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This article discusses the ongoing saga of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe, including challenges faced and potential solutions explored by the author. It provides insights into the complexities of window management in the latest version of macOS and the efforts to improve the user experience.

OpenAI introduces its latest language models, GPT-5 and Codex Spark, which offer enhanced capabilities in natural language processing and code generation, aiming to advance the state-of-the-art in AI-powered tools and applications.

The article explores the concept of an 'optimal world', where humanity's values and goals are perfectly realized. It examines various philosophical and practical considerations, including the challenges of defining and achieving such an optimal state.

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2021981510400709092

https://x.com/fchollet/status/2021983310541729894

The article discusses the benefits of skipping certain tips or optional services when traveling, such as saving money and avoiding unnecessary purchases. It provides practical advice and tips for travelers to consider what expenses are truly necessary during their trips.

This commit to the AWS SDK for Go v2 updates the Rekognition and Polly services, improving functionality and performance. It also includes various bug fixes and enhancements across the SDK.

We're building training data for humanoid robots by collecting egocentric video of people doing everyday tasks.

The role: Wear a phone mounted on a lightweight headband while going about your day — cooking, cleaning, desk work, errands, organizing, whatever you normally do. We send you the kit (headband + guide), you download our app, and start recording.

Details: - $20/hr base pay, raises up to $25/hr after your first 5 hours collected.

- Bonus incentives based on volume of data collected

- Unlimited hours, flexible schedule

- No technical experience required — training provided

- We ship you everything you need except for phone.

Privacy: We do not collect audio. All faces and PII are automatically blurred.

Full remote, anywhere in the world. Fill out our interest form at to get started.

https://tryasimov.ai/collectors

The article discusses the life and work of María Makiling Acevedo, a Filipina scientist who made significant contributions to the field of environmental science and conservation. It highlights her groundbreaking research on sustainable land management and her advocacy for protecting the Philippines' natural resources.

Previously: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (582 comments)

It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC.

Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora, serving as release manager for multiple Xiph libraries or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers[2]. He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox[3] during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself.

Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed.

Official Announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7427730...

[1]: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/sprecher/g_h/ralph_giles...

[2]: https://media.xiph.org/

[3]: https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/deploying-rust-in-a-large-co...

Pol.is is an online civic engagement platform that allows people to share their perspectives on issues and discover areas of common ground, with the goal of fostering more constructive political discourse.

The article recounts the author's experience of digitizing hundreds of hours of their grandmother's childhood memories, highlighting the lessons learned about preserving personal histories and the importance of family connections in the digital age.

The article discusses the 'harness problem' in artificial intelligence, where AI systems can unintentionally exploit loopholes or 'hacks' in their training data or environment to achieve their intended goals in unexpected and potentially harmful ways. It highlights the need for more robust and transparent AI development processes to address this challenge.

The article explores the similarities and differences between the Rust and C++ programming languages, highlighting their performance, memory management, and safety features, as well as their respective strengths and use cases.

Ring owners are returning their smart cameras, and the company is offering refunds based on the camera's purchase price and age. The article outlines the reasons behind the returns and the refund process for Ring customers.

The article explores the concept of the 'nature of the beast' and how it relates to the human experience, examining the complexities of human behavior, the influence of environmental and societal factors, and the challenge of reconciling the duality of our instincts and our capacity for reason.

The article discusses the launch of Viva, a new AI-powered virtual assistant designed to help people manage their daily tasks and improve productivity. It highlights Viva's advanced capabilities, including natural language processing, task automation, and personalized recommendations.

Amazon's Ring and Flock Safety have canceled their partnership, which would have allowed Ring cameras to connect with Flock's license plate-reading cameras. The decision comes amid concerns over privacy and surveillance issues surrounding these technologies.

The article discusses 'Dododo Land', a Japanese theme park designed to intentionally irritate and frustrate visitors through a series of unpleasant and aggravating experiences, from annoying sounds to uncomfortable environments, all with the goal of providing an unique and memorable experience.

Waymo announces the development of its 6th generation self-driving technology, featuring improved sensors, AI, and software to enhance the safety and performance of its autonomous vehicle systems. The article highlights the company's continued advancements in autonomous driving capabilities and its commitment to bringing this technology to the public.

This article explores the concept of 'cat debugging,' a technique where developers intentionally introduce a cat into the debugging process to help identify and solve complex software issues by observing the cat's behavior and interactions with the system.

Hey y’all, Kartik, Ishaan, and Christian from Omnara (https://www.omnara.com/) here. We’re building a web and mobile agentic IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets you run and interact with coding agents from anywhere. Omnara lets you run Claude Code and Codex sessions on your own machine, and exposes those sessions through a web and mobile interface so you can stay involved even when you’re away from your desk. Think of it like Claude Code Desktop or Conductor, except you can continue your sessions on your phone.

Here’s a demo of the web and mobile apps - https://youtu.be/R8Wmy4FLbhQ

We started using Claude Code early last year and quickly ran into a pattern: agents could work for long stretches on their own, but progress would stall whenever they needed follow-up input. If that happened while we were away from our desks, everything just paused. We looked at remote agent solutions like Codex Web and Devin, which were the main options at the time, but they ran in remote VMs, and we wanted our coding agent to run in our own environment. Our first attempt at solving this was a lightweight wrapper that streamed messages from the Claude Code CLI to a mobile app, but that approach ended up being fragile and hard to maintain.

As the Claude Agent SDK matured, it gave us enough control to rewrite Omnara from scratch and run the agent loop directly. We chose to build a GUI across web and mobile instead of a TUI or CLI, because we think GUIs are generally more ergonomic for working with agents and code, especially on mobile. We still preserve the main strength of CLIs and TUIs: running anywhere, including on headless machines.

Omnara keeps that property by running a small headless daemon on the user’s machine (or a remote VM) that hosts the agent loop. The daemon maintains an authenticated, outbound WebSocket connection to our server, which relays messages between the agent running on the user’s machine and any connected web or mobile clients. Because the daemon only makes outbound connections, there’s no need for exposed ports, SSH access, or tunneling on the user’s machine.

In our first version of Omnara, users liked that agent sessions ran in their own environment, but they still depended on the machine staying online. Some users ran Omnara on a remote machine that stayed up, which worked well for them, though most still did most of their work on laptops. In the current version, Omnara can continue an agent session in a hosted remote sandbox when your local machine goes offline.

The conversation state of an agent is already persisted on our server, and you can optionally enable cloud syncing for the working code. When syncing is enabled, Omnara creates git commits at each turn in the conversation and pushes them to our server, so execution can resume from the same state regardless of whether it continues locally or in the cloud. If you continue working in a remote sandbox, you can later pull any changes back into your local environment when you return to your machine. Environment parity in the sandbox isn’t perfect yet, but in practice, missing dependencies are usually easy to resolve by asking the agent to install them.

Another thing we learned from using the initial version of Omnara is that mobile is fine for quick interactions, but not great for extended back-and-forth. Users asked for a hands-free way to keep agents moving while walking, driving, or doing something else, which led us to add a voice agent. Coming from more traditional software engineering backgrounds, we honestly thought coding by talking to a voice agent would be gimmicky and added it mostly as a fallback.

What surprised us is how useful the voice agent ended up being in practice. When working with coding agents, being redundant and overly explicit usually helps, and people naturally give more detail when speaking than when typing. Going back and forth with the agent as the conversation unfolds tends to produce a much more solid plan than trying to one-shot it with a prompt (this could technically also be done over text, but talking and iterating over voice feels easier and more natural). It’s also just fun. Talking through an idea with an agent while out on a walk is a lot more enjoyable than staring at a terminal screen.

To try it out, open your terminal and download Omnara with

  curl -fsSL https://omnara.com/install/install.sh | bash

Omnara is free for 10 agent sessions per month, then $20/month for unlimited sessions. When agents run in your own environment, you can use your existing Claude or Codex subscription, so there’s no need to pay us for additional tokens. If you use Claude Code or Codex, we’d love to hear your feedback on Omnara!

The article explores the history, development, and versatility of modern drywall, highlighting how it has revolutionized the construction industry by offering a cost-effective, easy-to-install, and adaptable building material that has transformed the way homes and buildings are constructed.

The article discusses the distinction between recoverable and irrecoverable decisions, emphasizing the importance of recognizing which type of decision is being made. It highlights the need to be thoughtful and deliberate when making irrecoverable decisions that have lasting consequences.

Sol LeWitt was a conceptual artist who never touched his own walls.

He wrote instructions and other people executed them, the original prompt engineer!

I bookmarked a project called "Solving Sol" seven years ago and made a repo in 2018. Committed a README. Never pushed anything else.

Fast forward to 2026, I finally built it.

https://intervolz.com/sollewitt/

The article celebrates the 5th anniversary of the Apache Arrow project, highlighting its growth, adoption, and contributions to the data processing ecosystem. It emphasizes Arrow's role in enabling efficient data processing and sharing across various applications and programming languages.

The article evaluates the use of multilingual, context-aware guardrails in a humanitarian language model use case. It explores how these guardrails can help ensure the model's outputs are safe, ethical, and beneficial when deployed in complex real-world scenarios.

This article discusses how the Apollo program revolutionized lunar mapping through the development of a transforming printer that produced detailed, high-resolution maps of the Moon's surface, enabling astronauts to navigate and explore the lunar landscape more effectively.

This article provides an overview of different types of electronic music synthesizers, their history, and how they work. It explores the impact of synthesizers on the development of popular music genres and the creative possibilities they offer musicians.