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Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs

mordechai90002026-03-28↑ 101 comments

Private equity's algorithmic extraction from elderly populations signals emerging regulatory scrutiny of automated financial exploitation at scale.

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II

spk_2026-03-28↑ 160 comments

Fake compliance automation exposes critical gap in enterprise security auditing where checkbox security meets generative deception.

Show HN: We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA

LZK2026-03-28↑ 1710 comments

Multi-agent research systems with novel anti-bot verification represent genuine infrastructure evolution in autonomous AI tooling.

What you can't say in a Saturn game

Eduard2026-03-28↑ 60 comments

Reverse engineering of proprietary hardware constraints reveals ongoing preservation battles for abandoned digital cultural artifacts.

rpg.actor Game Jam

Kye2026-03-28↑ 514 comments

Browser-native game engine with actor-model architecture demonstrates viable alternative to Unity/WebGL dominance for indie distribution.

Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts

Brajeshwar2026-03-28↑ 384 comments

Computational geometry of star forts offers unexpected historical precedent for distributed systems design and defensive architecture patterns.

Gerard of Cremona

teleforce2026-03-26↑ 323 comments

Medieval translation networks as proto-open-source knowledge infrastructure relevant to modern decentralized scientific collaboration debates.

Desperately Seeking Space Friends

benbreen2026-03-26↑ 333 comments

Canadian space policy paralysis illustrates geopolitical cost of technological sovereignty abdication to allied but competing national programs.

AI Replacing Human Workers 3

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s Translator Says He Was Fired Because Warhorse Plans To Use ‘AI For All Translations Going Forward’

u/Turbostrider272026-03-28r/technology

Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

u/No_Top_90232026-03-28r/technology

L.A. Dodgers Tell 82-Year-Old, 50-Year Season Ticket Holder: ‘Go Digital’—Or Don’t Go At All

u/-d1sc0nn3ct-2026-03-28r/technology

Big Tech Legal Reckoning 4

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‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel

u/tacticaldodo2026-03-28r/technology

Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People

u/ZuP2026-03-28r/technology

Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation

u/StraightedgexLiberal2026-03-28r/technology

Reddit will require “fishy” accounts to verify they are run by a human

u/No_Top_90232026-03-28r/technology

AI Infrastructure & Investment 3

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SoftBank has taken on a new $40 billion loan to help it cover its $30 billion commitment to invest in OpenAI

u/Logical_Welder34672026-03-28r/technology

[P] TurboQuant for weights: near‑optimal 4‑bit LLM quantization with lossless 8‑bit residual – 3.2× memory savings

u/cksac2026-03-28r/MachineLearning

An adaptation of the recent **TurboQuant** algorithm (Zandieh et al., 2025) from **KV‑cache quantization to model weight compression**. It gives you a **drop‑in replacement for** `nn.Linear` with near

An Invisible Bottleneck: A Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry

u/waozen2026-03-28r/technology

AI Security & Exploitation Risks 3

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is moving fast — and so are the attackers.

u/workaholicrohit2026-03-28r/cybersecurity

Here is a deep-dive on what real MCP security looks like in 2026: not theory, but actual CVE patterns, exploit chains, and how to build policy-as-code defenses for AI tool infrastructure. What's in

[D] Litellm supply chain attack and what it means for api key management

u/Zestyclose_Ring11232026-03-28r/MachineLearning

If you missed it, litellm versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on pypi got compromised. malicious .pth file that runs on every python process start, no import needed. it scrapes ssh keys, aws/gcp creds, k8s sec

GPU Rowhammer Is Real: A Single Bit Flip Drops AI Model Accuracy from 80% to 0.1%

u/LostPrune21432026-03-28r/cybersecurity

Government AI Deployment Controversy 3

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White House unveils ‘OnlyFarms’ website, welcomes farmers with golden tractor on South Lawn

u/esporx2026-03-28r/technology

US embassy in Mexico prompts outrage with AI video promoting ‘self-deportation’

u/Wagamaga2026-03-28r/technology

I Decompiled the White House's New App

u/CackleRooster2026-03-28r/programming

Energy & Climate Tech Momentum 2

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‘Suddenly energy independence feels practical’: Europeans are building mini solar farms at home

u/waozen2026-03-28r/technology

Rivian gets another $1B from Volkswagen

u/Logical_Welder34672026-03-28r/technology

Developer Career Anxiety 4

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just started web dev a month ago

u/StatisticianStock3102026-03-28r/webdev

it's truly frustrating looking at all the "AI will replace web Devs" statements , posts. Starting my journey feels like a dead end, and people say shift to something else, as if it is very easy and w

I delivered this website project at $1150 but I am thinking I had to charge more

u/NoGround5112026-03-28r/webdev

For a B2B manufacturing company , I build a website with all their products, regional pages, their services, industry pages and all. And they are ranking on local as well as in Indian searches related

Is chasing 100/100 Lighthouse score worth it as an indie dev?

u/Technical-Relation-92026-03-28r/webdev

Making the jump from senior to principal

u/dyslechtchitect2026-03-28r/webdev

Official title not really being the point of my question. I'm a boot camp graduate with 8 years of experience I've wiggled my way into serious r&d organizations and I'm not a half bad programmer w

Platform & Gaming Industry Labor 2

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Valve veteran Chet Faliszek slams Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for laying off 1000 people while making "as much money as possible… and hey Tim, Gabe's better at that than you": "I worked my ass off at Valve, and I could retire today. I made more money than I'll ever make."

u/ControlCAD2026-03-28r/technology

iPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android'

u/Limp_Fig62362026-03-28r/technology

Other 5

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“Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food

u/MarvelsGrantMan1362026-03-28r/technology

The best inflation indicator is the influencer scene in Florida

u/AnalyticsDepot--CEO2026-03-28r/Entrepreneur

The second you see the 10Xer business gurus and influencers from Florida down-sizing, you know they are running into stones to bleed. All those guys have created long term funnels to screw the middle

Getting a job in this market - what works and what doesn't?

u/NothingImpressive5872026-03-28r/cybersecurity

Just curious because it's been hard finding a job in this market . I am based out of the US and have over 6 years of experience in cyber

What fork() Actually Copies

u/dfbaggins2026-03-28r/programming

Scientists have succeeded in strengthening 3D-printed concrete during the printing process

u/_Dark_Wing2026-03-28r/technology

AI Agents Architecture Debate 4

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@_eseidel I think the most serious problem that applying AI (i.e. llm based agents) has splitted developers into several groups (from experi…

@antmalofeev2026-03-28

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@Mohaiminul15313 @Mohaiminul15313 Spot on. Most "AI investing" tools are just a fancy wrapper around a single LLM-basically a smarter Google…

@sihle9641882026-03-28

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I’ve spent the last 2 years building and selling AI agents These 10 GitHub Repos taught me everything about AI Agents 👇 1. Hands-On Large…

@krishna184212026-03-28

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The Fundamentals Of Building Autonomous LLM Agents A 38-page PDF that uncovers the secrets of building AI agents that are "agentic" https…

@AIGuideHQ2026-03-28

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AI Impact on Tech Employment 2

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@elonmusk @pmarca Really?!? When is this UBI supposed to start flowing? The logic of billionaires supporting us off the fruits of their…

@bassist4042026-03-28

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Job Market Stress War uncertainty → economic slowdown Companies cut costs first Tech layoffs can rise again Hiring slows, pressure builds H…

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LLM Capabilities vs. Hype 2

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@timburchett It would be scientifically impossible. The way an LLM works, there is no way. A sapient AI, if even possible, would be a comple…

@CorncobJimmy2026-03-28

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@fchollet It's surreal to watch the appearing slop class being unable to even ask an LLM a few consecutive questions or judge opposing views…

@MarianoSwiss2026-03-28

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Developer Tools and Resources 1

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@AvinashSingh_20 Claude Code: Commands Cheatsheet in 5 languages: http://claude-guides.com ♻ Repost to help others find it ➕ Follow for m…

@PaulLarionov2026-03-28

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Thermodynamics: The New Frontier of AI Infrastructure – Issue #22

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Charts of the Week: Learning to Weld

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How Founders Can Apply Zapier’s AI Playbook

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Copper One: The World's Only Autonomy-First Mine & Refinery

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Twitter’s Ex-CEO: The Web Was Built for Humans — Let’s Make it Work for AI Agents

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Significance > Success

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