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You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account

Article URL: https://www.heltweg.org/posts/you-want-to-visit-the-uk-you-better-have-a-google-play-or-app-store-account/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164605 Points: 91 # Comments: 108

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Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line

TerminalPhone is a single, self-contained Bash script that provides anonymous, end-to-end encrypted voice and text communication between two parties over the Tor network. It operates as a walkie-talkie: you record a voice message, and it is compresse

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Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

Hi HN, I recently noticed that an YC company (Run ANywhere, W26) sent me the following email: From: Aditya Subject: Mikołaj, think you'd like this [snip] Hi Mikołaj, I found your GitHub and thought you might like what we're building. [snip] I have al

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Banned in California

Article URL: https://www.bannedincalifornia.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159430 Points: 197 # Comments: 222

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RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

Article URL: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rk3588-and-rk3576-video-decoders-support-merged-in-the-upstream-linux-kernel.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157285 Points: 42 # Comments: 2

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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”

Article URL: https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/refine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162059 Points: 124 # Comments: 151

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I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word."

Article URL: https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/refine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162059 Points: 46 # Comments: 22

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Self-improving software won't produce Skynet

Article URL: https://contalign.jefflunt.com/self-improving-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161498 Points: 16 # Comments: 8

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Show HN: OpenSwarm – Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub

I built OpenSwarm because I wanted an autonomous “AI dev team” that can actually plug into my real workflow instead of running toy tasks. OpenSwarm orchestrates multiple Claude Code CLI instances as agents to work on real Linear issues. It: • pulls i

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Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts

I've been building ZSE (Z Server Engine) for the past few weeks — an open-source LLM inference engine focused on two things nobody has fully solved together: memory efficiency and fast cold starts. The problem I was trying to solve: Running a 32B mod

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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160226 Points: 129 # Comments: 29

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First Website (1992)

Article URL: https://info.cern.ch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159302 Points: 140 # Comments: 28

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How will OpenAI compete?

Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158975 Points: 84 # Comments: 69

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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop

Article URL: https://aircada.com/blog/ai-vs-human-3d-ecommerce Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157841 Points: 35 # Comments: 28

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PA bench: Evaluating web agents on real world personal assistant workflows

We’re the team at Vibrant Labs (W24). We’ve been building envs for browser agents and quickly realized that existing benchmarks in this space didn’t capture the primary failure modes we were seeing in production (which scaled up as the number of appl