AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying
On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Within […]
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Desk for people who work at home with a cat
The Neko House Desk understands who’s really in charge of your home, and helps you convince them to let you have some space too. A big part of the appeal of working from home is that even if you’re still working for somebody else, you get much more control over your immediate environment. Want to […]
OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors
(Follow this link to go back to the main m88k page.) No, it’s no typo Many people know, or have heard of, the Motorola 68000 architecture. These processors have been used in many machines: in the first generations of Apple Macintosh computers, in the ever-rivals Amiga and Atari ST home computers, in many workstations built […]
Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder
Most teams have adopted AI in some form, but the gap between “using AI” and “getting measurable ROI from AI” is larger than people realize. Postman released a cost savings analysis that looks at six common API development workflows and benchmarks the actual time and cost difference when AI is built into the platform versus […]
Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules
Your iPhone’s encryption means nothing if Hong Kong police decide you’re a security threat. New amendments to the city’s National Security Law now allow authorities to demand “any password or other decryption method” for phones, laptops, and encrypted devices—no warrant required, even with digital IDs. The rules, effective March 23, 2026, turn your biometric locks […]
People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled a sweeping set of changes coming soon to Windows 11 that are designed to address common complaints and issues that people have with the platform. Everything from slow performance to unreliable updates, AI bloat, and excessive ads and enshittification are being tackled. It’s all great news, but there’s one big issue that […]
The ’Paperwork Flood’: How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner
Mood: Maliciously compliant. I can’t express how much I utterly hate the ”Continuing Disability Review.” It is a letter that arrives every few years from the government, asking a question that is medically absurd and philosophically insulting: ”Are you still disabled?” As if my blindness were a seasonal allergy. As if I might have woken […]
I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper
After using the TCL tablet for two months, I’ve come to the conclusion that my tablet doesn’t need a screen with smooth motion. I only read static content — still text. This realization made me take a fresh look at a type of device I hadn’t even considered before, but which now seems perfect for […]
Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel)
forkrun is a self-tuning, drop-in replacement for GNU Parallel and xargs -P that accelerates shell-based data preparation by 50×–400× on modern CPUs and scales linearly on NUMA architectures. forkrun achieves: 200,000+ batch dispatches/sec (vs ~500 for GNU Parallel) ~95–99% CPU utilization across all cores (vs ~6% for GNU Parallel) Near-zero cross-socket memory traffic (NUMA-aware “born-local” […]