Hacker NewsTuesday, February 25

Anthropic announces Claude 3.7 Sonnet, their most advanced AI model featuring both quick responses and extended thinking capabilities. The model shows improved performance in coding, web development, and introduces Claude Code, a new command-line tool. It's available across all Claude plans and major cloud platforms.

A developer created an app to combat morning phone addiction by requiring users to physically touch grass before accessing distracting apps, aiming to break the habit of excessive phone use and doomscrolling immediately after waking up.

Apple plans to invest $500B in US operations over 4 years, including hiring 20,000 workers and building AI server facilities in Houston and Michigan, as it seeks relief from Trump's China tariffs.

FlashMLA is an optimized MLA decoding kernel for Hopper GPUs, designed for efficient variable-length sequence processing. It features BF16 support and paged kvcache capabilities, offering high performance with up to 3000 GB/s memory throughput and 580 TFLOPS on H800 SXM5 GPUs.

AI has successfully designed complex wireless chips in hours instead of weeks, demonstrating efficiency beyond human capabilities. The AI used an unconventional approach, creating designs that humans wouldn't devise. While the AI-designed chips outperformed existing designs, researchers note that human oversight is still necessary due to potential errors.

VIET GD serves as a casual archive and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design, featuring a collection of 274 objects. The platform provides access to its content through various navigation options including home, about, Instagram, spreadsheet, and issue reporting features.

A fascinating math puzzle challenges users to create target numbers using exactly four instances of the digit 2 and any mathematical operations. As mathematical knowledge increases, more solutions become possible, from basic arithmetic to complex functions. Paul Dirac eventually found a general solution using nested square roots.

Right to Repair legislation has now been introduced in all 50 US states, with Wisconsin being the final state. Five states have already passed the law, protecting one in five Americans. The movement, advocated by iFixit and partners for 11 years, aims to ensure consumers have access to parts and tools needed to repair their products.

A tool named mdq has been developed to help select and navigate text from Markdown documents using a pipe syntax, offering a more reliable alternative to regex for formatting checks in GitHub CI. The project is in early stages but ready for user feedback.

Microsoft has canceled leases for U.S. data center capacity equivalent to two data centers, totaling hundreds of megawatts, raising concerns about potential over-securing of AI computing capacity. The company has also reduced conversion of agreements that typically lead to formal leases.