Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility
Hi HN! We’re Vincent and Jochen from sitefire (https://sitefire.ai). Our platform makes it easy for brands to improve their visibility in AI search. We’ve been working together for years and have backgrounds in RL/optimization at Stanford and software engineering. We came to this idea after speaking with marketing teams who were seeing declining traffic due […]
MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System
✅ Can it pick the right tool with correct parameters? ✅ Can it classify ”masked person at night” as Critical? ✅ Can it resist prompt injection in event descriptions? ✅ Can it deduplicate the same person across 3 cameras? ✅ Can it maintain context across multi-turn security conversations?
Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: ’Engaged Students, Joyful Teachers’
There was plenty of uncertainty and debate about the effectiveness of a cell phone ban decreed by executive order last summer. But at least in Estacada, the policy has earned two thumbs up, including approval from a “grumpy old teacher.” Jeff Mellema is a language arts teacher at Estacada High School. He has worked in […]
Chuck Norris Has Died
Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion who became an iconic action star and led the hit series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” has died. He was 86. Norris was hospitalized in Hawaii on Thursday, and his family posted a statement Friday saying that he died that morning. “While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that […]
I’m OK being left behind, thanks
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. ”They’re the future of money!” they said. I replied saying that I’d rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. ”You don’t want to get left behind, do you?” They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. […]
HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support
In an odd approach to trying to improve customer tech support, HP allegedly implemented mandatory, 15-minute wait times for people calling the vendor for help with their computers and printers in certain geographies. Callers from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy were met with the forced holding periods, The Register reported on Thursday. […]
Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate to treat symptoms
Current schizophrenia medications treat symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, but do little for cognitive symptoms like disorganized thinking or executive dysfunction. As a result, many patients are unable to work, rely on family for lifelong support, become homeless or, in some cases, experience suicidal thoughts and actions. A new Northwestern University study in humans […]
The Social Smolnet
by Ploum on 2026-03-20 It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion that with blogs and email, we already had a decentralized social network. We only needed to use it. This was the […]
Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
Summary The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including representatives from Transmission System Operators (TSOs), […]
3M’s PFAS exit killed the supply chain for two-phase immersion cooling in DCs
Long-form analysis, market context, and editorial takes on what’s shaping the data center cooling industry. Deep Dive Premium Preview March 19, 2026 On July 1, 2026, a law takes effect in Germany that no other major data center market has attempted at this scale. Any new data center commissioned on or after that date must […]