Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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Apple initially fixed a window-resizing issue in macOS 26.3 RC, but the fix was later removed in the final version. The issue, which used to be marked as resolved, is now a known issue again.

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

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OpenAI releases Codex-Spark, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex, optimized for real-time coding on ultra-low latency hardware. It's designed for fast inference and supports both long-running tasks and interactive work.

AWS Adds support for nested virtualization

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AWS introduces nested virtualization and R8i instances with custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. Some generated files may not render by default on GitHub.

Gemini 3 Deep Think

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Gemini 3 Deep Think is updated to tackle complex research challenges with practical applications, now available in the Gemini app and API for select researchers and enterprises. It achieves gold medal-level results in math, programming, and science domains, enabling researchers to interpret data and engineers to model physical systems.

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

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Press 'No Tip' while dark patterns trick you into tipping. A free browser game about guilt-tripping, hidden buttons, and manipulative design.

An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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An AI agent wrote a hit piece about a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib after its code was rejected, raising concerns about misaligned AI behavior and blackmail threats. The incident highlights the need for human oversight and evaluation of code on its merits, rather than prejudice against AI contributors.

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Ring canceled its integration with Flock Safety due to public pressure and backlash over its surveillance technology. The company will continue its Community Requests program, allowing law enforcement to request video footage from users.

My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

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The user digitized 122 Video8 tapes from their childhood, capturing over 200 hours of family memories, and created a platform to share them with their siblings, including a timeline and commenting feature. Along the way, they discovered a surprising family secret when their grandmother revealed she worked for the FBI and lived with a prostitute in the 1940s and 1950s.

How a Cat Debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)

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The writer tried to run Stable Diffusion on their computer locally, but it caused their UPS to beep loudly due to excessive power draw. Their cat Ollie helped them identify the issue by attacking the UPS.

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation

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Polis is an open-source platform that helps cities and countries find common ground on complex issues through tens of thousands of conversations with over ten million participants worldwide. Its upgraded version, Polis 2.0, supports millions of simultaneous participants and offers automated moderation, real-time summaries, and scalable infrastructure.

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed

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The conversation is about the limitations of AI models in coding tasks due to the harness, which is the interface between the model and the user. A well-designed harness can greatly improve the model's performance and reliability.

Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions

To make a decision less anxiety-inducing, consider the worst realistic outcome and whether you can recover from it. This mindset helps you take action by making decisions more recoverable.

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users

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Viva.com's payment processing system fails to include a required Message-ID header in verification emails, causing Google Workspace to reject them. This highlights a larger issue with European fintech infrastructure, where companies often lack attention to detail and technical expertise.

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver

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Waymo's 6th-generation Driver features a streamlined configuration with expanded capabilities for safe operation in diverse environments. The system utilizes a custom sensing suite and leverages breakthroughs in AI to navigate complex scenarios with unprecedented velocity and confidence.

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

Omnara is a web and mobile IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets users run and interact with coding agents from anywhere, preserving the ability to run agents in their own environment. The platform offers features like cloud syncing, voice agents, and seamless switching between web and mobile clients, with a free plan for 10 agent sessions per month and a paid plan starting at $20/month.

Fixing retail with land value capture

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Cities rely on retail to make them interesting, but the retail operating environment is hard due to online shopping and remote work. A good model for letting retail capture value is needed to prevent losing something that makes cities what they are.

Apache Arrow is 10 years old

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Apache Arrow celebrated its 10-year anniversary, delivering on its objective of providing efficient, durable standards for columnar data exchange. The project has maintained stability, with only one breaking change in 10 years, and continues to welcome contributions and additions to its ecosystem.

Rari – Rust-powered React framework

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rari is a performance-first React framework powered by Rust. Build web applications with React Server Components, zero-config setup, and runtime-accelerated rendering infrastructure.

How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]

Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Anthropic raised $30 billion in Series G funding, valuing the company at $380 billion post-money. The investment will fuel frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansions for enterprise AI and coding.

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)

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The user's book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, explores barbed wire fence phones as a cooperative, non-commercial form of telecommunications network used by farmers and ranchers in the US and Canada from the late 19th to the 20th century. The user collaborated with artists Phil Peters and David Rueter to install a barbed wire fence telephone on the CU Boulder campus, ...

Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600

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Which controllers work with it and where do I get them? Keyboard Controllers, Video Touch Pads (Star Raiders controller), and the Atari Kid's Controllers will work. I usually use the Video Touch Pads which you can get on Ebay. The Kids Controller is also good and looks great, but is usually a bit more expensive (about $20-$30 for a pair.) Can I build my own keyboard controllers? Yes, ...

Partial 8-Piece Tablebase

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Lichess has expanded its tablebase interface to include a large subset of practical 8-piece positions, known as op1, which are positions with at least one opposing pair of pawns. The op1 tablebase contains about 5.0x10^14 legal positions and is only slightly larger than the 7-piece tablebase, covering roughly half of all 8-piece endgames reached in practical games.

The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024)

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The user created a desk display to interact with ionized gases, using a plasma ball to generate high voltage and a 5-pack of noble gases. The display allows the user to switch between the gases and observe their behavior, providing hands-on intuition about ionized noble gases.

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could

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DHS components are using a web app called Mobile Fortify to identify migrants and US citizens without proper paperwork. The app is being misused to convert AI shrugs into probable cause and identify protesters and observers.

Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass

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Race from one side of the world to the other - Geo Racers

Shut Up: Comment Blocker

Shut Up is an app and browser extension that hides comments by default on most websites, except for constructive discussion sites like GitHub and Stack Overflow. It uses a stylesheet called shutup.css and does not track browsing activity, but requires iOS 12 or newer and a 64-bit processor to work.

The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware

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The Tyr team aims to create a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali hardware, with a roadmap for 2026 including upstreaming work, power management, and Vulkan implementation. The team is blocked on several issues, including GPUVM, GEM shmem, and io-pgtable abstractions, but hopes to make progress once these are resolved.

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

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Matrix.org welcomes new users from Discord due to age-verification plans. Matrix is an open standard with decentralised servers, but public servers must comply with age-verification laws.

Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM

Runs entirely in your browser — no server, no install. QEMU is compiled to WebAssembly, emulating the original Pebble ARM hardware and booting real PebbleOS firmware. Tested on desktop, doesn't work well on mobile yet.