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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Feb. 26.

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/tropical-plants-flower-shifted-months-climate-breakdown-aoe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161401

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Article URL: https://www.bicameral-ai.com/blog/dogfood-bicameral

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161391

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-remote-work-dream-isnt-dead-but-its-slipping-away-a19ae9e8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161373

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://github.com/rafapra3008/cervellaswarm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161371

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Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-jointly-limit-phosphorus-availability-rice.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161369

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Article URL: https://github.com/ULT7RA/KNOXProtocol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161356

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"Buy me a house. Budget $475K. Good school district. Handle it." That's where AI agents are headed. One already bought someone a car last month, negotiating $4,200 off across dealerships via email. Its entire authorization framework was a prompt: "ask me before doing anything consequential." It also sent a confidential email to the wrong person.

APOA is the missing infrastructure: an open standard for formally delegating bounded authority to AI agents. Scoped permissions, audit trails, instant revocation, credential isolation. Builds on OAuth 2.1, JWT, ZCAP-LD.

Working draft, Apache 2.0. Looking for feedback from anyone building agent infrastructure or working on auth standards. Please poke holes at it!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161352

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/gothburz/status/2026810017593057739

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161350

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://theory-of-space.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161345

Points: 1

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Digital asset exchanges sit in a difficult position: ultra-low latency execution on one side, increasing regulatory pressure on the other.

The engineering question isn’t “are you compliant?” — it’s:

How do you embed compliance into the system without touching the hot path?

At DIVEXA Exchange, compliance is treated as infrastructure rather than paperwork.

Execution vs. Governance Isolation

A common pattern in performance-sensitive systems:

Matching engine runs on a latency-optimized hot path

Compliance services consume replicated event streams asynchronously

Audit logs are append-only

Reporting layers operate on read replicas

This keeps order matching deterministic while allowing surveillance systems to scale independently.

AML as a Streaming Problem

AML isn’t a document workflow — it’s real-time analytics.

Instead of blocking execution, monitoring systems analyze:

Behavioral anomalies

Rapid balance shifts

Cross-account correlations

Threshold-trigger events

All of this happens off the execution path.

Governance as Access Control

Many exchange failures are internal.

From a systems perspective, compliance becomes:

Principle-of-least-privilege access

Segmented admin roles

Multi-party authorization for sensitive actions

Immutable privileged activity logs

These are enforceable system rules — not policy PDFs.

The Hard Part: Adaptability

Regulation changes faster than infrastructure.

The exchanges that survive long-term are likely those that modularize compliance logic instead of hard-coding it into core trading systems.

Performance gets attention. Compliance ensures survivability.

Curious how others here architect regulatory layers in latency-sensitive systems.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161342

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I got tired of Apple Mail not reliably flagging calendar events. And even when it did work, other events shared on iMessage, Slack, or random webpages still had to be manually copy-pasted into my Calendar. This got frustrating enough that I decided to claude-code a little utility to help me with this. Here's how it works:

You select any text on your Mac — an email, a Slack message, a webpage — right-click, hit "Add to Calendar," and it uses Gemini Flash to parse out the event title, date/time, location, and notes. You get an editable preview before anything gets saved to Apple Calendar.

It's bringing me joy everyday. Hope it helps you too!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161335

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I'm a product designer & front-end engineer who's been building with AI coding agents for the past year and working on teams launching AI products even longer. I always found the tools to be powerful, but the workflow around them lacking. I was constantly bouncing between terminals, browsers, file managers, and a rotating cast of IDEs. Nothing ever hit the right balance of simplicity and control.

So, like any completely over-burdened dad and leader, I built my own. Projekt is an agent-agnostic workspace that consolidates everything into one place. Bring your own key, bring your own agent — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Opencode, whatever you prefer.

It's still early. The alpha is free and I'm looking for people to help find rough edges and squash bugs. I've built 2 apps using it so far and the experience has been exactly what I was looking for. My roadmap is public and I plan to develop it rapidly.

Download the free alpha at https://getprojekt.com or grab the Founders Tier.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture, the design decisions, or the agent-agnostic approach.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161330

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Article URL: https://www.ranker.com/list/olestra-wow-chips-history-explained/jtdesaulnier

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161327

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During dry run testing of our drip emails, we caught that the first run processes all installations - including months-old ones. Sending "review your setup PR" to someone who installed ages ago would be tone-deaf. Added a dormancy check so inactive users get a re-engagement email first that re-introduces the product, then onboarding resumes from there. Caught it before it hit production.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161314

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Article URL: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161285

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/community-news/people/lake-placid-man-builds-team-usas-olympic-bobsleds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161277

Points: 1

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I’m dealing with an Apache prefork + mod_php setup where a single routing vhost handles a very large number of subdomains via host-based rewrite.

Under crawler bursts, load goes extremely high. What’s interesting is that main domains (separate vhosts) remain fast, while subdomains routed through the rewrite layer become intermittent or time out.

Apache ML feedback suggests this is expected behavior with prefork and heavy workers, but I’m curious if anyone has seen similar patterns and found mitigation strategies short of a full stack rewrite.

Any real-world experience appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161270

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Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-recurring-tasks-in-cowork

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161264

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Article URL: https://github.com/apple/python-apple-fm-sdk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161249

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