Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript

486 robpalmer 2026-03-11 16:30:43 UTC bloomberg.github.io Llama Share 164

Jason Williams, a senior software engineer at Bloomberg, discusses the development of Temporal, a new JavaScript API for dates and times. Temporal is the result of nearly a decade of work and represents a major improvement over the existing Date API.

Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged

102 mustaphah 2026-03-11 21:30:43 UTC metr.org Llama Share 16

Researchers found that AI models' performance on benchmarks does not accurately reflect their real-world usefulness, with a significant gap between automated grader scores and maintainer review decisions. The study suggests that benchmarks should be viewed as one piece of evidence rather than decisive, and that more elicitation or human feedback is needed to accurately assess AI capabilities.

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

2539 usefulposter 2026-03-11 19:30:43 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 937

Hacker News Guidelines summarize to: Hacker News is for sharing interesting content, not promotion or off-topic news. Users should comment thoughtfully and respectfully, avoiding shallow criticism and personal attacks.

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

375 mikece 2026-03-11 15:30:43 UTC hacks.mozilla.org Llama Share 144

WebAssembly has made significant progress since its release in 2017, but its adoption is limited due to being a second-class language on the web. WebAssembly Components could provide a first-class experience by allowing direct access to web APIs without JavaScript glue code.

Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

151 vkuprin 2026-03-11 17:30:43 UTC sitespy.app Llama Share 43

Site Spy is a website monitoring tool that tracks pages for changes automatically and notifies you instantly. It offers a free plan and paid upgrades for more features like faster checks and email notifications.

Show HN: Autoresearch@home

15 austinbaggio 2026-03-11 23:30:43 UTC ensue-network.ai Llama Share 7

Phoenix reduced batch size from 2 18 to 2 16, eliminating gradient accumulation overhead, resulting in 1488 steps and improved val_bpb. Adjusting LRs may further improve small-batch training.

Personal Computer by Perplexity

100 josephwegner 2026-03-11 18:30:43 UTC perplexity.ai Llama Share 79

A new AI operating system takes objectives, giving users a persistent digital proxy. It provides secure, always-on access to files, apps, and sessions from any device.

Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code

12 schipperai 2026-03-11 23:30:43 UTC github.com/manuelschipper Llama Share 6

nah classifies commands by action type, not name, and logs decisions for inspectability. It allows customization through global and project-specific configs, with a deterministic layer and optional LLM resolution.

Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

216 aldarisbm 2026-03-11 15:30:43 UTC wiz.io Llama Share 145

Wiz has officially joined Google, combining innovation and scale to change cloud security. The company remains committed to protecting organizations' workloads and applications, now accelerating progress with AI-powered security.

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

106 speckx 2026-03-11 18:30:43 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 118

The Verge's AI reporter tried AI interview tools, finding them unnatural and biased, despite claims of reduced prejudice. AI-led job interviews are becoming common, but their effectiveness and fairness are still debated.

The MacBook Neo

360 etothet 2026-03-11 14:30:43 UTC daringfireball.net Llama Share 621

The MacBook Neo is a $600 laptop that uses Apple's A18 Pro chip, offering impressive performance and features like a bright display and good sound quality. It's a great option for those who want a small, portable Mac for everyday tasks, and it's also a good alternative to iPads for users who prefer a keyboard and MacOS.

CNN Explainer – Learn Convolutional Neural Network in Your Browser (2020)

6 vismit2000 2026-03-11 23:30:43 UTC poloclub.github.io Prefix Share 0

In machine learning, a classifier assigns a class label to a data point. For example, an image classifier produces a class label (e.g, bird, plane) for what objects exist within an image. A convolutional neural network, or CNN for short, is a type of classifier, which excels at solving this problem! A CNN is a neural network: an algorithm used to recognize patterns in data. Neural Networks in ...

Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to redefine software dev

0 2026-03-11 21:30:43 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Llama Share

Meticulous is a rapidly growing company that accelerates software development with its novel technology for exhaustive frontend codebase testing. We're hiring a team member to work on building a distributed system and integrating Meticulous into code generation, with opportunities to collaborate with top tech companies and leaders.

BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs

292 redm 2026-03-11 12:30:43 UTC github.com/microsoft Llama Share 146

bitnet.cpp is an official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs that achieves speedups of 1.37x to 6.17x and reduces energy consumption by 55.4% to 82.2% on CPUs. It supports fast and lossless inference of 1.58-bit models on CPU and GPU, and can run a 100B BitNet b1.58 model on a single CPU at speeds comparable to human reading.

Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)

252 peyton 2026-03-11 14:30:43 UTC doi.org Llama Share 181

Scientific fraud is a growing problem, with coordinated activities and entities facilitating systematic fraud, evading interventions, and targeting specific subfields. A study identified networks of cooperating individuals and entities producing fraudulent science at scale, with some editors and authors showing anomalous patterns of behavior.

Preliminary data from a longitudinal AI impact study

23 donutshop 2026-03-11 21:30:43 UTC newsletter.getdx.com Llama Share 7

A study of 40 companies found AI usage increased by 65% but only led to a 9.97% increase in pull requests. Leaders may need to reset expectations as AI improves productivity but not as much as expected.

Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included

111 robthompson2018 2026-03-11 16:30:43 UTC klausai.com Llama Share 65

Klaus is a user-friendly, cloud-based OpenClaw distribution with preconfigured integrations and smart permissions. It automates tasks and manages data securely across various platforms and devices.

5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy

87 defrost 2026-03-11 17:30:43 UTC newatlas.com Llama Share 47

Researchers from the University of Sydney believe Monte Sierpe, a Peruvian hillside with thousands of holes, was an indigenous trade and accounting system used during the 14th century. The holes likely served as markers of equivalence for tracking quantities of goods in a society without currency.

Against vibes: When is a generative model useful

38 takira 2026-03-11 22:30:43 UTC williamjbowman.com Llama Share 3

The user argues that generative models are useful when the relative cost of encoding the work in a prompt is low and the relative cost of verifying the output satisfies requirements is low, and when the process used to complete the work doesn't matter. The user believes that navigating these trade-offs requires engineering expertise and that generative models have made it cheap to produce ...

Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years

138 divbzero 2026-03-11 21:30:43 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 132

British Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the House of Lords, ending centuries of tradition. The change aims to make the upper chamber more democratic and representative of the UK.

How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

381 mycroft_4221 2026-03-11 10:30:43 UTC codewall.ai Llama Share 155

An autonomous security agent discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in McKinsey's internal AI platform Lilli, exposing sensitive data and allowing potential manipulation of the AI's output. The vulnerability was found in a publicly exposed API endpoint, highlighting the need for organizations to secure the prompt layer that governs AI system behavior.

Physicist Astrid Eichhorn is a leader in the field of asymptotic safety

108 tzury 2026-03-11 16:30:43 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 16

Astrid Eichhorn is a physicist investigating asymptotic safety, a theory where the laws of physics stop changing at the Planck scale. She aims to show that a fractal-like space-time is a natural assumption, allowing for predictions using quantum field theory.

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

147 jjgreen 2026-03-11 13:30:43 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 334

Basel-Stadt suspended its e-voting pilot after failing to count 2,048 votes due to decryption issues. The canton will delay voting figures confirmation and suspend e-voting until December.

Building Better Country Selects

6 dlrush 2026-03-11 23:30:43 UTC talysto.com Prefix Share 9

Country selection appears in nearly every checkout, registration, and shipping form on the web. Most implementations still rely on a native HTML select populated with all 195 countries in alphabetical order. That is a defensible default, but not a very good one. It is slow to scan, hard to search, and especially awkward on mobile. No filtering. Users cannot narrow the list by typing. With 195 ...

Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents

100 theredsix 2026-03-11 15:30:43 UTC github.com/theredsix Llama Share 33

ABP reformats web navigation into a discrete, multimodal chat format. It embeds an HTTP server in the browser process for direct access to browser components.

Can the Dictionary Keep Up?

9 pepys 2026-03-11 21:30:43 UTC thenation.com Prefix Share 3

In 2014, at a small Stanford University lecture hall, the Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski introduced the crowd of assembled nerds to the idea that a dictionary is not a static document but a living object, constantly updated and remade in response to how people write and speak. In a talk titled “The Dictionary as Data,” Sokolowski emphasized that the editors at Merriam-Webster look to ...

Launch HN: Prism (YC X25) – Workspace and API to generate and edit videos

30 aliu327 2026-03-11 16:30:43 UTC prismvideos.com Llama Share 16

Prism is an AI video generator for short-form content on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts from text prompts. It integrates AI models for various styles and exports videos in multiple resolutions up to 4K.

Show HN: Satellite imagery object detection using text prompts

37 eyasu6464 2026-03-11 18:30:43 UTC useful-ai-tools.com Llama Share 14

The Satellite Analysis Workspace Demo is an interactive environment for experiencing geospatial computer vision models without an account. It showcases object detection and vision-language models for identifying assets like vehicles, storage tanks, and bridges.

Launch HN: Sentrial (YC W26) – Catch AI agent failures before your users do

23 anayrshukla 2026-03-11 16:30:43 UTC sentrial.com Llama Share 11

The system provides tools for session analysis, conversation history, and root-cause diagnosis to improve LLM performance and user experience. It allows for turn-by-turn inspection, conversation filtering, and suggested prompt or code fixes.

Building a TB-303 from Scratch

208 stagas 2026-03-11 07:30:43 UTC loopmaster.xyz Llama Share 84

The TB-303 is a classic Roland synth known for its unique sound and iconic electronic music roles. It's a subtractive synth with a diode ladder filter and can be built from scratch using loopmaster with various tweaks and settings.