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Shooting-Free Days Decline in Major U.S. Cities

Article URL: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/shooting-free-days-decline-major-u-s-cities-new-metric-aims-building-sustained-periods-peace Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

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Technology Mar 18, 2026

Website to post Claude fuck ups

Article URL: https://claudedidwhat.wtf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432522 Points: 8 # Comments...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Kagi Translate's AI answers the question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"

Remember when it was fun to play around with LLMs?

Technology Mar 18, 2026

What's on HTTP?

Article URL: https://whatsonhttp.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431930 Points: 7 # Comments:...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

The FBI is buying Americans’ location data

FBI director Kash Patel admitted that the agency is buying location data that can be used to track people's movements. U...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

Planned EU ban on nudify apps would likely force Musk to make Grok less "spicy." ...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training

I replicated David Ng's RYS method (https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/) on consumer AMD GPUs (RX 7900 XT + RX 6950 XT...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

A look at content scrambling in DVDs

Article URL: https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~crypto/Projects/MarkBarry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Coal plant forced to stay open due to emergency order isn't even running

Department of Energy's attempts to prop up coal can look pretty pointless.

Technology Mar 18, 2026

NYC High School Student Freed After 10 Months in ICE Detention

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/nyregion/nyc-high-school-student-ice-freed.html Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Amazon doesn’t want the blame for the Post Office going under

Amazon is going on the defensive after a report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that the ecommerce giant plans to ...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Congress considers blowing up internet law

Internet platforms' liability shield Section 230 faced another round of attack at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Work_mem: It's a Trap

Article URL: https://mydbanotebook.org/posts/work_mem-its-a-trap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]

Article URL: https://twitter.com/toddsaunders/status/2034243420147859716 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar

Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant.

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Warranty Void If Regenerated

As an experiment I started asking Claude to explain things to me with a fiction story and it ended up being really good...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand in...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer

Article URL: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/remove-your-ring-camera-with-a-claw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Hoto’s powerful PixelDrive electric screwdriver is 25 percent off

Hoto makes electric screwdrivers for different budgets. If you don’t want to spend much, you can get its most basic mo...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/ Comme...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business

Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law

Firm says requiring site blocks within 30 minutes breaks core Internet architecture. ...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends

Article URL: https://github.com/ndroo/freeciv.andrewmcgrath.info Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid

Company has previously tested its technology on the International Space Station. ...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Trump’s AI chief’s big Iran warning gets big time ignored

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the politics of technology and the technology o...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, whic...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Robinhood is making a social network

Robinhood is now beta testing a Twitter-like social media platform it calls Robinhood Social. The trading-focused platfo...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer

When an Australian tech entrepreneur with no background in biology or medicine said ChatGPT helped save his dog from can...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal

After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into Chat...

Technology Mar 18, 2026

Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes

He told the Wall Street Journal he thinks autonomous planes will be "10 times harder than Nikola ever was."