News Summary

Technology and Software Updates

• Conflict-free Database over Virtual File System - Exploring the innovative application of a conflict-free replicated database utilizing a virtual file system.

• GNOME 48 released - Announcement of the latest GNOME platform update with new features and tweaks.

• Red v0.6.6: Memory Management Improvements - Summary of memory management upgrades in the latest version of the Red programming language.

• Intel 9 285K on ASUS Z890: not stable - Tech commentary on the instability issues of Intel's latest processor on a prominent motherboard.

• Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture - A deep dive into the future plans for Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture.

• Markprompt (YC W24) – Stripe for customer support – is hiring founding eng in SF - A pitch for Markprompt's innovative approach to customer support, modeled after the Stripe API.

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

• AI Blindspots - An analysis of identified shortcomings and limitations in large language models.

• Nvidia Says 'the Age of Generalist Robotics Is Here' - Nvidia's vision for the next era of versatile robotics capabilities.

• AI Crawlers Haven't Learned To Play Nice With Websites - Challenges and conflicts faced by AI web crawlers in respecting website rules.

Space and Science Developments

• Pierogi in Space - ESA’s fascinating exploration project sending pierogi to space.

• Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia - Highlighting advancements in technology using muons for structural inspections.

Cultural and Industry Shifts

• Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union - A historic step towards unionization in the video game industry.

• The Future of Fauna - Insights into Fauna's future direction amidst industry changes.

• Supply constraints do not explain house price, quantity growth across US cities - Academic findings challenging commonly held beliefs about housing market dynamics.

Historic Perspectives and Innovations

• The Lost Art of Research as Leisure - A contemplative piece on the value of leisurely academic research.

• Bell Labs' Unsung Heros in the History of Computing (2012) - Celebrating lesser-known contributors to major computing advancements.

• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) - A humorous yet critical reflection on the evolution of programming languages.

• Copyright and the demoscene - Discusses copyright's influence on the vibrant digital art subculture of the demoscene.

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• 2025-03-19, 21:18:07 - Conflict-free Database over Virtual File System
• 2025-03-19, 21:00:00 - PCI Express 7.0's Blazing Speeds Are Nearly Here, But PCIe 6 is Still Vapor
• 2025-03-19, 20:39:58 - AI Blindspots
• 2025-03-19, 20:31:13 - Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture
• 2025-03-19, 20:00:00 - Plex Raises Premium Subscription Prices for First Time in Decade
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• 2025-03-19, 19:43:58 - Scoping a Local-First Image Archive
• 2025-03-19, 19:36:11 - ByteCraft: Generating video games and animations through bytes
• 2025-03-19, 19:26:03 - Pierogi in Space
• 2025-03-19, 19:11:32 - Note to the C++ standards committee members on profiles and safety
• 2025-03-19, 18:58:00 - EU Orders Apple To Open Ecosystem To Rivals
• 2025-03-19, 18:32:21 - GNOME 48 released
• 2025-03-19, 18:27:26 - The Future of Fauna
• 2025-03-19, 18:14:14 - Notebooks as reusable Python programs
• 2025-03-19, 17:34:43 - The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp
• 2025-03-19, 17:29:00 - U.S. Atari Parts Store Still Open After 41 Years, Has Spent $100K+ Designing New Parts
• 2025-03-19, 17:25:00 - AI Crawlers Haven't Learned To Play Nice With Websites
• 2025-03-19, 17:20:03 - Intel 9 285K on ASUS Z890: not stable
• 2025-03-19, 17:17:04 - Fauna Service Winding Down
• 2025-03-19, 17:00:13 - Markprompt (YC W24) – Stripe for customer support – is hiring founding eng in SF
• 2025-03-19, 17:00:00 - More Than 150 'Unprecedented' Climate Disasters Struck World in 2024, Says UN
• 2025-03-19, 16:50:05 - Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software
• 2025-03-19, 16:48:32 - AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
• 2025-03-19, 16:34:45 - Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3
• 2025-03-19, 16:26:55 - Red v0.6.6: Memory Management Improvements
• 2025-03-19, 16:13:20 - How fast the days are getting longer
• 2025-03-19, 16:10:23 - Memory safety for web fonts
• 2025-03-19, 16:00:00 - FedEx Data Scraping and Telecom Insider Bribes Powered Nationwide iPhone Theft Operation
• 2025-03-19, 15:59:12 - Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?
• 2025-03-19, 15:40:35 - The Business of Phish (2013)
• 2025-03-19, 15:16:48 - Memory safety for web fonts
• 2025-03-19, 15:02:36 - The macOS Blog Post (ft. Hackintosh)
• 2025-03-19, 15:00:00 - Microsoft Quantum Computing Claim Still Lacks Evidence
• 2025-03-19, 14:10:40 - No Longer My Favorite Git Commit
• 2025-03-19, 14:10:33 - Weird but (sometimes) useful charts
• 2025-03-19, 14:00:00 - Sony Unveils RGB LED Backlight Tech That Outperforms Traditional Mini LED
• 2025-03-19, 13:47:02 - Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
• 2025-03-19, 13:44:25 - The clustering behavior of sliding windows
• 2025-03-19, 13:33:49 - Ikemen-GO: open-source reimplementation of MUGEN
• 2025-03-19, 13:00:00 - Five Charged In European Parliament Huawei Bribery Probe
• 2025-03-19, 12:56:46 - How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025
• 2025-03-19, 12:56:03 - Supply constraints do not explain house price, quantity growth across US cities
• 2025-03-19, 12:46:00 - Discord Launches SDK to Help Developers Enhance Social Experiences in Their Games
• 2025-03-19, 12:30:48 - Konva.js - Declarative 2D Canvas for React, Vue, and Svelte
• 2025-03-19, 12:24:55 - In Search of the Next Great Programming Language
• 2025-03-19, 12:16:06 - The Origin of the Pork Taboo
• 2025-03-19, 11:44:17 - fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
• 2025-03-19, 10:09:15 - The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
• 2025-03-19, 10:02:57 - Bell Labs' Unsung Heros in the History of Computing (2012)
• 2025-03-19, 10:00:00 - The Effect of Application Fees on Entry into Patenting
• 2025-03-19, 09:35:03 - Language interop and the extensible compiler
• 2025-03-19, 08:17:57 - A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
• 2025-03-19, 08:02:00 - Iguanas Floated One-Fifth of the Way Around the World to Colonize Fiji, Genetic Analysis Indicates
• 2025-03-19, 07:20:06 - Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
• 2025-03-19, 07:14:12 - Failing upwards: the Twitter encrypted DM failure
• 2025-03-19, 07:13:23 - The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)
• 2025-03-19, 07:00:00 - Nvidia Says 'the Age of Generalist Robotics Is Here'
• 2025-03-19, 05:01:36 - Comptime Zig ORM
• 2025-03-19, 03:30:00 - Researchers Engineer Bacteria To Produce Plastics
• 2025-03-19, 03:18:00 - Everything You Say to Your Echo Will be Sent to Amazon Starting on March 28
• 2025-03-19, 02:22:05 - Copyright and the demoscene
• 2025-03-19, 02:02:00 - Italian Newspaper Says It Has Published World's First AI-Generated Edition
• 2025-03-19, 01:25:00 - Microsoft Isn't Fixing 8-Year-Old Shortcut Exploit Abused For Spying
• 2025-03-19, 00:45:00 - Gavin Newsom Is Reportedly Sending Burner Phones To Tech CEOs
• 2025-03-18, 22:33:00 - People are Using Google's New AI Model to Remove Watermarks From Images
• 2025-03-18, 22:05:26 - Announcing Fedora Linux 42 Beta
• 2025-03-18, 20:08:05 - Introducing two new PebbleOS watches
• 2025-03-18, 17:49:00 - Unearthed Notebooks Shed Light on Victorian Genius Who Inspired Einstein
• 2025-03-18, 13:07:00 - On the Road to Idiocracy
• 2025-03-18, 10:26:48 - A Society That Lost Focus
• 2025-03-18, 10:07:21 - Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
• 2025-03-18, 08:24:00 - Forget Windows 11, SteamOS for Desktops May be Released Soon
• 2025-03-18, 03:38:00 - Chaos in Gravity - the Quantum Based Magnetic Monopole of Mass?
• 2025-03-17, 22:53:00 - OpenAI Wants All The Data And For US Law To Apply Everywhere
• 2025-03-17, 21:35:37 - Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition
• 2025-03-17, 18:11:00 - Six Weeks of CloudFlare Stalling; Still Blocking Niche Browsers
• 2025-03-17, 13:23:00 - NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum Encryption
• 2025-03-17, 08:36:00 - World's Smallest Microcontroller
• 2025-03-17, 03:50:00 - ESA Cuts the Ribbon at 34,000-Core HPC Center
• 2025-03-16, 23:07:00 - A New Age for Geothermal
• 2025-03-16, 18:20:00 - Apple Encrypted Data Row Case Begins in Secret
• 2025-03-16, 14:20:13 - The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time
• 2025-03-16, 13:34:00 - 5 Years After Covid-19 Became a Pandemic, Are We Ready for What's Next?
• 2025-03-16, 12:44:11 - How I got 100% off my train travel
• 2025-03-16, 12:05:53 - Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia
• 2025-03-16, 08:46:00 - Sidewinder Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Shifts to Targeting of Nuclear, Maritime Orgs
• 2025-03-16, 04:01:00 - SpaceX Launches Astronauts for Long-Awaited International Space Station Crew Swap
• 2025-03-16, 03:32:04 - Decoding JSON sum types in Go without panicking
• 2025-03-15, 23:17:00 - No Project is an Island: Why You Need SBOMs and Dependency Management
• 2025-03-15, 18:33:00 - How a Rapidly Growing Population of Crocs Has Been Impacting Northern Territories Ecosystem
• 2025-03-15, 13:48:00 - Judge Calls Doge Firings A "Sham", Orders Thousands Of Workers To Be Reinstated Immediately
• 2025-03-15, 09:07:00 - Bad News for Low Orbit Satellites: Earth's Thermosphere is Shrinking
• 2025-03-15, 04:22:00 - AMD's Zen 6-Based Desktop Processors May Feature Up to 24 Cores