Original Apollo 11 TV broadcast (youtube.com)
The YouTube link appears to host the original Apollo 11 TV broadcast footage, sharing historical live television from the 1969 Moon landing era.
How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple (wired.com)
Apple’s Vision Pro rollout relied on tightly controlled retail training and demo scripts, but many store employees didn’t get enough practice or time to master the headset, leading to uneven and often failing demos. The piece links these retail problems to broader changes since Steve Jobs—leaner staffing, more self-guided training, and stronger performance metrics—that contrasted with Jobs-era priorities on thorough employee preparation and evangelizing the product. It also notes that the headset itself faced practical hurdles like weight, limited apps, and a high price, contributing to sales falling far short of expectations.
Midlife Sleep Irregularity Linked to Higher Risk of Major Cardiac Events (doi.org)
A study of 3,231 people in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort found that irregular sleep timing in midlife—measured from wearable data—was linked to a higher risk of major adverse cardiac events over 10 years. The association appeared mainly among participants who slept fewer hours than the study median (<7 hours 56 minutes), with irregular bedtimes and irregular sleep midpoints roughly doubling the risk. Wake-up time variability was not associated with risk. The findings suggest that consistent sleep schedules could be a potential target for cardiovascular health promotion.
Author's preface to the book: "PGP Source Code and Internals" (1995) (philzimmermann.com)
Philip Zimmermann’s 1995 preface explains why MIT Press published the full C source code of PGP and frames it as a civil-liberties issue tied to government efforts to restrict or control strong encryption. He recounts the controversies around the Clipper chip, FBI wiretap proposals, and export controls that affected PGP’s spread, including his own legal troubles. The preface also describes PGP’s cryptographic components and acknowledges the volunteer developers and legal teams behind the project.
The BSDs in the AI Age (lists.nycbug.org) AI
The post proposes an NYC*BUG summer presentation and discussion thread on how AI and LLM tools are affecting work and security practices, including their impact on BSD operating systems and developers. It asks contributors about current LLM usage for everyday productivity, whether BSD projects should adopt explicit LLM-related policies (citing NetBSD’s commit guidance and credential-related CVE concerns), and how BSD teams and individuals might use LLMs for tasks like code discovery or vulnerability research.
Show HN: Can an AI model fit on a single pixel? (github.com) AI
Show HN shares an open-source project, ai-pixel, that trains a tiny single-neuron binary classifier and then encodes its learned weights into the RGB values of a downloadable 1x1 PNG. The demo lets users place training points, run gradient descent, and later load the “pixel model” to make predictions. The article emphasizes it’s an educational compression experiment with predictable limits (e.g., it can’t learn XOR or other non-linearly separable patterns).
ACE on a USB→HDMI Adapter (blazelight.dev)
The article describes using an ACE on a USB-to-HDMI adapter setup, focusing on how to connect and use the adapter for video output.
Claude Is Dead (javiertordable.com) AI
The article argues that Anthropic’s Claude Code has been “nerfed” through cost-cutting changes—leading to faster rate-limit/token drain and reduced reliability for complex coding—prompting developers to complain publicly and switch to other tools or local models.
Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator (nytimes.com)
A reporter recounts an investigation into the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, exploring evidence and theories around who may have created Bitcoin and why the real person remains unknown.
Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature (nature.com) AI
Nature reports that large language models are increasingly generating fabricated or untraceable “hallucinated” references that have appeared in thousands of 2025 papers. An analysis of more than 4,000 publications found that many had invalid citations, and manual checks confirmed that 65 of the most suspicious papers contained at least one reference that could not be verified. The article also describes publisher screening efforts and the difficulty of deciding how to handle problems once such citations make it into the published record.
Native Americans had dice 12,000 years ago (nbcnews.com)
A study published in *American Antiquity* argues that Native Americans in the present-day U.S. Southwest were using dice and playing probability-based games as early as about 12,000 years ago. The research, compiled from archaeological site reports, suggests the practice predates similar evidence in Europe, Africa, and Asia by thousands of years. The article also notes that oral histories and later written accounts describe gambling as both social and sometimes religious, though it’s unclear whether prehistoric players calculated formal probabilities.
LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server (acme.com) AI
After intermittent outages in February–March, the ACME Updates author traced the issue to HTTPS traffic being overwhelmed by LLM scraper bots requesting many non-existent pages. When they temporarily closed port 443, the outages stopped, suggesting the slow HTTPS server and downstream congestion/NAT saturation were contributing. The author notes the same bot behavior is affecting other hobbyist sites and says a longer-term fix is needed.
Protect Your Shed (dylanbutler.dev)
Dylan Butler argues that while enterprise work teaches engineers how to design software at scale through planning, testing, and defensive thinking, personal “shed” projects are what keep them motivated and curious. He describes how his side projects—from a homelab to hardware emulation—adopt structural discipline learned at work while also providing a safe space to experiment quickly. The article concludes that protecting personal projects helps prevent burnout and preserves an engineer’s creative drive.
Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
The post argues that “vibe coding” can be made somewhat safer by moving development to a rented VM accessed via SSH with limited local secrets, using detached tmux/screen sessions for long agent runs. It says this reduces the impact of most supply-chain compromises, but notes that SSH key forwarding could still be abused—so it recommends separating a main repo from a forked development repo and using cross-repo PRs for human review. The author links the approach to older hacker practices of developing on systems you don’t own.
Longer wavelengths in sunlight pass through the human body and have a systemic (nature.com)
A study in Scientific Reports finds that near-infrared wavelengths in sunlight (about 830–860 nm) can penetrate through the human thorax, including when blocked by clothing, and remain detectable after passing through the body. In a lab experiment, 15-minute exposures of this wavelength range improved measures of visual function 24 hours later, even when light was prevented from reaching the eyes. The authors attribute the effect to mitochondria-related changes in energy production and argue this supports a broader, system-wide influence of longer-wavelength sunlight.
AWS S3 Files (aws.amazon.com)
AWS announced “Amazon S3 Files,” a service that exposes S3 buckets as a shared, file-system interface built on Amazon EFS. It aims to let file-based applications and tools access S3 data with low latency and full file semantics without duplicating or syncing data between object and file storage. AWS says it translates file operations into efficient S3 requests, supports shared access from many compute resources, and is now generally available in 34 regions.
Switzerland builds most powerful redox-flow battery (swissinfo.ch)
Switzerland’s FlexBase is excavating a site in Laufenburg, Aargau for what it says will be the world’s most powerful redox-flow battery, with plans to inject or absorb up to 1.2 GW within milliseconds. The privately financed project, expected to start operating in 2029, is intended to store renewable energy and help stabilise the Swiss and European grids, with Swissgrid planning a connection for the first time in Switzerland. While supporters cite growing need for flexibility as wind and solar fluctuate, ETH Zurich energy researcher Tobias Schmidt questioned the technology’s prospects, arguing lithium- and other metal-ion batteries may progress faster and become cheaper.
Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be "swaps," exempt from state laws (arstechnica.com)
A federal appeals court ruled that New Jersey cannot apply its sports-gambling laws to Kalshi’s prediction-market “sports-event contracts,” finding they are “swaps” executed on a CFTC-licensed designated contract market and therefore fall under the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction. The majority held that federal commodity law preempts state efforts to regulate trades on CFTC-regulated platforms, while a dissent said the products are essentially indistinguishable from traditional sportsbook bets. The decision is part of ongoing litigation and regulatory disputes, with the CFTC also challenging state approaches in other lawsuits and lawmakers proposing new legislation to clarify jurisdiction over similar contracts.
Naftiko Open-Source Spec-Driven Integration (github.com)
Naftiko’s open-source framework is a spec-driven approach to API integration, letting developers declare “capabilities” in YAML and run them via a provided engine and CLI. The project supports exposing capabilities through multiple server protocols (e.g., MCP, SKILL, and REST), converting data formats into JSON, and consuming authenticated HTTP APIs, with templating and JSONPath-based mapping for flexible transformations.
New York Times Got Played by a Telehealth Scam and Called It the Future of AI (techdirt.com) AI
The article argues that a recent New York Times profile of Medvi, an “AI-powered” telehealth startup, relied on misleading framing—such as treating a projected revenue run-rate as a “$1.8 billion” valuation—while failing to report serious red flags. It claims Medvi’s marketing used deceptive tactics including AI-generated or deepfaked images and false credibility signals, and it notes regulatory scrutiny, including an FDA warning letter, plus lawsuits involving the company and partners. The author concludes the Times story elevated a narrative of AI-enabled entrepreneurship that doesn’t hold up under basic verification.
Show HN: Mo – checks GitHub PRs against decisions approved in Slack (motionode.com)
Motionode is a tool aimed at helping software agencies validate project proposals before sending them by checking GitHub/issue-style scope items, delivery timelines based on real team capacity, and identifying missing work that would otherwise become change requests. The site claims it detects gaps such as missing QA/UAT, overloaded developers causing schedule slips, and omitted deployment deliverables that can erase margins, then exports an adjusted, dev-ready delivery plan to tools like Jira, Asana, and CSV.
OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019) (slate.com) AI
Slate reports that OpenAI withheld the full GPT-2 text-generation model, citing safety and security risks such as spam, impersonation, and fake news, while releasing only a smaller version. The article profiles GPT-2’s apparent capabilities and reviews expert skepticism that the danger may be overstated or that an embargo can meaningfully slow dissemination. It uses the controversy to highlight a broader debate over how to balance beneficial research and applications against the potential for misuse.
Ralph for Beginners (blog.engora.com) AI
The Engora Data Blog post explains how “Ralph” automates code generation by breaking a project into small, testable requirements from a product requirements document, regenerating code until each requirement’s acceptance criteria passes. It walks through setup (installing a codegen CLI, obtaining an LLM “skills” file, using git), converting a Markdown PRD into a JSON requirement list, and running a loop script that applies changes to the codebase and records pass/fail status without human intervention. The author cautions that results depend heavily on how thorough the up-front PRD is and notes that API costs and some rough setup/reporting still make experimentation nontrivial.
BYD's luxury EV with 5-min fast charging and 500 miles range is headed overseas (electrek.co)
BYD’s luxury Denza Z9 GT, a large “shooting brake” EV with up to nearly 500 miles of WLTP range and a 10%–70% charge in about five minutes, is set to launch in Europe on April 8, 2026. The company says its Blade Battery 2.0 and Flash Charging will be rolled out first in Europe, with ultra-fast charging stations already operating at scale in China. The Z9 GT will come in single- and tri-motor versions, and BYD is also promoting it with a premium in-cabin “opera-house” entertainment concept.
GLM-5.1 matches Opus 4.6 in agentic performance, at ~1/3 actual cost (app.uniclaw.ai) AI
The article reports benchmark results from OpenClaw Arena showing that GLM-5.1 achieves similar agentic performance to Opus 4.6 while using about one-third of the actual cost, highlighting a better cost-performance tradeoff. It also notes that some “provisional” models may have limited battle data and changing statistics as more results come in.