Brief archive

March 2026

Every edition published this month. The archive keeps intentional gaps exactly where they occurred.

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  1. Today's a wild one. GitHub Copilot started injecting ads into pull requests, then backed down after major backlash. Meanwhile, Sora is apparently struggling, a…
  2. Monday morning brings a reality check on AI coding tools: GitHub Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests, and Claude Code has a bug that nukes your rep…
  3. Sunday morning brings a fascinating mix of research and industry news. Stanford research shows AI chatbots are way too agreeable when giving personal advice, W…
  4. Saturday morning, and the AI world keeps moving. Claude's mysterious .claude/ folder gets a teardown, vibe coding SwiftUI apps is turning into a legit workflow…
  5. Good morning! Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with more natural audio AI, and they're rolling out Search Live globally. Meanwhile, someone built a $5…
  6. Google just dropped TurboQuant, a breakthrough that lets you run massive AI models on regular hardware through extreme compression. Meanwhile, Ensu brings loca…
  7. Sora is dead. OpenAI's video generation tool posted its goodbye yesterday, and the HN thread has almost a thousand points. Meanwhile, the builders keep buildin…
  8. Sora is dead. OpenAI's video generation product announced its shutdown today, which didn't stop OpenAI from also unveiling shopping inside ChatGPT via somethin…
  9. Someone got a massive AI model running on an iPhone 17 Pro, which topped Hacker News today. Claude Code had its moment with a cheat sheet and productivity guid…
  10. Starlette 1.0 shipped—the web framework underneath FastAPI that's been running in production for years. Christopher Meiklejohn wrote up teaching Claude to do m…
  11. Simon Willison published two pieces today: a "mildly dystopian" experiment profiling HN users from their comments, and a practical guide to using Git with codi…