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Astronomers Spot a Cosmic Laser Halfway Across the Universe
Article URL: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-using-meerkat-spot-a-cosmic-laser-halfway-across-the-universe
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284689
Points: 2
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Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-privately-shown-serious-interest-us-ground-troops-iran-rcna262176
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284678
Points: 4
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Semi-formal reasoning helps agents reason about code without executing the code
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01896
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284670
Points: 1
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Show HN: EdgeDox – Offline document AI on Android using Qwen3.5-0.8B
Hi HN,
I’ve been experimenting with running small language models directly on mobile devices and built a small Android app called EdgeDox.
The idea was to make document AI usable without sending files to a cloud service. Many existing tools require uploading PDFs or documents to a server, which can be a privacy concern.
EdgeDox runs a lightweight language model (Qwen3.5-0.8B) locally on the device so documents stay on the phone.
Current features:
• Ask questions about PDFs • Document summarization • Extract key points from long documents • Works completely offline • No accounts or server processing
The model runs locally using mobile inference (MNN). I'm experimenting with quantized models and other optimizations to keep memory usage and latency reasonable on mid-range Android devices.
Some challenges so far:
• balancing context size with mobile memory limits • improving response latency on CPU-only devices • reducing model load time
The project is still in early beta, and I’m mainly looking for feedback from people experimenting with on-device AI or mobile inference.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.cyberfly.ed...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284668
Points: 1
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EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ea-javelin-anticheat-job-listing-mentions-future-support-for-linux-and-proton/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284621
Points: 2
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Should AI web agents skip sponsored/ad results by default?
AI agents are increasingly performing automated web research — browsing pages, following links, and sometimes clicking results as part of information gathering.
There's a small but potentially significant side effect: these systems can end up clicking paid advertisements.
Most online advertising runs on a pay-per-click (PPC) model. When a human clicks an ad, there's at least some level of commercial intent. When an AI agent clicks an ad during automated research, there's zero purchase intent — but the advertiser may still be charged.
At the individual level this is negligible. But AI agents are beginning to operate at scale — millions of automated queries. The cumulative effect on advertisers, particularly small businesses with tight budgets, could become meaningful.
This raises a few questions:
1. Should AI agents avoid clicking sponsored/promoted results by default? 2. Should browsers and agent frameworks detect labels like "Sponsored," "Promoted," or "Ad" and skip those results unless explicitly opted in?
Secondary effects worth considering: unintended ad spend for advertisers, distortion of click-through analytics, and reduced research quality (ad placement reflects budget more than relevance).
The web's ad-funded model depends on clicks having some commercial signal. If AI agents start generating ad clicks at scale with no purchase intent, it could quietly distort that ecosystem.
Curious how engineers and AI developers here think about this — both from an agent design standpoint and from the web economics angle.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284593
Points: 2
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TCXO Failure Analysis
Article URL: https://serd.es/2026/03/06/TCXO-failure-analysis.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284587
Points: 1
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Readeck 0.22 Released
Article URL: https://readeck.org/en/blog/202602-readeck-22/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284497
Points: 1
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Evolving Languages Faster with Type Tailoring (2024)
Article URL: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-07-15_type_tailoring/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284493
Points: 1
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Grammarly is using our identities without permission
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/890921/grammarly-ai-expert-reviews
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284492
Points: 2
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I compiled a list of why you should be excited about std:SIMD and C++26
Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1rjld1s/i_compiled_a_list_of_6_reasons_why_you_should_be/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284486
Points: 1
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Mars MIPS Simulator in the Browser
Article URL: https://mars.nfiles.top/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284476
Points: 1
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Ask HN: Is SWE mostly just calling APIs?
Been thinking about this question more and more in the context of AI automation. A lot of SWE (apart from design and org politics) is just chaining calls to APIs.
Analysis is just calling APIs to get data. We use that to drive a decision and then we write code and use APIs to deploy it. We close the loops with the same data/metric APIs to verify our code achieved an outcome.
I wonder if this is why SWE seems so susceptible to automation - LLMs are great at chaining together calls to APIs.
Just a thought - I know there's a lot of diversity in SWE and this may not apply everywhere. I can think of holes in this line of reasoning (ex. we make decisions about the product during this process) but want to hear others' opinions.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284463
Points: 1
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Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
Article URL: https://arobenko.github.io/bare_metal_cpp/#_abstract_classes
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284461
Points: 1
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NPM audit passes malicious packages with no CVE
Article URL: https://westbayberry.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284458
Points: 1
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Claude.ai "We are experiencing delivery issues with some email providers"
Am I the only one not able to access my Claude.ai account for the past few days because their email sending provider is no longer working for certain email domains?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284453
Points: 1
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Sarvamai/Sarvam-105B
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/sarvamai/sarvam-105b
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284442
Points: 1
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T3 Code [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDn8-fK3XaU
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284441
Points: 1
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Show HN: I built an AI agent that wrote a full novel in 10 minutes
Article URL: https://github.com/fugue-labs/gollem
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284396
Points: 1
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Man Randomly Stabbed in Back in SF's Chinatown While Waiting to Cross
Article URL: https://www.ktvu.com/news/man-stabbed-back-sfs-chinatown-suspect-arrested
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284375
Points: 1
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