news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Is it still worth making "Huge" Language Models for dev tools?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599270I just want to ask the frontier builders and developers who are working on the flagship models a few questions. Is it still cost-efficient and worth it to keep making huge language models, when smaller, specialized models should be enough?Meaning that, when a user is working in a codebase with a certain framework, should the agent/model also know the complete chemical composition of an element, world history, and other random facts? Or should it only know the related and needed things? For example, an agent working in a MERN stack should really only know:- Language Documentation - Framework and Library Documentation - English Interpretation - Composition and Combination of the aboveThe writing style and other details are already customized by developers who have been building for a long time; tools like Prettier and ESLint can do this. And in engineering, aren't the steps usually:- What is needed? - What are we working with? - What is the end goal? - What should be the best combinationApr 1, 2026 11:06 AM
science.nasa.gov
March of the Harmattanhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/march-of-the-harmattan/Strong winds in March 2026 carried Saharan dust across northwestern Africa and toward the Canary Islands, reducing visibility and prompting alerts.Apr 1, 2026 4:00 AM
docs.google.com
Show HN: Cross Domain Intelligence – The Translation Problem in American R&Dhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1J4Zbyr4jqQ2BWAJMGvyUI7AVI3I9DShR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106299474725893400159&rtpof=true&sd=trueThe U.S. spends $28 billion a year on preclinical research that cannot be reproduced. Pharmaceutical R&D productivity has declined 80-fold since 1950.It takes 17 years on average for a research finding to reach clinical practice. This is not a funding problem. The federal R&D budget is $202 billion. The money is there. It is a translation problem. Scientific knowledge stays trapped inside domain-specific language and institutional silos. A breakthrough in polymer chemistry sits invisible to the molecular biologist who needs it. A materials science solution waits 40 years before someone in biology stumbles across it.Bloomberg built a $15 billion business routing financial data to the people who needed it. Palantir is worth $330 billion routing intelligence data. GPS generated $1.4 trillion in economic value after transferring from military to civilian use. The infrastructure layer that routes knowledge between scientific fields does not exist yet. China is building it through state poliApr 1, 2026 12:42 AM
github.com
Show HN: Dux, distributed DuckDB-backed dataframes on the Beamhttps://github.com/elixir-dux/duxHey all! I wrote Explorer[1] a good few years ago now with the dream of fast dataframes with a dplyr-like API in a really powerful, ergonomic language (Elixir). It's proved pretty successful. Explorer is used in production at my company, and it's my go-to for quick data analysis.But maintaining it became a true albatross. Polars is an amazing project, but the development process is fast and a lot is very focused on the Python lib. We found that trying to maintain Explorer against Polars was a maintenance nightmare and eventually hit points where we had to give up features and found it extremely difficult to update to the latest.We also tried distributing Explorer and only got so far. A reasonable alternative to Spark was always what I wanted, and I could (tantalisingly, frustratingly) see the pieces there in dataframes and the BEAM, but couldn't make it happen.We also always knew that the right direction was to be 'lazy by default', accumulating ops and only executing when the dataframMar 31, 2026 10:40 PM
bing.com
CookieYes Launches Cookie Policy Generator as Global Privacy Enforcement Intensifieshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d3490f91f4c658d8af12850b7f8ae&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningstar.com%2Fnews%2Fpr-newswire%2F20260401ln20930%2Fcookieyes-launches-cookie-policy-generator-as-global-privacy-enforcement-intensifies&c=15014776729607647901&mkt=en-usMILTON KEYNES, England, April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CookieYes, a global leader in consent management solutions, today announced the launch of Cookie Policy Generator, a tool designed for startups, ...Mar 31, 2026 8:57 PM
github.com
Show HN: Dograh – voice agents that pick Recordings over TTS using LLMhttps://github.com/dograh-hq/dograhTL;DR: Dograh is an open-source platform to build voice AI agents with drag-and-drop workflows. New in v1.20: Gemini 3.1 live support, Pre-recorded audio support for lower latency and more natural responses. Fully self-hostable, no vendor lock-in.Hi HN,We’re the Dograh team (YC alumni). While building voice bots, we found that wiring WebRTC/ Telephony + STT + LLM + TTS took more time than the bots themselves. Teams are spending weeks on plumbing - handling call flows, extracting variables, dealing with telephony edge cases, and redeploying for small changes. Tools like Vapi/Retell are easy to start with but come with lock-in and platform fees. So we built Dograh: a 100% open-source platform that handles the full stack, with a visual workflow builder and self-hosting by default.Dograh v1.20 introduces two major additions: 1. Gemini 3.1 Live support Run fully real-time voice agents using Gemini’s streaming APIs, without stitching together separate STT + LLM + TTS components. 2. Pre-recorMar 31, 2026 6:28 PM
cosmicjs.com
Show HN: Team agents that manage your CMS from Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegramhttps://www.cosmicjs.com/blog/introducing-team-agents-and-cosmic-agentHey HN,We're Cosmic (YC W19), a headless CMS. Today we're launching Team Agents and the Cosmic Agent.Team Agents are AI-powered team members that live in Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegram. They have names, roles, persistent memory, and real capabilities. Not chatbots. Not one-off prompts. Persistent agents that work alongside your team.Here's what they can do:CONTENT AGENTS write blog posts, landing pages, and marketing copy. They generate images, add SEO metadata, and publish directly to the CMS. Message them in Slack, get a finished post back.CODE AGENTS read your codebase, create branches, write components, and open PRs on GitHub. Need a new page? Message the agent. Review the PR. Merge and deploy.COMPUTER USE AGENTS browse the web like a human. They log into Vercel Analytics, Google Search Console, Ahrefs, or any web tool. They take screenshots, extract data, and build reports. No API integrations needed. If you can see it in a browser, they can.TEAM AGENTS tie it all together. They liMar 31, 2026 4:44 PM
cauldron.itch.io
Show HN: Wageslave – I quit my soul sucking job to make a game about ithttps://cauldron.itch.io/wageslaveGame development used to be something I dabbled in and off, and despite having chosen to major in Computer Science to follow a career in the field, I never managed to establish any consistency with it.So I relegated this aspiration to the realm of pipe dreams, something whose idea I preferred to the actual process of doing it, and I continued working as a software engineer.This only changed after a disruption to my job: the fintech I worked for got acquired by a big traditional bank and we were absorbed into their ranks.Long story short: it wasn't a culture fit.After six months, I decided to quit; earning a salary was the only thing keeping me there.With all this newfound free time, I decided to give game dev another chance. I would never get back those six months, but I could use them as fuel for creative inspiration.That's how the idea of wageslave came to be: I wanted to embody the absurdity of the 9 to 5 into an interactive format. As well as include winks and nods to developer culMar 31, 2026 4:21 PM
esa.int
Géraldine Naja takes up duty as Director of Space Transportationhttps://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Geraldine_Naja_takes_up_duty_as_Director_of_Space_TransportationGéraldine Naja took up duty as Director of Space Transportation (D/STS) at the European Space Agency on 1 April 2026. She will continue to serve as head of her former directorate, now called the Commercialisation and Industry Partnership directorate (D/CIP), as acting director.Mar 31, 2026 3:03 PM
science.nasa.gov
Landsat Reveals Reservoir Changes and Bathymetryhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/landsat/landsat-reveals-reservoir-changes-and-bathymetry/In two recent studies, researchers used Landsat data to fill key gaps in our knowledge of reservoir structure and dynamics.Mar 31, 2026 2:30 PM
bing.com
Logitech International SA Stock: Steady Growth in Peripherals Amid Hybrid Work and Gaming Trendshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb098a6cd40b59f707eb6197eefe8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ad-hoc-news.de%2Fboerse%2Fnews%2Fueberblick%2Flogitech-international-sa-stock-steady-growth-in-peripherals-amid-hybrid%2F69041546&c=668224389051857221&mkt=en-usLogitech International SA (ISIN: CH0025751329), the Swiss maker of computer peripherals traded as LOGI on Nasdaq, demonstrates resilient revenue growth with a moderate buy rating from analysts. North ...Mar 31, 2026 1:15 PM
bing.com
Logitech International SA Stock: Steady Growth in Peripherals Amid Hybrid Work and Gaming Trendshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb6d654544d4d84987b614ad51df7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ad-hoc-news.de%2Fboerse%2Fnews%2Fueberblick%2Flogitech-international-sa-stock-steady-growth-in-peripherals-amid-hybrid%2F69041546&c=668224389051857221&mkt=en-usLogitech International SA (ISIN: CH0025751329), the Swiss maker of computer peripherals traded as LOGI on Nasdaq, demonstrates resilient revenue growth with a moderate buy rating from analysts. North ...Mar 31, 2026 1:15 PM
formo.so
Show HN: Analytics and Attribution for DeFihttps://formo.so/Building a successful onchain app is hard. It gets even harder when you don't know how people are using it. You're shipping features, running campaigns, and trying to find product-market fit, but without clear data, you're lost in a dark forest. Analytics remains as one of the biggest challenges in crypto.Think about the questions you're trying to answer every day:* Who are my top users?* What drove them to us? Where do they come from?* Which channels or campaigns are working?* How are users using my app?* What's my CAC? LTV? ROI?* What is moving the needle onchain?To answer the above in web3 you'd need an in-house data team, complicated data pipelines, and juggle multiple fragmented tools. What if there's an easy way to understand who your users are and what they do so you can build a better app, faster?Formo is the data platform for onchain apps and builders. It’s the tool we wished we had as builders when we were struggling to turn raw onchain data into something useful.Formo transfMar 31, 2026 10:57 AM
github.com
Show HN: HolyCode – OpenCode in Docker. Use your Claude subscription. 30 toolshttps://github.com/CoderLuii/HolyCodeHolyCode is a Docker image that wraps OpenCode (https://opencode.ai), an AI coding agent with a web UI. It ships with 30+ dev tools pre-installed, a headless Chromium/Xvfb/Playwright stack, s6-overlay for process supervision, and UID/GID remapping for correct file permissions on bind mounts.The main problem it solves: rebuilding the same environment every time you switch machines or update a container. All OpenCode state (sessions, settings, MCP configs, plugins) lives in a bind mount outside the container. Rebuild or update the image, your state comes back.*On the API key cost angle:*If you pay for Claude Max or Pro, you can use those credentials directly instead of a separate Anthropic API key. One env var enables it. The plugin reads from the credentials file OpenCode stores on your host. This removes a layer of cost if you're already paying for a subscription.Note: this may be outside what Anthropic's ToS covers. The README is explicit about that.It supports 10+ AI providers (AnthrMar 31, 2026 8:29 AM
bing.com
Why UCLA's Perry Has Big Shoes To Fill Next Seasonhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d4a918a5d4aa9bf2dc4eed196bec7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fcollege%2Fucla%2Fbruins-why-perry-has-big-shoes-to-fill-next-season&c=14144954670076631757&mkt=en-usGoing into the season, the Bruins were relying heavily on their transfer from the New Mexico Lobos, a guard named Donovan Dent, to lead them into the year and come out with a deep tournament run ...Mar 31, 2026 7:00 AM
spacenews.com
Artemis 2 countdown underwayhttps://spacenews.com/artemis-2-countdown-underway/The two-day countdown for the Artemis 2 mission around the moon started March 30 with NASA officials reporting no major issues for the launch. The post Artemis 2 countdown underway appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 31, 2026 6:23 AM
bing.com
Google Workspace Statistics And Facts (2025)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1a32c6934e57b87cd52432828619&url=https%3A%2F%2Felectroiq.com%2Fstats%2Fgoogle-workspace-statistics%2F&c=10729495564659478276&mkt=en-usGoogle Workspace Statistics: Google Workspace, which was previously known as G Suite, is an all-inclusive collection of cloud-based productivity and teamwork applications that are developed by Google.Mar 31, 2026 2:06 AM
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Google Workspace Statistics And Facts (2025)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d09602aef4fc1beeb6cc4e5a388ea&url=https%3A%2F%2Felectroiq.com%2Fstats%2Fgoogle-workspace-statistics%2F&c=10729495564659478276&mkt=en-usGoogle Workspace Statistics: Google Workspace, which was previously known as G Suite, is an all-inclusive collection of cloud-based productivity and teamwork applications that are developed by Google.Mar 31, 2026 2:06 AM
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Understanding Chapter 11 Bankruptcy's Effect on Stock Valuehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b85a12f7c42e68e66f2d3bfcf8e0a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fask%2Fanswers%2F06%2Fchapter11stocksbonds.asp&c=5095630954208680524&mkt=en-usAlbert Phung has 7+ years of experience as a process improvement consultant for several businesses; currently with Alberta Health Services. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA ...Mar 31, 2026 1:19 AM
frozensecurity.com
Show HN: I built a Bitcoin signing device where the private key is physicalhttps://frozensecurity.com/The core problem I kept running into with hardware wallets: the private key exists as a persistent digital object inside a chip. It’s protected — but it exists. That’s the vulnerability. Protection fails; existence is structural. I built a different model. The private key is encoded as a geometric hole pattern in a titanium plate. A signing terminal reads the plate optically, derives the key transiently in volatile memory, signs the transaction, and discards everything. The plate doesn’t change. Nothing is stored. A few implementation details that might interest people here: The signing terminal uses two physically isolated MCUs — one handles communications, one handles signing. They are not software-separated. The communications MCU is physically disconnected during key derivation. This isn’t air-gapped in the usual sense; the isolation is enforced at the hardware layer, not the software layer. The key derivation follows BIP-39/BIP-32. The plate encodes the seed phrase as a geometric Mar 30, 2026 11:20 PM
