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13:41

3.17.26 | Polymarket gamblers threaten violence, Kagi...

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2026/03/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story (01:52) - Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language (03:04) - US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement (04:04) - Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering (05:31) - Meta’s

13:46

3.16.26 | Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata...

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2026/03/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance (01:43) - The 49MB web page (03:02) - Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) (04:15) - LLM Architecture Gallery (05:22) - A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015) (06:24) - Stop Sloppypasta (07:49) - Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager (09:06) -

16:09

3.15.26 | Ageless Linux for all ages, Python's...

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2026/03/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:24) - Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (02:43) - Python: The Optimization Ladder (04:50) - Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (06:35) - How kernel anti-cheats work (08:02) - Marketing for Founders (09:15) - Rack-mount hydroponics (10:19) - Show HN: Han – A Korean

13:44

3.14.26 | Can I run AI locally, 1M context with Opus...

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2026/03/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Can I run AI locally? (01:34) - 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (03:07) - Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (04:29) - Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (05:43) - The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the

14:20

3.13.26 | Reject implementation, Malus Clean Room as...

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2026/03/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:15) - Shall I implement it? No (01:40) - Malus – Clean Room as a Service (03:08) - “This is not the computer for you” (04:42) - ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (06:19) - US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says (07:58) - Willingness to look stupid (09:21) - Big data on the

14:18

3.12.26 | Avoid AI-generated comments, JavaScript...

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2026/03/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans (01:38) - Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (03:10) - Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (04:36) - The MacBook Neo (05:58) - BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (07:31) - I was interviewed

13:35

3.11.26 | Tony Hoare has died, Meta acquires...

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2026/03/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Tony Hoare has died (01:20) - Meta acquires Moltbook (02:49) - Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world (04:21) - Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns (05:42) - Agents that run while I sleep (07:17) - Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated

15:11

3.10.26 | Ireland closes coal plant, building...

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2026/03/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (02:06) - Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (03:42) - Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (05:31) - Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are

13:53

3.9.26 | Agent Safehouse offers macOS-native...

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2026/03/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:17) - Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (01:50) - Ask HN: How to be alone? (03:27) - Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (04:39) - FrameBook (05:40) - My Homelab Setup (06:46) - Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (07:57) - We should revisit literate

12:05

3.8.26 | Docker containers' decade, yoghurt delivery...

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2026/03/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - A decade of Docker containers (01:25) - Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan (02:43) - CasNum (03:40) - Cloud VM benchmarks 2026 (04:58) - Files are the interface humans and agents interact with (06:17) - FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment (07:20) - Dumping Lego NXT firmware

14:15

3.7.26 | Tech employment decline, Firefox security...

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2026/03/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (01:44) - Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team (03:21) - Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion (04:35) - Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma (05:53) - this css proves me human (07:05) - Show

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3.6.26 | Wikipedia in read-only mode, government...

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2026/03/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (01:48) - Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs (03:24) - GPT-5.4 (04:54) - 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (06:23) - Where things stand with the Department of War (07:57) - CBP tapped into the

14:08

3.5.26 | MacBook Neo, developments in Qwen, Google...

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2026/03/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - MacBook Neo (01:59) - Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (03:23) - Google Workspace CLI (04:40) - Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’ (06:28) - Building a new Flash (07:38) - “It turns out” (2010) (08:58) - Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny

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3.4.26 | MacBook Pro with M5 chips, Motorola...

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2026/03/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (02:07) - Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (03:26) - Claude's Cycles [pdf] (04:58) - Don't become an engineering manager (06:24) - GPT‑5.3 Instant (07:40) - TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less

13:19

3.3.26 | Meta’s AI smart glasses raise data privacy...

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2026/03/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns (01:09) - “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server (02:35) - British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time (04:01) - Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch (05:22) - New iPad Air, powered by M4 (06:45) -

14:22

3.2.26 | Ghostty terminal, Motorola partners with...

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2026/03/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (01:35) - Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation (03:12) - Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (04:29) - When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (06:20) - WebMCP is available for early preview (07:30) - Microgpt explained interactively (08:31)

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3.1.26 | Microgpt, Anthropic not a supply chain risk,...

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2026/03/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Microgpt (01:42) - We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (03:15) - The happiest I've ever been (04:13) - Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (05:25) - MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (06:50) - Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5

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2.28.26 | "We Will Not Be Divided," comments from...

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2026/02/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - We Will Not Be Divided (01:30) - Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (02:53) - OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (04:15) - A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (05:55) - OpenAI raises $110B on $730B

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2.27.26 | Dario Amodei discusses Department of War...

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2026/02/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (01:41) - Layoffs at Block (03:03) - What Claude Code chooses (04:25) - AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (05:58) - What does " 2>&1 " mean? (07:13) - I baked a pie every day for a

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2.26.26 | Danish government agency plans to stop...

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2026/02/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (01:38) - Never buy a .online domain (03:19) - Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (05:00) - Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (06:06) - Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (07:37) - Windows 11 Notepad to

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