1. Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)
Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.
2. Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Ohio cops who raided home (nypost.com)
The verdict was the icing on the cake. Afroman did not defame Ohio cops in a satirical music video that featured footage of them fruitlessly raiding the rapper’s house, a jury found on Wednes…
3. Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety (android-developers.googleblog.com)
4. Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents (www.pew.org)
After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes. From 2010 to 2019, rents in Austin increased nearly 93%—more than in any other major American city. And home sale prices increased 82%, more than in any other metro area in Texas.
5. A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
6. 'Your Frustration Is the Product' (daringfireball.net)
The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.
7. Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com)
State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB 😻 . Contribute to KittenML/KittenTTS development by creating an account on GitHub.
8. Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode (github.com)
Remove anthropic references per legal requests:
Remove anthropic-20250930.txt prompt file
Remove anthropic from provider hints
Remove opencode-anthropic-auth builtin plugin
Remove anthropic from p...
Remove anthropic-20250930.txt prompt file
Remove anthropic from provider hints
Remove opencode-anthropic-auth builtin plugin
Remove anthropic from p...
9. US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (www.bbc.com)
The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.
10. Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (forums.tigsource.com)
11. Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland (bsky.app)
1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️
12. macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal (gist.github.com)
Bug Report: macOS 26 breaks /etc/resolver/ supplemental DNS for custom TLDs - macos26-breaks-custom-dns
13. Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos (www.nytimes.com)
14. Waymo 13x safer than human drivers (twitter.com)
15. An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD (www.openttd.org)
16. Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)
17. Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers (github.com)
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. - cockpit-project/cockpit
18. Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence (www.reuters.com)
19. How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel (www.carryology.com)
Modern adventure apparel should outperform heritage gear, right? Well, the genetically identical Turner twins put this theory to the test...
20. Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)
21. Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com)
I replicated Ng's RYS method and found that duplicating 3 specific layers in Qwen2.5-32B boosts reasoning by 17% and duplicating layers 12-14 in Devstral-24B improves logical deduction from 0.2...
22. Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (consequence.net)
Juggalos had it right all along. It turns out the Insane Clown Posse fans' makeup effectively blocks some facial recognition software.
23. Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)
Mozilla announced that Firefox version 149 will introduce a free browser-integrated VPN tier starting March 24, 2026.
24. Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust (www.iroh.computer)
Introducing noq: n0's QUIC implementation
25. Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster (blog.skypilot.co)
Karpathy
26. OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)
27. Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf] (static.nhtsa.gov)
28. Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm (www.bristol.ac.uk)
Research has confirmed for the first time that people with active gambling accounts who receive regular ‘free bets’ and other direct marketing offers place a lot more bets, spend far more, and suffer greater related harms than gamblers who have opted out of such offers.
