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Open Weights isn't Open Training How many monkey-patches does it take to post-train a trillion parameter model?

Open Weights isn't Open Training
https://www.workshoplabs.ai/blog/open-weights-open-training

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317288

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/11/running-69-agents.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332074

Roblox is minting teen millionaires
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/roblox-s-teen-millionaires-are-disrupting-the-gaming-industry

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293337

Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330836

SSH Secret Menu
https://twitter.com/rebane2001/status/2031037389347406054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318797

we are building data breach machines and nobody cares A few weeks ago, my longstanding friend and colleague Curt Cunning mentioned to me that he was slogging through Nietzsche, which bespeaks his incredible will to power through things that are unpleasant (one of the many things that makes him an exceptional engineer). In any case, it lead me to revisit some of his work (Nietzsche’s, not Curt’s. Curt’s work is the opposite of a slog). My very stale memory of it from college was thinking, “Wow, this dude was on all the drugs.” Which he was, if only because he was perpetually suffering from chronic illness.

We are building data breach machines and nobody cares
https://idealloc.me/posts/we-are-building-data-breach-machines-and-nobody-cares/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324058

HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022)
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/neuromancer-count-zero-mona-lisa-overdrive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327641

One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329608

Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs
https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322887

Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering · Changelog Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.

Cloudflare crawl endpoint
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329557

U+237C ⍼ is Azimuth U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329605

Ad-tech is fascist tech
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/#foreseeable-outcomes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325280

GitHub - steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip: Connect to remote ffmpeg servers Connect to remote ffmpeg servers. Contribute to steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip development by creating an account on GitHub.

FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers
https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327015

I built a programming language using Claude Code
https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325595

The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering — Bassim Eledath AI's coding ability is outpacing our ability to wield it effectively. That gap closes in levels — 8 of them. Here's the progression from tab complete to autonomous agent teams.

Levels of Agentic Engineering
https://www.bassimeledath.com/blog/levels-of-agentic-engineering

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320614

RISC-V Is Sloooow RISC-V Is Sloooow

RISC-V Is Sloooow
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328214

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323017

I'm Building Agents That Run While I Sleep I Have No Idea If What They Ship Is Any Good

Agents that run while I sleep
https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327559

Hisense VIDAA TVs reportedly add unskippable startup ads before live TV Hisense Smart TV owners are reporting a new ad placement that goes beyond the usual home-screen tiles and sponsored recommendations: a mandatory advertisement shown immediately after powering on the TV.

Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV
https://www.guru3d.com/story/hisense-vidaa-tvs-reportedly-add-unskippable-startup-ads-before-live-tv/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322966

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286657

rfc-454545.txt GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard
https://gist.github.com/bignimbus/a75cc9d703abf0b21a57c0d21a79e2be

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323891

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, aims to prove it.

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-physical-world/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600

Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321760

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321760

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319273

GitHub - RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG - RunanywhereAI/RCLI

Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326101

Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year
https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ru?dateRange=52w

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322629

Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs
https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322887

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324087

Meta acquires Moltbook
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323900

Rebasing in Magit
https://entropicthoughts.com/rebasing-in-magit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323105