Hacker NewsSunday, March 22

OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent with over 120,000 GitHub stars used by 5M+ developers monthly. It supports multiple LLM providers including Claude, GPT, and Gemini, works across terminals, IDEs and desktop apps, enables multi-session coding, and prioritizes privacy by not storing code or context data.

Microsoft's Windows team is responding to user feedback by introducing major improvements to Windows 11, including customizable taskbar positioning, reduced AI integration disruptions, better update control, faster File Explorer, improved widget management, and a redesigned Feedback Hub. The focus is on enhancing performance, reliability, and user experience based on community input.

The New York Times and other newspapers have begun blocking the Internet Archive from preserving their websites, potentially erasing decades of historical documentation. While publishers cite concerns about AI companies scraping content, this affects nonprofit archival efforts that journalists, researchers, and courts rely on daily. The move threatens to eliminate crucial records of how news stories originally appeared online, as the Archive often becomes the only source for tracking editorial changes. Legal precedent supports archiving as fair use, similar to how search engines operate, but publishers' blocking measures could cause irreversible loss of historical web content spanning nearly thirty years.

The author argues that while AI enables rapid software development and instant gratification, the most valuable things - mature trees, trusted relationships, successful companies, and quality open source projects - require time, patience, and sustained commitment. They criticize the current obsession with speed and automation, noting that friction and waiting periods often serve important purposes. The author observes that despite time-saving tools, people actually have less time as any efficiency gains are immediately filled with more work, and warns that software built for quick experimentation often lacks the durability needed for long-term trust and relationships.

This content lists chopstick etiquette mistakes called "kiraibashi" to avoid when dining in Japan. It covers 38 different improper uses, from serious taboos like passing food between chopsticks (resembles funeral customs) and standing chopsticks upright in rice (funeral offering) to poor manners like pointing with chopsticks, licking them, or using them to push food into your mouth. The guide helps prevent cultural dining faux pas.

Super Micro Computer's stock dropped over 25% in premarket trading after co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw was arrested for allegedly conspiring to smuggle $2.5 billion worth of banned Nvidia AI chips to China through Southeast Asian intermediaries, violating U.S. export controls.

Age verification systems are rapidly expanding beyond adult websites to mainstream platforms like social media and gaming. While framed as child protection, they fundamentally shift the internet from open access to permission-based access, creating a new identity layer. The author argues this conflates content moderation with guardianship, which should remain with parents and local communities rather than centralized platforms. Better solutions involve local content filtering and addressing harmful recommendation algorithms rather than universal identity checks.

HP implemented mandatory 15-minute wait times for tech support calls in several European countries to push customers toward digital self-service options, even when agents were available. Following negative feedback about the forced delays, HP has since removed the policy and committed to prioritizing timely phone support access.

This article critiques Wayland as a misdirection of resources after 17 years of development. The author argues that despite promises of better security and performance, Wayland has created more problems than it solved, breaking basic functionality like screen recording and copy-paste while forcing users to adopt unfinished software. The piece suggests the Linux ecosystem would have been better served by continuing to improve X11 rather than pursuing this greenfield replacement project.

Ghostling is a demo terminal application built using the libghostty C API and Raylib for rendering. It showcases how libghostty, an embeddable library extracted from Ghostty's core, can provide complete terminal emulation features like color support, text styles, Unicode handling, and mouse tracking in a minimal implementation.