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AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_business...

Show HN: Goal.md, a goal-specification file for autonomous coding agents

https://github.com/jmilinovich/goal-md

Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age

https://agelesslinux.org/

385TB video game archive saved by fans; torrents being generated

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gam...

Schemesh – Unix shell and Lisp REPL, now with structured pipelines

https://github.com/cosmos72/schemesh/blob/main/REA...

What is agentic engineering?

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineeri...

VisiCalc Reconstructed

https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/

Show HN: Basalt – IDE-like documentation for infrastructure and API

https://basalt-docs.com

Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/nvidias-dlss-5-u...

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cubas-nati...

Badreads

https://www.funnest.world/badreads

Unified Attestation: free open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity

https://uattest.net/

Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform

https://office.eu/media/pressrelease-20260304

My Self-Driving Car Crash – The Tesla was driving perfectly–until it wasn't

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/self-...

Avalonia WebView Is Now Free and Open Source

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia.Controls.We...

Kagi's Orion browser hits public beta on Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/orion-for-linu...

Thariq's Lessons from Building Claude Code: How We Use Skills

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2033949937936085...

Building a blog with Git-crypt for private posts in a public repo

https://thobiasn.dev/posts/a-pragmatic-blog

JetBrains is shutting down "Code With Me" in all its IDEs

https://www.neowin.net/news/jetbrains-is-shutting-...

$100 Oil Could Deliver $63B Cash Surge to U.S. Shale – Oilprice.com

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/100-Oil-Cou...

High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1011492...

Heavier Proton Discovered at LHC

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/17/sc...

Expat 2.7.5 released, includes security fixes

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-7-5-releas...

Clock-accurate FPGA replacement for NES PPU

https://github.com/andkorzh/PPU-LITE

The Webpage Has Instructions. The Agent Has Your Credentials

https://openguard.sh/blog/prompt-injections/

Marketing for Founders

https://github.com/EdoStra/Marketing-for-Founders

Learning Creative Coding

https://stigmollerhansen.dk/resume/learning-creati...

The unwritten laws of software engineering

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-unwritten-law...

An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS

https://towlion.github.io

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832...