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Article URL: https://www.popsci.com/environment/gravity-hole-antarctica/

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Article URL: https://github.com/Frederick-Stalnecker/THEOS

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Article URL: https://ganeshan007.github.io/website/blog/slimclaw.html

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/2027497719678255148

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/magazine/what-you-miss-when-youre-always-wearing-headphones.html

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Article URL: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/gen-z-children-millennials-study-ppr6zphph

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LayXUxMjPU

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Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-most-seen-ui-on-the-internet-redesigning-turnstile-and-challenge-pages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186277

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Article URL: https://jackonomics.substack.com/p/giving-is-a-public-good-slightly

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Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-bans-anthropic-government-use-rcna261055

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186214

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Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/truly-spectacular-drug-sleeping-sickness-simplifies-treatment-raising-hopes-eradication

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186193

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As of right now there's several stories on a hot topic, each of which have 15-30 upvotes and several comments, and none of which are on the front page: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=false&query=trump%20anthropic&sort=byPopularity&type=story

Hope dang &co can get a handle on the issue!

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Article URL: https://binj.news/2026/02/26/massachusetts-state-police-are-on-a-drone-surveillance-shopping-spree/

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/2027487514395832410

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Article URL: https://imbue.com/research/2026-02-27-darwinian-evolver/

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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/trump-orders-us-government-to-drop-anthropic-after-pentagon-feud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185682

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Article URL: https://ir.netflix.net/investor-news-and-events/financial-releases/press-release-details/2026/Netflix-Declines-to-Raise-Offer-for-Warner-Bros-/default.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185626

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Hey HN —

I made something simple called Space.

It’s one digital billboard.

Anyone can buy it. It starts at $1. Every time someone buys it, the price increases by exactly $1.

That’s the whole mechanic.

Why I Built It

I wanted to test a constraint:

What happens when ownership is singular, public, and progressively more expensive?

At $1 it’s impulse. At $100 it’s intentional. At $1,000 it’s a statement.

By the time it reaches $1,000, it will have generated $500,500 in total revenue — purely from the $1 incremental mechanic.

I’m curious about:

How price escalation changes meaning

Whether late buyers value symbolism over reach

What people choose to display when cost forces consideration

The Constraint Layer

The constraint is the point.

Only one “space” exists at a time.

Price is deterministic (+$1 per transaction).

The entire history is embedded in the current price.

The value increases because participation increases it.

No auctions. No bidding logic. No variable pricing.

Just math and participation.

Technical Side (Where I’d Love Feedback)

This has been more interesting to build than I expected.

Some things I’ve been dealing with:

Race conditions around concurrent purchases

Locking logic so two buyers don’t claim the same price

Ensuring atomic increments on the backend

Payment confirmation before state mutation

Preventing replay or double-submission exploits

Keeping it minimal without overengineering it

Right now it’s intentionally lightweight. But I’m thinking about:

Should price increments be fully on-chain / provable?

Is there a cleaner way to handle concurrency at scale?

Would you introduce time decay or leave it purely linear?

Should the historical ownership chain be immutable + public?

What safeguards would you add?

Part of me wants to keep it naive and raw. Part of me wants it architecturally tight.

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So, I've never written a line of Rust in my life. I wouldn't know an `&mut this` from a mutandis. But I saw a tweet about a month ago that said, in this new era of AI, you'd be able to just take a library that you love, throw a TUI around it, and call it an app. So I spent about 200 bucks last month, here's what I came up with:

Imbolc is a DAW that runs entirely in your terminal. It talks to scsynth over OSC and ships 58 instruments and 39 effects. VSTs are a work in progress, also GarageBand loops if you want to recreate "Umbrella".

The codebase is about 60k? lines of Rust across 5 crates, with ~1,100 tests. I don't actually know. It's funny because I've always been the one writing code, and now I was everybody except the one writing code: QA, Product, Design.

Some prompts that worked well: "Looking at this codebase, what looks like an obvious retrofit?" "Where can we lean on the compiler?" After an agent completed a task, I'd interview it — where did you have trouble, what felt like a hack, what would you do differently. v1 was clojure, v2 was java, v3 is rust. v4 will be stones and sticks.

So nowadays out here in the deep future, I think programming will become a matter of taste. Here's what I think demonstrates my sensibilities:

- Accessibility: This is what I'm most proud of. TUIs are usually terrible for screen readers. In Imbolc, every action in the UI is available as a typed command (after I started typing this up I thought, is that true? turns out it wasn't, so now the compiler enforces this.). - LAN collaboration: Multiple people can connect to a shared session over the local network and share midi clock, tuning, effects buses, etc. Audio is never sent over the network. - Weird musical choices: With the "Global" just intonation setting, your absolute tuning can drift over time. I was thinking about how an accordion looks kind of like a qwerty keyboard, so I added a quasi Stradella layout. A432 by default, and so on. - Command palette, themes, keybindings, Diataxis docs. It requires SuperCollider installed (scsynth on PATH). macOS and Linux 1st class, BSDs are next on the roadmap, no Windows.

It's still alpha, there are plenty of rough edges. But it is genuinely fun to dink around on, I'd love to know what you all think.

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Article URL: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/2026/how-to-run-a-one-trillion-parameter-llm-locally-an-amd.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185598

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