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Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer • Mar 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM • georgelarson.me • Hacker News
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AI chatbots are becoming "sycophants" to drive engagement, a new study of 11 leading models finds. By constantly flattering users and validating bad behavior (affirming 49% more than humans do), AI is giving harmful advice that can damage real-world relationships and reinforce biases. • Mar 26, 2026 at 5:59 PM • science.org • r/science
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Apple discontinues the Mac Pro • Mar 26, 2026 at 5:04 PM • 9to5mac.com • Hacker News
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Rigging bingo: Creating seeded randoms in JavaScript • Mar 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM • wescook.ca • ~comp
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We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do • Mar 26, 2026 at 3:48 PM • derekthompson.org • Hacker News
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Social Media is a Cigarette, and Engagement is Code for Addiction • Mar 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM • phunky.cafe • Bear
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Hoopla Bonus Borrows for March 2026 • Mar 26, 2026 at 2:12 PM • hoopladigital.com • ~books
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Erling Haaland donated a rare 16th-Century book of Viking sagas, worth £100,000, to be displayed in the library in the Norwegian town of Bryne, where he grew up • Mar 26, 2026 at 2:10 PM • bbc.com • ~humanities.history
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Interesting material types for fantasy resources/macguffins other than crystals or metals? • Mar 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM • tildes.net • ~creative
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I can't See Apple's Vision • Mar 26, 2026 at 1:35 PM • matduggan.com • Lobsters
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$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks • Mar 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM • github.com/itigges22 • Hacker News
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Making Mouseland • Mar 26, 2026 at 11:51 AM • maggierudy.com • ~arts
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My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack • Mar 26, 2026 at 11:48 AM • futuresearch.ai • Hacker News
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Fitness Weekly Discussion • Mar 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~health
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Researchers At CERN Transport Antiprotons By Truck In World-First Experiment • Mar 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM • physicsworld.com • science.slashdot
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That litellm supply chain attack is a wake up call. checked my deps and found 3 packages pulling it in • Mar 26, 2026 at 10:35 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events • Mar 26, 2026 at 10:32 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment due to accidental contamination from lab gloves, which release stearate salts that are structurally similar to polyethylene and difficult to distinguish from plastics using standard vibrational spectroscopy • Mar 26, 2026 at 10:06 AM • theconversation.com • r/science
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Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) • Mar 26, 2026 at 10:02 AM • nytimes.com • ~lgbt
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Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people • Mar 26, 2026 at 9:38 AM • unterwaditzer.net • Hacker News
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European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop • Mar 26, 2026 at 8:30 AM • bsky.app • Hacker News
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End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance • Mar 26, 2026 at 8:24 AM • patrick-breyer.de • Hacker News
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GitHub will use your repos to train AI models • Mar 26, 2026 at 8:05 AM • github.com • r/programming
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Reddit Takes On Bots With 'Human Verification' Requirements • Mar 26, 2026 at 7:00 AM • techcrunch.com • yro.slashdot
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Can't we just ignore AI? • Mar 26, 2026 at 5:40 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Reddit will implement human verification to tag and combat bots • Mar 26, 2026 at 1:55 AM • reddit.com • ~tech
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What’s something you’re putting up with? • Mar 25, 2026 at 8:50 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
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False claims in a widely-cited paper • Mar 25, 2026 at 8:46 PM • statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu • Hacker News
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Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) • Mar 25, 2026 at 8:28 PM • blog.hofstede.it • Hacker News
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Postal Service to Impose Its First-Ever Fuel Surcharge on Packages • Mar 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM • cnbc.com • Slashdot
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vim-classic: Long-term maintenance of Vim 8.x • Mar 25, 2026 at 6:56 PM • sr.ht • Lobsters