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My Thoughts on GDC 2026 – The Good, the Interesting, and the Bad (ARM, WTF)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380019Hello all! This is my 1st post here! I promised to myself that in 2026, I'd get out of my shell virtually, so here I am :-)I attended GDC for the first time this year, always wanted to go, but never could. So I went this year, as an independent person. I just got home after a long week (San Francisco is awesome!), I wanted to share some of my own thoughts on where the gaming industry is heading and where it’s not doing so hot.The Good/AwesomeGoogle DeepMind’s Genie 3: The talk was packed, there was no room, and it became standing room only with tons of people being turned away. You had to get there early. As for the talk/demo itself. AWESOME. MIND BLOWING. I can't imagine what that is going to be like in a few months / years from now, given how fast the AI space is moving. Just crazy. And I hope game creators and gamers can take advantage of it meaningfully somehow.Microsoft’s Project Helix: I'm a huge Xbox nerd, so I love anything Xbox. So I attended this hoping to hear about a new coMar 14, 2026 7:07 PM
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Simple minimalist ideas to make small apartments feel spacioushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a53acdf04418dae9f7f6de789ec76&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-in%2Ftravel%2Fnews%2Fsimple-minimalist-ideas-to-make-small-apartments-feel-spacious%2Far-AA1YEDC9&c=1750589824089483445&mkt=en-usLiving in a small apartment can sometimes feel challenging, especially when space is limited. However, with the right approach, a smaller home can become a comfortable, organized, and peaceful place ...Mar 14, 2026 3:33 PM
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What the 2026 AI price hikes taught me about lean engineeringhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377220I spent the last two weeks struggling with AI costs going up like crazy. I realized I had been treating AI tokens as if they were free. Like many others, I fell into the trap of using premium, Ferrari-level models to perform supermarket-run tasks. I convinced myself it was necessary because the API costs were negligible.But the subsidy era is over.The 2026 price hikes, driven by rising HBM memory costs, new energy taxes, and heavier compliance mandates, are not just inflationary pressures. They are the market correcting years of massive economic malinvestment. For years, VC subsidies allowed us to build systems without genuine demand, treating compute as infinite. From a Misesian perspective, building where there is no market demand for that resource consumption doesn't make us more productive; it makes us poorer by wasting scarce resources.I started a business with my own savings, not venture capital. I thought this made me immune to "grow at all costs" mentalities using VC money in nMar 14, 2026 2:45 PM
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Analyzing OpenClaw's 3-layer defense against prompt injectionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377187I’ve been analyzing how open-source AI execution engines (like OpenClaw) handle prompt injection. The conclusion is concerning: when an Agent has tool access (shell, DB, web), Prompt Injection is no longer just generating bad text—it leads to data exfiltration, prompt leaking, and full agent hijacking.Most frameworks currently rely on static defenses like Regex blacklists or XML tagging. I analyzed OpenClaw's 3-layer defense and found that Regex inevitably fails against semantic variations, synonyms, and context obfuscation.To solve this, I built Prompt Inspector (promptinspector.io). It is a semantic detection engine—not a black-box firewall. It inspects payloads and returns a confidence score for malicious intent, leaving the actual execution or blocking routing entirely in your hands.Here is how it works under the hood:1. Vector Retrieval & Pluggable Embeddings Instead of regex, we convert incoming prompts into vectors and query them in real-time against our vector database of knownMar 14, 2026 2:41 PM
spaceflightnow.com
NASA Administrator teases further Artemis program updates in one-on-one interviewhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/03/14/nasa-administrator-teases-further-artemis-program-updates-in-one-on-one-interview/The conversation took place amid the flight readiness review for the Artemis 2 mission, which is currently set to launch no earlier than April 1, 2026, pending work being completed in the Vehicle Assembly Building.Mar 14, 2026 11:23 AM
dadbodgames.itch.io
Show HN: I built a card-based eldritch IT support game in Reacthttps://dadbodgames.itch.io/it-never-ends/devlog/1388428/building-a-system-for-the-absurd-why-it-never-ends-is-actually-a-websiteHi HN,I am the developer behind I.T. Never Ends. It is a card-based resource management game (heavily inspired by Reigns) where you work IT support for a corporation taken over by eldritch horrors. You balance ticket resolution, budget, and entropy while dealing with printers that violate causality.I wanted to share a technical deep dive into how I built and packaged it, which I recently wrote about in a devlog: https://dadbodgames.itch.io/it-never-ends/devlog/1388428/bui...Here is a quick overview of the technical architecture and some lessons learned from the process:The Architecture: The entire game is built in React and JavaScript. Under the hood, the game is essentially a giant state machine. While I have used engines like Godot for previous dynamic action titles, I am a full-stack developer by day (mostly NextJS). For a text-heavy, UI-driven game like this, I found the traditional object-oriented approach in standard engines required too much manual glue code to wire the game staMar 14, 2026 10:13 AM
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Show HN: I got frustrated with SMILES, so I built onehttps://github.com/sangeet01/scriptHi HN, I'm an undergrad in Nepal.For the last 35 years, computational chemistry and AI drug discovery have relied on SMILES to represent molecules. It was great for the 1980s, but today it is a massive bottleneck. It’s non-canonical, its stereochemistry parsing is fragile, and it completely breaks down when trying to represent organometallics, alloys, or polymers. To parse it reliably, you basically need a 300MB C++ dependency (RDKit) relying on decades of hard-coded heuristics.I got frustrated and realized that representing matter isn't a graph theory problem—it’s a linguistics problem.To fix it, I built SCRIPT (Structural Chemical Representation in Plain Text). I based the core parser on the generative linguistics of Pāṇini’s Sanskrit grammar. Instead of treating a molecule as a string of dumb nodes, SCRIPT treats it as a language of Roots, States (Vibhakti), and Relationships (Sandhi).I just released V3 today for Pi Day.How it works & what it fixes: • Aromaticity without the mess: SMar 14, 2026 7:55 AM
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Southwest Airlines ending flights at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Junehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cee13d84b45ddbc362e7ed3b0d7bf&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fchicago%2Fnews%2Fsouthwest-airlines-flights-chicago-ohare-airport%2F&c=2631718467172053832&mkt=en-usSara Tenenbaum is the Senior Digital Producer for CBS News Chicago, overseeing editorial operations and social media, and covering breaking, local and community news. Southwest Airlines announced ...Mar 13, 2026 8:15 PM
nasa.gov
NASA Selects Finalists in Student Aircraft Maintenance Competitionhttps://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/nasa-selects-finalists-in-student-aircraft-maintenance-competition/NASA has selected eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, giving them the resources to help address a critical challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance. Challenges facing the commercial aviation industry include a shortage of qualified maintenance workers and increasing demands to keep complicated aircraft running for longer. With Gateways to Blue Skies, NASA taps into student innovation to address some of the biggest […]Mar 13, 2026 7:17 PM
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Instagram Ending Encrypted DMshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368081In May 2026, a technical change inside Instagram began to trigger a much larger debate about privacy, surveillance and the future of private conversations on the internet. The platform confirmed that it will discontinue end-to-end encryption for direct messages, reversing a feature that only a few years ago had been presented as a major step forward for digital privacy. What may sound like a technical adjustment to most users touches the center of a global conflict involving governments, technology companies and civil liberties.To understand why this matters, it helps to start with the basics. End-to-end encryption is a system that ensures only the sender and the recipient can read the content of a message. Not even the company operating the service can access it. In practical terms, it turns messaging apps into something close to a whispered conversation. Messages travel through servers but remain unreadable to any intermediary.For years, companies like Meta, Apple and Google defendedMar 13, 2026 6:46 PM
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USBR Crack the Case Challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/usbr-crack-the-case-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. This three-phase challenge invites geophysicists, sensing specialists, nondestructive testing experts, and creative problem-solvers (including AI/ML practitioners) from […]Mar 13, 2026 5:13 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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Keyword: Jockeyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd837d58a416c988eda52c59adcd2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloodhorse.com%2Fhorse-racing%2Farticles%2Ftag%2Fjockey&c=11928532674265978254&mkt=en-usThere have been more than 1,400 structures, half of them homes, destroyed in the two wildfires that have ravaged New Mexico since the morning of June 17. One of those homes belonged to former jockey ...Mar 13, 2026 5:01 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 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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Proton's Swiss Myth: US Jurisdiction via Cloudflare and FAA Arbitration Clauseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364922The "Swiss Sanctuary" is a Network and Legal MirageAs a Business customer, I performed a technical and legal audit of Proton AG’s current infrastructure. The results show a systemic disconnect between their "100% Swiss" marketing and their actual operational routing and legal framework.1. The Technical Leak: Routing via AS13335 (Cloudflare) A simple traceroute to mail.protonmail.ch reveals a critical interception at Hop 5. - Node: cloudflare.belgiumix.net (185.1.127.13) - Owner: Cloudflare, Inc. (US Entity) - Jurisdiction: US CLOUD ActBy routing business traffic through US-owned CDNs before it even touches Swiss soil, Proton effectively places user metadata and transit traffic under the jurisdiction of the Patriot Act and CLOUD Act. The "Swiss Jurisdiction" promise is nullified the moment a packet hits a Cloudflare node.2. The Legal Dol: Section 13 and the FAA Proton’s Terms of Service (Section 13) explicitly mention the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). How can a company sell "Swiss PrivMar 13, 2026 2:25 PM
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NEW YORK: Last Days of the Ritzhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb36655884d73bcedc328a8bb4838&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Farchive%2F6868313%2Fnew-york-last-days-of-the-ritz%2F&c=10590881304882304891&mkt=en-usNew York’s famed Ritz-Carlton Hotel was created to reward the rich for being rich. With its soft rugs, its gilded mirrors, its glittering chandeliers and the Roman grandeur of its outsized bathtubs, ...Mar 13, 2026 1:38 PM
getspine.ai
Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvashttps://www.getspine.ai/Hey HN! We're Ashwin and Akshay from Spine AI (https://www.getspine.ai). Spine Swarm is a multi-agent system that works on an infinite visual canvas to complete complex non-coding projects: competitive analysis, financial modeling, SEO audits, pitch decks, interactive prototypes, and more. Here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_2-ggpZz0Q.We've been friends for over 13 years. We took our first ML course together at NTU, in a part of campus called North Spine, which is where the name comes from. We went through YC in S23 and have spent about 3 years building Spine across many product iterations.The core idea: chat is the wrong interface for complex AI work. It's a linear thread, and real projects aren't linear. Sure, you can ask a chatbot to reference the financial model from earlier in the thread, or run research and market sizing together, but you're trusting the model to juggle that context implicitly. There's no way to see how it's connecting the pieces, noMar 13, 2026 1:22 PM
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Q&A: Rebecca Evernden on UK space strategyhttps://spacenews.com/qa-rebecca-evernden-on-uk-space-strategy/SpaceNews caught up with Rebecca Evernden, the recently appointed Director of the new UK Space Agency, at Space Comm Expo in London. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. SpaceNews: Which do you see as strategic areas for UKSA to focus on to achieve economic growth and national security for the U.K.? Rebecca […] The post Q&A: Rebecca Evernden on UK space strategy appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 13, 2026 11:00 AM
