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Wednesday, 22 April 2026
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NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026)
Article URL: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/08/2026-00206/request-for-information-regarding-security-considerations-for-artificial-intelligence-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131689 Points: 10 # Comment
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Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
Article URL: https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/william-shatner-announces-all-star-metal-album Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131173 Points: 73 # Comments: 35
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I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
Article URL: https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130860 Points: 46 # Comments: 2
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Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends
Article URL: https://singh-sanjay.com/2026/01/12/health-checks-client-vs-server-side-lb.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130431 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
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The rise of eyes began with just one
https://archive.ph/drNhb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125484 Points: 11 # Comments: 5
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Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
Sowbot is an open-hardware agricultural robot designed to close the "prototype gap" that kills most agri-robotics startups and research projects — the 18+ months spent on drivers, networking, safety watchdogs, and UI before you can even start on the
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With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic
While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule.
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Uber wants to be a Swiss Army Knife for robotaxis
Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company selling both software and services for all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business.
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Google’s Cloud AI leads on the three frontiers of model capability
AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call "extensibility."
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Pentagon buyer: We're happy with our launch industry, but payloads are lagging
"The point is to get missions out the door as fast as possible. Two to three years is too slow."
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Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
Even in a fragile farm economy, million-dollar offers can't sway dedicated farmers.
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Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs
Panasonic was one of the last Japanese companies still manufacturing TVs.
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War Propaganda and Iran: Script Used for Every Failed US War Hauled Out Again
Article URL: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-and-iran-the-exact Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130897 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130208 Points: 63 # Comments: 21
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Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/making-wolfram-tech-available-as-a-foundation-tool-for-llm-systems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129727 Points: 20 # Comments: 5