Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook today said the Mac just had its ”best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers,” which suggests that the new MacBook Neo has been a hit with customers buying their first laptops or switching from Windows. Apple released the MacBook Neo last Wednesday, March 11. In the U.S., pricing starts at […]

Show HN: A deterministic middleware to compress LLM prompts by 50-80%

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A Python framework for modular, self-contained skill management for machines. Skillware is an open-source framework and registry for modular, actionable Agent capabilities. It treats Skills as installable content, decoupling capability from intelligence. Just as apt-get installs software and pip installs libraries, skillware installs know-how for AI agents. ”I know Kung Fu.” – Neo The AI […]

Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust

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Why Grafeo? High Performance Fastest graph database tested on the LDBC Social Network Benchmark, both embedded and as a server, with a lower memory footprint than other in-memory databases. Built in Rust with vectorized execution, adaptive chunking and SIMD-optimized operations. Multi-Language Queries GQL, Cypher, Gremlin, GraphQL, SPARQL and SQL/PGQ. Choose the query language that fits […]

Some Things Just Take Time

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written on March 20, 2026 Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait. Tree-lined roads, old gardens, houses sheltered […]

Why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

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By the 1980s, Detroit’s once titanic carmakers were being upended by rivals from Japan. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler had grown rich selling gas guzzlers, but when oil prices rose and suddenly cheap, fuel-efficient Japanese models looked attractive, they were unprepared. The collapse in sales led to hundreds of thousands of job losses in the […]

Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, ”drastically” reduced the number of cars

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Paris  —  Anyone visiting Paris just over a decade ago would doubtless have been charmed by the city’s timeless attractions — brasseries serving delicious food, museums crammed with famous works of art, boulevards of chic stores — all overlooked by the sparkling lights of the Eiffel Tower. But despite being home to one of Europe’s […]

Show HN: AI SDLC Scaffold, repo template for AI-assisted software development

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A repository template for AI-first software development with Claude Code that organizes the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) into four phases — Objectives, Design, Code, Deploy — each with folder structure, artifacts, and agent instructions that encode what to check, when to check it, and what to do, so that all project knowledge lives inside […]

Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

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A new release is out! v18.13 is probably the biggest set of changes we have released in a good while, read on to find out more. Much faster and better search with the daemon The daemon has existed for a long time, and has been marked as ”experimental” for its entire existence. It was originally […]

Blocking Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, but Will Erase Web’s Historical Record

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Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper.  That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it […]