Weekly news | 2026-03-11
news
- Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
- MacBook Neo
- Claude's Cycles [pdf]
- Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
- TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
- Agentic Engineering Patterns
- Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
- Textadept
- RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
- Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
- An interactive map of Flock Cams
- Graphics Programming Resources
- Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation
- Glaze by Raycast
- My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
- Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy
- Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
- Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals
- MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone
- Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
- Show HN: Stacked Game of Life
- The largest acidic geyser has been putting on quite a show
- On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf]
- Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD)
- Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
- Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
- Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
- Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
- Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs
- AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time
- NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]
- Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter
- World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
- Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)
- Good software knows when to stop
- US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters
- The View from RSS
- Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king
- Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?
- Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships
- Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control
- A man who broke into jail
- You Just Reveived
- The government uses targeted advertising to track your location
- Global warming has accelerated significantly
- 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
- Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
- A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests
- Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
- LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor
- Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language
- Payphone Go
- US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
- Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android
- CT Scans of Health Wearables
- How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone
- GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
- AI and the Ship of Theseus
- It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard
- Good Bad ISPs
- Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale
- We might all be AI engineers now
- Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape
- Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces
- Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon
- Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
- Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
- Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text
- Helix: A post-modern text editor
- Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST
- Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
- The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
- Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers
- What canceled my Go context?
- PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon
- Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
- 48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer (2023)
- QGIS 4.0
- Maybe there's a pattern here?
- Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)
- Querying 3B Vectors
- FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment
- A decade of Docker containers
- Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu
- Lock Scroll with a Vengeance
- Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces
- Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]
- Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
- Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
- Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets
- LLM Writing Tropes.md
- Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
- How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
- In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad
- Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
- The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
- How important was the Battle of Hastings?
- Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
- FrameBook
- SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
- Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
- I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine
- The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines
- Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope
- The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist
- From RGB to Lab* color space (2024)
- [What if the Apple ] had run on Field-Sequential?
- Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
- US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
- Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
- Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
- FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
- Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
- Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)
- Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
- Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
- How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
- The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
- JSLinux Now Supports x86_64
- Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL
- Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later
- The legendary Mojave Phone Booth is back (2013)
- Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery
- FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale
- Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists
- Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)
- DARPA’s new X-76
- Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents
- No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026
- Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
- Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt
- Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
- No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
- Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults
- Two Years of Emacs Solo
- I put my whole life into a single database
- Meta acquires Moltbook
- Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
- The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
- Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round
- Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
- Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data
- Darkrealms BBS
- Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS
- After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
- Rebasing in Magit
- Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
- Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs
- LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)
- macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
- Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification
- So you want to write an “app” (2025)
- Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other
- Agents that run while I sleep
- Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings
- RISC-V Is Sloooow
AI: - GPT-5.4 - Where things stand with the Department of War - Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team
- AWS:
- Batch configurable scale down delay
- Bedrock AgentCore Policy |
GA - Bedrock Mistral AI Devstral 2
- CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on APM is enabled by Default
- Config +30 resource types
- Connect Health Agentic AI Built for Healthcare
- Database Savings Plans OpenSearch Service and Neptune Analytics
- Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis
- Elemental MediaLive Now Supports SRT Listener Mode
- EventBridge Scheduler a higher default quota for the CreateSchedule API
- GameLift Servers launches DDoS Protection
- HealthLake data transformation agent for automated CCDA-to-FHIR data conversion |
Preview - IAM simplified role creation and setup in service workflows
- Lambda Kiro Power durable functions development
- Lightsail OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant
- OpenSearch Ingestion
-Prometheus as a sink
-unified ingestion endpoint for OpenTelemetry data - OpenSearch Service capacity optimized blue/green deployments
- Organizations Multi-party approval with approval team baselining
- Redshift
-new array functions for semi-structured data processing
-reusable templates for COPY operations - Redshift Serverless datashare permissions during restore
- SageMaker HyperPod
-API-driven Slurm configuration
-comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups - SageMaker Unified Studio
-AWS Glue 5.1 for data processing jobs
-light mode support for IAM-based domains
-metadata sync with third-party catalogs
-remote connection from Kiro IDE - Security Hub Shield network security director findings
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
- Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities
- Better JIT for Postgres
- Google Workspace CLI
- No right to relicense this project
- Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
- Astra: An open-source observatory control software
- A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
- UUID package coming to Go standard library
- Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool
- Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver
- Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
- Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
- Lisp-style C++ template meta programming
- MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games
- PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug
- Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw
- Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
blogs
- “It turns out” (2010)
- You can use newline characters in URLs
- RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#
- The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
- Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
- Poor Man's Polaroid
- Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough
- Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
- A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
- Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework
- System76 on Age Verification Laws
- Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025)
- Nobody ever got fired for using a struct
- Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
- LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
- Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
- Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
- Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm
- Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2)
- LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown
- LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances
- My “grand vision” for Rust
- Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software
- Best performance of a C++ singleton
- Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol
- Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
- FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing
- Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer
- Tony Hoare has died
- The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers
- Optimizing Top K in Postgres
- Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art