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The internet reacts to the March Madness brackethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83d119f25f4019aa53cd63377219ad&url=https%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2farticle%2fmarch-madness-selection-sunday-reactions-social-media&c=15693809192696217130&mkt=en-usMarch Madness is here. The field is set for the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, and Selection Sunday did exactly what Selection Sunday always does — gave 68 fanbases a reason to ...Mar 16, 2026 10:06 AM
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The internet reacts to the March Madness brackethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83c9d176ff4f8e9ad610b45adc5295&url=https%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2farticle%2fmarch-madness-selection-sunday-reactions-social-media&c=15693809192696217130&mkt=en-usMarch Madness is here. The field is set for the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, and Selection Sunday did exactly what Selection Sunday always does — gave 68 fanbases a reason to ...Mar 16, 2026 10:06 AM
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The internet reacts to the March Madness brackethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83c271e25049fc9a4b213b39db3809&url=https%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2farticle%2fmarch-madness-selection-sunday-reactions-social-media&c=15693809192696217130&mkt=en-usMarch Madness is here. The field is set for the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, and Selection Sunday did exactly what Selection Sunday always does — gave 68 fanbases a reason to ...Mar 16, 2026 10:06 AM
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The internet reacts to the March Madness brackethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83d166b13a4ade955156623535a5c4&url=https%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2farticle%2fmarch-madness-selection-sunday-reactions-social-media&c=15693809192696217130&mkt=en-usMarch Madness is here. The field is set for the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, and Selection Sunday did exactly what Selection Sunday always does — gave 68 fanbases a reason to ...Mar 16, 2026 10:06 AM
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The internet reacts to the March Madness brackethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a83c859ec044e0f947030adf93ce156&url=https%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2farticle%2fmarch-madness-selection-sunday-reactions-social-media&c=15693809192696217130&mkt=en-usMarch Madness is here. The field is set for the 2026 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, and Selection Sunday did exactly what Selection Sunday always does — gave 68 fanbases a reason to ...Mar 16, 2026 10:06 AM
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Building a high-end, documentation-first API for DualHeart Financial Associationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394206We just wrapped up the public API layer for DualHeart Financial Association. Instead of treating the API as an afterthought, we used a documentation-first approach to ensure the integration experience matches our minimalist design philosophy.Key technical focus for DualHeart Financial Association:Strict Typing: Leveraged a custom schema validator to ensure 100% data integrity across all DualHeart Financial Association endpoints.Performance: Implemented a granular rate-limiting engine that prioritizes low-latency responses for mission-critical data fetches.Developer Experience: Built a high-end, interactive playground that generates code snippets in real-time, reducing onboarding time for new partners.What’s your current go-to strategy for maintaining clear, high-performance APIs as your data models evolve?Mar 16, 2026 1:51 AM
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Eliminating UI Bloat in the EraMix Financial Union Dashboardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394092We recently refactored the frontend for EraMix Financial Union. The challenge was displaying dense, multi-source data without the typical "enterprise dashboard" lag.For EraMix Financial Union, we moved away from heavy component libraries to a vanilla, high-end minimalist design. By using a virtualized grid and custom CSS primitives, we reduced our bundle size by 70% and achieved a perfect 100 Lighthouse score.Curious to hear—who else is ditching heavy UI frameworks for custom, lean implementations?Mar 16, 2026 1:36 AM
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Do you really need an agent?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390937I'm an engineer. I use AI both for my work and my personal life, basically every single day. I don't think "AI is a fad".Here's the thing, though: For the past few months "agent" has been the buzzword. 99% of people talking about it have no clue how it works or what it is exactly, but it's the thing."Yo, I'm running 39 parallel openclaws in my 45k Mac Mini tower I built at home" "man these are making me so productive, I'm producing so much stuff you can't even begin to comprehend it" "this changes everything."You've read at least ~50 variants of each of these. You see it all the time, to the point where you're wondering whether maybe you're missing out on it - maybe you really are "not gonna make it". And while thinking this you scroll down and another related post shows up.This has pissed me off so much my hand has been forced to post here this half rant, half discussion starter: Do you really need a personal agent? Are you really spending so much time every day on the minor tasks it Mar 15, 2026 7:24 PM
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Show HN: Show HN: GitHub Pages for Agents with GitHub Agentic Workflows (Gh-Aw)https://github.com/idorozin/AgentPagesI built AgentPages, an experiment in running AI agents entirely inside GitHub.https://github.com/idorozin/AgentPagesThe idea is simple: instead of just hosting a static site on GitHub Pages, the site is maintained by an AI agent that lives in the repo.You define what you're interested in (topics, goals, style), and the agent periodically researches those topics and updates the site.Everything runs inside GitHub:A GitHub Agentic Workflow (gh-aw) runs on a cron scheduleThe agent performs web research (using Tavily search)It updates its knowledge baseIt edits the Astro source filesThe site is rebuilt and deployed to GitHub PagesThe whole thing is transparent because everything happens in the repo:user/ files you control (research topics, requests, feedback) agent/ the agent’s knowledge and memory website/src/ the site the agent edits docs/ the built static site served by GitHub Pages You can steer the agent by editing files like:user/profile.md what the agent should researchuser/feedback.Mar 15, 2026 10:33 AM
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Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rateshttps://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/volunteers-find-oddly-high-solar-flare-rates/Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these strong magnetic fields […]Mar 13, 2026 10:07 PM
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USBR Halt the Hitchhiker: Invasive Species Challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/usbr-halt-the-hitchhiker-invasive-species-challenge/NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is sponsoring a 3-phase prize challenge (managed by yet2) for innovative solutions […]Mar 13, 2026 5:03 PM
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Ask HN: App for clean movie/TV shorts?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366828I see less and less clean movie shorts these days. so thinking of building an app the problem if more people have the same issue.clean movie shorts i mean ones without added background music, reviews, pic on pic and etc.Mar 13, 2026 4:53 PM
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Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonianhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/artifacts-from-nasas-webb-parker-solar-probe-on-view-at-smithsonian/A testing replica of the “backbone” of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and a full-scale model of the agency’s Parker Solar Probe are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. “From touching the Sun with Parker Solar Probe to creating humanity’s most powerful […]Mar 13, 2026 3:06 PM
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GVIS Virtual Systems Simulationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-virtual-systems-simulations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Virtual System Simulations The GVIS Lab prides itself on creating […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Conceptual Visual Designshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-conceptual-visual-designs/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Conceptual Visual Designs GVIS creates conceptual visual designs for proposed […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Scientific Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-scientific-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Scientific Visualizations GVIS creates scientific visualizations to explain complex scientific […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Test Facilities Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-test-facilities-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support for NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop solutions to bring their projects to life. Test Facility Models GVIS creates visualizations of various NASA test facilities. […]Mar 13, 2026 2:53 PM
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Astronauts’ Perspectives on NESC Contributions to Mission Safety and Successhttps://www.nasa.gov/general/astronauts-perspectives-on-nesc-contributions-to-mission-safety-and-success/The exact date when the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia was lost is readily recalled by Patrick Forrester, as it likely would be for any NASA employee in service that Saturday morning when the Shuttle broke up during reentry. Forrester had flown to ISS for the first time in 2001 aboard Discovery in support of […]Mar 13, 2026 2:48 PM
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Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356098I’m working on a purpose-built memory platform for autonomous AI agents.Right now, agent memory is stuck between two hohum options: RAG (which loses relational topology) and Graph Databases (which require massive pointer chasing and degrade under heavy recursive reasoning).I'm building an alternative using Vector Symbolic Architecture (Hyperdimensional Computing). By mathematically binding facts, sequences, and trees into fixed-size high-dimensional vectors (D=16,384), we can compress complex graph traversals into O(1) constant-time SIMD operations…and do some quasi brain-like stuff cheaply, that is, without GPUs and LLMs.The design is maturing nicely and strictly bifurcated to respect mechanical sympathy:• The Data Plane (Zig): Pure bare-metal math. 2GB memory-mapped NVMe tiles via io_uring. Facts are superposed into lock-free 8-bit accumulators strictly aligned to 64-byte cache lines. Queries are executed via AVX-512 popcount instructions to calculate Hamming distances at line-rate. Mar 12, 2026 7:46 PM
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Show HN: Aurion OS – A 32-bit GUI operating system written from scratch in Chttps://github.com/Luka12-dev/AurionOSHi HN! I'm 13 and I built Aurion OS as a solo learning project over 14 days (~12 hours/day).It's a 32-bit x86 operating system written entirely in C and x86 Assembly with no external libraries.What it has: Custom bootloader and kernel VESA framebuffer graphics (1920x1080, double-buffered) Window manager with draggable, overlapping windows macOS-inspired dock with transparency PS/2 keyboard and mouse drivers ATA hard drive driver with filesystem PCI bus enumeration RTL8139 network driver (WIP) Real-time clock Runs on just 16MB RAM (up to 10 windows simultaneously)Built-in apps: Terminal (with DOS mode), Notepad (save/load), Calculator, Paint (multiple colors and brush sizes), Snake game, Settings (theme switching), and System Info.Currently works best on QEMU, VirtualBox, and VMware. Real hardware support is still a work in progress.Next goal: TCP/IP networking stack.I'd love any feedback, suggestions, or criticism. This is my first OS project and I learned mass amounts while building iMar 12, 2026 6:33 PM
