Daily Read · 2026-03-15

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service Brutal satire on the whole vibe-porting license washing thing ( previously ): Finally, liberation from open source lic

19. Quoting Les Orchard · 5.0/10 · simonwillison

Here's what I think is happening: AI-assisted coding is exposing a divide among developers that was always there but maybe less visible. Before AI, bo

20. Restoring an Xserve G5: When Apple built real servers · 5.0/10 · jeffgeerling

Recently I came into posession of a few Apple Xserves. The one in question today is an Xserve G5, RackMac3,1 , which was built when Apple at the top—a

21. Can the MacBook Neo replace my M4 Air? · 5.0/10 · jeffgeerling

Many of us wonder if the MacBook Neo is 'the one'. Because I have a faster desktop (currently a M4 Max Mac Studio), I've always used a lower-end Mac l

22. Sports Programming Accounts for Almost 30 Percent of All Ad-Supported TV Viewing · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

Dade Hayes, reporting for Deadline: While the rise of sports programming in recent years has been well-documented, new figures from Nielsen illustrate

23. ‘Grief and the AI Split’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

Les Orchard: I started programming in 1982. Every language I’ve learned since then has been a means to an end — a new way to make computers do things

24. Apple’s Platform Security Guide Adds a Brief Note on the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

Apple Platform Security Guide: MacBook Neo combines system software and dedicated silicon elements within A18 Pro to provide additional security for t

25. MacBook Neo Teardown · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

Tech Re-Nu, on YouTube: That leaves us with a fully disassembled laptop. We’ve done this in less than 10 minutes, which is absolutely amazing for an A

26. Software Proprioception · 5.0/10 · daringfireball

Marcin Wichary: There are fun things you can do in software when it is aware of the dimensions and features of its hardware. [...] The rule here would

27. Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026) · 5.0/10 · pluralistic

Today's links Three more AI psychoses: Everybody calm down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Jules, Penny and the Rooster"

28. An odd font rendering bug in Firefox and Safari · 5.0/10 · shkspr.mobi

First up, you should go and watch The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa. It is a brilliant set of performances and a joy to see. While peru

29. How much of HN is AI? · 5.0/10 · lcamtuf-substack

I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog.

30. Is the US military actually afraid of Claude? A new theory of why Anthropic was labeled a supply chain risk. · 5.0/10 · garymarcus

Unpacking a perplexing argument from the Pentagon

31. Inverse cosine · 5.0/10 · johndcook

In the previous two posts, we looked at why Mathematica and SymPy did not simplify sinh(arccosh(x)) to √(x² − 1) as one might expect. After understand

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