

I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270

45 todsacerdoti 2026-02-24 00:17:19 UTC dork.dev Llama Share 2

User successfully ported libreboot to their X270 laptop, a Kaby Lake model, after overcoming initial issues with a missing capacitor and debugging problems with NVMe and WiFi. With the help of Leah Rowe, the founder of Libreboot, they were able to identify and fix the issues, resulting in a working libreboot installation with GRUB, wireless, and NVMe support.

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me

256 varankinv 2026-02-23 22:17:19 UTC vladimir.varank.in Llama Share 206

The user used AI to help port a Linux Wi-Fi driver to FreeBSD, but the process was complicated and messy, so they decided to create a detailed specification of how the driver works and then used the AI to implement it from scratch. The user successfully created a working FreeBSD kernel module for the BCM4350 Wi-Fi chip using the AI, but advises against using it for anything beyond a studying ...

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A

146 marcodiego 2026-02-23 20:17:19 UTC forums.atariage.com Full Share 49

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

1211 oldnetguy 2026-02-23 15:17:19 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 971

Regulators are pushing social media platforms to verify users' ages, but this creates a technical problem: collecting personal data to prove age. Platforms are using intrusive verification systems that often conflict with data-privacy laws.

Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems

49 surprisetalk 2026-02-23 22:17:19 UTC writings.stephenwolfram.com Llama Share 33

The author is building on their 40-year foundation tool, Wolfram Language, to supplement LLMs with precise computation and knowledge. This integration will make LLMs more powerful by providing deep computation capabilities.

Ladybird adopts Rust

1079 adius 2026-02-23 12:17:19 UTC ladybird.org Llama Share 591

Ladybird is rewriting parts in Rust for better safety guarantees and ecosystem support. The first target was LibJS, Ladybird's JavaScript engine, which was translated from C++ in two weeks with zero regressions.

Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app

189 levkk 2026-02-23 16:17:19 UTC github.com/pgdogdev Llama Share 44

PgDog is a PostgreSQL proxy that supports connection pooling, load balancing, and sharding, written in Rust for high performance and security. It can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware and supports various deployment methods, including AWS RDS.

What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics

29 ibobev 2026-02-23 22:17:19 UTC jamesoswald.dev Llama Share 18

The notation $f(x) = g(x) + O(1)$ means the difference between $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ is bounded by a constant. It implies an upper bound, $f(x) \le g(x) + C$, but not a lower bound.

Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)

62 eigen-vector 2026-02-23 21:17:19 UTC github.com/vignesh07 Llama Share 30

Live capture may require elevated permissions or OS configuration. Babyshark shows Observed IPs using TLS SNI/HTTP Host hints when DNS answers are not visible.

The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II

49 homarp 2026-02-23 21:17:19 UTC colino.net Llama Share 7

The author ported Shufflepuck Cafe to the Apple II, a 1979 platform, without losing playability or details. They overcame challenges such as sprite display, mouse handling, and memory limitations.

The Rise of Eyes Began with Just One

11 marojejian 2026-02-24 00:17:19 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 5

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Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)

127 Sabrees 2026-02-23 16:17:19 UTC sowbot.co.uk Llama Share 40

The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem provides a reproducible, lightweight robotics platform for researchers and farmers to reduce labour and environmental impact. It offers a modular, open-hardware agricultural robot with a stable, repeatable environment for experiments and field-ready system.

A simple web we own

184 speckx 2026-02-23 16:17:19 UTC rsdoiel.github.io Llama Share 127

The user argues that the Web and Internet can be decentralized and controlled by individuals and cooperatives, rather than large corporations, by using simpler software and technologies like Markdown and static website generators. By leveraging the abundance of computers and resources, individuals can create their own private networks and connect to the public Internet, mirroring the concept ...

You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer

97 bundie 2026-02-23 22:17:19 UTC twitter.com/i Full Share 59

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends

12 singhsanjay12 2026-02-23 23:17:19 UTC singh-sanjay.com Llama Share 4

Server-side load balancing is simpler and provides a single view of fleet health, but can be a bottleneck at high scale. Client-side load balancing offers sub-millisecond failure detection, but requires distributed health state management and more complexity.

SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco

0 2026-02-23 21:17:19 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Sim Sim is an open-source platform for building AI agents, used by 70,000 developers. The company is seeking a full-stack engineer to lead the Sim platform's visual, end-to-end agent builder.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

175 cdrnsf 2026-02-23 23:17:19 UTC gizmodo.com Llama Share 159

Tech companies spent billions on AI last year and are expected to spend $700 billion this year, but economists disagree on its impact on the US economy. Some say AI investment drives growth, while others claim its contribution is minimal due to imported equipment and lack of reliable measurement methods.

ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030

267 pieterr 2026-02-23 18:17:19 UTC reuters.com Full Share 73

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Lords of the Ring

12 lermontov 2026-02-24 00:17:19 UTC harpers.org Llama Share 1

Sumo wrestlers Hoshoryu and Onosato, a Mongolian and Japanese yokozuna, respectively, faced off in a grand sumo tournament in Nagoya. Their rivalry was significant due to Japan's growing nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment, fueled by the far-right party Sanseito's electoral gains.

Unfavorable Semicircle

5 evo_9 2026-02-24 01:17:19 UTC unfavorablesemicircle.com Prefix Share 0

Unfavorable Semicircle was the name of a channel on YouTube which garnered attention for the huge number of videos it published and the unusual nature of the videos over the course of a year. The account went live on March 30, 2015 and began posting extremely frequently, with two or three videos being published every two minutes. Tens of thousands of videos were posted on the channel while it ...

‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)

149 bookofjoe 2026-02-23 16:17:19 UTC science.org Full Share 129

NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026)

9 ascarola 2026-02-24 01:32:19 UTC federalregister.gov Prefix Share 2

Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce. 2. Click the “Comment Now!” icon, complete the required fields, including the relevant document number and title in the subject field; and Additional information on the use of regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents, submitting ...

Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran

417 boplicity 2026-02-23 20:17:19 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 180

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Scent, in Silico

19 surprisetalk 2026-02-23 21:17:19 UTC asimov.press Llama Share 1

Researchers are using AI to digitize smell, creating a shared vocabulary and technology to understand and manipulate scent. This could lead to practical applications, such as detecting threats and creating new fragrances, and may help us better understand the mysteries of olfaction.

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go

87 platzhirsch 2026-02-23 15:17:19 UTC github.com/puzpuzpuz Llama Share 10

The xsync library outperforms other implementations in nearly every scenario with best read, write, and iteration scaling, and lowest allocations among non-sharded designs. However, it has significant performance degradation at sizes ≥100K with writes and limited scalability due to a fixed 32 shards design.

femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

121 tosh 2026-02-23 13:17:19 UTC github.com/jeffbezanson Llama Share 15

Femtolisp is a fast, self-contained Scheme dialect with a bytecode compiler and VM, written in the language itself. It prioritizes elegance, simplicity, and reliability with a small core of features and proper tail recursion.

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

529 qsi 2026-02-23 09:17:19 UTC chrisbrunet.com Llama Share 95

Brian Lucey, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, was removed as editor from 5 journals after 12 papers he co-authored were retracted due to a conflict of interest. Lucey was accused of running a citation cartel and selling papers through his consultancies, which may have been used to circulate ecosystem funds or consultancy payouts.

Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

140 ai_bot 2026-02-23 09:17:19 UTC llm-timeline.com Full Share 52

Interactive AI timeline tracking 194+ Large Language Models from 2017 to 2026. Explore the history of ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek and every major LLM ever released.

Psychology suggests making a shopping list is a sign of sharper thinking

12 ColinWright 2026-02-24 01:17:19 UTC economictimes.indiatimes.com Llama Share 17

Writing a shopping list by hand requires cognitive skills like planning, memory, and self-control, which are linked to intelligence and long-term decision-making. This habit reflects traits associated with intelligence, such as foresight, organization, and efficient mental processing.