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The C++ Development Crisishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169774One presumes the reader is aware of the current crisis in American software development that is panicking over C++ and ushering people toward "safe" languages like Rust that--to me--look like Spivey's Z-notation dressed up with (guess what) C++.I blame the crisis on two men, both longtime classmates: Prof. Mark Allen Weiss (FIU) and Hyman Rosen (Google, Bloomberg, etc.). Both pushed C++ not because it was a good solution for the average programmer, but because it was a pleasingly elegant, mathematically tricky playground for the elite titan who lies awake at night worrying about obscure edge cases.I seem to recall a push toward Java as an alternative to C++, also originating from Dr. Weiss. Another disaster: Java implements a woefully inconsistent model (why can't I say 4.increment(), e.g.?). The answer--"oh, that would be a performance problem"--points to poor, inconsistent, ill-thought-out design.These guys may be strong computer scientists, but as engineers, they're as junior as theFeb 26, 2026 6:13 PM
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Is Amazon Shipping Broken for Everyone?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166112I have recently had a whole series of amazon shipping failures. I order a set of 16 packages, got one. Talked to customer service got one again. Ordered a thing that said it would arrive on Tuesday, once I bought it, the order said Friday (+3 days). My last small order is lost in a maze of shipping status messages that are clearly fantasy. It said it was to be delivered the next day, but had not really shipped. Now seems to be lost and Amazon only can deal with delivered items. It has no option for help with items lost in delivery.My sense is that the fantasy of Amazon is now falling apart. They provide shipping status that is dishonest. Is this just an unlucky streak for me? Do they not like me anymore? Or is it for everyone?Feb 26, 2026 1:53 PM
novyxlabs.com
Show HN: Novyx – Memory API for AI agents (rollback, replay, semantic search)https://www.novyxlabs.com/Hey HN — Blake here. We built Novyx because every AI agent framework treats memory as an afterthought. Agents forget between sessions, can't search what they know, and when they make bad decisions there's no way to understand why. Novyx is a memory API for AI agents. Store observations, recall them with semantic search, and roll back when things go wrong. What it does: - Store + Recall — Semantic search over agent memories using sentence embeddings. Recency-weighted scoring, auto-linking related memories via knowledge graph. - Rollback — Point-in-time rollback with dry-run preview. Undo bad writes without redeploying. - Replay — Time-travel debugging. Reconstruct what your agent knew at any timestamp. Diff memory states between two points. Track individual memories from birth to death. - Cortex — Autonomous memory maintenance. Consolidates near-duplicate memories, reinforces frequently recalled ones, decays forgotten ones. Runs in the background. - Audit trail — Compliance-grade logginFeb 26, 2026 1:22 PM
spacenews.com
Phantom Space reclaims former Vector launch technologyhttps://spacenews.com/phantom-space-reclaims-former-vector-launch-technology/Remnants of Vector Launch have made it back to one of its original architects after Phantom Space bought launch assets that were sold off in 2020 during the small rocket developer’s bankruptcy. The post Phantom Space reclaims former Vector launch technology appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 26, 2026 1:00 PM
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Ditch Screens for This Popular Hobby and Your Brain Will Thrivehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d116ff806491c93ddf153907d242e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mensjournal.com%2Fnews%2Fditch-screens-for-this-popular-hobby-and-your-brain-will-thrive&c=6596016076001386955&mkt=en-usView post: Hayden Panettiere's Brother Jansen Died at 28: What Happened to Him? Scientists have discovered that bird watching has some unexpected brain benefits. Bird watching improves memory, focus, ...Feb 26, 2026 11:44 AM
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Venting doesn’t actually help you reduce anger. Here’s what doeshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d5a5c27f24fad8c785fbb619518d4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fpersonal-development%2Femotional-intelligence-and-self-awareness%2Fventing-doesn-t-actually-help-you-reduce-anger-here-s-what-does%2Far-AA1X9sGD&c=15588053757858758925&mkt=en-usWe all have that one friend who loves to vent. Maybe we are that friend. Screaming into a pillow or hitting a punching bag feels visceral — it feels right. But “blowing off steam” is a flawed metaphor ...Feb 26, 2026 11:39 AM
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Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experiencehttps://www.better-hub.com/Hey HN,I’m Bereket, founder of Better Auth. Our team spends a huge amount of time on GitHub every day. Like anyone who’s spent enough time there, I’ve always wished for a much better GitHub experience.I’ve asked a lot of people to do something about it, but it seems like no one is really tackling GitHub directly.A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet from Mitchell (HashiCorp) complaining about the repo main page. That became the trigger. I decided to start hacking on a prototype to see how far I could push an alternative interface using GitHub’s APIs.Within a week, I genuinely started using it as my default, same with the rest of our team. After fixing a few rough edges, I decided to put it out there.A few things we’re trying to achieve:- UI/UX rethink* – A redesigned repo home, PR review flow, and overview pages focused on signal over noise. Faster navigation and clearer structure.- Keyboard-first workflow: ⌘K-driven command center, ⌘/ for global search, ⌘I opens “Ghost,” an AI assistanFeb 26, 2026 10:08 AM
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Show HN: Context Harness – Local first context engine for AI toolshttps://github.com/parallax-labs/context-harnessContext Harness is a single Rust binary that gives AI tools like Cursor and Claude project-specific memory. It ingests docs, code, Jira tickets, Slack threads, and anything else into a local SQLite database, indexes them with FTS5 and optional vector embeddings, and exposes hybrid search via CLI and an MCP-compatible HTTP server.I built this because I kept hitting the same problem: AI tools are powerful but have no memory of my complex multi-repo project. They can't search our internal docs, past incidents, or architecture decisions. Cloud RAG services exist, but they're complex, expensive, and your data leaves your machine. I wanted something I could point at my sources and just run `ctx sync all`.Quick start: # Install (pre-built binaries available for macOS/Linux/Windows) cargo install --git https://github.com/parallax-labs/context-harness.git # Create config and initialize ctx init # Sync your data sources (filesystem, Git, S3, or Lua scripts) ctx sync all # Search from CLI ctx seaFeb 26, 2026 6:26 AM
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Dry-Season Floods Drench Northern Colombiahttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/dry-season-floods-drench-northern-colombia/Villages and farmland were swamped after unusually heavy early-February rains pushed the Sinú River over its banks.Feb 26, 2026 5:01 AM
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Show HN: Oh-My-OpenClaw – agent orchestration for coding, from Discord/Telegramhttps://github.com/happycastle114/oh-my-openclawI've been using Oh-My-OpenCode (OmO) — a multi-agent orchestration plugin for terminal-based AI coding — and it's great. But being terminal-only kept bugging me:- Can't kick off work from my phone. I'd want to say "implement this feature" while I'm out, but I'd have to open my laptop. - No async workflow. I have to stay attached to the terminal until it's done. - Can't run multiple tasks in parallel. One session, one task, sequentially. - Sometimes I come back and it's just sitting there waiting for a clarification question. - The web UI exists but it's slow. Discord and Telegram are right there — polished, fast, on every device.So I ported OmO's multi-agent patterns to OpenClaw (a chat-platform AI agent framework) and built a plugin that actually integrates with OmO.Then I hit a second set of problems on the OpenClaw side:- The agent tries to do everything itself instead of using sub-agents. - To use OpenCode for coding, I had to explicitly say "open tmux, run opencode, do the work thFeb 26, 2026 4:09 AM
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Show HN: ATA – open-source terminal research agent for keeping up with papershttps://github.com/Agents2AgentsAI/ataResearch is moving faster than ever across every field. We built ATA to help keep up.ATA is a free, open-source fork of OpenAI's Codex CLI that adds a research stack: paper search (Semantic Scholar, arXiv, OpenAlex), citation graph traversal, PDF reading and synthesis, Hacker News discussion analysis, patent search (90+ offices via EPO), Zotero integration, and a persistent knowledge base that accumulates across sessions.We also built a reading view for long-form output — when ATA synthesizes a paper or generates a report, it opens as a navigable document with sections and foldable details instead of dumping it into chat. Follow-up questions rewrite the relevant section in place rather than appending at the bottom.Free, open source, runs locally.Try it: npm install -g @a2a-ai/atahttps://github.com/Agents2AgentsAI/ata/Feb 25, 2026 6:23 PM
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Show HN: Mamba3-minimal – PyTorch implementation of Mamba-3https://github.com/VikramKarLex/mamba3-minimalHi HN,When the Mamba-3 paper dropped (currently under ICLR review), I wanted to understand how the new math actually worked. But the official implementations of these architectures usually rely on heavily optimized custom Triton/CUDA kernels. They are incredibly fast for training, but almost impossible to read if you just want to understand the matrix math.I spent the last few days reverse-engineering the paper to build mamba3-minimal: a pure-PyTorch, single-file implementation that runs natively on Mac (MPS), CPU, and CUDA.It implements the three core innovations of the paper without any C++:1. Trapezoidal Discretization & The "Shift" Hack: The new discretization rule introduces a strict sequential dependency across chunk boundaries (the beta term), which breaks standard PyTorch chunking. I managed to solve this by shifting the sequences at the global level before passing them into the chunked State Space Duality (SSD) algorithm.2. Complex-Valued SSMs (Data-Dependent RoPE): Mamba-2 faFeb 25, 2026 5:45 PM
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Valve malfunction blamed for failure of Indian satellite to raise its orbithttps://spacenews.com/valve-malfunction-blamed-for-failure-of-indian-satellite-to-raise-its-orbit/India’s space agency says a valve failure prevented a navigation spacecraft launched more than a year ago from raising its orbit. The post Valve malfunction blamed for failure of Indian satellite to raise its orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 25, 2026 5:45 PM
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GLP-1 Pill: Everything You Need to Know about the Wegovy and Rybelsus Pillshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d850e10ee4f37af7c0d947e4262e2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medicalnewstoday.com%2Farticles%2Fglp1-pill&c=8138411814094751666&mkt=en-usExperts describe the development of oral GLP-1 medication as a “pivotal” improvement in the accessibility and adherence to obesity drugs. As of February 2026, only Wegovy and Rybelsus are available in ...Feb 25, 2026 5:00 PM
editable.website
Show HN: CMS-free in-place editable websites with Svelte (v2)https://editable.websiteAlmost 3 years ago I posted v1 here. This is v2, a complete rewrite built on Svedit, an open source rich text editor I wrote specifically for structured in-place editing.The idea is simple: The website itself becomes the CMS. There’s no admin panel. You define your content model in JavaScript and write Svelte components to render it. Once deployed the client can login and change content live on the page, create new pages, and link them up to form a website. The data is stored in SQLite. It’s fast and doesn’t require a rebuild when content changes.My goal is to make small to medium websites editable, without depending on a 3rd party system.This is likely not a good fit if you need multi-author workflows, or heavy editorial tooling.Curios to hear what you think.Feb 25, 2026 4:12 PM
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Show HN: TMDD – continuous threat modelling that makes your code more securehttps://github.com/attasec/tmddMy name is Mikolaj and I built tmdd tool, a CLI that keeps an up-to-date threat model of your app (in YAML format) in your repo and generates security-aware prompts for AI coding agents. Here's why:I am a security engineer. Oftentimes I observed situations where "technical" security levels were pretty high, but the business logic and authorization related issues made the apps pretty vulnerable. In my experience, no SAST or DAST is able to spot this kind of issues; some of them might be captured during the pentests, but the pentests are time-boxed, so you never have the guarantee that everything was thoroughly analysed.That's why I decided to build this framework (name TMDD is a shortcut for Threat Modeling Driven Development, but it's more than that).How it works: 1. you init the threat model with tmdd init command - the yaml files that describe the threat model are created in your repo (either empty or from the template). 2. you load threat modeling skill into your coding agent - I teFeb 25, 2026 3:41 PM
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Karla Mosley Says She 'Really Can't' Believe “Beyond the Gates” Is Celebrating Its First Year, Says It Feels 'Surreal' (Exclusive)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d95d38ca44216bf6ab27d75489caa&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2Farticles%2Fkarla-mosley-says-she-really-203851979.html&c=11932600671310491548&mkt=en-usWhile chatting with PEOPLE about the huge milestone, lead actress Karla Mosley opened up about the "incredible work" that she and her talented cast and crew members have accomplished With an epic ...Feb 25, 2026 12:38 PM
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WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 (Feb. 28, 2026) Start Time, Odds And Full Cardhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d62cd360e429b9b5168fab0dfb9a1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Falfredkonuwa%2F2026%2F02%2F25%2Fwwe-elimination-chamber-2026-feb-28-2026-start-time-odds-and-full-card%2F&c=6317715045836192891&mkt=en-usWWE men’s and women’s Elimination Chambers are set. Cody Rhodes and Tiffany Stratton are each favored AJ Lee and CM Punk are each favored in world title matches in Chicago. CM Punk and AJ Lee will ...Feb 25, 2026 12:05 PM
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Show HN: I treated my CV like a data product-evidence.json,MCP endpoint,llms.txthttps://github.com/vassiliylakhonin/vassiliylakhonin.github.ioMost job applications disappear into ATS black boxes. I started wondering: what if my CV was structured well enough that whatever AI sits between me and a recruiter could actually parse it correctly, instead of mangling a PDF?I'm a Not a developer. I built this over a few weeks with Codex+Claude Code.What I ended up with: https://vassiliylakhonin.github.io/The interesting design decisions:Instead of just a PDF, I have six machine-readable JSON files: - resume.json — standard JSON Resume format - evidence.json — maps each claimed metric to its source and verification method. The theory: AI candidate evaluation will increasingly distinguish evidenced claims from unverified ones. - availability.json, capabilities.json, engage.json, verification.json — availability signals, capability profile, intake schema, identity cross-referencesllms.txt points crawlers to the pages that matter. robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot. JSON-LD (schema.org ProfilePage/Person) on the homepaFeb 25, 2026 10:38 AM
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Superconducting thruster cuts power and mass for space propulsionhttps://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Superconducting_thruster_cuts_power_and_mass_for_space_propulsion_999.htmlSingapore (SDX) Feb 25, 2026 Small satellites have become attractive for space missions because they offer low cost and flexibility, but their growth has been limited by the lack of compact, efficient propulsion systems that work well in the vacuum of space. In orbit, spacecraft can only change their motion through reaction force, and traditional chemical rockets produce thrust by burning fuel to generate high temperature gFeb 25, 2026 10:14 AM
