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Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality

Article URL: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/03/thomas-selfridge-first-airplane-fatality.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315079 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

Jay Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky in 2021 when the network and its AT Protocol spun out from life as a Twitter ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

You can get three months of Disney Plus and Hulu for $15 

If you’re looking for a way to stream the Oscars this weekend, or catch up on nominees like The Secret Agent, the Disn...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Apple’s new M5 Max feels like a huge upgrade if you bought your laptop 3 years ago

We've been busy testing many new MacBooks, ranging from the new $1,099 M5 MacBook Air, going all the way up the $6,149 1...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new "performance" cores

M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores. ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Apple Studio Display XDR review: pro at a premium

It's been almost exactly four years since Apple released the 5K Studio Display that so many wanted, even if it didn't re...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial

States seek mistrial, saying "sudden disappearance" of US will influence jury. ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

One of this rugged phone’s cameras is a pop-out action cam

What if your smartphone's camera wasn't locked to the back of the device? Honor's Robot Phone, which we got to see in ac...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code

Anthropic launched Code Review in Claude Code, a multi-agent system that automatically analyzes AI-generated code, flags...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps down

Bluesky's board will search for a replacement while Graber becomes Chief Innovation Officer.

Technology Mar 9, 2026

‘Cash Apples’ is giving away $500,000 to people who click on trees in a web browser

Want to make real money just by clicking on virtual trees? Starting today at 1PM PT / 4PM ET, residents of the United St...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."

Article URL: https://anon-ex-uber.medium.com/uber-reported-to-the-state-that-i-was-fired-for-annoying-a-coworker-4ba749...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Things I've Done with AI

Article URL: https://sjer.red/blog/2026/built-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314123 Poin...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93j2l32lzgo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313993...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World: Notes on Baking at the South Pole

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-most-beautiful-freezer-in-the-world Comments URL: ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-steppi... (https://web.archive.org/web/20260309191134/https://www...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down

Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

Article URL: https://durdraw.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313721 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Technology Mar 9, 2026

An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study. ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

It looks like the DOJ isn’t going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster

The DOJ and Live Nation agreed to a tentative settlement, but dozens of State Attorneys General don't want to drop the l...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Oil Is Near a Price That Hurts the Economy

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-is-already-near-a-price-that-hurts-the-economy-3cebcfdc Commen...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds

Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs. ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Periwinkle is making self-hosted social media on Bluesky’s AT Protocol even easier

Periwinkle offers managed hosting for AT Protocol users who want social media accounts on their own domains, with backup...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

Article URL: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/uber-is-letting-women-avoid-male-drivers-and-riders-in-the-us-322989...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Show HN: The Mog Programming Language

Article URL: https://moglang.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312728 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem

Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right. ...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/the-government-told-courts-it-could-easily-refund-unlawful-tariffs-now...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents

This deal underscores how frontier labs are scrambling to prove their technology can be used safely in critical business...

Technology Mar 9, 2026

Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists

Article URL: https://fixfest.therestartproject.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312329 Points:...