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Article URL: https://github.com/akgitrepos/explain-my-curl

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Article URL: https://startripai.github.io/Salacia/

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Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/02/28/pentagon-officer-education-ivy-league-schools-universities-partners-ai-space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201882

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Article URL: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/02/as-superagers-age-they-make-at-least-twice-as-many-new-neurons-as-their-peers

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Article URL: https://tidbits.com/2026/02/28/reading-doesnt-fill-a-database-it-trains-your-internal-llm/

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201826

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Recently several AI labs have published experiments where they tried to get AI coding agents to complete large software projects.

- Cursor attempted to make a browser from scratch: https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents

- Anthropic attempted to make a C Compiler: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

I have been wondering if there are software packages that can be easily reproduced by taking the available test suites and tasking agents to work on projects until the existing test suites pass.

After playing with this concept by having Claude Code reproduce redis and sqlite, I began looking for software packages where an agent-made reproduction might actually be useful.

I found libxml2, a widely used, open-source C language library designed for parsing, creating, and manipulating XML and HTML documents. Three months ago it became unmaintained with the update, "This project is unmaintained and has [known security issues](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/346). It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data.".

With a few days of work, I was able to create xmloxide, a memory safe rust replacement for libxml2 which passes the compatibility suite as well as the W3C XML Conformance Test Suite. Performance is similar on most parsing operations and better on serialization. It comes with a C API so that it can be a replacement for existing uses of libxml2.

- crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/xmloxide

- GitHub release: https://github.com/jonwiggins/xmloxide/releases/tag/v0.1.0

While I don't expect people to cut over to this new and unproven package, I do think there is something interesting to think about here in how coding agents like Claude Code can quickly iterate given a test suite. It's possible the legacy code problem that COBOL and other systems present will go away as rewrites become easier. The problem of ongoing maintenance to fix CVEs and update to later package versions becomes a larger percentage of software package management work.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201816

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Article URL: https://warontherocks.com/2026/02/all-too-quiet-on-the-western-neuroenhancement-front/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201812

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Article URL: https://github.com/igorkalen/base

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Article URL: https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

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Hello HN,

I built DuLink to solve a personal problem: my primary language is English, but my mother’s primary language is Mandarin Chinese. I often find articles on health or current events that I want to share with her, but the friction of copy/pasting and Google Translate meant she rarely read them.

What it does:

DuLink takes an article URL, extracts the core content to strip out clutter, and then generates a static, translated reading view. It preserves the semantic HTML structure (headers, lists) but removes the original site's JS and ad tracking.

The "Why":

Existing tools either translate the entire messy page (including nav menus/footers) or require the recipient to install an extension. I wanted something truly simple. A "fire and forget" link that removed every obstacle. No setup, no extra tools, just open and understand. I also added audio playback because reading dense text on a phone can be tiring, especially for aging eyes. Sometimes listening is simply easier.

I built this for a personal use case, but I'm sharing it here for anyone who wants to share something meaningful across languages. If it helps you bridge that gap, I'd love to hear about it.

Any feedback is welcome.

https://dulink.click/

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Article URL: https://tostracker.app/time-series

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_intelligence_agency

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Article URL: https://manifest.build/docs/introduction

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Built two small tools this weekend that scratch my own itch:

1. Chrome extension — injects an AI sidebar into any webpage. Alt+A to toggle. Summarize, ask questions about page content, improve selected text. Manifest V3, vanilla JS, shadow DOM for style isolation. Uses your own Anthropic API key directly from the background service worker (~$0.001/request with Haiku).

2. Python script pack — 5 scripts for common business tasks: lead enrichment with ICP scoring, cold email generation (3 variations), SEO content outlines, meeting notes summarizer, LinkedIn post writer. Plain Python, anthropic SDK, no framework. Batch mode on the CSV-heavy ones.

Both at $9 on Gumroad. Source code, you own it, modify freely.

Happy to answer questions about the Manifest V3 shadow DOM approach or the Claude API integration — had some interesting CORS issues to work through.

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/KatieMiller/status/2027889344363593876

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Article URL: https://www.orrick.com/en/News/2026/02/Mercor-Acquires-Sepal-AI

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Article URL: https://troubles.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/27/a-tale-of-two-wayland-desktops/

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Article URL: https://www.nan.ma/lights_out_4d/

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Article URL: https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

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