1. Migraine World Summit is finished for the year and they chose an extremely good closing keynote about which I am cheerful and bouncy. (Messoud Ashina, CGRP, PACAP & beyond, say if you would like me to try to write more about this).
2. Got to spend time with The Child! Was summoned Upstairs to Rest and Read Books for a bit. Some really really excellent self-management and regulation in there around Lots Of Feelings.
3. BRONZE AGE LOOM.
4. Good therapy session.
5. There is now a box of veg cassoulet (+ suspicious protein chunks) in the freezer to be Future Food, and another two portions on the hob for dinner tomorrow.
6. I know I keep mentioning the Bedtime Ritual of Lebkuchen and Milk but this is because it is very good and very soothing, okay.
7. My watch continues a viable approach to biofeedback (so all I need now is to remember to actually do it...)

1. Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer

(tags:weaponry technology 3dprinting )

2. Kagi Translate's AI answers the question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"

(tags:language translation margaretthatcher wtf )

3. Ever wanted to be able to translate from English to LinkedIn? Now you can!

(tags:language funny translation viaswampers )

4. Grok, explain Butlerian Jihad [ai]

(tags:funny scifi )

5. Austin build new housing - rents came down

(tags:economics housing usa )

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/hacking-a-robot-vacuum.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71703

Someone tries to remote control his own DJI Romo vacuum, and ends up controlling 7,000 of them from all around the world.

The IoT is horribly insecure, but we already knew that.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/hacking-a-robot-vacuum.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71703

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5789

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5789

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2026-03-18.html

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• JPEG Compression
  (comments)
• Unsloth Studio
  (comments)
• Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
  (comments)
• A Decade of Slug
  (comments)
• Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
  (comments)
• Mistral AI Releases Forge
  (comments)
• Have a fucking website
  (comments)
• Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
  (comments)
• Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
  (comments)
• Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
  (comments)

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2026-03-18.html

I left so many things out of the zoo post on Saturday (that I have still not gone back to add in) but the one I am telling you about today (aside from the dwarf mongeese, which I mention only in passing) is Snake, But What If Unicorn:

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This Creature is Gonyosoma boulengeri, the rhinoceros ratsnake. The accompanying distractions included, gloriously,

The function of their majestic nose-points is unknown as we still have a lot to learn about these beautiful animals.

https://xkcd.com/3221/

https://xkcd.com/3221/

1. Coming soon to Netflix... a movie that requires none of your attention!

(tags:movies netflix attention video satire funny )

2. Everyone but Trump Understands What He's Done

(tags:politics UK USA middle_east Ukraine Russia NATO )

3. Scotland's assisted dying bill rejected after emotional debate

(tags:Scotland euthanasia )

4. More reports show that forcing people back to the office hurts productivity

(tags:productivity office )

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/metas-ai-glasses-and-privacy.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71720

Surprising no one, Meta’s new AI glasses are a privacy disaster.

I’m not sure what can be done here. This is a technology that will exist, whether we like it or not.

Meanwhile, there is a new Android app that detects when there are smart glasses nearby.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/metas-ai-glasses-and-privacy.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71720

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5788

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5788

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2026-03-17.html

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why I love FreeBSD
  (comments)
• The American Healthcare Conundrum
  (comments)
• The “small web” is bigger than you might think
  (comments)
• Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
  (comments)
• Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
  (comments)
• US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
  (comments)
• Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
  (comments)
• Kagi Small Web
  (comments)
• Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech
  (comments)
• Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
  (comments)

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2026-03-17.html

1. Allotment salad!
2. Got Things Into The Ground (as well as out of it); I am as ever running massively behind but the weather was lovely and touching soil remains very good.
3. It was warm enough to have the back door open for a bit.
4. I am really, really enjoying the self-indulgent Very Expensive Lebkuchen I got from SousChef in the January sale. They make an excellent supper.
5. Bloods taken today do include a full blood count; alas no ferritin (that's scheduled for... May? April?) but I do get a sneaky extra update on how my estimated haemoglobin is doing.
6. libgourou continues to Work. I remain very pleased about this.

1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"

(tags:iran israel journalism gambling ohforfuckssake )

2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law

(tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )

3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing

(tags:games lighting nvidia video )

4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing

(tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )

5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes

(tags:inspiration visualisation )

6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.

(tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )

I do wish that polls wouldn't ask if people thought that the PM was handling something "Well" or "Badly". Because two people answering "Badly" might mean completely different things by it.

Also, me saying "Immigration is important to me" means the opposite of what a Reform voter would mean by it.

This because of reporting of how many people think that Starmer is handling the Iran situation well or badly. When I can guarantee that some of the "badly" think we should be bombing Iran right now, and some think that we shouldn't be involved even slightly.

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/south-korean-police-accidentally-post-cryptocurrency-wallet-password.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71716

An expensive mistake:

Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s National Tax Service exposed publicly the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet.

The funds were stored in a Ledger cold wallet seized in law enforcement raids at 124 high-value tax evaders that resulted in confiscating digital assets worth 8.1 billion won (currently approximately $5.6 million).

When announcing the success of the operation, the agency released photos of a Ledger device, a popular hardware wallet for crypto storage and management.

However, the images also showed a handwritten note of the wallet recovery phrase, which serves as the master key that allows restoring the assets to another device.

The authorities failed to redact that info, allowing anyone to transfer into their account the assets in the cold wallet.

Reportedly, shortly after the press release was published, 4 million Pre-Retogeum (PRTG) tokens, worth approximately $4.8 million at the time, were transferred out of the confiscated wallet to a new address.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/south-korean-police-accidentally-post-cryptocurrency-wallet-password.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71716

https://xkcd.com/3220/

https://xkcd.com/3220/

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5787

Oh no babby Anh :(

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5787

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2026-03-16.html

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LLM Architecture Gallery
  (comments)
• Stop Sloppypasta
  (comments)
• The 49MB web page
  (comments)
• Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
  (comments)
• How I write software with LLMs
  (comments)
• Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
  (comments)
• MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
  (comments)
• Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
  (comments)
• US Job Market Visualizer
  (comments)
• Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
  (comments)

https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/2026-03-16.html

1. Royal Mail The Lord of the Rings Stamps

(tags:lotr movies royalmail )

2. UK government to launch £1bn plan to tackle youth unemployment

(tags:unemployment apprentices uk )

3. Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (I've been using it for over 35 years and had no idea)

(tags:excel date history computers )

4. Scientists create first-of-its-kind 'hexagonal diamond' harder than real thing

(tags:diamonds materials )

Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/possible-new-result-in-quantum-factorization.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71718

I’m skeptical about—and not qualified to review—this new result in factorization with a quantum computer, but if it’s true it’s a theoretical improvement in the speed of factoring large numbers with a quantum computer.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/possible-new-result-in-quantum-factorization.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71718