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• John Gruber

Reuters: ‘Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop’

reuters.com/technology/amazon-plans-smartphone-comeback-more-than-decade-after-fire-phone-flop-2026-03-20/

Greg Bensinger, reporting for Reuters: The latest effort, known internally as “Transformer,” is being developed within its devices and services unit, according to four people familiar ​with the matter. The phone is seen as a potential mobile personalization device that c...

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Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

Here's a mildly dystopian prompt I've been experimenting with recently: "Profile this user", accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hacker News. Obtaining those comments is easy. The Algolia Hacker News API supports listing comments sorted by date that have a ...

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Using Git with coding agents

Agentic Engineering Patterns > Git is a key tool for working with coding agents. Keeping code in version control lets us record how that code changes over time and investigate and reverse any mistakes. All of the coding agents are fluent in using Git's features, both ...

Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Beers, braids and bonding

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We meet the men on a mission to help fellow Dads connect with their daughters, through a movement called 'pints and ponytails'. It's a chance to learn how to do a range of girls' hairstyles, over a couple of beers. But organisers say they leave with more than just salon skil...

Dan’s Polaroids

20.03.2026

Selfie of me and Zoe, skating.
You don't see it, but we're both skating. :)

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Another HWC Düsseldorf has taken place this week, where we shared what we’ve been up to with our personal sites. Nina continued to write more and more for her homepage as well as work on the code. She started adding music to her blog posts. Jochen continues to make selfhosted tools and recently added a (private) “Archive” site where he adds podcasts episodes to, and transcribes the audio into text. I recently added the latest Polaroid to my homepage.

We also talked about Kagi’s Small Web initiative, AI, how much personal information to share online, and easter eggs. Links mentioned:

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Trump considering 'winding down' Iran military campaign

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President Trump posted on social media that the US was getting very close to meeting its objectives in Iran. Earlier he told reporters he didn't want a ceasefire. The BBC's US partner, CBS, has reported that US military officials are making detailed preparations for the poss...

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Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed

Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed In Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than James Hague lists things (from 2011) that are larger in size than Borland's 1985 Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable - a 39,731 byte file that somehow included a full text editor IDE and Pascal compiler. ...

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Jason Kottke

A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier ....

A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier. “The idea that we must have a crisp line dividing one country from another is often inaccurate when it comes to what states are actually claiming.”

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• John Gruber

Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines

theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjI0Q05IV0dlS3EiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODk2NDkwL2dvb2dsZS1yZXBsYWNlLW5ld3MtaGVhZGxpbmVzLWluLXNlYXJjaC1jYW5hcnktY29hbC1taW5lLWV4cGVyaW1lbnQiLCJleHAiOjE3NzQ0NzIwOTAsImlhdCI6MTc3NDA0MDA5MH0.3exwHWG6qdR5YeFLjzS1qvUy3tgfASQhbFZDTbHrkKE&utm_medium=gift-link

Sean Hollister, The Verge (gift link): After doing something similar in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the traditional “10 blue links,” too. We’ve found multiple examples where Google replaced headlines we wrote with ones we did no...

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• Maciej Cegłowski

Musk on Mars

Musk on Mars

A timeline of Musk's pronouncements about Mars exploration and settlement

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Quoting Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot

Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2!

We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.

Note: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.

Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot, responding to reports that Composer 2 was built on top of Kimi K2.5

Tags: kimi, generative-ai, ai, cursor, llms, ai-in-china

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Jason Kottke

This is a diabolical phishing attack . “That...

This is a diabolical phishing attack. “That generated a real case ID, and triggered real Apple emails to my inbox, properly signed, from Apple’s actual servers.”

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• John Gruber

Perhaps Bluesky’s Revelation of an 11-Month Ago $100 Million Investment Was, in Fact, an Act of Transparency

bsky.app/profile/flooey.org/post/3mhiznh4d7c2j

Regarding my earlier post expressing confusion/discomfort with Bluesky announcing a $100 million funding round almost an entire year after it closed, I had an interesting back-and-forth with Adam Vartanian on Bluesky (natch), where he wrote: If you see press reports that...

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Star Formation

It's ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren't collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their ... HEY! NO!!!

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Jason Kottke

This is hilarious. A man was pictured in two different...

This is hilarious. A man was pictured in two different photos on the same front page of a local newspaper: one of him painting a holiday sign and a gs station security cam still of him taking a wallet.

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“Some countries are better positioned to weather...

“Some countries are better positioned to weather this energy crisis than they would have been just a few years ago. That’s because of the rapid growth of renewable energy, battery systems and electric vehicles…”

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Jason Kottke

Britain Has Invaded All but 22 Countries

Of the current 200 nations in the world, the British have invaded all but 22 of them. The lucky 22 include Sweden, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Bolivia, and Belarus. The full analysis is available in Stuart Laycock’s book, All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded. Stuart Laycock, t...

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An online museum of Chinese cigarette packaging art .

An online museum of Chinese cigarette packaging art.

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• John Gruber

Bluesky Raised $100M a Year Ago but for Some Reason Only Disclosed It Now

bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

Bluesky: In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation and True Ventures. In the months since, we’ve focused on scaling our team to mee...