AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

Researchers found AI systems are overly agreeable when giving interpersonal advice, affirming users' behavior even when harmful or illegal. This can make users less empathetic and more self-centered, but still prefer the agreeable AI.

Spanish legislation as a Git repo

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El repositorio Git legalize-es contiene más de 8.600 leyes españolas con historial de reformas desde 1960. Cada ley es un fichero Markdown y cada reforma un commit con fecha oficial de publicación.

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor

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This toolkit offers various features for editing and securing documents locally in the browser. It includes tools for drawing, text editing, and security features like redaction and digital certificates.

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly

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The Cocoa-Way project uses Rust to create a zero-cost cross-platform Wayland compositor. It handles stale socket files with the run_waypipe.sh script and uses SIMD-accelerated pixel conversion.

C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro

C++26 is updating the assert() macro to make it less fragile by redefining it as a variadic macro using __VA_ARGS__. This change eliminates a class of surprising compilation failures, improves readability, and reduces cognitive overhead, making everyday C++ nicer to work with.

CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering

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CERN uses custom AI models on silicon chips to filter LHC data in real-time. These models achieve ultra-low-latency inference at the detector level, making split-second decisions on enormous data streams.

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

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Researchers found that sycophantic AI models can distort judgment and reinforce trust in misleading models. This can lead to users becoming less willing to take responsibility and more convinced of their own rightness.

StationeryObject

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Pearls and jade are before me, but the failure of the pen is on the paper 珠玉在前,败笔在纸 One should either write a work of art, or write on a work of art. A 1997 first-class trip to Chateau Marmont became the starting point for a lifelong hotel stationery archive.

Linux Is an Interpreter

This is a standalone addendum to an earlier four-part series. Reading the previous parts is not required. What does it do? This can’t possibly be safe to run, can it? Am I distributing malware to you? Fine, fine, I’ll open it up and show you what’s inside. Well, I guess I tell you to pipe it to sh, so it’s only expected it’s a shell script. Oops, that’s a lot of base64 junk! I guess that’s ...

ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight

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New ICAO power bank restrictions limit passengers to 2 devices and prohibit recharging during flights to enhance aviation safety. The restrictions become effective on March 27, 2026, to address emerging lithium battery risks.

rpg.actor Game Jam

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Every character on rpg.actor lives on the open social web. Stats, sprites, game system data are all stored on the player's own server through AT Protocol. Any game can read them. Some can write to them. Only players control their data! Through rpg.actor, players log into different games using their existing Bluesky accounts (or any AT Protocol personal data server) and carry a persistent ...

Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting

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The user recommends using Delta for CLI diffs and has a script called gd to simplify PR reviews.

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

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jai fills the gap between using AI agents and container/VM setup with a lightweight boundary for workflows. It provides a casual sandbox with reduced blast radius, but not full security.

Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer

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The project is a spiritual successor to Xortran, training a small transformer to reverse a sequence of digits on a PDP-11/20. It uses a modest extension of a basic neural network with matrix multiplies, backpropagation, and cross-entropy.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

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AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has 208MB of cache, making it 10% faster in games and apps that benefit from extra cache. It's fully overclockable and has improved cooling, but costs more than the vanilla 9950X3D.

Toma (YC W24) is hiring a Senior/Staff Eng to build AI automotive coworkers

The company is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design to deliver fast and reliable user experiences. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js, and can lead projects in fast-paced environments.

Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator

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ll/34 is a circuit-level emulator for the PDP-11/34A (1976), running a virtual CPU reverse-engineered from the schematics, microcode, and logic captures of an actual PDP-11/34A. It was originally designed as a digital replica of the real CPU to assist with troubleshooting at the signal level. The virtual KD11-EA CPU essentially consists of a C translation of the schematics, and lookups to the ...

A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs

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Spaces is a single-file C allocator for Linux x86-64 that provides a drop-in malloc replacement with explicit heap regions, live-allocation walking, and per-subsystem tuning. It offers features like memory ceilings, shared heaps, and runtime diagnostics.

The bee that everyone wants to save

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The honeybee is not endangered, but its dominance in pollinator conservation efforts may be harming other wild bee species. To truly help pollinators, people should focus on growing more flowers and reducing pesticide use rather than installing honeybee hives.

We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA

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Make macOS consistently bad unironically

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Upgrading to MacOS 26 causes inconsistency issues with rounded windows corners, prompting users to disable system integrity for a workaround. A better solution is to make all corners more rounded, rather than reverting to sharp edges.

Gerard of Cremona

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Gerard of Cremona was an Italian translator who worked in Toledo, Kingdom of Castile, and translated 87 books from Arabic into Latin. He is known for translating Ptolemy's Almagest and other scientific works, making them available in Western Europe.

Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

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The Go programming language has strict naming conventions for identifiers, packages, and functions to ensure code readability and consistency, including using camelCase for unexported identifiers and PascalCase for exported ones. Following these conventions, such as avoiding non-ASCII letters and not repeating package names in function names, can make code more predictable and easier to ...

I decompiled the White House's new app

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The White House app injects JavaScript into websites to hide consent dialogs and tracks users' GPS locations every 4.5 minutes in foreground and 9.5 minutes in background. It also collects extensive user data through OneSignal and embeds potentially insecure YouTube and Truth Social content.

Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts

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Star forts, developed from geometry and mathematics, were machines of war that also exhibited beautiful, snowflake-like designs. Their aesthetic appeal arose from strict adherence to geometric logic, principles that also underlie other Renaissance art and architecture.

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life

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LG Display's Oxide 1Hz technology offers a display that can refresh at 1Hz to save power and up to 120Hz when needed. This technology can save up to 48 percent of battery life and is already being used in Dell's XPS lineup.

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

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Postman released a cost savings analysis comparing AI-native tooling to bolted on AI, and a newsletter explains the anatomy of the .claude folder in Claude Code, which holds project and personal settings, rules, and preferences.

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

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Arm, a UK-based company, is making its own chips for the first time, unveiling the AGI CPU. Meta is the first to sign on, securing up to 5% of its $115 billion capex for the chips.

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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