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Show HN: OpenMolt – A programmatic AI agent framework for Node.js

https://openmolt.dev
1•ybouane•47s ago•0 comments

AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse (NBER Working Paper)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34910
1•imakwana•2m ago•0 comments

Agent API Spec Design: When API Callers Change from Application to AI Agent

https://github.com/tomsun28/agent-api-spec
1•tomsun28•6m ago•1 comments

Prioritizing energy intelligence for sustainable growth

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1133972/prioritizing-energy-intelligence-for-sustaina...
1•joozio•6m ago•0 comments

US added more solar than any other technology in 2025, but is down 14% from 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/business/energy-environment/donald-trump-solar-energy-batterie...
3•epistasis•7m ago•0 comments

Cardiac side effects of RNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.16262
2•blumomo•7m ago•1 comments

Epstein Observer

https://epstein.observer
1•oldfuture•7m ago•0 comments

Why AI is both a curse and a blessing to open-source developers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-curse-and-blessing-to-open-source-software-developers/
1•CrankyBear•7m ago•0 comments

Astro 6.0

https://astro.build/blog/astro-6/
1•todotask2•8m ago•0 comments

Fixing request smuggling vulnerabilities in Pingora OSS deployments

https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-oss-smuggling-vulnerabilities/
1•Tiberium•9m ago•0 comments

Using cookies to hack into a tech college's admission system

https://eaton-works.com/2026/03/09/skcet-hack/
1•nfriedly•10m ago•0 comments

StackOverflow Site Redesign Thread (2026)

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/438177/new-site-design-and-philosophy-for-stack-overflow...
1•all2•10m ago•0 comments

Stay in the Loop: How I Use Claude Code

https://jola.dev/posts/stay-in-the-loop
1•shintoist•11m ago•0 comments

Flock Flocked up: How a license plate camera misread unraveled one man's life

https://www.businessinsider.com/flock-safety-alpr-cameras-misreads-2026-3
6•text0404•11m ago•0 comments

Rcarmo/PhotosExport: Export All Your Data from Apple Photos

https://github.com/rcarmo/PhotosExport
1•rcarmo•12m ago•0 comments

Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-consortium-wants-to-remove-custom-ROM-hurd...
3•derbOac•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: autoautoresearch – Karpathy's autoresearch on steroids

https://github.com/ArmanJR/autoautoresearch
1•armanj•13m ago•0 comments

Block Cut 4k Jobs and Blamed AI. The Truth Is More Complicated

https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/block-cut-4000-jobs-and-blamed-ai
2•cliffclimber•14m ago•0 comments

LodeRunner2099

https://loderunner2099.exe.xyz/
2•indigodaddy•16m ago•1 comments

I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry

https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/i-am-in-an-abusive-relationship-with-the-technology-industry/
3•only_in_america•19m ago•0 comments

Billion-Parameter Theories

https://www.worldgov.org/complexity.html
4•seanlinehan•19m ago•1 comments

KeePassXC 2.7.12 Released

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2026-03-10-2.7.12-released/
3•varjolintu•20m ago•0 comments

Marathon Players Debate Gorgeous but Painful UI and Ammo Shortages

https://kotaku.com/marathon-ammo-pvp-ui-bungie-feedback-server-slam-2000674385
1•PaulHoule•21m ago•0 comments

ALGOL W

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_W
1•tosh•22m ago•0 comments

From one-shot to agentic diagnostic analysis

https://haulos.com/blog/agentic-diagnostics-analysis/
1•hardsnow•23m ago•0 comments

Patriot Copy

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/patriot-copy/kamombliggehkgokinomjcjboicemmio
1•very_good_man•24m ago•1 comments

Remote MCP Servers: Hosting, Authentication and Best Practices

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/remote-mcp-servers-hosting-authentication-best-practices
2•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

Giving our AI agent 100k tools made it worse

https://getviktor.com/blog/what-breaks-when-your-agent-has-100000-tools
1•peteralbert•24m ago•1 comments

First Brands row hints at banks' shadow exposure

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/first-brands-row-hints-banks-shadow-exposure-202...
2•petethomas•25m ago•0 comments

3DIMLI – Sell Software and Video, Zero Commission, Direct Payments

https://www.3dimli.com
1•arpit077•25m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ad-tech is fascist tech

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/#foreseeable-outcomes
74•only_in_america•1h ago

Comments

krunck•1h ago
"...Google execs all work for their shareholders, in a psychotic "market system" in which the myth of "fiduciary duty" is said to require companies to hurt us right up to the point where the harms they inflict on the world cost them more than the additional profits those harms deliver"

Nailed it.

tptacek•1h ago
Not really. The idea that "fiduciary duty" requires companies to maximize shareholder value is a pernicious Internet myth.
fsflover•1h ago
And yet this is exactly how every single megacorp works.
topaz0•1h ago
That myth long predates the internet version of it I think. Pernicious, yes.

But note that the quote does call it out as a myth.

text0404•1h ago
Citation needed because all evidence to the contrary.
mindslight•6m ago
Legally, sure. (there's a citation, a case between craigslist and a minority shareholder (ebay I think?), that backs up your argument about the common trope).

But when stock valuations are completely disconnected from fundamentals like earnings, then regardless of the legality we're kind of circling back to the market pushing that dynamic, aren't we? It's like the market is no longer even optimizing for short term gains per se (eg quarterly earnings), but rather for whatever memes might boost their meme stock. Sometimes this is [still] quarterly earnings, and sometimes it's about the perceived size of the market or how they're cozying up to the fascists in power.

nickff•1h ago
This piece is a polemic screed against ad-tech, which seems to conflate fascism and the police state. The majority of citations are either themselves or other polemics.
sharkjacobs•1h ago
Would you be assuaged if it was titled "Ad-tech is police state tech"?
lo_zamoyski•1h ago
Word use is important. We have allowed thumos (and epithumia) to rule over nous.

It has become acceptable to misuse words, like "fascist" or "communist" in political contexts, to the detriment of rational and fruitful discourse. Often a false equivalence is drawn between denying something is "fascist" or "communist" and denying something is bad. This is false. Something can be bad without being fascist or communist.

There is plenty to be critical about in American politics and in tech, but calling everything you don't like "fascist" or "communist" isn't helpful. These seem to be go-to words used by those "defending" what is now a crumbling postwar liberal democratic order, i.e., anything that seems at odds with this order is reflexively called one of these two terms, depending on which faction of the American uniparty you align with.

nickff•1h ago
I think that would definitely make it a more precise polemic, but the incorrect use of the word seems more of a symptom of the author's sloppiness than anything else.
hananova•1h ago
This comment is dismissing a thoughtful and factual article by the character of the writer rather than the truth of their words. Interesting.
nickff•1h ago
What did I say about the writer's character?
bobtheborg•1h ago
I found many points interesting. Here's one:

Policymakers supposedly work for us/the people and they could have made surveillance ad tech expensive and thereby severely limited it, but

> "Policymakers failed us because cops and spies hate privacy laws and lobby like hell against them. Cops and spies love commercial surveillance, because the private sector's massive surveillance dossiers are an off-the-books trove of warrantless surveillance data that the government can't legally collect."

nickff•1h ago
That point may be pithy, but it's unconvincing to any skeptic; those are characteristics of a polemic.
Herring•1h ago
You’d still be having fascism here even if the internet didn’t exist. The most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (welfare, healthcare, unionization, high taxes etc) is usually low among Americans. Eventually rents/healthcare/tuitions outpace income, so people become desperate and start voting for strongmen.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/welfare-cuts...

christkv•1h ago
How do you prevent the rise of the far left? Just asking because both axis are as much a threat to human freedom and happiness.
topaz0•1h ago
The post is not about preventing the rise of fascism, it's about not preemptively building tools for them to use in implementing fascism.
pigeons•1h ago
Remember those sci-fi books and movies about the dystopian totalitarian futures where advertisements were constantly targeted at you?
leptons•1h ago
I worked for an ad-tech company for 3 months. I could not wait to get out of there.

It became clear to me quickly that the data these people wanted to collect on anyone and everyone could be used against me should they want to - not that I was doing anything questionable, but it was just creepy as F**.

The final straw for me was when they got some kind of contract with a major hotel chain and were all-too-giddy to listen in on the smart TVs in every room. I did not want to help them further any of their agendas, so I bailed on that place. Fortunately this was many years ago when dev jobs were easy to come by, I had 3 offers in a week.

amadeuspagel•1h ago
HN has ads (job ads for YC companies). When I see people post these deranged takes about ads on HN, I always ask myself: Do they not notice this--a common criticism of ads is that they blend too much into the real content, and this is nowhere more true then on HN--or do words just not mean anything to them, do they just mindlessly repeat memes rather then thinking about what these ideas mean for their own life? Is a sentence which to me expresses an idea to them more akin to a drug that gives them a kind of moral high? Because if I thought that ads were fascist, I'd look for a forum that doesn't have any, like Lobsters[1].

[1]: https://lobste.rs/

topaz0•1h ago
By "ad-tech" it's referring to the surveillance that underlies modern targeting of ads on the internet. YC's job ads don't do that.
hightrix•1h ago
When most people complain about ads, they are complaining about targeted ads.

Job postings, Show HN, and other ads on HN are contextually relevant to a majority of the users and require no tracking to present.

This post appears to be about the former, not the later.

topaz0•1h ago
Why is this flagged?
drcongo•30m ago
I didn't flag it because it might be the first original thought that blog has had in years, but I totally understand the impulse to flag pluralistic without even reading it.
fsflover•17m ago
What are you talking about? This blog has many good, not flagged submission here.
afpx•1h ago
Why was this flagged? And, there's no vouch option

Yes, Thiel openly says surveillance tech is the anti-Christ. Then, he goes on to build the tech.

The frustrating thing is seeing it happen in real-time and knowing you can't inform or educate enough people.

afpx•53m ago
https://www.worthynews.com/105933-peter-thiel-warns-of-antic...
xyclonbee•46m ago
Today on "anything I don't like is literally hitler"...