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1. Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
2. Gemini 3.1
Gemini 3.1 Pro is the next iteration in the Gemini 3 series of models, a suite of highly capable, natively multimodal reasoning models.
3. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict
4. Farewell Rust
For now...
5. A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
a terminal weather app with ascii animation. Contribute to Veirt/weathr development by creating an account on GitHub.
6. Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
An interactive data journalism piece exploring the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer, with population simulations, risk factors, and prevention information.
7. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
8. Pebble Production: February Update
February Pebble Production and Software Updates
9. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
How AI summaries can be steered: bilingual prompts, hidden policies, and why multilingual LLM guardrails fail in human rights contexts.
10. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
11. Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
12. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
13. Show HN: An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
An encrypted local cross-platform journaling app. Contribute to fjrevoredo/mini-diarium development by creating an account on GitHub.
14. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
15. Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves
16. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
17. Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve the migration experience.
18. Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial
19. The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.
20. Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation
21. AI Makes You Boring
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22. Voith Schneider Propeller
23. IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup
24. 15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern
25. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! Contribute to sstraust/shannonmax development by creating an account on GitHub.
26. Step 3.5 Flash: Fast Enough to Think. Reliable Enough to Act
27. California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report Themselves
28. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
29. University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"
Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.
30. YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users
Background play in Brave appears to have been restrored, though.