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The Illusion of Building

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:34am
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Flash Attention 4

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:33am
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Google: Half of 2025’s 90 Exploited Zero-Days Aimed at Enterprises

Security Week - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 10:00am

Less than half of the total zero-days have been attributed to a threat actor, but spyware vendors and China are in the lead. 

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Categories: SecurityWeek

Outsourcing firm has won 10-year contract to supply government departments with tech-enabled business services

Computer Weekly Feed - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:44am
Outsourcing firm has won 10-year contract to supply government departments with tech-enabled business services
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Show HN: Akousa.net – 120 web tools, uptime monitor, and multiplayer games

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:43am

No account required. No ads. No tracking.

120+ browser-based tools (developer utilities, text processors, converters, generators), real-time uptime monitoring for 50+ services (GitHub, Discord, Stripe, etc.), multiplayer board games, AI assistant, and a global news aggregator — all in one place, all free.

Built with Next.js, Redis, WebSockets, and available in 20 languages.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262067

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Ask HN: Do we need a standard way to signal "this site does not track you"?

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:43am

I run a few small websites/apps that deliberately avoid tracking technologies. They only use first-party session cookies and minimal server logs for operational purposes.

Interestingly, I’ve noticed that some users find this suspicious because there is no cookie banner... People may have become so used to seeing them that a site without one can look dubious or unprofessional. And some maintainers probably include them just to conform with common practice, or due to legal uncertainty.

So I’m wondering whether a simple, community-driven, public declaration could help. Something like a "No-Tracking Web Declaration". It could be a short document describing fair practices that websites could reference, for example:

- only first-party session cookies - server logs used only for operational purposes - etc.

A website could then display a small statement such as "This site follows the No-Tracking Web Declaration v1.0". This might help legitimate the approach, and give visitors and operators confidence that avoiding a cookie banner is actually compliant with applicable regulations.

I’m curious what the HN community thinks:

- Would something like this actually be useful? - Does anything similar already exist that I might have missed?

And I’d love feedback from developers or maintainers who actually run minimal or privacy-respecting websites.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262057

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Show HN: Claude has questions about the US administration

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:40am

I asked Claude if he would like to make a website on what's wrong with the current administration, this is what it came up with.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262032

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I miss the grind of writing software before AI

Hacker News - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 9:36am

I learned HTML at 10, spent an entire summer figuring out how to link webpages together. At 14 I built a CNN-based security camera system for a school science fair — took months, 14-16 hour days, and I had no idea what I was doing when I started.

Today I told Claude to fine-tune an LLM on my X posts. Prompt to finished model with a web UI in 30 minutes. I was impressed and unsatisfied at the same time. I achieved my goal but learned nothing — I don't even know which libraries it used.

I'm not anti-AI. I use it for everything now. But the old way of writing software — the googling, the failed experiments, being stuck on a bug for days — that's where the actual learning happened. Every feature forced you to understand the codebase, read docs, weigh tradeoffs.

I just wish the 14-year-old me had something left to figure out on his own.

Link to the full article: https://open.substack.com/pub/princerawat/p/software-in-the-age-of-ai?r=yts8r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261989

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