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Top 10 — News
- UK lenders raise mortgage rates amid warnings over inflation and energy prices Market mood ‘has completely changed’ following outbreak of Middle East war
- Emirates resumes some Dubai flights – what’s the latest on travel to UK? New flights to the UK from the Middle East follow days of widespread air travel disruption which had left Britons stranded.
- ‘Mainly, you fast fooded’: Monzo under fire over ‘shaming’ year-end reviews Bank criticised for tone of spending summaries, with one user complaining to ombudsman over ‘humiliating’ use of data When does lighthearte…
- Nintendo sues the US government for a refund on tariffs This lawsuit comes after a Supreme Court decision struck down some of the president's sweeping tariffs, which had impacted Nintendo and tho…
- DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs On Valentine's Day, I brought you a story that's since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot…
- Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
- This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won’t Work Deveillance’s Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their li…
- Tell HN: I’m 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion I’m ready to retire.
- Game about Data of America Article URL: https://americaindata.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282980 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
- Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/world/new-zealand-australia-emigration-midlife-intl-hnk-dst Comments URL: https://news.ycombina…
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model powers ChatGPT for Excel with finance-optimized reasoning OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT for Excel," a beta add-in that lets users create, edit, and analyze spreadsheets through natural language.
- openai/openai-node: v6.27.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.16.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.26.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.14-stable.gpt-5.4-patch5 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Introducing GPT‑5.4 Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro , also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI.
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.17.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==0.3.28 Release update (see link for changelog).
- KernelAgent: Hardware-Guided GPU Kernel Optimization via Multi-Agent Orchestration Summary Recently, the PyTorch team released KernelAgent, an open agentic system achieving 100% correctness across all 250 L1/L2/L3 KernelBe…
- How our open-source AI model SpeciesNet is helping to promote wildlife conservation
Photos of animals being identified by the SpeciesNet AI model
Full list — News (50)
Market mood ‘has completely changed’ following outbreak of Middle East war
Financier is appealing UK watchdog’s decision to ban and fine him in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations
A protracted conflict in the Middle East would dent expectations that global coal consumption will start to fall
Chance of natural cycle that raises equatorial ocean temperatures put at 59% between August and October
Israel and the US have achieved many military aims in Iran, but the unpredictable fallout poses threats to everyone
US allies in the Arab world have been plunged into a conflict they neither wanted nor consented to.
Why the newly endangered city will endure
Rules don’t even have to be effective to provide gainful employment for advisers
‘Finfluencer’ Megan Archer-Fox has cleared £40,000 of credit card debt, urging others to drop the shame and secrecy
A ‘skills gap’ is not some blight on free enterprise that someone else will fix
The move might help asset managers but hurt savers and the economy more broadly
How tourists became obsessed with finding the gates to the underworld of Greek mythology
Effective marginal tax rates discourage higher earners from pursuing career advancement
The legendary Al Moudira hotel now has a sister outpost
Steve Smith says restrictions may follow if enrolments to research masters programmes continue to rise
Jungle beaches and hillside eyries, from Costa Rica to the Costa Smeralda
Swire defends management model that critics argue is outdated and inefficient
Explosions rock Tehran airport and oil price surges as war enters second week
Millions of people are already turning to chatbots such as ChatGPT to plan their retirement
Alphabet boss gets bumper package of stock options tied to the share price and growth of Waymo in the next three years
New flights to the UK from the Middle East follow days of widespread air travel disruption which had left Britons stranded.
Rising heating oil prices are hitting Northern Ireland harder than the rest of the UK - here's everything you need to know.
Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi says oil could hit $150 a barrel if the Iran conflict continues over the coming weeks.
Bank criticised for tone of spending summaries, with one user complaining to ombudsman over ‘humiliating’ use of data When does lighthearte…
The lowdown on journey times, season ticket costs and average house prices in places you should know about In pictures: homes for sale in n…
This lawsuit comes after a Supreme Court decision struck down some of the president's sweeping tariffs, which had impacted Nintendo and tho…
On Valentine's Day, I brought you a story that's since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot…
Global markets have become inured to the US president’s posturing over the past year, but economists warn they may be ‘a little bit complac…
The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.
Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.
The fund currently offers retail investors exposure to eight startups, including Mercor, Ramp, and Stripe, with plans to expand its portfol…
An ad test on X promotes Musk's Starlink beneath original content.
The Rad Power brand is expected to live on.
A 61-year-old worker died on Thursday after reportedly getting stuck between a tractor trailer and a loading dock.
A blog post from Valve on Friday initially seemed to throw cold water on the idea that the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller…
Grammarly's "expert review" feature offers to give users writing advice "inspired by" subject matter experts, including recently deceased p…
Unlike the original Switch, the Nintendo Switch 2 requires microSD Express cards for storing and playing games.
Deveillance’s Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their li…
I’m ready to retire.
Article URL: https://americaindata.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282980 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/world/new-zealand-australia-emigration-midlife-intl-hnk-dst Comments URL: https://news.ycombina…
Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283665 Points: 138 # Comments:…
Article URL: https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283337…
Zero dependencies.
Article URL: https://plasma-bigscreen.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282736 Points: 350 # Comments: 104
Article URL: https://helix-editor.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282701 Points: 81 # Comments: 25
Article URL: https://consultwithgriff.com/dapper-nvarchar-implicit-conversion-performance-trap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281593 Points: 23…
Article URL: https://acid.vegas/blog/the-shady-world-of-ip-leasing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281221 Points: 100…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT for Excel," a beta add-in that lets users create, edit, and analyze spreadsheets through natural language.
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GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's most capable model yet, combining coding, computer operation, and reasoning in a single package for the first time.
Over one million new users per day: Anthropic's Claude is growing rapidly Anthropic and OpenAI have doubled their annual turnover since Oct…
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OpenAI's new Codex Security agent automatically hunts for vulnerabilities in code and has already found gaps in OpenSSH and Chromium.
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Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro , also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Anthropic and the Pentagon This piece by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E.
A computation is considered deterministic if multiple runs with the same input data produce the same bitwise result.
In this post, we dive into one of the most critical workloads in modern AI: Flash Attention, where you’ll learn: How to implement Flash Att…
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Summary Recently, the PyTorch team released KernelAgent, an open agentic system achieving 100% correctness across all 250 L1/L2/L3 KernelBe…
Photos of animals being identified by the SpeciesNet AI model
Agentic Engineering Patterns > The defining characteristic of a coding agent is that it can execute the code that it writes.
Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager Adnan Khan describes a devious attack chain agai…
Release update (see link for changelog).
ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright com…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, AWS announces light mode support in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for IAM-based domains.
TL;DR: On Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, FlexAttention now has a FlashAttention-4 backend.