Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max

53 scrlk 2026-03-03 14:03:36 UTC apple.com Llama Share 39

Apple announced the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, offering up to 4x faster AI performance and up to 24 hours of battery life. The new MacBook Pro features a Liquid Retina XDR display, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6, and starts at 1TB of storage for M5 Pro and 2TB for M5 Max.

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

128 tchalla 2026-03-03 12:22:36 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 53

India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge used AI-generated fake judgements in a property dispute case. The court will examine the case and issued notices to the Attorney and Solicitor General and the Bar Council of India.

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

451 memalign 2026-03-03 11:22:36 UTC editor.p5js.org Full Share 56

A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

83 devinitely 2026-03-03 13:41:36 UTC twitter.com/gavriel_cohen Full Share 36

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.

Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR

9 victorbjorklund 2026-03-03 14:01:36 UTC apple.com Prefix Share 1

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced a new family of displays engineered to pair beautifully with Mac and meet the needs of everyone, from everyday users to the world’s top pros. The new Studio Display features a 12MP Center Stage camera, now with improved image quality and support for Desk View; a studio-quality three-microphone array; and an immersive six-speaker sound system with ...

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

1217 sandbach 2026-03-02 23:22:36 UTC svd.se Llama Share 707

Meta's smart glasses collect user data, including private videos and conversations, which are then processed by subcontractors in Kenya. The data is shared with Meta's AI systems, raising concerns about user privacy and data protection.

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

162 ingve 2026-03-03 08:22:36 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 75

Arm's Cortex X925 CPU achieves performance parity with AMD's Zen 5 and Intel's Lion Cove in high-performance desktop applications. It has a 10-wide core with high per-cycle frontend throughput, large out-of-order execution engine, and strong branch predictor.

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

948 ireflect 2026-03-02 21:22:36 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 460

British Columbia will permanently adopt daylight time after March 8, ending clock changes. Residents have 8 months to prepare for the change, set for November 1, 2026.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

427 danso 2026-03-03 01:22:36 UTC futurism.com Llama Share 262

Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after an article with AI-fabricated quotes was retracted. Edwards took responsibility for the error, saying he used an AI tool while sick and made a serious journalistic mistake.

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]

126 vanyauhalin 2026-03-03 12:22:36 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 68

We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

87 darshkpatel 2026-03-03 08:22:36 UTC blog.replit.com Llama Share 42

The user's company built a video renderer that captures web pages with animations by making the browser believe time moves only when they say it does, allowing for smooth video playback. The renderer uses a JavaScript file to replace the browser's time-related APIs, preprocesses the video server-side, and decodes it in-browser to produce a high-quality video file.

Computer Says No

22 vnglst 2026-03-03 12:22:36 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 10

Richard Sennett's material consciousness emphasizes hands-on knowledge through touching and feeling materials. AI taking over coding may lead to a loss of deep knowledge and understanding of software systems.

How to sew a Hyperbolic Blanket (2021)

25 aebtebeten 2026-03-03 11:22:36 UTC geometrygames.org Llama Share 1

Helaman Ferguson invented a hyperbolic blanket design with evenly spread curvature. To make one, cut and sew pentagons from fleece, aligning seams for precise assembly.

Simple screw counter

200 jk_tech 2026-03-03 03:22:36 UTC mitxela.com Llama Share 53

The user created a precision clock kit business and automated parts counting with a laser-cut nut and screw dispenser. The user improved the design with a longer track and a small hopper for weight reasons.

History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) Of WIMP Design

7 todsacerdoti 2026-03-03 13:22:36 UTC uxtigers.com Prefix Share 1

The GUI’s success wasn’t about any single invention, but a synergy of 4 elements: Window, Icon, Menu, and Pointer, through a 60-year history of usability improvements. But the era of WIMP is drawing to an end with a radical shift toward Generative UI and World Models, in which static menus are replaced by fluid, intent-driven AI interactions. The evolution of the Graphical User Interface ...

C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work

31 ibobev 2026-03-03 10:22:36 UTC bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com Llama Share 0

The author has successfully implemented a C64 version of the game Lights-Out that matches the NES version's display quality, using 33 sprites and mid-screen interrupts to animate button presses. The project involved revising the game's design to efficiently update sprite data and character graphics, and implementing a complex interrupt handler to manage the display's various states.

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials

59 FrasiertheLion 2026-03-03 09:22:36 UTC blog.cryptographyengineering.com Llama Share 28

The user discusses the importance of anonymous authentication in a world where routine age-verification and human identification are becoming increasingly common, and proposes the use of anonymous credentials to protect user privacy. Anonymous credentials, such as those proposed by David Chaum, allow users to prove their identity without revealing their real-world identity, and can be ...

The Internet's Top Tech Publications Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024

16 Growtika 2026-03-03 13:47:36 UTC growtika.com Llama Share 13

Ten major tech publications lost a combined 63 million monthly Google visits between 2024 peaks and January 2026, with four sites losing over 84% of their traffic. The decline coincides with Google's AI Overviews expansion, increased Reddit rankings, and growing use of AI assistants for product research.

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

484 nicktikhonov 2026-03-02 22:22:36 UTC ntik.me Llama Share 141

The author built a custom voice agent from scratch, achieving a 2x latency improvement over off-the-shelf providers like Vapi, by optimizing model choice, pipelining the agent turn, and carefully managing geography and service placement. The key takeaway is that voice is an orchestration problem, requiring careful coordination of multiple models and services in real-time, and that building a ...

Claude's Cycles: Claude Opus 4.6 solves a problem posed by Don Knuth [pdf]

15 fs123 2026-03-03 11:22:36 UTC www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu Llama Share 1

Claude Opus 4.6 solved an open problem in automatic deduction and creative problem solving by finding a generalization for odd values of m. The solution was discovered through a series of explorations and involved a novel approach called fiber decomposition.

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

62 ingve 2026-03-03 07:22:36 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 16

The user built a tiny Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico with a Raspberry Pi Pico Micro Mac firmware, which outputs to a 640x480 VGA display and allows USB keyboard and mouse input. The setup has limitations due to the Pico's SRAM, but it can run early Mac OS versions and some applications within the 208 KB of available RAM.

DOS Memory Management

80 ingve 2026-03-03 05:22:36 UTC os2museum.com Llama Share 23

DOS memory management is simple but has several pitfalls, including zero-sized memory blocks and coalescing free memory. DOS 5.0 introduced UMB support and new memory allocation strategies, making memory management less simple but more flexible.

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

54 wild_pointer 2026-03-03 11:22:36 UTC windowsread.me Llama Share 60

Windhawk is a free Windows tweaking tool that lets users customize their PCs with mods, but it may cause stability and security issues due to its DLL injection method. The tool's creator, Michael Maltsev, has a good reputation, but users should be cautious when installing mods from unknown authors and consider the potential risks before using Windhawk.

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source

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First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

327 gmays 2026-03-02 15:22:36 UTC health.ucdavis.edu Llama Share 62

UC Davis Health researchers successfully combined fetal surgery with stem cells to treat spina bifida in a Phase 1 clinical trial, showing great safety and potential for improved outcomes. The trial, funded by a $9 million state grant, aims to enroll 35 patients to evaluate long-term safety and improved movement.

New iPad Air, powered by M4

423 Garbage 2026-03-02 14:22:36 UTC apple.com Llama Share 654

Apple announced the new iPad Air with M4, offering a big jump in performance at the same starting price. The new iPad Air features a faster CPU and GPU, improved AI capabilities, and Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.

Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev)

72 azhenley 2026-03-03 05:22:36 UTC gvanrossum.github.io Llama Share 6

Thomas Wouters, a core Python developer, shares his story of how he first discovered Python through LambdaMOO, a text-based online community, and was drawn to its simplicity and ease of use. He reminisces about his early days on the Python-List, meeting other developers like Tim Peters and Fredrik Lundh, and contributing to the language, including implementing augmented assignment and working ...

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted (Supreme Court declines review)

7 duggan 2026-03-03 13:53:36 UTC theverge.com Prefix Share 0

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The country’s highest judicial court won’t reconsider a decision that determined AI-created art is ineligible for copyright ...

We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On

39 kennethops 2026-03-03 13:22:36 UTC eversole.dev Llama Share 41

Software democratization is happening rapidly, but the industry is struggling to keep up with understanding complex systems. The gap between creation and understanding is widening, leading to a potential disaster.

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

2255 km 2026-03-02 14:22:36 UTC motorolanews.com Llama Share 818

Motorola announced new consumer and enterprise solutions at Mobile World Congress, including a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation for enhanced security. The company introduced Moto Secure and Moto Analytics to expand its B2B ecosystem with advanced security and operational insights.