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Most of the US economy is already in a recession, and GDP is only being propped up by tech, market vet says By Naomi Buchananhttps://www.businessinsider.com/au...

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/seattle-womans-911-calls-reveal-gaps-in-ambulance-service/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

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artificial-life A simple 300 lines of code reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interactionhttps:/...

macOS-native sandboxing for local agents. Move fast, break nothing. LLMs are probabilistic—​a 1 % chance of disaster makes it a matter of when, not if. Tested a...

Literate Programming, Org Mode, and Coding Agents Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader c...

I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I see lots of clearly AI‑generated posts recently in HN, mostly coming from new accounts green. It is especially noticeabl...

Introduction Sup HN, I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I built a dashboard c...

Article In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a game‑world 2022https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-62732200806-6?_returnURL=http...

The single source of truth for your data types Skir is a declarative language for defining data types, constants, and APIs. Write your schema once in a .skir f...

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2026/03/06/claude-struggles-to-cope-with-chatgpt-exodus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2026/03/06/claude-struggles-to-cope-with-chatgpt-exodus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

!https://blog.documentfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/LO_26_2-light.png We’re pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2, the newest version...

Oracle’s Cost‑Cutting and Asset‑Sale Plans - Job Reductions - Oracle may cut 20,000–30,000 jobs. - Expected cash‑flow benefit: $8 billion–$10 billion. - Source:...

Article URL: https://corticallabs.com/doom.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297919 Points: 4 Comments: 0...

UPDATED Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances 2026‑03‑05 – 2026‑03‑06https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidan...

Beagle SCM Beagle is a source code management system that stores AST trees, not binary blobs. The general idea is a database for the code as a hub of all code‑...

A CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior. !demohttps://github.com/kantord/blogtato/raw/main/demo/demo.gifhttps://github.com/kantord/blogtato/blob/main...

I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine. Running GTA 5 Enhanced with Ray Tracing. 🤯...

Overview I'm a solo developer in Taiwan. I built four AI agents that handle content, sales leads, security scanning, and operations for my tech agency—all on G...

Package‑Manager‑Like Quacking I spend a lot of time studying package managers, and after a while you develop an eye for things that quack like one. Plenty of t...

Eyot Eyothttps://github.com/steeleduncan/eyot is a new language I’m building to make offloading work to the GPU as seamless as spawning a background thread. Ey...

Background If the only thing you had to go off was Apple’s string of product announcements this week, you’d have little reason to believe that there is a histo...

I'm not consulting an LLM Here's my problem with using GPT, or an LLM generally for anything, even if the LLM would do it effectively. I will speak specificall...

Question I know there are companies that are highly productive with AI, including ours. However, AI skeptics ask for real studies, and all of the ones availabl...

Abstract Large language model LLM-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing, as e...

Overview Despite widespread industry recommendations, a new ETH Zurich paperhttps://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F2602.11988 conclu...

Introduction – the Why? Where? How? Madhav on Computer M & Swarup on Computer S. Both, looking at their Reddit feeds and getting awed by pictures of the Moon,...

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQTueNS4mLaGy3BBL/here-s-to-the-polypropylene-makers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295040 Po...

Semantic version control. Entity‑level diffs on top of Git. Instead of line 43 changed, sem tells you function validateToken was added in src/auth.ts. diff sem...

The first time I sat down and used Claude Code's Opus 4.5 to build software, I couldn't believe how good it was. My next thought was: this is going to change th...

Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1156532/They-all-said-Hormuz-closure-would-be-brief-What-if-they-were-wrong Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

markdown !@konstinhttps://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6826232?s=40&v=4 It seems that PyPy is not being actively developed anymore and is phased out even by...

markdown !@konstinhttps://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6826232?s=40&v=4 It seems that PyPy is not being actively developed anymore and is phased out even by...

In 2021, being a good software engineer felt great. The world was full of software, with more companies arriving every year who needed to employ engineers to wr...

The opinions - Notes are ~/Documents/ghostmd/.md. Not a database. Not synced to our servers. Files on your disk, forever yours. - Markdown is already beautiful...

AI in Software Engineering Software engineering was supposed to be artificial intelligence’s easiest win. Today, companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft...

A US ZIP code is 5 characters. From those 5 characters you can determine the city, the state, and the country—three fields—autofilled from a single input. Yet m...

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. !warning iconhttps://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/26a0.svg Some privacy related extensions ma...

C++ template meta programming in a Lisp style. C++17 is required. See test.cc for examples. Example: Sieve of Eratosthenes cpp include using namespace lmp; // i...

Discussion > Ecuadorhttps://slashdot.org/~Ecuador writes: Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5...

Online job scams seem increasingly common. I'm curious whether people would actually use a job board where every job listing is verified before being published....

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Article URL: https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291513 Points: 82 Comments: 34...

Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to prevent government officials at the...

Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran strikes, Venezuela military actions. Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon...

!teaserhttps://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/raw/master/progress.pnghttps://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/blob/master/progress.png One day, frontier AI re...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not, it’s safe to assume, a devoted Polymarket user. If he had been, the Iranian leader might still be alive. Hours before Khamenei’s...