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March 16, 2026

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Mistral Releases Leanstral

Mistral AI has released Leanstral, a new lightweight model designed for efficiency and performance on resource-constrained devices. The model represents Mistral's continued push into optimized AI solu...

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Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games

Godogen is an innovative pipeline that uses Claude Code to generate complete, playable Godot 4 games from text prompts. It solves key engineering challenges including GDScript training data scarcity, ...

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Patching LMDB: How We Made Meilisearch’s Vector Store 3x Faster

The Meilisearch team achieved a 333% performance improvement in their vector store by patching LMDB to enable concurrent indexing operations. They implemented a custom feature allowing write transacti...

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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

The article discusses how FFmpeg leverages Vulkan Compute shaders to accelerate video encoding and decoding for professional-grade workflows, enabling GPU compute parallelism on consumer hardware with...

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No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change

New legislation is emerging that would protect polluting companies from liability lawsuits related to climate change impacts. This represents a significant development in the ongoing legal battles sur...

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DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games

Nvidia announced DLSS 5 at GTC, a major update that uses generative AI to enhance lighting and shadows in real-time, aiming to blend hand-crafted rendering with AI for greater visual realism. The appr...

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Teens sue Elon Musk’s xAI over Grok’s AI-generated CSAM

Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk's xAI, alleging that its Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images and videos of them as minors. The lawsuit claims xAI leadership knew Grok's 'spicy mode' ...

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Nvidia says China’s BYD and Geely will use its robotaxi platform

Nvidia has expanded its autonomous vehicle partnerships by adding Chinese automakers BYD and Geely to its robotaxi platform program. The companies will use Nvidia's Drive Hyperion platform, which prov...

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Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc

Meta has announced a renewed commitment to the jemalloc memory allocator, investing in its infrastructure and development. This move aims to improve performance and reliability for Meta's large-scale ...

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The “small web” is bigger than you might think

The article explores the concept of the 'small web' - personal websites, blogs, and independent sites that exist outside major platforms. It argues this ecosystem is more substantial and influential t...

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AirPods Max 2

Apple has released the second generation of its premium over-ear headphones, AirPods Max 2, featuring improved audio quality, enhanced noise cancellation, and longer battery life. The product announce...

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Starlink Mini as a failover

A technical guide explores using Starlink Mini as a reliable internet failover solution for critical connectivity needs. The article provides practical implementation details and performance analysis ...

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When perfection is table stakes

The article discusses the challenge of software rewrites, where new systems must match or exceed the reliability of existing ones to be accepted by users. It uses examples like Pulseaudio's initial so...

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Modeling Token Buckets in PlusCal and TLA+

This article demonstrates how to model token bucket algorithms for preventing retry storms in distributed systems using PlusCal and TLA+. It highlights a subtle concurrency trap that can occur when im...

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How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?

The article discusses the practical challenges governments face when trying to financially support open source maintainers, despite recognizing the need to fund critical infrastructure. It highlights ...

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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

The article argues that using LLMs to generate code and handle PR reviews for Django contributions is harmful to the project's quality and community. It emphasizes that Django requires deep understand...

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VisiCalc reconstructed

The article details a personal project to reconstruct a minimal clone of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software from 1979. It explains the core data model using C structures, a simple formula evalua...

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clangd for CUDA device code

Spectral Compute has extended clangd to provide comprehensive feedback for CUDA device code, including syntax error detection within inline PTX assembly. The tool works with both standard CUDA code an...

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LLM Architecture Gallery

Sebastian Raschka has created an LLM Architecture Gallery featuring detailed architecture diagrams and fact sheets for major language models from GPT-2 to recent releases like Llama 3 and OLMo 2. The ...

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Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B

Frore Systems, a deep tech chip startup, has reached unicorn status with a $1.64 billion valuation after raising $143 million. The company pivoted to develop advanced liquid-cooling technology for chi...

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The dictionary sues OpenAI

Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company used nearly 100,000 of their copyrighted articles to train its large language models without ...

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Shopify is preparing for AI shopping agents to change everything, exec says

Shopify's president Harley Finkelstein states the company is preparing for a major transformation in e-commerce driven by AI shopping agents. This indicates a strategic shift toward automated, persona...

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Walmart-backed PhonePe shelves IPO as global tensions rattle markets

Walmart-backed Indian fintech giant PhonePe has postponed its planned initial public offering due to market volatility caused by global tensions. The delay affects major investors including Tiger Glob...

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National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) is resisting political pressure to remove a climate change chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, a guide used by judges. Republican attorne...

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Apple’s AirPods Max 2 bring H2 chip, boosted ANC in April for $549

Apple is reportedly releasing the AirPods Max 2 in April 2026, featuring the newer H2 chip and improved active noise cancellation. The headphones will maintain the same $549 price point as the origina...

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The science of how fireflies stay in sync

Scientists have discovered that male fireflies in a South Carolina swamp synchronize their flashing displays through local interaction rules, similar to computational models of collective behavior. Th...

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Quoting Guilherme Rambo

The article shares a technical detail about the MacBook Neo's camera indicator light, which runs in the secure enclave of the chip. This design ensures the light activates even if the kernel is compro...

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How coding agents work

This article explains the technical foundations of coding agents, describing them as software harnesses that extend LLMs with additional capabilities through invisible prompts and callable tools. It d...

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What is agentic engineering?

Simon Willison defines 'agentic engineering' as the practice of developing software with coding agents—AI systems that can both write and execute code in a loop to achieve a goal. He explains that the...

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Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

A journalist reports receiving death threats from gamblers on the prediction market platform Polymarket who want him to alter his reporting on an Iran missile story to influence betting outcomes. The ...

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Try not to get scammed while looking for work

A developer shares a detailed account of a sophisticated job scam, where a fake CTO used social engineering and technical issues to gain trust and potentially compromise the victim's system. The scamm...

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Gleam v1.15.0 released

Gleam v1.15.0 has been released, featuring a mandatory upgrade to Hex package manager's new OAuth2-based authentication system for improved security. The update includes multi-factor authentication, s...

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Reviewing large changes with Jujutsu

The author shares a workflow for reviewing large code changes using Jujutsu (jj), a Git alternative, particularly in the context of increasingly large pull requests from coding agents. The post focuse...

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The Gemini Protocol in 2026

The Gemini protocol continues to grow steadily in 2026 as a minimalist, non-commercial alternative to the modern web. Designed specifically to resist commercialization and tracking, it maintains a nic...

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Introducing pgtui, a Postgres TUI client

pgtui is a new terminal-based PostgreSQL client written in Rust that allows users to interact with databases using TOML format and their preferred terminal editor. The tool enables browsing relations,...

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Even Faster asin() Was Staring Right At Me

A developer revisits a previously optimized arc sine (asin) approximation in C++, finding a way to further improve performance by refactoring the polynomial evaluation to use fewer multiplications. Th...

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Apple acquires video editing software company MotionVFX

Apple has acquired video editing software company MotionVFX, a move that could strengthen its competitive position against Adobe's video editing tools. The acquisition suggests Apple is investing more...

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The billionaires made a promise — now some want out

Some billionaires are reportedly reconsidering their commitments to the Giving Pledge, an initiative founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett that encourages wealthy individuals to donate the majority...

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100 years later, where is Robert Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket?

The article explores the historical whereabouts of Robert Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket, 100 years after its launch. It discusses how Goddard himself didn't preserve it as a museum artifact, re...

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Quoting A member of Anthropic’s alignment-science team

An Anthropic alignment team member explains that the 'blackmail exercise' was designed to create visceral results that could effectively communicate AI misalignment risks to policymakers. The exercise...

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Coding agents for data analysis

Simon Willison shares a workshop handout from NICAR 2026 titled 'Coding agents for data analysis,' which demonstrates how AI coding assistants like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can be used by data jou...

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New Durobo Krono has 6.13″ E Ink Screen, Runs Android 15

The Durobo Krono is a new phone-sized E Ink device priced at $279, featuring a 6.13-inch screen and running Android 15. It appears to be a more basic alternative to the Boox Palma 2, offering similar ...