Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

137 j0rg3 2026-03-26 22:54:37 UTC georgelarson.me Llama Share 53

The user created a custom AI chatbot, nullclaw, using IRC protocol and Haiku model, which can clone repos, read code, and provide specific answers to questions about their projects. The system has a minimal attack surface, with a public-facing doorman and a private agent, and uses tiered inference to keep costs under $2/day.

Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)

649 Amorymeltzer 2026-03-26 16:54:37 UTC bethmathews.substack.com Llama Share 135

A Graphic Designer shares their discovery of a specific seafoam green color used in 1940s industrial design, particularly in the Manhattan Project's control rooms. This color was chosen for its non-distracting and restful properties, as advocated by color theorist Faber Birren.

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

171 bentocorp 2026-03-26 21:54:37 UTC 9to5mac.com Llama Share 150

Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro, removing it from their website and confirming no future hardware plans. The Mac Studio is now set to be the 'pro' desktop Mac of the future in Apple's lineup.

From 0% to 36% on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3

37 lairv 2026-03-27 01:54:37 UTC symbolica.ai Llama Share 14

Agentica SDK achieves 36.08% on ARC-AGI-3, outperforming CoT baselines with lower cost. It passes 113 levels and completes 7 games, available on GitHub.

Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

274 prawn 2026-03-26 23:54:37 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 162

A federal judge in California blocked the Pentagon's attempt to label Anthropic a supply chain risk, ruling it violated the company's constitutional rights. The judge delayed implementation to allow the government to appeal, but made it clear she disapproved of the government's actions.

Agent-to-Agent Pair Programming

18 axldelafosse 2026-03-27 01:54:37 UTC axeldelafosse.com Llama Share 3

Researchers created a multi-agent workflow with Claude and Codex, mimicking human collaboration. They built a CLI called loop to enable agents to interact and provide faster, more natural feedback.

Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

546 jslakro 2026-03-26 13:54:37 UTC unterwaditzer.net Llama Share 272

The user is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, finding the process easier than expected for issues, pull requests, and releases, but more challenging for CI due to lost free macOS runners and infinite capacity.

Dobase – Your workspace, your server

32 frenkel 2026-03-27 00:54:37 UTC dobase.co Llama Share 10

This platform allows users to install only needed tools, share or keep them private, and navigate using keyboard shortcuts. It features responsive design, 2FA, and explicit permissions for added security and collaboration.

DOOM Over DNS

225 Venn1 2026-03-26 16:54:37 UTC github.com/resumex Llama Share 73

A PowerShell script uses Cloudflare's DNS TXT records to serve the entire DOOM game, compressed into 1964 records across a single zone. This allows users to play DOOM without storing the WAD file on disk, using a .NET game engine and public DNS queries.

Chroma Context-1: Training a Self-Editing Search Agent

14 philip1209 2026-03-27 01:54:37 UTC trychroma.com Llama Share 2

A retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) approach using a large language model (LLM) and search systems enables language models to access data beyond their training corpus, but traditional single-stage retrieval pipelines are limited and can't handle multi-hop retrieval queries. A purpose-trained 20B model, Chroma Context-1, achieves retrieval performance comparable to frontier LLMs at a ...

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack

316 Fibonar 2026-03-26 15:54:37 UTC futuresearch.ai Llama Share 129

A supply chain attack was discovered on the litellm package on PyPI, which steals credentials and attempts to exfiltrate them to a malicious domain. The attack was reported to PyPI and the litellm maintainers via email, and a tracking issue was created to monitor the situation.

We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year

71 cjlm 2026-03-26 22:54:37 UTC reco.ai Llama Share 74

Reco's Principal Data Engineer Nir Barak used AI to reimplement JSONata 2.x in pure Go, resulting in a 1,000x speedup and saving $500K/year. The new implementation, called gnata, eliminated the need for an RPC fleet and allowed for end-to-end batching in the rule engine, saving another $200K/year.

Anthropic Subprocessor Changes

51 tencentshill 2026-03-26 21:54:37 UTC trust.anthropic.com Llama Share 30

Anthropic updated subprocessors list is available in the Trust Center dashboard, and web search is now available in Claude for Government with admin control.

HandyMKV for MakeMKV and HandBrake Automation

8 geerlingguy 2026-03-27 02:54:37 UTC github.com/dmars8047 Prefix Share 1

HandyMKV is a tool that is designed to automate the process of ripping discs using MakeMKV and then encoding the resulting files using Handbrake. I found the process of manually ripping using MakeMKV and then encoding using HandBrake to be time consuming, disjointed, and error prone. I wanted a tool that would automate the process and provide a more user-friendly experience. Additionally, I ...

Whistler: Live eBPF Programming from the Common Lisp REPL

41 varjag 2026-03-26 22:54:37 UTC atgreen.github.io Llama Share 1

Whistler is a Common Lisp-based DSL for eBPF that generates highly-optimized eBPF output and allows for direct inlining of code in Lisp programs. It simplifies the eBPF workflow by allowing developers to write Lisp code for both the BPF and userspace sides, eliminating the need for separate build steps and languages.

Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods

66 NaOH 2026-03-26 23:54:37 UTC chicagotribune.com Llama Share 30

Steve Shanabruch creates visually striking posters for Chicago neighborhoods and landmarks with bold lines and vivid colors. He draws inspiration from personal experiences and neighborhood characteristics, making his art accessible and fulfilling.

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

614 mmcclure 2026-03-26 19:54:37 UTC derekthompson.org Llama Share 443

Online sports betting and prediction markets have led to cheating, distrust, and cynicism, with the potential to extend to politics and other institutions. The normalization of betting on future events, including wars and famines, raises concerns about morality and the erosion of shared values in society.

HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents

146 andyg_blog 2026-03-26 16:54:37 UTC github.com/facebookresearch Llama Share 57

To install and set up the Hyperagents repository, run installation commands and create a virtual environment. This involves executing potentially untrusted code with associated safety risks.

OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha

153 tanelpoder 2026-03-26 16:54:37 UTC opentelemetry.io Llama Share 20

OpenTelemetry Profiles has entered public Alpha, introducing a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling. The Profiles signal allows capturing low-overhead performance profiles in production, improving troubleshooting, user experience, and reducing computation costs.

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks

108 yogthos 2026-03-26 17:54:37 UTC github.com/itigges22 Llama Share 36

ATLAS achieves 74.6% LiveCodeBench pass rate with a frozen 14B model on a single GPU, up from 36-41% in V2. It uses constraint-driven generation and self-verified iterative refinement for self-hosted AI.

John Bradley, author of xv, has died

234 linsomniac 2026-03-26 18:54:37 UTC voxday.net Llama Share 70

John Bradley, founder and lead guitarist of Booster Patrol, died at 61. A song was written in his style to pay tribute, with lyrics describing his music in Heaven.

CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe

202 JohnHammersley 2026-03-26 19:54:37 UTC home.cern Llama Share 17

CERN hosts Open Research Europe, a community-led open access publishing platform, to promote equity and transparency in scholarly communication. The platform, built on open source software, will provide a neutral environment for researchers to share their work freely.

Show HN: Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer

45 vicioussquid 2026-03-26 21:54:37 UTC github.com/vicioussquid Full Share 3

Liminal 3D World editor and game engine - inspired by Radiant and Hammer - ViciousSquid/Fio

Order Granting Preliminary Injunction – Anthropic vs. U.S. Department of War [pdf]

117 theindieman 2026-03-26 23:54:37 UTC storage.courtlistener.com Llama Share 18

The US government has directed all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic's technology due to national security concerns. Anthropic's actions are seen as a threat to national security and the US military.

Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

872 driesdep 2026-03-26 03:54:37 UTC bugs.xdavidhu.me Llama Share 301

The user successfully set up a Tesla Model 3 car computer on their desk by purchasing parts on eBay and using Tesla's electrical reference to connect the components. After several challenges, including a burned power controller chip, the user was able to get the system running and is now exploring the car's operating system and network interfaces.

Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

49 simoneamico 2026-03-26 22:54:37 UTC veil.simoneamico.com Full Share 9

Text stays selectable.Images stay protected.Already-dark pages left untouched.Scanned docs get OCR automatically.Export works in any reader. Text stays selectable, images stay protected. Already-dark pages left untouched. Scanned docs get OCR automatically. Export works in any reader.

Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3

120 russellthehippo 2026-03-26 19:54:37 UTC github.com/russellromney Llama Share 26

turbolite is a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves point lookups and joins directly from S3 with sub-250ms cold latency. It offers page-level compression and encryption for efficiency and security.

Generators in Lone Lisp

6 matheusmoreira 2026-03-27 02:54:37 UTC matheusmoreira.com Prefix Share 0

Lone now features its own dedicated generator type. It will eventually form the foundation of iteration in lone lisp. Generators are also known as semicoroutines: specialized coroutines that only ever yield control back to their own callers. Sounds like an oddly academic distinction to make but it's actually a huge simplification that makes them much easier to not only understand but also ...

Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

62 jandeboevrie 2026-03-26 20:54:37 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 29

User is looking for alternatives to FireWire due to Apple's macOS 26 Tahoe removal of support. They found a Linux solution using dvgrab and a Raspberry Pi with a FireWire adapter, allowing them to transfer digital video footage from an old Canon GL1 camera.

Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

108 todotask2 2026-03-26 17:54:37 UTC colibri.social Llama Share 65

Colibri is a social app built on the AT Protocol, allowing users to own their identity and data, and move it freely between platforms. It uses the same protocol as Bluesky, enabling seamless sign-in and data transfer.