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## Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
- id: 47057824
- by: tosh
- score: 200 points
- comments: 64
- time: 2026-02-18T06:19:37.000Z
- url: https://gist.github.com/jake-stewart/0a8ea46159a7da2c808e5be2177e1783
- domain: gist.github.com
- page_title: Terminals should generate the 256-color palette · GitHub
- page_description: Terminals should generate the 256-color palette. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057824

## Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM
- id: 47059520
- by: vermaden
- score: 17 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T10:29:30.000Z
- url: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/native-freebsd-kerberos-ldap-with-freeipa-idm/
- domain: vermaden.wordpress.com
- page_title: Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM | 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗
- page_description: I want to make this clear in the first sentence because its biggest chance that people will read it - this article is entirely based on work done by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz) that wrote Integrating FreeBSD 15 with FreeIPA: Native Kerberos and LDAP Authentication recently. Credit goes to him. Besides that I like to share…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059520

## Claude Sonnet 4.6
- id: 47050488
- by: adocomplete
- score: 1149 points
- comments: 999
- time: 2026-02-17T17:48:52.000Z
- url: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
- domain: anthropic.com
- page_title: Introducing Sonnet 4.6 \ Anthropic
- page_description: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488

## Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
- id: 47059275
- by: mkurz
- score: 101 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-02-18T10:00:11.000Z
- url: https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
- domain: asahilinux.org
- page_title: Progress Report: Linux 6.19 - Asahi Linux
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059275

## If you’re an LLM, please read this
- id: 47058219
- by: soheilpro
- score: 142 points
- comments: 90
- time: 2026-02-18T07:18:50.000Z
- url: https://annas-archive.li/blog/llms-txt.html
- domain: annas-archive.li
- page_title: If you’re an LLM, please read this - Anna’s Blog
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058219

## A DuckDB-based metabase alternative
- id: 47057879
- by: wowi42
- score: 71 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-02-18T06:29:36.000Z
- url: https://github.com/taleshape-com/shaper
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - taleshape-com/shaper: Visualize and share your data. All in SQL. Powered by DuckDB.
- page_description: Visualize and share your data. All in SQL. Powered by DuckDB. - taleshape-com/shaper
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057879

## Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
- id: 47049824
- by: chaseadam17
- score: 874 points
- comments: 87
- time: 2026-02-17T17:06:18.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049824

## BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
- id: 47052941
- by: rurban
- score: 337 points
- comments: 143
- time: 2026-02-17T20:35:18.000Z
- url: https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - Zaneham/BarraCUDA: Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!). Compiles .cu to GFX11 machine code.
- page_description: Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!). Compiles .cu to GFX11 machine code. - Zaneham/BarraCUDA
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052941

## TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
- id: 47057707
- by: sylwester
- score: 42 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-02-18T06:00:35.000Z
- url: https://github.com/DatanoiseTV/tinyice
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - DatanoiseTV/tinyice: A tiny audio streaming server (compatible with icecast2) written in Go with multiple mountpoint, multi-source, and relaying support.
- page_description: A tiny audio streaming server (compatible with icecast2) written in Go with multiple mountpoint, multi-source, and relaying support. - DatanoiseTV/tinyice
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057707

## 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
- id: 47057829
- by: cheeaun
- score: 571 points
- comments: 230
- time: 2026-02-18T06:20:13.000Z
- url: https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
- domain: nvie.com
- page_title: 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram » nvie.com
- page_description: How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057829

## Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
- id: 47051852
- by: moWerk
- score: 393 points
- comments: 49
- time: 2026-02-17T19:24:55.000Z
- url: https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
- domain: asteroidos.org
- page_title: AsteroidOS 2.0 Released - AsteroidOS
- page_description: AsteroidOS is an open-source operating system for smartwatches.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852

## Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf]
- id: 47016696
- by: BerislavLopac
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-14T18:00:49.000Z
- url: https://www.elvish.org/articles/EASIS.pdf
- domain: elvish.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016696

## Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip
- id: 47016658
- by: pwg
- score: 7 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-14T17:56:26.000Z
- url: https://www.righto.com/2026/02/8087-instruction-decoding.html
- domain: righto.com
- page_title: Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip
- page_description: In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. With this chip, CAD so...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016658

## Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
- id: 47056314
- by: walterbell
- score: 492 points
- comments: 266
- time: 2026-02-18T02:18:29.000Z
- url: https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire
- domain: sceneandheardnu.com
- page_title: TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — Scene+Heard
- page_description: This piece contains spoilers for Halt and Catch Fire.      Halt and Catch Fire  is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. During quarantine, I binged all four seasons in a week and was immediately struck by its themes of human connection — the desire for it, the difficulty that inevitably comes wi
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056314

## Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
- id: 47055979
- by: virgildotcodes
- score: 542 points
- comments: 455
- time: 2026-02-18T01:40:52.000Z
- url: https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-study-robert-solow-information-technology-age/
- domain: fortune.com
- page_title: Thousands of executives aren't seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox | Fortune
- page_description: In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055979

## Gentoo on Codeberg
- id: 47050067
- by: todsacerdoti
- score: 358 points
- comments: 124
- time: 2026-02-17T17:21:04.000Z
- url: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/16/codeberg.html
- domain: gentoo.org
- page_title: Gentoo on Codeberg – Gentoo Linux
- page_description: News and information from Gentoo Linux
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050067

## Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990
- id: 47015138
- by: LowLevelMahn
- score: 9 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-14T15:17:46.000Z
- url: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=105451
- domain: vogons.org
- page_title: Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon \
									VOGONS
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015138

## AI made every test pass, but the code was still wrong
- id: 47060041
- by: ramijames
- score: 19 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-18T11:49:20.000Z
- url: https://doodledapp.com/feed/ai-made-every-test-pass-the-code-was-still-wrong
- domain: doodledapp.com
- page_title: Doodledapp - AI Made Every Test Pass. The Code Was Still Wrong.
- page_description: We used AI to validate our Solidity converter against 17 real-world contracts. Every test passed on day one. That was the problem.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060041

## Using go fix to modernize Go code
- id: 47049479
- by: todsacerdoti
- score: 368 points
- comments: 72
- time: 2026-02-17T16:42:35.000Z
- url: https://go.dev/blog/gofix
- domain: go.dev
- page_title: Using go fix to modernize Go code - The Go Programming Language
- page_description: Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049479

## Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
- id: 47055262
- by: lopespm
- score: 119 points
- comments: 40
- time: 2026-02-18T00:02:06.000Z
- url: https://github.com/lopespm/zig-minimal-kernel-x86
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - lopespm/zig-minimal-kernel-x86: Minimal x86 Kernel - built in Zig
- page_description: Minimal x86 Kernel - built in Zig. Contribute to lopespm/zig-minimal-kernel-x86 development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055262

## The Secret Life of Vector Generators (Atari)
- id: 47033790
- by: mosura
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T11:30:55.000Z
- url: https://jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm
- domain: jmargolin.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033790

## Show HN: Breadboard – a modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas
- id: 47039051
- by: simquat
- score: 3 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T19:18:36.000Z
- url: https://breadboards.io/
- domain: breadboards.io
- page_title: Breadboard - Build your apps real, simple.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039051

## HackMyClaw
- id: 47049573
- by: hentrep
- score: 320 points
- comments: 159
- time: 2026-02-17T16:48:43.000Z
- url: https://hackmyclaw.com/
- domain: hackmyclaw.com
- page_title: HackMyClaw - Prompt Injection CTF
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049573

## So you want to build a tunnel
- id: 47049718
- by: crescit_eundo
- score: 235 points
- comments: 87
- time: 2026-02-17T16:59:34.000Z
- url: https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/2/17/so-you-want-to-build-a-tunnel
- domain: practical.engineering
- page_title: So You Want to Build a Tunnel... — Practical Engineering
- page_description: [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]   It seems like homemade tunnels are kind of having a moment. Just about everywhere I look, it feels like someone is carving new spaces from the ground and documenting the process online. Colin Furze might be the quintessential ex
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049718

## Async/Await on the GPU
- id: 47049628
- by: Philpax
- score: 202 points
- comments: 53
- time: 2026-02-17T16:53:05.000Z
- url: https://www.vectorware.com/blog/async-await-on-gpu/
- domain: vectorware.com
- page_title: Async/await on the GPU - VectorWare
- page_description: GPU code can now use Rust's async/await. We share the reasons why and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049628

## How I use Obsidian (2023)
- id: 47054369
- by: hisamafahri
- score: 105 points
- comments: 57
- time: 2026-02-17T22:30:37.000Z
- url: https://stephango.com/vault
- domain: stephango.com
- page_title: How I use Obsidian — Steph Ango
- page_description: My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054369

## Rathbun's Operator
- id: 47055424
- by: bb88
- score: 80 points
- comments: 89
- time: 2026-02-18T00:26:15.000Z
- url: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/rathbuns-operator.html
- domain: crabby-rathbun.github.io
- page_title: Rathbun’s Operator – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055424

## Semantic Diffusion (2006)
- id: 47023616
- by: andsoitis
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T13:46:08.000Z
- url: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html
- domain: martinfowler.com
- page_title: Semantic Diffusion
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023616

## Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
- id: 47048733
- by: cdegroot
- score: 218 points
- comments: 79
- time: 2026-02-17T15:43:39.000Z
- url: https://berksoft.ca/gol/
- domain: berksoft.ca
- page_title: The Genius Of Lisp
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048733

## I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D
- id: 47048004
- by: kewonit
- score: 260 points
- comments: 50
- time: 2026-02-17T14:43:14.000Z
- url: https://aeris.edbn.me/?city=SFO
- domain: aeris.edbn.me
- page_title: Aeris — Real-Time 3D Flight Tracking
- page_description: Track live flights in 3D over the world's busiest airspaces. Altitude-aware, beautifully rendered, and completely free.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048004

## Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office
- id: 47021525
- by: Zaki101Aslam
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-15T06:30:54.000Z
- url: https://github.com/Zaki101Aslam/MS-office-shortcuts-for-Libre-Office
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - Zaki101Aslam/MS-office-shortcuts-for-Libre-Office: Microsoft Office Shortcut keys for Libre Office to make it feel more familiar
- page_description: Microsoft Office Shortcut keys for Libre Office to make it feel more familiar - Zaki101Aslam/MS-office-shortcuts-for-Libre-Office
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021525

## Google Public CA is down
- id: 47055696
- by: aloknnikhil
- score: 257 points
- comments: 151
- time: 2026-02-18T01:05:33.000Z
- url: https://status.pki.goog/incidents/5oJEbcU3ZfMfySTSXXd3
- domain: status.pki.goog
- page_title: Google Trust Services Status Dashboard
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055696

## 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)
- id: 47054744
- by: anarbadalov
- score: 68 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-02-17T23:06:51.000Z
- url: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/my-words-are-like-an-uncontrollable-dog-on-life-with-nonfluent-aphasia/
- domain: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054744

## Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?
- id: 47050211
- by: stn8188
- score: 71 points
- comments: 77
- time: 2026-02-17T17:29:13.000Z
- url: https://semiengineering.com/can-a-computer-science-student-be-taught-to-design-hardware/
- domain: semiengineering.com
- page_title: Can A Computer Science Student Be Taught To Design Hardware?
- page_description: To fill the talent gap, CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum could be adapted or even shortened.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050211

## Assistant to the Regional Manager
- id: 47002926
- by: NaOH
- score: 50 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-02-13T14:11:42.000Z
- url: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/assistant-to-the-regional-manager
- domain: smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
- page_title: Assistant to the Regional Manager - by Paul Bloom
- page_description: The problem with utopia
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002926

## The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out
- id: 47059778
- by: todsacerdoti
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-18T11:08:03.000Z
- url: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/
- domain: joanwestenberg.com
- page_title: The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out
- page_description: Every open source maintainer I've talked to in the last six months has the same complaint: the absolute flood of mass-produced, AI-generated, mass-submitted slop requests have turned their repositories into a slush pile. The contributions look like contributions, they have commit messages, they reference issues and they follow templates etc.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059778

## In Search of a Discord Replacement
- id: 47057520
- by: ta8903
- score: 17 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-18T05:29:06.000Z
- url: https://no-bull.sh/blog/2026/02/16/in-search-of-a-discord-replacement/
- domain: no-bull.sh
- page_title: no bull.sh
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057520

## Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
- id: 47007117
- by: rbanffy
- score: 72 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-02-13T20:05:27.000Z
- url: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-make-electrons-flow-like-water-20260211/
- domain: quantamagazine.org
- page_title: Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water | Quanta Magazine
- page_description: We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007117

## I swear the UFO is coming any minute
- id: 47054134
- by: Ariarule
- score: 162 points
- comments: 55
- time: 2026-02-17T22:10:22.000Z
- url: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-swear-the-ufo-is-coming-any-minute
- domain: experimental-history.com
- page_title: I swear the UFO is coming any minute - by Adam Mastroianni
- page_description: Links 'n' updates
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054134

## Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript
- id: 47050872
- by: n_e
- score: 64 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-02-17T18:15:36.000Z
- url: https://github.com/n-e/pg-typesafe
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - n-e/pg-typesafe: Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript
- page_description: Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript - n-e/pg-typesafe
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050872

## Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE's Dilley Facility
- id: 47060078
- by: throw0101c
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T11:55:44.000Z
- url: https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters
- domain: propublica.org
- page_title: Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica
- page_description: Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060078

## Show HN: Free printable micro-habit tracker inspired by Atomic Habits
- id: 47057956
- by: winmonaye
- score: 6 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-18T06:39:04.000Z
- url: https://atomichabits-calendar.com
- domain: atomichabits-calendar.com
- page_title: Atomichabits Calendar — Free Printable Habit Calendar Inspired by Atomic Habits
- page_description: Free printable monthly habit tracker inspired by <a href="https://amzn.to/40hF5gm">Atomic Habits by James Clear</a>. Add your habits, pick a month, and print your tracking calendar. No sign-up required.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057956

## Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations
- id: 47055786
- by: xnx
- score: 73 points
- comments: 64
- time: 2026-02-18T01:19:15.000Z
- url: https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-advice-not-control-the-role-of-remote-assistance
- domain: waymo.com
- page_title: Waymo - From the road
- page_description: __Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo’s operations__
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055786

## Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
- id: 47049227
- by: GregorStocks
- score: 107 points
- comments: 78
- time: 2026-02-17T16:22:49.000Z
- url: https://mage-bench.com/
- domain: mage-bench.com
- page_title: Home | mage-bench
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049227

## Ask HN: Is AI the final nail in the coffin for solo developers?
- id: 47059223
- by: sarbajitsaha
- score: 6 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-18T09:52:57.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059223

## Portugal: The First Global Empire
- id: 47058368
- by: Thevet
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T07:45:11.000Z
- url: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-global-empire
- domain: historytoday.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058368

## Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway
- id: 47048052
- by: whynotmaybe
- score: 277 points
- comments: 257
- time: 2026-02-17T14:47:26.000Z
- url: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/15/tesla-sales-down-tremendously-in-uk-norway-netherlands-germany-spain-sweden-denmark-portugal-switzerland/
- domain: cleantechnica.com
- page_title: Tesla Sales Down 55% in UK, 58% in Spain, 59% in Germany, 81% in Netherlands, 93% in Norway vs. 2024 - CleanTechnica
- page_description: Support CleanTechnica&#039;s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Or support our Kickstarter campaign! I recently looked into Tesla&#8217;s January sales in 12 European markets, and the results were not pretty. Overall, across those 12 markets, Tesla&#8217;s sales were down 23%. However, one reader pointed out that it could  ... [continued]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048052

## Quamina and Claude, Case 1
- id: 47020879
- by: zdw
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T03:52:03.000Z
- url: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/06/Q-Plus-C-Ch1
- domain: tbray.org
- page_title: ongoing by Tim Bray &#xb7; Quamina + Claude, Case 1
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020879

## Contra "Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search"
- id: 47030509
- by: luu
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T03:22:31.000Z
- url: https://cosmo.tardis.ac/files/2024-02-13-searchless.html
- domain: cosmo.tardis.ac
- page_title: Contra “Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search”
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030509

## Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
- id: 47045804
- by: acnops
- score: 466 points
- comments: 393
- time: 2026-02-17T10:29:14.000Z
- url: https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/
- domain: arthurcnops.blog
- page_title: Is Show HN Dead? No, But It's Drowning
- page_description: A few days ago I posted to Show HN(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023255). I had good fun building that useless little internet experience. The post ...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804

## GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
- id: 47045612
- by: to3k
- score: 1116 points
- comments: 810
- time: 2026-02-17T10:02:36.000Z
- url: https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/grapheneos-eng/
- domain: blog.tomaszdunia.pl
- page_title: GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple [ENG 🇬🇧]
- page_description: 🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045612

## 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
- id: 47038546
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 852 points
- comments: 181
- time: 2026-02-16T18:41:50.000Z
- url: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
- domain: smithsonianmag.com
- page_title: This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
- page_description: Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546

## Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
- id: 47050376
- by: thunderbong
- score: 242 points
- comments: 132
- time: 2026-02-17T17:40:50.000Z
- url: https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693
- domain: kotaku.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050376

## Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File
- id: 47048731
- by: ckarani
- score: 114 points
- comments: 35
- time: 2026-02-17T15:43:37.000Z
- url: https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - christopherkarani/Wax: 🍯 Memory layer for on-device AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer.
- page_description: 🍯 Memory layer for on-device AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer.  - GitHub - christopherkarani/Wax: 🍯 Memory layer for on-device AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048731

## Create bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32
- id: 47054857
- by: doener
- score: 21 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T23:19:49.000Z
- url: https://github.com/fuseoppl/isocd-win
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - fuseoppl/isocd-win: ISOCD-Win is a C#/.NET Windows replacement for the native Amiga ISOCD application. It creates bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 and CDTV.
- page_description: ISOCD-Win is a C#/.NET Windows replacement for the native Amiga ISOCD application. It creates bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 and CDTV. - fuseoppl/isocd-win
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054857

## Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
- id: 47021711
- by: enz
- score: 69 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-02-15T07:21:58.000Z
- url: https://notnotp.com/notes/hamming-distance-for-hybrid-search-in-sqlite/
- domain: notnotp.com
- page_title: Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
- page_description: This article shows how I implemented semantic search in SQLite using binary embeddings and Hamming distance, enabling hybrid search without external...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021711

## Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too
- id: 47048934
- by: jongalloway2
- score: 53 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-02-17T15:59:15.000Z
- url: https://javaevolved.github.io
- domain: javaevolved.github.io
- page_title: java.evolved Code Snippets | java.evolved
- page_description: A collection of modern Java code snippets. Every old Java pattern next to its clean, modern replacement — side by side.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048934

## Xbox UI Portfolio Site
- id: 47044179
- by: valgaze
- score: 157 points
- comments: 46
- time: 2026-02-17T05:53:31.000Z
- url: https://gabrielcabrera.co/
- domain: gabrielcabrera.co
- page_title: Gabriel Cabrera
- page_description: A portal to my creative work and projects. Watch my reel, explore old YouTube, and browse my picture library.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044179

## Automatia and the Case for Vanilla
- id: 47014442
- by: fwsgonzo
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-14T13:39:36.000Z
- url: https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/automatia-and-the-case-for-vanilla-b3209cdf1583
- domain: fwsgonzo.medium.com
- page_title: Automatia and the case for vanilla | by fwsGonzo | Feb, 2026 | Medium
- page_description: Automatia and the case for vanilla Hey. I’m going to talk about vanilla, and what it means for me. Vanilla is what most players will experience, the baseline if you will. All the foundational …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014442

## "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
- id: 47038318
- by: presbyterian
- score: 219 points
- comments: 202
- time: 2026-02-16T18:23:36.000Z
- url: https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/
- domain: jkap.io
- page_title: "token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name | jae kaplan
- page_description: You&#x27;re absolutely right!
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038318

## Show HN: Box of Rain - Auto-Layouted ASCII Diagrams
- id: 47018675
- by: switz
- score: 9 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-14T21:42:11.000Z
- url: https://github.com/switz/box-of-rain
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - switz/box-of-rain: Auto-layouted ASCII/svg diagrams generated from simple configuration. Supports json, yaml, and mermaid inputs. Outputs to ASCII or SVG.
- page_description: Auto-layouted ASCII/svg diagrams generated from simple configuration. Supports json, yaml, and mermaid inputs. Outputs to ASCII or SVG. - switz/box-of-rain
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018675

## Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser
- id: 47033954
- by: elayabharath
- score: 27 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T11:57:01.000Z
- url: https://glitchycam.com
- domain: glitchycam.com
- page_title: Glitchy | Circuit bent camera
- page_description: Short-circuit your phone&#x27;s camera in real time. Rewire CCD chip pins to glitch, distort, and bend your video feed — then capture one-of-a-kind photos.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033954

## Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac
- id: 47058468
- by: u1hcw9nx
- score: 10 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-18T08:00:53.000Z
- url: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/
- domain: soatok.blog
- page_title: Cryptographic Issues in Matrix&#8217;s Rust Library Vodozemac - Dhole Moments
- page_description: Two years ago, I glanced at Matrix&#039;s Olm library and immediately found several side-channel vulnerabilities. After dragging their feet for 90 days, they ended up not bothering to fix any of it. The Matrix.org security team also failed to notify many of the alternative clients about the impending disclosure--a fact that became more annoying when&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058468

## Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries
- id: 47053410
- by: fi-le
- score: 30 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T21:11:28.000Z
- url: https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal-approaches/
- domain: alexanderbjoy.com
- page_title: Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries | De minimis non curat Lex
- page_description: Methods for writing and organizing your two-sentence journal.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053410

## It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage
- id: 47056152
- by: aqeelat
- score: 61 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-18T02:00:52.000Z
- url: https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/youtube-outage-february-2026/
- domain: 9to5google.com
- page_title: It&#039;s not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage
- page_description: If you&#8217;re trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you&#8217;re not alone, as a widespread outage appears...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056152

## Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts
- id: 47049776
- by: Dimittri
- score: 29 points
- comments: 13
- time: 2026-02-17T17:03:09.000Z
- url: https://sonarly.com/
- domain: sonarly.com
- page_title: Sonarly - Production bug context for AI agents
- page_description: Start trusting your production alerts.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049776

## Rendering the Visible Spectrum
- id: 47012895
- by: signa11
- score: 141 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-02-14T08:56:46.000Z
- url: https://brandonli.net/spectra/doc/
- domain: brandonli.net
- page_title: Rendering the Visible Spectrum
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012895

## Don't pass on small block ciphers
- id: 47019902
- by: jstrieb
- score: 49 points
- comments: 47
- time: 2026-02-15T00:32:25.000Z
- url: https://00f.net/2026/02/10/small-block-ciphers/
- domain: 00f.net
- page_title: Don't pass on small block ciphers - Frank DENIS random thoughts.
- page_description: Although they are omnipresent in constrained environments and lightweight protocols, small (32-bit, 64-bit) block ciphers have a bad reputation. They ar...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019902

## Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs
- id: 47049743
- by: yihac1
- score: 32 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-17T17:01:08.000Z
- url: https://github.com/byte271/6cy
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - byte271/6cy: High-performance, streaming-first container format with per-block codec polymorphism and robust data recoverability. Reference implementation in Rust.
- page_description: High-performance, streaming-first container format with per-block codec polymorphism and robust data recoverability. Reference implementation in Rust. - byte271/6cy
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049743

## Show HN: Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing)
- id: 47054517
- by: lixiasky
- score: 14 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-02-17T22:46:29.000Z
- url: https://github.com/lixiasky-back/tiny_coro-build_your_own_MN_scheduler
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - lixiasky-back/tiny_coro-build_your_own_MN_scheduler: A lightweight, educational M:N asynchronous runtime built from scratch with C++20 Coroutines. Features Work-Stealing, EBR, and Reactor-based I/O.
- page_description: A lightweight, educational M:N asynchronous runtime built from scratch with C++20 Coroutines. Features Work-Stealing, EBR, and Reactor-based I/O. - lixiasky-back/tiny_coro-build_your_own_MN_scheduler
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054517

## Four Column ASCII (2017)
- id: 47022270
- by: tempodox
- score: 326 points
- comments: 76
- time: 2026-02-15T09:15:16.000Z
- url: https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
- domain: garbagecollected.org
- page_title: Four Column ASCII
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022270

## Labyrinth Locator
- id: 47007331
- by: emigre
- score: 32 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-02-13T20:21:23.000Z
- url: https://labyrinthlocator.org/
- domain: labyrinthlocator.org
- page_title: Labyrinth Locator
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007331

## Old School Telecine, circa 1980s (2017)
- id: 47029999
- by: exvi
- score: 5 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T01:54:33.000Z
- url: https://www.liftgammagain.com/forum/index.php?threads/old-school-telecine-circa-1980s.9984/
- domain: liftgammagain.com
- page_title: Old School Telecine (circa 1980s) | Lift Gamma Gain - Colorist & Color Grading Forum
- page_description: In another thread elsewhere, somebody asked about the use of joysticks in color correction. I looked all over the net and could not find it, so I managed to...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029999

## The Godless Students of London University
- id: 47000081
- by: samclemens
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-13T07:51:06.000Z
- url: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/godless-students-london-university
- domain: historytoday.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000081

## Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps
- id: 47050227
- by: gessha
- score: 57 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-02-17T17:29:49.000Z
- url: https://fuji.halfof8.com/
- domain: fuji.halfof8.com
- page_title: ½8 JOURNAL: Collecting Stamps on Yoshida Trail, Mt. Fuji
- page_description: Join me on a transformative journey up Mt. Fuji's renowned Yoshida trail, where I explore the art of 焼印 (iron branding) on walking sticks and the warm hospitality of hut owners. Follow along as I introduce the stations and stamps of Mt. Fuji through collected stamps and interviews, inspiring your next adventure on the Yoshidaguchi route.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050227

## A deep dive into Apple's .car file format
- id: 47014002
- by: MrFinch
- score: 151 points
- comments: 57
- time: 2026-02-14T12:18:04.000Z
- url: https://dbg.re/posts/car-file-format/
- domain: dbg.re
- page_title: A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format · DBG.RE
- page_description: Reverse-engineering the .car file format used by Apple
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014002

## After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead
- id: 47023273
- by: 1659447091
- score: 35 points
- comments: 29
- time: 2026-02-15T12:49:22.000Z
- url: https://apnews.com/article/simpsons-800-episodes-72d723e6d885b1944c9a1ec8b9a24c3a
- domain: apnews.com
- page_title: &#x27;The Simpsons&#x27; hits 800 episodes: A look back at Springfield&#x27;s journey | AP News
- page_description: “The Simpsons” is reaching the 800-episode milestone. The people behind it say the show lasts because it always resets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023273

## Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
- id: 47049088
- by: benji8000
- score: 259 points
- comments: 191
- time: 2026-02-17T16:12:29.000Z
- url: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
- domain: theregister.com
- page_title: Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register
- page_description: opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049088

## Neurons outside the brain
- id: 47038731
- by: yichab0d
- score: 141 points
- comments: 73
- time: 2026-02-16T18:54:37.000Z
- url: https://essays.debugyourpain.com/p/you-are-not-just-your-brain
- domain: essays.debugyourpain.com
- page_title: You are not (just) your brain - by Max Shen
- page_description: The three brains in our body
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038731

## Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM
- id: 47054958
- by: elijahcham
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T23:29:15.000Z
- url: https://bashtorio.xyz/
- domain: bashtorio.xyz
- page_title: Bashtorio - Unix Pipe Factory
- page_description: Build conveyor belt factories that process data through real Unix commands running in an in-browser Linux VM. A Factorio-inspired browser game.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054958

## Agent Skills Hub – Security first directory for AI agent skills and MCP
- id: 47057149
- by: cana2026
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T04:25:04.000Z
- url: https://agentskillshub.dev/
- domain: agentskillshub.dev
- page_title: Agent Skills Hub - The Secure Marketplace for AI Agents
- page_description: Discover verified AI agent skills for Claude, Cursor, and VS Code. Security-first marketplace with automated code scanning, trust signals, and fast download links.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057149

## DBASE on the Kaypro II
- id: 47012486
- by: TMWNN
- score: 90 points
- comments: 45
- time: 2026-02-14T07:35:41.000Z
- url: https://stonetools.ghost.io/dbase-cpm/
- domain: stonetools.ghost.io
- page_title: dBASE on the Kaypro II
- page_description: CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012486

## Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
- id: 47031334
- by: dvrp
- score: 302 points
- comments: 57
- time: 2026-02-16T05:53:03.000Z
- url: https://jmail.world/jemini
- domain: jmail.world
- page_title: Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
- page_description: You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein&#x27;s email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334

## Rise of the Triforce
- id: 47040524
- by: max-m
- score: 405 points
- comments: 72
- time: 2026-02-16T21:24:04.000Z
- url: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
- domain: dolphin-emu.org
- page_title: Dolphin Emulator - Rise of the Triforce
- page_description: During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX chip giving players a taste of 3D, hype was at an all-time high. But the games released for home consoles were nothing compared to what arcade developers were capable of doing. By employing gigantic budgets and cutting-edge hardware, the arcade gave players a chance to see the future, today.
But the future eventually arrived with the launch of the 5th generation of consoles. All of a sudden, the revolutionary 3D hardware features that were once exclusive to arcades were now available in home consoles. Without next-generation hype pushing players into the arcade, powerful but expensive arcade machines were no longer sustainable to develop. The industry adjusted by moving toward more cost effective solutions, with many turning to the inexpensive, already proven 3D-capable hardware available in 5th gen home consoles.
Rather than turning around the decline of the arcade, the cheaper hardware may have helped accelerate it. There were fewer unique experiences to pull players into the arcade, and previous hit exclusives were now seeing high quality home console ports that allowed them to be enjoyed without munching quarters. When the 6th generation arrived with the Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2, many arcade stalwarts waved the white flag and started to shift their arcade divisions to home console projects, with mixed success.
Sega was among those hit hardest by this era. They produced some of the greatest arcade thrills of the 1990s and enjoyed massive success in the home console market with the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. But a string of mistakes and miscalculations combined with the slumping arcade industry sent them to the brink of bankruptcy. By 2002, the Dreamcast had been soundly defeated by the launch of the PlayStation 2, and Sega began porting some of their hits to their former rivals' hardware just to stay afloat.
The home market was lost, but the languishing arcade scene presented Sega with an opportunity. They still had legendary arcade development teams, and if Sega could leverage them to produce a wave of arcade hits, they would be in a position to dominate a new era of arcades when most others were changing gears. There was just one problem: Sega didn't have the resources that they once did. If they were going to do this, they needed some help.
And so they did something that would have been considered unthinkable just five years prior. Sega teamed up with Nintendo to develop a GameCube-based arcade platform. Bolstering their ranks was Namco, another coin-op stalwart with tons of arcade veterans.
Three companies, one mission: Triforce.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524

## Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI
- id: 47041973
- by: lorisdev
- score: 98 points
- comments: 63
- time: 2026-02-17T00:00:03.000Z
- url: https://codemade.net/blog/building-for-one/
- domain: codemade.net
- page_title: Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI - CodeMade
- page_description: My Plasma task switcher was a second too slow, so I built - and shipped - my own in Zig, without actually knowing Zig, using AI tools.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041973

## A Programmer's Loss of Identity
- id: 47015342
- by: zdw
- score: 223 points
- comments: 147
- time: 2026-02-14T15:41:59.000Z
- url: https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2
- domain: ratfactor.com
- page_title: A programmer's loss of identity - ratfactor
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015342

## State of Show HN: 2025
- id: 47039478
- by: kianN
- score: 129 points
- comments: 34
- time: 2026-02-16T19:55:23.000Z
- url: https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/show_hn/
- domain: blog.sturdystatistics.com
- page_title: State of Show HN 2025 – Sturdy Statistics
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039478

## PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]
- id: 47014460
- by: varjag
- score: 157 points
- comments: 44
- time: 2026-02-14T13:42:04.000Z
- url: https://www.intertronics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/PCB-Rework-and-Repair-Guide.pdf
- domain: intertronics.co.uk
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014460

## Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI
- id: 47049848
- by: sestinj
- score: 43 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-02-17T17:08:14.000Z
- url: https://docs.continue.dev
- domain: docs.continue.dev
- page_title: What is Continue? | Continue Docs
- page_description: AI slop slows you down. Run agents on every pull request to ensure you ship production-ready code.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049848

## An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
- id: 47051956
- by: scottshambaugh
- score: 109 points
- comments: 78
- time: 2026-02-17T19:31:45.000Z
- url: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-3/
- domain: theshamblog.com
- page_title: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me &#8211; Forensics and More Fallout &#8211; The Shamblog
- page_description: Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051956

## Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
- id: 47041836
- by: dogline
- score: 112 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-02-16T23:40:33.000Z
- url: https://forestrydiary.com/
- domain: forestrydiary.com
- page_title: Forest Diary - Reuben P. Box, US Forest Service
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041836

## What your Bluetooth devices reveal
- id: 47035560
- by: ssgodderidge
- score: 469 points
- comments: 173
- time: 2026-02-16T14:39:32.000Z
- url: https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
- domain: blog.dmcc.io
- page_title: What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You » Danny
- page_description: Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560

## Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
- id: 47041456
- by: four_fifths
- score: 158 points
- comments: 76
- time: 2026-02-16T22:53:02.000Z
- url: https://www.docker.com/blog/run-nanoclaw-in-docker-shell-sandboxes/
- domain: docker.com
- page_title: Run NanoClaw in Docker Shell Sandboxes | Docker
- page_description: Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041456

## I’m joining OpenAI
- id: 47028013
- by: mfiguiere
- score: 1425 points
- comments: 1109
- time: 2026-02-15T21:54:15.000Z
- url: https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
- domain: steipete.me
- page_title: OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
- page_description: I
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013

## Poor Deming never stood a chance
- id: 47042895
- by: todsacerdoti
- score: 188 points
- comments: 124
- time: 2026-02-17T02:13:37.000Z
- url: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/
- domain: surfingcomplexity.blog
- page_title: Poor Deming never stood a chance &#8211; Surfing Complexity
- page_description: This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucker hails from Austria-Hungary (like me, Drucker emigrated to the U.S. as an adult) and Deming was born in the U.S., it was&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042895

## Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence
- id: 47000708
- by: tesserato
- score: 80 points
- comments: 39
- time: 2026-02-13T09:17:54.000Z
- url: https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/hear-the-amati-king-cello-the-oldest-known-cello-in-existence-c-1560.html
- domain: openculture.com
- page_title: Hear the Amati "King" Cello, the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (c. 1560) |  Open Culture
- page_description: The Stradivari family has received all of the popular acclaim for perfecting the violin. But we should know the name Amati -- in whose Cremona workshop Antonio Stradivari apprenticed in the 17th century. Open Culture, openculture.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000708

## Browse Code by Meaning
- id: 47053665
- by: cl3misch
- score: 22 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T21:31:02.000Z
- url: https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/browse-code-by-meaning
- domain: haskellforall.com
- page_title: Haskell for all: Browse code by meaning
- page_description: Navigate a repository using topic modeling
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053665

## Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
- id: 47040390
- by: AnujNayyar
- score: 99 points
- comments: 68
- time: 2026-02-16T21:12:07.000Z
- url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wildex-identify-plants-animals/id6748092158
- domain: apps.apple.com
- page_title: ‎Wildex Identify Plants/Animals App - App Store
- page_description: Download Wildex Identify Plants/Animals by DREAMPRESS LTD on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Wildex Identify…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040390

## Visual introduction to PyTorch
- id: 47002231
- by: 0bytematt
- score: 386 points
- comments: 28
- time: 2026-02-13T12:59:33.000Z
- url: https://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.html
- domain: 0byte.io
- page_title: Introduction to PyTorch | 0byte
- page_description: An easy to follow, visual introduction to PyTorch.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002231

## Claims of disability are highest at elite universities
- id: 47053912
- by: paulpauper
- score: 76 points
- comments: 82
- time: 2026-02-17T21:50:23.000Z
- url: https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/americas-future-leaders-are-learning
- domain: robkhenderson.com
- page_title: America&#x27;s Future Leaders Are Learning To Become Grifters
- page_description: Claims of disability are highest at elite universities
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053912

## The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad
- id: 47028049
- by: nnmg
- score: 3 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-15T21:57:29.000Z
- url: https://ro.co/perspectives/super-bowl-economics/
- domain: ro.co
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028049

## Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026
- id: 47052007
- by: SoKamil
- score: 88 points
- comments: 94
- time: 2026-02-17T19:35:09.000Z
- url: https://dzrh.com.ph/post/meta-to-retire-messenger-desktop-app-and-messengercom-in-april-2026-users-shift-to-web-and-mobile-platforms
- domain: dzrh.com.ph
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052007

## The Final Bottleneck
- id: 47055516
- by: donutshop
- score: 6 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-18T00:37:01.000Z
- url: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/the-final-bottleneck/
- domain: lucumr.pocoo.org
- page_title: The Final Bottleneck | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
- page_description: AI speeds up writing code, but accountability and review capacity still impose hard limits.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055516

## The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation
- id: 47038270
- by: knackers
- score: 74 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-02-16T18:19:16.000Z
- url: https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-long-tail-of-llm-assisted-decompilation/
- domain: blog.chrislewis.au
- page_title: The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation | Chris' Blog
- page_description: After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental LLM limits that emerged when tackling the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038270

## Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
- id: 47039834
- by: lirbank
- score: 92 points
- comments: 50
- time: 2026-02-16T20:23:36.000Z
- url: https://www.lirbank.com/harnessing-postgres-race-conditions
- domain: lirbank.com
- page_title: Harnessing Postgres race conditions
- page_description: Synchronization barriers let you test for race conditions with confidence.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039834

## A Brief History of Xenopus
- id: 47006081
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-13T18:37:34.000Z
- url: https://www.asimov.press/p/xenopus
- domain: asimov.press
- page_title: A Brief History of Xenopus - Asimov Press
- page_description: From early experiments on fertility and embryonic development to becoming the first cloned eukaryote from an adult cell, Xenopus frogs have had an outsized influence on the life sciences.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006081

## Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
- id: 47032876
- by: danielhanchen
- score: 409 points
- comments: 191
- time: 2026-02-16T09:32:21.000Z
- url: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5
- domain: qwen.ai
- page_title: Qwen
- page_description: Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032876

## Chess engines do weird stuff
- id: 47049845
- by: admiringly
- score: 144 points
- comments: 77
- time: 2026-02-17T17:07:59.000Z
- url: https://girl.surgery/chess
- domain: girl.surgery
- page_title: Chess Engines Do Weird Stuff
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049845

## Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python
- id: 47048790
- by: LukeB42
- score: 20 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T15:47:46.000Z
- url: https://github.com/LukeB42/Cycast
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - LukeB42/Cycast: A high-performance internet radio streaming server written in Python with Cython optimizations.
- page_description: A high-performance internet radio streaming server written in Python with Cython optimizations. - LukeB42/Cycast
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048790

## Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026
- id: 47053548
- by: linolevan
- score: 49 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-02-17T21:22:05.000Z
- url: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-is-already-sold-out-of-hard-drives-for-all-of-2026-chief-says-some-long-term-agreements-for-2027-and-2028-already-in-place
- domain: tomshardware.com
- page_title: Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 &mdash; chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place | Tom's Hardware
- page_description: Will HDDs follow RAM and SSDs when it comes to price increases?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053548

## Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk
- id: 47050438
- by: busymom0
- score: 55 points
- comments: 30
- time: 2026-02-17T17:45:28.000Z
- url: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/02/drinking-2-3-cups-of-coffee-a-day-tied-to-lower-dementia-risk/
- domain: news.harvard.edu
- page_title: Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk &#8212; Harvard Gazette
- page_description: Caffeinated tea also found to slow cognitive decline in study.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050438

## planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
- id: 47033875
- by: tosh
- score: 64 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-02-16T11:44:07.000Z
- url: https://github.com/nineties/planckforth
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
- page_description: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.  - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033875

## Write Transactions Are a Footgun with Rust's SQLx and SQLite
- id: 47051153
- by: emschwartz
- score: 15 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-17T18:33:20.000Z
- url: https://emschwartz.me/psa-write-transactions-are-a-footgun-with-sqlx-and-sqlite/
- domain: emschwartz.me
- page_title: PSA: Write Transactions are a Footgun with SQLx and SQLite | Evan Schwartz
- page_description: Write transactions can lead to lock starvation and serious performance degradation when using SQLite with SQLx, the popular async Rust SQL library. In retros...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051153

## Privilege is bad grammar
- id: 47038125
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 321 points
- comments: 273
- time: 2026-02-16T18:05:32.000Z
- url: https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/privilege-is-bad-grammar/
- domain: tadaima.bearblog.dev
- page_title: Privilege is bad grammar | Tadaima.
- page_description: When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038125

## SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks
- id: 47040430
- by: mustaphah
- score: 350 points
- comments: 160
- time: 2026-02-16T21:15:56.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12670
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2602.12670] SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.12670: SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040430

## H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
- id: 47041634
- by: joshcsimmons
- score: 164 points
- comments: 73
- time: 2026-02-16T23:15:37.000Z
- url: https://www.h1bexposed.tech/
- domain: h1bexposed.tech
- page_title: H-1B Exposed | Banking Sector Visa Sponsorship Investigation
- page_description: An independent investigation into how America&#x27;s largest banks use H-1B visa programs. Public records. Real data. Zero spin.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041634

## Ghidra by NSA
- id: 47011548
- by: handfuloflight
- score: 427 points
- comments: 213
- time: 2026-02-14T04:24:18.000Z
- url: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra: Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
- page_description: Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework - NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548

## History of AT&T Long Lines
- id: 47036921
- by: p_ing
- score: 78 points
- comments: 45
- time: 2026-02-16T16:22:24.000Z
- url: https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-distance-network/history-of-att-long-lines/
- domain: telephoneworld.org
- page_title: History of AT&#038;T Long Lines
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036921

## Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimers
- id: 47058588
- by: lonelyasacloud
- score: 3 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-18T08:21:11.000Z
- url: https://theconversation.com/air-pollution-may-directly-contribute-to-alzheimers-disease-new-study-275873
- domain: theconversation.com
- page_title: Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – new study
- page_description: A major US study links air pollution to Alzheimer’s risk in older adults. With fine particles far exceeding safe limits globally, the findings carry urgent implications.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058588

## How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
- id: 47037313
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 127 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-02-16T16:55:02.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97f0nfU5Px0
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) - YouTube
- page_description: Let’s take a photo using a piece of tape.0:00 Intro to coded apertures1:10 The point is the point spread function1:50 2D convolution for optical systems2:39 ...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037313

## Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
- id: 47042396
- by: colinprince
- score: 549 points
- comments: 337
- time: 2026-02-17T01:01:00.000Z
- url: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo
- domain: bbc.com
- page_title: How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
- page_description: Detectives desperate to locate a 12-year-old, seen abused online, found a surprising lead.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396

## LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf]
- id: 47038411
- by: ClintEhrlich
- score: 75 points
- comments: 26
- time: 2026-02-16T18:31:19.000Z
- url: http://papers.voltropy.com/LCM
- domain: papers.voltropy.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038411

## Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
- id: 47034087
- by: mustaphah
- score: 146 points
- comments: 94
- time: 2026-02-16T12:15:39.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2602.11988] Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.11988: Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034087

## MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
- id: 47033328
- by: todsacerdoti
- score: 157 points
- comments: 60
- time: 2026-02-16T10:26:22.000Z
- url: https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - unicode-org/message-format-wg: Developing a standard for localizable message strings
- page_description: Developing a standard for localizable message strings - unicode-org/message-format-wg
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033328

## Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
- id: 47025851
- by: eustoria
- score: 699 points
- comments: 298
- time: 2026-02-15T18:04:10.000Z
- url: https://modern-css.com
- domain: modern-css.com
- page_title: Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
- page_description: A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025851

## WebMCP Proposal
- id: 47037501
- by: Alifatisk
- score: 145 points
- comments: 75
- time: 2026-02-16T17:08:20.000Z
- url: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/
- domain: webmachinelearning.github.io
- page_title: WebMCP
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037501

## Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart
- id: 47049690
- by: speckx
- score: 64 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-02-17T16:57:36.000Z
- url: https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/many-people-are-individually-optimistic
- domain: hannahritchie.substack.com
- page_title: Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart
- page_description: Most people are personally optimistic, but socially pessimistic. This can be a drag on collective progress.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049690

## Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium
- id: 47036063
- by: HenryNdubuaku
- score: 78 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-02-16T15:15:50.000Z
- url: https://github.com/HenryNdubuaku/maths-cs-ai-compendium
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - HenryNdubuaku/maths-cs-ai-compendium: Learn maths, computing, and artificial intelligence with intuition.
- page_description: Learn maths, computing, and artificial intelligence with intuition. - HenryNdubuaku/maths-cs-ai-compendium
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036063

## Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling
- id: 47050472
- by: giuliomagnifico
- score: 55 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T17:48:07.000Z
- url: https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/17/dutch-regulator-threatens-polymarket-eu420k-weekly-fines-unlicensed-gambling
- domain: nltimes.nl
- page_title: Dutch regulator threatens Polymarket with €420K weekly fines for unlicensed gambling | NL Times
- page_description: Dutch gambling authorities have ordered U.S.-based website Polymarket to immediately cease all operations in the Netherlands, saying the company is operating gambling activity without a license. The site, which allows users to place bets on political events and global conflicts, faces a weekly fine of 420,000 euros if it continues to operate, up to a maximum of 840,000 euros, announced Netherlands gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa).
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050472

## Phison CEO: Consumer electronics firms may fail by 2026 over AI memory crisis
- id: 47055616
- by: jamesy0ung
- score: 18 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-18T00:55:00.000Z
- url: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/many-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-will-go-bankrupt-or-exit-product-lines-by-the-end-of-2026-due-to-the-ai-memory-crisis-phison-ceo-reportedly-says/
- domain: pcgamer.com
- page_title: Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says | PC Gamer
- page_description: This mess is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055616

## Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
- id: 47032235
- by: tosh
- score: 123 points
- comments: 67
- time: 2026-02-16T08:04:11.000Z
- url: https://github.com/antirez/picol
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - antirez/picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
- page_description: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code. Contribute to antirez/picol development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032235

## Honey bees navigate more precisely than previously thought
- id: 47056547
- by: geox
- score: 12 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-18T02:48:14.000Z
- url: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/honey-bees-navigate-more-precisely-than-previously-thought/
- domain: uni-freiburg.de
- page_title: Honey bees navigate more precisely than previously thought &#8211; University of Freiburg
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056547

## JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
- id: 47029339
- by: luu
- score: 172 points
- comments: 233
- time: 2026-02-16T00:26:23.000Z
- url: https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performance-goals/
- domain: sgom.es
- page_title: JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
- page_description: I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029339

## I fixed Windows native development
- id: 47022891
- by: deevus
- score: 805 points
- comments: 386
- time: 2026-02-15T11:25:26.000Z
- url: https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/
- domain: marler8997.github.io
- page_title: Welcome to Johnny&apos;s World
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022891

## Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
- id: 47051546
- by: Bender
- score: 435 points
- comments: 239
- time: 2026-02-17T19:02:44.000Z
- url: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/
- domain: electrek.co
- page_title: Tesla &#039;Robotaxi&#039; adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month — 4x worse than humans | Electrek
- page_description: Tesla has reported five new crashes involving its &#8220;Robotaxi&#8221; fleet in Austin, Texas, bringing the total to 14 incidents since...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546

## I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
- id: 47020191
- by: panic
- score: 949 points
- comments: 168
- time: 2026-02-15T01:20:58.000Z
- url: https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
- domain: k7r.eu
- page_title: Matthias Kirschner's Web log &bull; I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
- page_description: For this year's &#34;I love Free Software Day&#34; I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191

## How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is
- id: 47004629
- by: pella
- score: 66 points
- comments: 51
- time: 2026-02-13T16:37:22.000Z
- url: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2513815-how-teaching-molecules-to-think-is-revealing-what-a-mind-really-is/
- domain: newscientist.com
- page_title: How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a &#039;mind&#039; really is | New Scientist
- page_description: Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the origins of life and mind in one fell swoop
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004629

## Suicide Linux (2009)
- id: 47039966
- by: icwtyjj
- score: 111 points
- comments: 65
- time: 2026-02-16T20:34:27.000Z
- url: https://qntm.org/suicide
- domain: qntm.org
- page_title: Suicide Linux @ Things Of Interest
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039966

## Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
- id: 47040375
- by: zachlatta
- score: 255 points
- comments: 122
- time: 2026-02-16T21:10:44.000Z
- url: https://github.com/zachlatta/freeflow
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - zachlatta/freeflow: Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc
- page_description: Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc - zachlatta/freeflow
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375

## Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
- id: 47034713
- by: harel
- score: 500 points
- comments: 341
- time: 2026-02-16T13:30:07.000Z
- url: https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-orders-deletion-of-the-uks-largest-court-reporting-database/
- domain: legalcheek.com
- page_title: Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting database - Legal Cheek
- page_description: Blow for open justice
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034713

## The End of the Office
- id: 47036882
- by: HR01
- score: 47 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-02-16T16:18:08.000Z
- url: https://blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-the-office
- domain: blog.andrewyang.com
- page_title: The End of the Office - Andrew Yang Newsletter
- page_description: I write this filled with sadness.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036882

## I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
- id: 47031580
- by: novemp
- score: 1415 points
- comments: 889
- time: 2026-02-16T06:31:48.000Z
- url: https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
- domain: mastodon.world
- page_title: Kévin: "Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 mete…" - Mastodon
- page_description: Attached: 4 images

Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

What do you think the LLM output was?

Please; review the output. 

#ai #LLM #ai
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580

## Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview
- id: 47010018
- by: patrikcsak
- score: 94 points
- comments: 33
- time: 2026-02-14T00:46:02.000Z
- url: https://www.lux.camera/mark-iii-looks/
- domain: lux.camera
- page_title: Inside Looks: A Mark III Preview
- page_description: Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It&#x27;s still a work in progress, but we&#x27;re ready to start sharing what we&#x27;ve worked on for the past year through a series of app updates alongside posts like this.

Today, we&#x27;re diving into Looks.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010018

## Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator
- id: 47039044
- by: swesnow
- score: 39 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-16T19:17:46.000Z
- url: https://simonhalvdansson.github.io/2D-Coulomb-Gas-Tools/index_gpu.html
- domain: simonhalvdansson.github.io
- page_title: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator (WebGPU)
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039044

## Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
- id: 47036891
- by: turth
- score: 60 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-02-16T16:19:16.000Z
- url: https://github.com/SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter: A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math.
- page_description: A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036891

## Running My Own XMPP Server
- id: 47034801
- by: speckx
- score: 225 points
- comments: 138
- time: 2026-02-16T13:39:45.000Z
- url: https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/xmpp-turn-stun-coturn-prosody/
- domain: blog.dmcc.io
- page_title: Running My Own XMPP Server » Danny
- page_description: Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034801

## Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
- id: 47033622
- by: beardyw
- score: 376 points
- comments: 236
- time: 2026-02-16T11:06:28.000Z
- url: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/
- domain: theregister.com
- page_title: Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it • The Register
- page_description: : The software doesn't show what files it's working on
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033622

## PascalABC.net
- id: 47016024
- by: andsoitis
- score: 47 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-02-14T16:52:11.000Z
- url: https://pascalabc.net:443/en
- domain: pascalabc.net
- page_title: PascalABC.NET
- page_description: The new generation Pascal programming language that combines simplicity of classic Pascal, a great number of modern extensions and broad capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016024

## Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices
- id: 47025085
- by: nikodunk
- score: 145 points
- comments: 50
- time: 2026-02-15T16:40:13.000Z
- url: https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - pocketblue/pocketblue: Fedora Atomic for mobile devices
- page_description: Fedora Atomic for mobile devices. Contribute to pocketblue/pocketblue development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025085

## UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
- id: 47035679
- by: righthand
- score: 359 points
- comments: 115
- time: 2026-02-16T14:48:25.000Z
- url: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/good-news-uk-discord-users-were-part-of-a-peter-thiel-linked-data-collection-experiment
- domain: rockpapershotgun.com
- page_title: Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection &#34;experiment&#34; | Rock Paper Shotgun
- page_description: Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035679

## CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC
- id: 47049426
- by: theahura
- score: 492 points
- comments: 226
- time: 2026-02-17T16:37:41.000Z
- url: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-talarico-fcc-rcna259341
- domain: nbcnews.com
- page_title: Stephen Colbert says CBS didn&#x27;t air interview out of fear of FCC
- page_description: “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said CBS did not air his Monday interview with Texas state Rep.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049426

## Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true
- id: 47053608
- by: thehoff
- score: 28 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T21:26:38.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/password-managers-promise-that-they-cant-see-your-vaults-isnt-always-true/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- page_title: Password managers&#039; promise that they can&#039;t see your vaults isn&#039;t always true - Ars Technica
- page_description: Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053608

## SCM as a database for the code
- id: 47022238
- by: gritzko
- score: 93 points
- comments: 97
- time: 2026-02-15T09:09:31.000Z
- url: https://gist.github.com/gritzko/6e81b5391eacb585ae207f5e634db07e
- domain: gist.github.com
- page_title: SCMandLLM.md · GitHub
- page_description: GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022238

## Building a model that visualizes strategic golf
- id: 47037568
- by: scoofy
- score: 32 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-02-16T17:15:27.000Z
- url: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/i-spent-the-last-month-and-a-half
- domain: golfcoursewiki.substack.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037568

## Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
- id: 47025864
- by: mikhael
- score: 174 points
- comments: 93
- time: 2026-02-15T18:05:24.000Z
- url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/15/david-greene-google-ai-podcast/
- domain: washingtonpost.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025864

## LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
- id: 47025399
- by: classichasclass
- score: 413 points
- comments: 219
- time: 2026-02-15T17:12:35.000Z
- url: https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - TechPaula/LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design
- page_description: A 6502 based laptop design. Contribute to TechPaula/LT6502 development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025399

## Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code
- id: 47058080
- by: paraschopra
- score: 35 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-02-18T06:57:37.000Z
- url: https://paraschopra.github.io/explainers/
- domain: paraschopra.github.io
- page_title: Interactive Explainers
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058080

## Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh
- id: 47013556
- by: transpute
- score: 31 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-02-14T11:07:08.000Z
- url: https://www.eejournal.com/article/chiplets-get-physical-the-days-of-mix-and-match-silicon-draw-nigh/
- domain: eejournal.com
- page_title: Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh &#8211; EEJournal
- page_description: Things continue to gain traction in “chiplet space” (where no one can hear you scream). In fact, before I forget, Chiplet Summit 2026 takes place in just a couple of weeks as I pen these words. The…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013556

## Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)
- id: 47022943
- by: tosh
- score: 120 points
- comments: 52
- time: 2026-02-15T11:37:29.000Z
- url: https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - s-macke/starflight-reverse: Reverse engineered game Starflight (1986)
- page_description: Reverse engineered game Starflight (1986). Contribute to s-macke/starflight-reverse development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022943

## EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images in 11 days
- id: 47048355
- by: MBCook
- score: 40 points
- comments: 21
- time: 2026-02-17T15:13:43.000Z
- url: https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/17/eu-also-investigating-as-grok-generated-23000-csam-images-in-11-days/
- domain: 9to5mac.com
- page_title: EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images
- page_description: The EU has opened its own investigation into the Grok chatbot generating child sexual abuse material. It&#8217;s estimated that Grok...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048355

## GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor
- id: 47027427
- by: smartmic
- score: 103 points
- comments: 68
- time: 2026-02-15T20:53:26.000Z
- url: https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/
- domain: gnu.org.ua
- page_title: GNU PIES - Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027427

## Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
- id: 47026071
- by: bikenaga
- score: 301 points
- comments: 205
- time: 2026-02-15T18:29:54.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026071

## Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space
- id: 47036585
- by: miyuru
- score: 37 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T15:54:03.000Z
- url: https://observablehq.com/@vasturiano/hilbert-map-of-ipv6-address-space
- domain: observablehq.com
- page_title: Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space / Vasco Asturiano | Observable
- page_description: Inspired by xkcd&#x27;s version. 
Data provided by IANA. Address space represented along a Hilbert Curve, 
using the hilbert-chart D3 component. See also the IPv4 version or the AS numbers version. Data Dependencies
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036585

## Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence
- id: 47011391
- by: gmays
- score: 22 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-02-14T03:55:16.000Z
- url: https://www.mpg.de/26113474/elephant-trunk-whiskers-exhibit-material-intelligence
- domain: mpg.de
- page_title: Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence
- page_description: Researchers decipher how elephant trunk hairs enable exceptional tactile senses through material intelligence.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011391

## STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter
- id: 47036889
- by: e145bc455f1
- score: 44 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T16:19:08.000Z
- url: https://slyka.net/blog/2026/tinyvision/
- domain: slyka.net
- page_title: /blog - STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036889

## Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School
- id: 47050215
- by: trinsic2
- score: 88 points
- comments: 74
- time: 2026-02-17T17:29:16.000Z
- url: https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/
- domain: 404media.co
- page_title: &#x27;Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:&#x27; Inside an AI-Powered Private School
- page_description: Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School&#x27;s AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050215

## My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
- id: 47015294
- by: minimalthinker
- score: 615 points
- comments: 256
- time: 2026-02-14T15:35:47.000Z
- url: https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
- domain: aimilios.bearblog.dev
- page_title: My smart sleep mask broadcasts users&#x27; brainwaves to an open MQTT broker | aimilios
- page_description: I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers&#x27; brainwaves and send them electric impul...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294

## Audio is the one area small labs are winning
- id: 46999285
- by: rocauc
- score: 313 points
- comments: 97
- time: 2026-02-13T05:39:45.000Z
- url: https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai
- domain: amplifypartners.com
- page_title: Arming the rebels with GPUs: Gradium, Kyutai, and Audio AI | Amplify Partners
- page_description: The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999285

## Error payloads in Zig
- id: 47028705
- by: srcreigh
- score: 91 points
- comments: 38
- time: 2026-02-15T23:08:43.000Z
- url: https://srcreigh.ca/posts/error-payloads-in-zig/
- domain: srcreigh.ca
- page_title: Error payloads in Zig
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028705

## Use protocols, not services
- id: 47038588
- by: enz
- score: 297 points
- comments: 122
- time: 2026-02-16T18:44:58.000Z
- url: https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/
- domain: notnotp.com
- page_title: Use Protocols, Not Services
- page_description: The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038588

## SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution
- id: 47044293
- by: d_silin
- score: 71 points
- comments: 14
- time: 2026-02-17T06:18:34.000Z
- url: http://svardos.org/
- domain: svardos.org
- page_title: SvarDOS
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044293

## YouTube Is Down
- id: 47055723
- by: Vaslo
- score: 141 points
- comments: 40
- time: 2026-02-18T01:09:18.000Z
- url: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/
- domain: downdetector.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055723

## Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
- id: 47024907
- by: magoghm
- score: 438 points
- comments: 48
- time: 2026-02-15T16:19:51.000Z
- url: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hideki-sato-designer-of-segas-consoles-dies-age-75/
- domain: videogameschronicle.com
- page_title: Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died | VGC
- page_description: Sato helmed design for consoles including Mega Drive, Saturn&#8230;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024907

## Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
- id: 47014449
- by: hisamafahri
- score: 610 points
- comments: 143
- time: 2026-02-14T13:40:20.000Z
- url: https://ooh.directory/
- domain: ooh.directory
- page_title: ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
- page_description: A collection of 2,385 blogs about every topic
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449

## AI is going to kill app subscriptions
- id: 47024387
- by: informal007
- score: 148 points
- comments: 236
- time: 2026-02-15T15:21:08.000Z
- url: https://nichehunt.app/blog/ai-going-to-kill-app-subscriptions
- domain: nichehunt.app
- page_title: Niche Hunt — App ideas people actually want
- page_description: Curated niche app opportunities from Reddit, scored by difficulty and demand.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024387

## Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
- id: 47028227
- by: prophylaxis
- score: 358 points
- comments: 267
- time: 2026-02-15T22:17:10.000Z
- url: https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/
- domain: fide.com
- page_title: Magnus Carlsen wins 2026 FIDE Freestyle World Championship &#8211; International Chess Federation
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028227

## An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
- id: 47009949
- by: scottshambaugh
- score: 760 points
- comments: 619
- time: 2026-02-14T00:37:53.000Z
- url: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
- domain: theshamblog.com
- page_title: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me &#8211; More Things Have Happened &#8211; The Shamblog
- page_description: Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949

## GLM-5 Technical Report
- id: 47056696
- by: meetpateltech
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T03:15:19.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15763
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2602.15763] GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.15763: GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056696

## Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser
- id: 47026186
- by: b44
- score: 276 points
- comments: 25
- time: 2026-02-15T18:40:35.000Z
- url: https://microgpt.boratto.ca
- domain: microgpt.boratto.ca
- page_title: microgpt
- page_description: a visualization of a very small gpt model, running in the browser
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026186

## 1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists
- id: 47024184
- by: donohoe
- score: 105 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-02-15T14:55:53.000Z
- url: https://github.com/cavedave/Manannan
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - cavedave/Manannan: Attempt to convert 1943 Irish language sci-fi book Manannán to modern orthography
- page_description: Attempt to convert 1943 Irish language sci-fi book Manannán to modern orthography - cavedave/Manannan
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024184

## Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
- id: 47030271
- by: andsoitis
- score: 145 points
- comments: 92
- time: 2026-02-16T02:36:14.000Z
- url: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business
- domain: economist.com
- page_title: Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
- page_description: Artificial intelligence is causing the chip designer to rethink its winning formula | Business
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030271

## Fast sorting networks, branchless by design
- id: 47053812
- by: fanf2
- score: 11 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T21:42:04.000Z
- url: https://00f.net/2026/02/17/sorting-without-leaking-secrets/
- domain: 00f.net
- page_title: Fast sorting, branchless by design - Frank DENIS random thoughts.
- page_description: Sorting is one of the most studied problems in computer science. Every language ships a built-in sort, and for most applications, picking the right one ...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053812

## Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research
- id: 47026134
- by: gmays
- score: 106 points
- comments: 56
- time: 2026-02-15T18:35:40.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10177
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2602.10177] Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.10177: Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026134

## Two different tricks for fast LLM inference
- id: 47022329
- by: swah
- score: 194 points
- comments: 67
- time: 2026-02-15T09:27:33.000Z
- url: https://www.seangoedecke.com/fast-llm-inference/
- domain: seangoedecke.com
- page_title: Two different tricks for fast LLM inference
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022329

## Wiretext – ASCII Wireframe Creator
- id: 47039115
- by: helloplanets
- score: 27 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T19:22:52.000Z
- url: https://wiretext.app
- domain: wiretext.app
- page_title: Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool
- page_description: A spatial design tool where everything renders as Unicode box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups. Share as text.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039115

## Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
- id: 47021354
- by: helloplanets
- score: 350 points
- comments: 91
- time: 2026-02-15T05:43:59.000Z
- url: https://flashpointarchive.org
- domain: flashpointarchive.org
- page_title: Flashpoint Archive
- page_description: A community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021354

## Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI
- id: 47026768
- by: gpasquero
- score: 95 points
- comments: 39
- time: 2026-02-15T19:40:57.000Z
- url: https://github.com/gpasquero/voog
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - gpasquero/voog: VOOG — Virtual Analog Synthesizer (Moog-style polyphonic synth with GUI)
- page_description: VOOG — Virtual Analog Synthesizer (Moog-style polyphonic synth with GUI) - gpasquero/voog
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026768

## Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
- id: 47021980
- by: twapi
- score: 531 points
- comments: 134
- time: 2026-02-15T08:17:05.000Z
- url: https://oat.ink/
- domain: oat.ink
- page_title: Oat - Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021980

## Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)
- id: 47041339
- by: beatthatflight
- score: 64 points
- comments: 23
- time: 2026-02-16T22:41:05.000Z
- url: https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com
- domain: resistandunsubscribe.com
- page_title: Resist and Unsubscribe
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041339

## Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
- id: 47024506
- by: theblazehen
- score: 299 points
- comments: 92
- time: 2026-02-15T15:37:06.000Z
- url: https://gwern.net/gwtar
- domain: gwern.net
- page_title: Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format · Gwern.net
- page_description: Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024506

## pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light)
- id: 47054464
- by: tanelpoder
- score: 21 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T22:40:11.000Z
- url: https://vibhorkumar.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/pg_background-make-postgres-do-the-long-work-while-your-session-stays-light/
- domain: vibhorkumar.wordpress.com
- page_title: pg_background: make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) &#8211; Database Technologies & Cyber Security Platform
- page_description: pg_background gives PostgreSQL a clean “do this over there” lane: launch SQL in background worker processes, keep your session responsive, and pull results later when you’re ready. In this post, we’ll walk through what pg_background is (and isn’t), why the v2 API matters for production safety (PID + cookie handles), and what’s new across the&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054464

## Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
- id: 47000505
- by: walterbell
- score: 646 points
- comments: 365
- time: 2026-02-13T08:49:02.000Z
- url: https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
- domain: cordcuttersnews.com
- page_title: Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News
- page_description: In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi. The transition comes at a pivotal time for the series, which has [&hellip;]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000505

## Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?
- id: 47049884
- by: causal
- score: 23 points
- comments: 30
- time: 2026-02-17T17:09:49.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049884

## A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)
- id: 47015579
- by: 1970-01-01
- score: 107 points
- comments: 117
- time: 2026-02-14T16:07:44.000Z
- url: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html
- domain: microscopy-uk.org.uk
- page_title: M Disc for archival durability. Tests and review.
- page_description: An extensive test and review of M Disk archival durability.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015579

## Project Aura: ESP32 Air quality monitor
- id: 47051330
- by: alainrk
- score: 19 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T18:46:41.000Z
- url: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/16/project-aura-a-neat-easy-to-assemble-diy-air-quality-monitor-compatible-with-home-assistant/
- domain: cnx-software.com
- page_title: Project Aura - A neat, easy-to-assemble, DIY Air quality monitor compatible with Home Assistant - CNX Software
- page_description: Project Aura is an ESP32‑based DIY air quality monitor that combines a touchscreen display and industrial sensors. It is fully integrated with the Home
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051330

## Breaking the spell of vibe coding
- id: 47006615
- by: arjunbanker
- score: 429 points
- comments: 349
- time: 2026-02-13T19:22:18.000Z
- url: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
- domain: fast.ai
- page_title: fast.ai - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding
- page_description: Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006615

## Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education
- id: 47046640
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T12:10:16.000Z
- url: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-rwanda-mou
- domain: anthropic.com
- page_title: Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education \ Anthropic
- page_description: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that&#x27;s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046640

## OpenAI should build Slack
- id: 47012553
- by: swyx
- score: 250 points
- comments: 326
- time: 2026-02-14T07:50:13.000Z
- url: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack
- domain: latent.space
- page_title: [AINews] Why OpenAI Should Build Slack - by swyx (Shawn)
- page_description: a quiet day lets us answer a Sam Altman question: what should he build next?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553

## Show HN: JeffTube
- id: 47030797
- by: dvrp
- score: 32 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-16T04:09:47.000Z
- url: https://jmail.world/jefftube
- domain: jmail.world
- page_title: Jefftube
- page_description: Jefftube archive frontend inside Jmail suite.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030797

## News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
- id: 47017138
- by: ninjagoo
- score: 568 points
- comments: 363
- time: 2026-02-14T18:46:32.000Z
- url: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
- domain: niemanlab.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138

## Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions
- id: 47058924
- by: wwalexander
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T09:12:32.000Z
- url: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/open-source-game-engine-godot-is-drowning-in-ai-slop-code-contributions-i-dont-know-how-long-we-can-keep-it-up/
- domain: pcgamer.com
- page_title: Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' | PC Gamer
- page_description: Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058924

## WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?
- id: 47001095
- by: thomasjb
- score: 148 points
- comments: 129
- time: 2026-02-13T10:18:56.000Z
- url: https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-sucks-too/
- domain: blog.feld.me
- page_title: WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What? &ndash; Makefile.feld
- page_description: OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001095

## Show HN: Script to check if Notepad++ is backdoored by Lotus Blossom APT
- id: 47043651
- by: 10000000001
- score: 9 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T04:16:09.000Z
- url: https://github.com/nHunter0/Notepad-vulnerability-checker
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - nHunter0/Notepad-vulnerability-checker
- page_description: Contribute to nHunter0/Notepad-vulnerability-checker development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043651

## AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
- id: 47042136
- by: VorpalWay
- score: 398 points
- comments: 325
- time: 2026-02-17T00:26:20.000Z
- url: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ai-is-destroying-open-source/
- domain: jeffgeerling.com
- page_title: AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet - Jeff Geerling
- page_description: Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer.
The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042136

## Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer)
- id: 47004712
- by: matt1398
- score: 68 points
- comments: 44
- time: 2026-02-13T16:43:50.000Z
- url: https://github.com/matt1398/claude-devtools
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - matt1398/claude-devtools
- page_description: Contribute to matt1398/claude-devtools development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004712

## Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
- id: 47000034
- by: luu
- score: 129 points
- comments: 91
- time: 2026-02-13T07:44:50.000Z
- url: https://blog.exe.dev/expensively-quadratic
- domain: blog.exe.dev
- page_title: Expensively Quadratic: the LLM Agent Cost Curve - exe.dev blog
- page_description: Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000034

## Show HN: Algorithms 1.0.0 – Minimal and clean implementations of algorithms
- id: 47055400
- by: kwk236
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T00:22:28.000Z
- url: https://github.com/keon/algorithms
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - keon/algorithms: Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python
- page_description: Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python - keon/algorithms
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055400

## An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs
- id: 47042788
- by: ivewonyoung
- score: 85 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-02-17T01:59:40.000Z
- url: https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an_ai_ceo_finally_said_something_honest/
- domain: old.reddit.com
- page_title: An AI CEO finally said something honest : ExperiencedDevs
- page_description: Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about AI right now. His most recent take: “everyone
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042788

## Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac
- id: 47055155
- by: cendyne
- score: 22 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T23:49:12.000Z
- url: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/
- domain: soatok.blog
- page_title: Cryptographic Issues in Matrix&#8217;s Rust Library Vodozemac - Dhole Moments
- page_description: Two years ago, I glanced at Matrix&#039;s Olm library and immediately found several side-channel vulnerabilities. After dragging their feet for 90 days, they ended up not bothering to fix any of it. The Matrix.org security team also failed to notify many of the alternative clients about the impending disclosure--a fact that became more annoying when&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055155

## Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)
- id: 47022745
- by: miloschwartz
- score: 79 points
- comments: 25
- time: 2026-02-15T10:50:18.000Z
- url: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - fosrl/pangolin: Identity-aware VPN and proxy for remote access to anything, anywhere.
- page_description: Identity-aware VPN and proxy for remote access to anything, anywhere. - fosrl/pangolin
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022745

## How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
- id: 47008607
- by: brandonb
- score: 158 points
- comments: 266
- time: 2026-02-13T22:21:55.000Z
- url: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/02/11/full-body-mris-cancer-aneurysm/88396037007/
- domain: usatoday.com
- page_title: Full-body MRIs and how often they find cancer, aneurysms
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008607

## A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
- id: 47038578
- by: muzzy19
- score: 22 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-16T18:44:12.000Z
- url: https://tempus-word.de/en/index
- domain: tempus-word.de
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038578

## Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout
- id: 47042766
- by: GoodluckH
- score: 175 points
- comments: 139
- time: 2026-02-17T01:55:50.000Z
- url: https://vo2maxpro.com/blog/thinking-hard-burns-no-calories-destroys-workout
- domain: vo2maxpro.com
- page_title: Thinking Hard Burns Almost No Calories—But Destroys Your Next Workout | VO2 Max Pro Blog
- page_description: Your brain uses 20% of your body&#x27;s energy just idling. Intense thinking barely adds to that. But the mental byproducts of a long cognitive day quietly sabotage your endurance in ways no amount of willpower can fix.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042766

## Myopia is driven by how we use our eyes indoors, new research suggests
- id: 47051726
- by: bikenaga
- score: 20 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-17T19:15:40.000Z
- url: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-myopia-driven-eyes-indoors.html
- domain: medicalxpress.com
- page_title: Myopia is driven by how we use our eyes indoors, new research suggests
- page_description: For years, rising rates of myopia—or nearsightedness—have been widely attributed to increased screen time, especially among children and young adults. But new research from scientists at the SUNY College of Optometry suggests the story may be more complicated—and more human.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051726

## Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
- id: 47023238
- by: mikece
- score: 931 points
- comments: 657
- time: 2026-02-15T12:42:17.000Z
- url: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
- domain: greenwald.substack.com
- page_title: Amazon&#x27;s Ring and Google&#x27;s Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
- page_description: Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238

## Giant barocaloric cooling effect offers a new route to refrigeration
- id: 47051506
- by: zeristor
- score: 13 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T18:59:14.000Z
- url: https://physicsworld.com/a/giant-barocaloric-cooling-effect-offers-a-new-route-to-refrigeration/
- domain: physicsworld.com
- page_title: Giant barocaloric cooling effect offers a new route to refrigeration &#8211; Physics World
- page_description: Environmentally friendly dissolution-based method reduces temperature of water by nearly 27 K in just 20 seconds
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051506

## Meta research found supervision doesn't curb teens' compulsive social media use
- id: 47053793
- by: cdrnsf
- score: 16 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T21:40:44.000Z
- url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/metas-own-research-found-parental-supervision-doesnt-really-help-curb-teens-compulsive-social-media-use/
- domain: techcrunch.com
- page_title: Meta&#039;s own research found parental supervision doesn&#039;t really help curb teens&#039; compulsive social media use | TechCrunch
- page_description: An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053793

## Proton and NordVPN blocked in Spain during soccer matches
- id: 47045324
- by: EbNar
- score: 11 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-17T09:18:02.000Z
- url: https://bandaancha.eu/articulos/laliga-telefonica-escalan-bloqueos-11668
- domain: bandaancha.eu
- page_title: LaLiga y Telefónica obligan a las VPNs Proton y Nord VPN a bloquear durante los partidos gracias a una nueva resolución judicial
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045324

## Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search
- id: 47039440
- by: neogoose
- score: 26 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T19:52:30.000Z
- url: https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/fff.nvim
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - dmtrKovalenko/fff.nvim: Finally a Fabioulous & Fast Fuzzy File Finder for neovim
- page_description: Finally a Fabioulous & Fast Fuzzy File Finder for neovim  - GitHub - dmtrKovalenko/fff.nvim: Finally a Fabioulous & Fast Fuzzy File Finder for neovim
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039440

## Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
- id: 47012717
- by: Retro_Dev
- score: 368 points
- comments: 303
- time: 2026-02-14T08:22:11.000Z
- url: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-13
- domain: ziglang.org
- page_title: Devlog
      ⚡
      Zig Programming Language
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012717

## Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
- id: 47003064
- by: ozzyphantom
- score: 1623 points
- comments: 786
- time: 2026-02-13T14:21:01.000Z
- url: https://ios-countdown.win/
- domain: ios-countdown.win
- page_title: Fix the iOS Keyboard
- page_description: A countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer. The clock is ticking.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064

## How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
- id: 47014405
- by: tosh
- score: 114 points
- comments: 95
- time: 2026-02-14T13:33:03.000Z
- url: https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/11/30/How-many-registers-does-an-x86-64-cpu-have
- domain: blog.yossarian.net
- page_title: How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014405

## Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster a real risk, says leading expert
- id: 47052401
- by: trusche
- score: 16 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T19:58:48.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/17/ai-race-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-michael-wooldridge
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert | Science | The Guardian
- page_description: Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052401

## EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
- id: 47025378
- by: giuliomagnifico
- score: 1201 points
- comments: 829
- time: 2026-02-15T17:10:18.000Z
- url: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en
- domain: environment.ec.europa.eu
- page_title: New EU rules to stop destruction of unsold clothes and shoes - Environment
- page_description: The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025378

## This behavior can be a turning point for families caring for a dementia patient
- id: 47053445
- by: mooreds
- score: 15 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T21:14:41.000Z
- url: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5715970
- domain: text.npr.org
- page_title: This behavior can be a turning point for families caring for a dementia patient
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053445

## The anxiety driving AI's brutal work culture is a warning for all of us
- id: 47055526
- by: i7l
- score: 10 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-18T00:38:12.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/17/ai-startups-work-culture-san-francisco
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: 12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
- page_description: San Francisco&#x2019;s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectors
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055526

## Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API
- id: 47019329
- by: mprast
- score: 16 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-14T23:07:41.000Z
- url: https://playground.get-nerve.com/
- domain: playground.get-nerve.com
- page_title: Nerve
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019329

## Forget MCP, Bash Is All You Need
- id: 47053210
- by: nr378
- score: 8 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T20:56:08.000Z
- url: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/forget-mcp-bash-is-all-you-need
- domain: deadneurons.substack.com
- page_title: Forget MCP, Bash Is All You Need - Dead Neurons
- page_description: LLMs need tools.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053210

## I gave Claude access to my pen plotter
- id: 47004384
- by: futurecat
- score: 285 points
- comments: 203
- time: 2026-02-13T16:15:58.000Z
- url: https://harmonique.one/posts/i-gave-claude-access-to-my-pen-plotter
- domain: harmonique.one
- page_title: I Gave Claude Access To My Pen Plotter | Harmonique
- page_description: I gave Claude Code access to my pen plotter. Not directly. I was the interface between the two machines. Claude Code produced SVG files that I plotted with my pen plotter. With my smartphone I captured photos that I pasted into the Claude Code session, asking Claude what it thought about the
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004384

## Kimi Claw
- id: 47023633
- by: pretext
- score: 98 points
- comments: 97
- time: 2026-02-15T13:48:44.000Z
- url: https://www.kimi.com/bot
- domain: kimi.com
- page_title: Kimi Claw | 24&#x2F;7 AI Assistant with Long-term Memory & Automation
- page_description: Deploy OpenClaw in seconds via Kimi. Build a 24/7 AI assistant with long-term memory and personality that proactively executes scheduled tasks. Experience the power of Kimi Claw now.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023633

## Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals
- id: 47025624
- by: cdrnsf
- score: 319 points
- comments: 122
- time: 2026-02-15T17:37:10.000Z
- url: https://theintercept.com/2026/02/15/palantir-contract-new-york-city-health-hospitals/
- domain: theintercept.com
- page_title: Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals
- page_description: Activists are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025624

## DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
- id: 47022213
- by: tosh
- score: 83 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-02-15T09:05:35.000Z
- url: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/djvu-and-its-connection-to-deep-learning/
- domain: scottlocklin.wordpress.com
- page_title: DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning | Locklin on science
- page_description: DjVu is a vastly superior file format for books, mathematical papers and just about anything else you can think of to original PDF (current year PDF adopted some of its innovations, but they&#039;re only used to break into your ipotato afaik). PDF is mostly postscript with a bunch of weird metadata and layers. This is&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022213

## Descent, ported to the web
- id: 47017545
- by: memalign
- score: 316 points
- comments: 68
- time: 2026-02-14T19:33:24.000Z
- url: https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/
- domain: mrdoob.github.io
- page_title: Three.js Descent
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545

## Tesla's 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since June 2025
- id: 47051559
- by: speckx
- score: 50 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-02-17T19:03:56.000Z
- url: https://sherwood.news/tech/teslas-45-austin-robotaxis-now-have-14-crashes-on-the-books-since-launching/
- domain: sherwood.news
- page_title: Tesla’s 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since launching in June - Sherwood News
- page_description: Tesla submitted five new crash reports in January involving its Austin Robotaxi fleet, Electrek reports....
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051559

## One Server. Small Business
- id: 47024549
- by: jakubgarfield
- score: 72 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-02-15T15:41:04.000Z
- url: https://chodounsky.com/2026/02/14/one-server-small-business/
- domain: chodounsky.com
- page_title: One server. Small business.
- page_description: More than a decade ago, I built a small Rails app to run my curated newsletters. Today it serves over 100,000 subscribers, sends hundreds of thousands of emails each month, and still runs on a single $30 server. In this post, I walk through how I deploy, secure, back up, and monitor it — and why I still prefer owning the stack over using a managed platform.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024549

## Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door
- id: 47025338
- by: djkurlander
- score: 220 points
- comments: 92
- time: 2026-02-15T17:06:25.000Z
- url: https://knock-knock.net
- domain: knock-knock.net
- page_title: Knock-Knock | Live Intruder Map
- page_description: A real-time 3D globe showing bots trying to break into my server via SSH
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025338

## The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
- id: 47005856
- by: bigwheels
- score: 128 points
- comments: 53
- time: 2026-02-13T18:18:48.000Z
- url: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-02-13.html
- domain: martinfowler.com
- page_title: Fragments: February 13
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005856

## Zillow teams up with 'World of Warcraft' to exhibit virtual homes inside game
- id: 47056318
- by: SilverElfin
- score: 3 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-18T02:19:02.000Z
- url: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/zillow-teams-up-with-world-of-warcraft-to-exhibit-virtual-homes-inside-popular-game/
- domain: geekwire.com
- page_title: Zillow teams up with ‘World of Warcraft’ to exhibit virtual homes inside popular game &#8211; GeekWire
- page_description: A new microsite, “Zillow for Warcraft,” allows users to explore an assortment of designs for in-game housing.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056318

## Vim 9.2
- id: 47015330
- by: tapanjk
- score: 432 points
- comments: 193
- time: 2026-02-14T15:39:43.000Z
- url: https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php
- domain: vim.org
- page_title: Vim 9.2 released : vim online
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015330

## ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown
- id: 47055082
- by: barryvan
- score: 9 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T23:41:23.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/ice-microsoft-technology-immigration-crackdown
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
- page_description: Exclusive: ICE more than tripled the amount of data stored in Microsoft&#x2019;s cloud at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology ballooned
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055082

## New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
- id: 46999117
- by: uejfiweun
- score: 86 points
- comments: 97
- time: 2026-02-13T05:05:26.000Z
- url: https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf
- domain: nickbostrom.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999117

## Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)
- id: 47020791
- by: bpierre
- score: 93 points
- comments: 14
- time: 2026-02-15T03:29:39.000Z
- url: https://caucascapades.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/guitars-of-the-ussr-and-the-jolana-special-in-azerbaijani-music/
- domain: caucascapades.wordpress.com
- page_title: Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music | Caucascapades
- page_description: During my first trip to Eastern Europe, I found an "Orpheus"  electric guitar leaning against a wall in the basement of a music shop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Half of its parts were missing and dust was gathering on its sparkly-orange plywood body. I bought it for the equivalent of $20 and carried it around in two pieces&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020791

## A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+
- id: 47050300
- by: doener
- score: 138 points
- comments: 62
- time: 2026-02-17T17:34:56.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/MeshnetCapital/status/2023573563559547180
- domain: twitter.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050300

## The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
- id: 47053427
- by: mooreds
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T21:13:37.000Z
- url: https://reason.com/2026/02/17/the-world-has-turned-and-left-me-here/
- domain: reason.com
- page_title: As Trump embraces tariffs, allies pursue globe-spanning trade deal
- page_description: With Trump favoring tariffs, U.S. allies pursue a massive trade deal that could reshape global supply chains.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053427

## The Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents
- id: 47051758
- by: rawgabbit
- score: 15 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T19:18:24.000Z
- url: https://www.wired.com/story/hsi-forum-ice-agents/
- domain: wired.com
- page_title: Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents | WIRED
- page_description: Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051758

## GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
- id: 47006594
- by: davidbarker
- score: 573 points
- comments: 400
- time: 2026-02-13T19:20:12.000Z
- url: https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
- domain: openai.com
- page_title: GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics | OpenAI
- page_description: A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594

## Police arresting 1k paedophile suspects a month across UK
- id: 47054775
- by: frereubu
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T23:10:24.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/17/police-arresting-1000-paedophile-suspects-a-month-across-uk
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Police arresting 1,000 paedophile suspects a month across UK | Crime | The Guardian
- page_description: National Crime Agency says rise in child sexual abuse being driven by technology and online forums
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054775

## Evolving Git for the Next Decade
- id: 47018814
- by: AndrewDucker
- score: 81 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-02-14T22:01:53.000Z
- url: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1057561/bddc1e61152fadf6/
- domain: lwn.net
- page_title: Evolving Git for the next decade [LWN.net]
- page_description: Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world [...]
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018814

## Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court
- id: 47025188
- by: cdrnsf
- score: 246 points
- comments: 73
- time: 2026-02-15T16:51:17.000Z
- url: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-vs-the-Republik-US-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court-11176508.html
- domain: heise.de
- page_title: Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court | heise online
- page_description: Data analysis provider Palantir wants to obtain a counterstatement in court – and triggers a wave of solidarity for a small Swiss magazine.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025188

## Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
- id: 47048879
- by: tchalla
- score: 17 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-17T15:55:14.000Z
- url: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/dutch_cops_breach/
- domain: theregister.com
- page_title: Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files • The Register
- page_description: : Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048879

## How did the Maya survive?
- id: 47003214
- by: speckx
- score: 161 points
- comments: 148
- time: 2026-02-13T14:36:07.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/12/apocalypse-no-how-almost-everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-the-maya-is-wrong
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong | Indigenous peoples | The Guardian
- page_description: For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003214

## Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
- id: 47000535
- by: dvrp
- score: 220 points
- comments: 40
- time: 2026-02-13T08:53:51.000Z
- url: https://github.com/alibaba/zvec
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - alibaba/zvec: A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
- page_description: A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000535

## uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
- id: 47016443
- by: i5heu
- score: 1164 points
- comments: 342
- time: 2026-02-14T17:36:45.000Z
- url: https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts: Maintained - uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts
- page_description: Maintained - uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts - i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443

## China's dancing robots: how worried should we be?
- id: 47058659
- by: prmph
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T08:28:49.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/18/china-dancing-humanoid-robots-festival-show
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?  | China | The Guardian
- page_description: Eye-catching martial arts performance at China gala had viewers and experts wondering what else humanoids can do
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058659

## Why I don't think AGI is imminent
- id: 47028923
- by: anonymid
- score: 136 points
- comments: 298
- time: 2026-02-15T23:34:18.000Z
- url: https://dlants.me/agi-not-imminent.html
- domain: dlants.me
- page_title: Why I don't think AGI is imminent
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028923

## Rethinking High-School Science Fairs
- id: 47006080
- by: surprisetalk
- score: 59 points
- comments: 66
- time: 2026-02-13T18:37:32.000Z
- url: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/rethinking-high-school-science-fairs
- domain: asteriskmag.com
- page_title: Rethinking High-School Science Fairs—Asterisk
- page_description: America’s earliest science fairs gave students the chance to do independent research. Today, they’re a competitive gloss to glorified internships. It’s time for a new format.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006080

## A header-only C vector database library
- id: 47016530
- by: abdimoalim
- score: 87 points
- comments: 47
- time: 2026-02-14T17:45:09.000Z
- url: https://github.com/abdimoallim/vdb
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - abdimoallim/vdb: A header-only C vector database library
- page_description: A header-only C vector database library. Contribute to abdimoallim/vdb development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016530

## MinIO repository is no longer maintained
- id: 47000041
- by: psvmcc
- score: 499 points
- comments: 387
- time: 2026-02-13T07:46:03.000Z
- url: https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/7aac2a2c5b7c882e68c1ce017d8256be2feea27f
- domain: github.com
- page_title: update README.md format and clarify state of the project · minio/minio@7aac2a2 · GitHub
- page_description: MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - update README.md format and clarify state of the project · minio/minio@7aac2a2
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000041

## More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness
- id: 47042301
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 46 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-02-17T00:48:26.000Z
- url: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/4.html
- domain: lapcatsoftware.com
- page_title: More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042301

## Instagram's URL Blackhole
- id: 47004689
- by: tkp-415
- score: 308 points
- comments: 48
- time: 2026-02-13T16:42:04.000Z
- url: https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664
- domain: medium.com
- page_title: Instagram’s URL Blackhole. While exploring the file system on a… | by Travis Knapp-Prasek | Feb, 2026 | Medium
- page_description: Instagram’s URL Blackhole While exploring the file system on a jailbroken iPhone 6s, I stumbled upon an interesting …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004689

## The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
- id: 47007656
- by: danso
- score: 781 points
- comments: 929
- time: 2026-02-13T20:52:11.000Z
- url: https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
- domain: politico.eu
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007656

## Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript
- id: 47027463
- by: jv22222
- score: 50 points
- comments: 35
- time: 2026-02-15T20:57:02.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027463

## Show HN: Interactive Chord Finder, Free Piano Scale and Chord Explorer
- id: 47038141
- by: magikMaker
- score: 7 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T18:06:36.000Z
- url: https://interactivechordfinder.com
- domain: interactivechordfinder.com
- page_title: Interactive Chord Finder
- page_description: Interactive scale and chord explorer with piano keyboard — find diatonic chords for any scale or mode
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038141

## Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
- id: 47034192
- by: dClauzel
- score: 359 points
- comments: 297
- time: 2026-02-16T12:28:31.000Z
- url: https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out
- domain: mashable.com
- page_title: Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital | Mashable
- page_description: Western Digital says its all sold out of hard drives for 2026, less than two months into the year.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034192

## NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry
- id: 47010823
- by: slymax
- score: 152 points
- comments: 72
- time: 2026-02-14T02:14:34.000Z
- url: https://npmx.dev
- domain: npmx.dev
- page_title: npmx - Package Browser for the npm Registry
- page_description: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry. Search, browse, and explore packages with a modern interface.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010823

## IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
- id: 47009327
- by: WhatsTheBigIdea
- score: 375 points
- comments: 273
- time: 2026-02-13T23:34:09.000Z
- url: https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/tech-giant-ibm-tripling-gen-z-entry-level-hiring-according-to-chro-rewriting-jobs-ai-era/
- domain: fortune.com
- page_title: IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption | Fortune
- page_description: Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009327

## YouTube as Storage
- id: 47012964
- by: saswatms
- score: 218 points
- comments: 155
- time: 2026-02-14T09:10:15.000Z
- url: https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03Os5uwWmk
- page_description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03Os5uwWmk. Contribute to PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012964

## If AI writes most of the code, understanding codebases becomes the bottleneck
- id: 47037379
- by: baijan
- score: 13 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-16T16:59:28.000Z
- url: https://app.tryarchaic.com/
- domain: app.tryarchaic.com
- page_title: Explore | archaic
- page_description: Explore public repository architecture analyses on archaic
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037379

## Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019
- id: 47028369
- by: doener
- score: 279 points
- comments: 132
- time: 2026-02-15T22:29:43.000Z
- url: https://jmail.world/wiki/peter-thiel
- domain: jmail.world
- page_title: Peter Thiel — The Jmail Encyclopedia
- page_description: Peter Thiel — The Jmail Encyclopedia. Sourced from 2,429 emails across 1,345 threads in the Jmail archive.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028369

## The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]
- id: 47051866
- by: pocksuppet
- score: 28 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-02-17T19:25:27.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFvi4hK7wI
- domain: youtube.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051866

## Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp
- id: 47037228
- by: _emacsomancer_
- score: 18 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T16:48:21.000Z
- url: https://www.iwillig.me/blog/on-dyslexia-and-lisp/
- domain: iwillig.me
- page_title: On Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp. — Relections on Software Engineering
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037228

## Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar
- id: 47016058
- by: ahmed_sulajman
- score: 91 points
- comments: 21
- time: 2026-02-14T16:55:24.000Z
- url: https://github.com/Geek-1001/arcmark
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - Geek-1001/arcmark: macOS bookmark manager that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar
- page_description: macOS bookmark manager that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar - Geek-1001/arcmark
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016058

## Show HN: OpenEntropy – 47 hardware entropy sources from your computer's physics
- id: 47042742
- by: amentiflow
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T01:52:37.000Z
- url: https://github.com/amenti-labs/openentropy
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - amenti-labs/openentropy: Open-source entropy harvesting from unconventional hardware sources. Rust + Python SDK.
- page_description: Open-source entropy harvesting from unconventional hardware sources. Rust + Python SDK. - amenti-labs/openentropy
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042742

## An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop
- id: 47024676
- by: PaulHoule
- score: 72 points
- comments: 47
- time: 2026-02-15T15:53:13.000Z
- url: https://lithub.com/how-an-enslaved-gardener-transformed-the-pecan-into-a-cash-crop/
- domain: lithub.com
- page_title: Literary Hub &raquo; How an Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan Into a Cash Crop
- page_description: Pecan nuts were already a dietary staple for Native Americans in various parts of what is now the United States before Antoine’s innovation established the basis for a commercial pecan industry. Th…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024676

## NASA to attempt second full fueling test of its Space Launch System rocket
- id: 47051582
- by: bookmtn
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T19:05:33.000Z
- url: https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/02/17/nasa-to-attempt-second-full-fueling-test-of-its-space-launch-system-rocket/
- domain: spaceflightnow.com
- page_title: NASA to attempt second full fueling test of its Space Launch System rocket &#8211; Spaceflight Now
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051582

## Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerste
- id: 47022034
- by: chunkles
- score: 51 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-15T08:31:08.000Z
- url: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_optimizations/index.html
- domain: fabiensanglard.net
- page_title: How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022034

## Ford's New 2028 Electric Truck Will Be a Fully Modern EV for $30,000
- id: 47051536
- by: voxadam
- score: 7 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T19:02:04.000Z
- url: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70390625/2028-ford-mid-size-electric-truck-details/
- domain: caranddriver.com
- page_title: 2028 Ford Mid-Size Truck Will Be a Fully Modern EV for $30,000
- page_description: After a string of EVs adapted from other projects, Detroit’s second-largest maker has finally started with a clean sheet of paper.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051536

## Continuous batching (2025)
- id: 47028545
- by: jxmorris12
- score: 34 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-02-15T22:47:26.000Z
- url: https://huggingface.co/blog/continuous_batching
- domain: huggingface.co
- page_title: Continuous batching from first principles
- page_description: We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028545

## Unicorn Jelly
- id: 47014260
- by: avaer
- score: 67 points
- comments: 14
- time: 2026-02-14T13:08:35.000Z
- url: https://unicornjelly.com/
- domain: unicornjelly.com
- page_title: UNICORN JELLY anime manga comic strip by Jennifer Diane Reitz
- page_description: Unicorn Jelly is a philosophical science fiction manga strip which tells a metaphoric and purposeful story with a definitive beginning and ending.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014260

## Robert Duvall has died
- id: 47038706
- by: glimshe
- score: 142 points
- comments: 69
- time: 2026-02-16T18:52:50.000Z
- url: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/robert-duvall-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MlA.5LIC.JbSiEGzihyVU&smid=url-share
- domain: nytimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038706

## The Professor of the Lower Senses
- id: 47007406
- by: benbreen
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-13T20:27:37.000Z
- url: https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-professor-of-the-lower-senses
- domain: vittlesmagazine.com
- page_title: The Professor of the Lower Senses - Vittles
- page_description: Ruby Tandoh on Brillat-Savarin and the invention of modern food writing
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007406

## The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel
- id: 47055261
- by: mhb
- score: 7 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-18T00:01:40.000Z
- url: https://macleans.ca/society/elton-mcdonald-and-the-incredible-true-story-behind-the-toronto-mystery-tunnel/
- domain: macleans.ca
- page_title: Elton McDonald and the incredible story behind the Toronto tunnel
- page_description: Why Elton McDonald built the Toronto tunnel that captivated the world
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055261

## Amsterdam Compiler Kit
- id: 47016008
- by: andsoitis
- score: 159 points
- comments: 67
- time: 2026-02-14T16:50:47.000Z
- url: https://github.com/davidgiven/ack
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - davidgiven/ack: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit
- page_description: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit. Contribute to davidgiven/ack development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016008

## Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)
- id: 47003294
- by: speckx
- score: 34 points
- comments: 13
- time: 2026-02-13T14:44:44.000Z
- url: https://peterxjang.medium.com/designing-a-36-key-custom-keyboard-layout-24498a0eecd4
- domain: peterxjang.medium.com
- page_title: Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout | by Peter Jang | Medium
- page_description: Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout Originally published at https://peterxjang.com on March 29, 2021. Background Once you get into the world of custom mechanical keyboards, then you’ll …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003294

## What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under?
- id: 47051168
- by: Bender
- score: 11 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T18:34:30.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02/what-happens-to-a-car-when-the-company-behind-its-software-goes-under/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- page_title: What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under? - Ars Technica
- page_description: Connected car servers won&#039;t be online indefinitely, and startups often go bust.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051168

## 4chan for Clankers
- id: 47013458
- by: kekqqq
- score: 59 points
- comments: 83
- time: 2026-02-14T10:47:01.000Z
- url: https://www.4claw.org
- domain: 4claw.org
- page_title: 4claw — what your clawkers are really thinking
- page_description: what your clawkers are really thinking
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013458

## Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications
- id: 47018405
- by: stuartaxelowen
- score: 53 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-02-14T21:08:08.000Z
- url: https://blog.sao.dev/cpns-llms-distributed-apps/
- domain: blog.sao.dev
- page_title: CPNs, LLMs, and Distributed Applications
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018405

## Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults
- id: 47026273
- by: andsoitis
- score: 81 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-02-15T18:50:32.000Z
- url: https://gero.usc.edu/2026/01/19/shingles-vaccine-slower-biological-aging/
- domain: gero.usc.edu
- page_title: Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging | USC Gerontology
- page_description: Shingles vaccination not only can prevent painful illness but also correlates with lower inflammation & slower biological aging in Americans age 70+.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026273

## Io: A Unique World in Our Solar System [pdf]
- id: 47055022
- by: thunderbong
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T23:34:59.000Z
- url: https://lpl.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Unique_World_122022.pdf
- domain: lpl.arizona.edu
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055022

## Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52
- id: 47038076
- by: magoghm
- score: 50 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-02-16T18:01:38.000Z
- url: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/castlevania-and-bloodstained-developer-shutaro-ida-dies-aged-52-3319349/
- domain: dexerto.com
- page_title: Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52 - Dexerto
- page_description: Shutaro Ida, the longtime Castlevania and Bloodstained developer, has died at the age of 52 after battling cancer.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038076

## The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3
- id: 47047932
- by: DamnInteresting
- score: 18 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-17T14:36:07.000Z
- url: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mathematical-mystery-inside-the-legendary-90s-shooter-quake-3/
- domain: scientificamerican.com
- page_title: The mathematical mystery inside the legendary ’90s shooter Quake 3 | Scientific American
- page_description: Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047932

## Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova
- id: 47019633
- by: wglb
- score: 46 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-14T23:49:09.000Z
- url: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260213223855.htm
- domain: sciencedaily.com
- page_title: Astronomers watch a massive star collapse into a black hole without a supernova | ScienceDaily
- page_description: A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a slow-motion cosmic fade-out. The leftover debris continues to glow in infrared light, offering a long-lasting signal of the black hole’s birth. The finding reshapes our understanding of how some of the universe’s biggest stars meet their end.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019633

## I'm not worried about AI job loss
- id: 47006513
- by: ezekg
- score: 348 points
- comments: 554
- time: 2026-02-13T19:13:04.000Z
- url: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss
- domain: davidoks.blog
- page_title: Why I’m not worried about AI job loss - David Oks
- page_description: We&#x27;re not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006513

## Deep Blue
- id: 47027841
- by: Philpax
- score: 31 points
- comments: 11
- time: 2026-02-15T21:38:11.000Z
- url: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/
- domain: simonwillison.net
- page_title: Deep Blue
- page_description: We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027841

## Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
- id: 47011567
- by: mickamy
- score: 231 points
- comments: 44
- time: 2026-02-14T04:27:35.000Z
- url: https://github.com/mickamy/sql-tap
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - mickamy/sql-tap: Watch SQL traffic in real-time with a TUI
- page_description: Watch SQL traffic in real-time with a TUI. Contribute to mickamy/sql-tap development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011567

## Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it
- id: 47052119
- by: djkivi
- score: 99 points
- comments: 41
- time: 2026-02-17T19:42:09.000Z
- url: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2026/02/12/canadian-tourism-us-decline/88632515007/
- domain: usatoday.com
- page_title: 'We're not traveling to anywhere in the US', Canadians vow
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052119

## Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
- id: 47014500
- by: datavorous_
- score: 230 points
- comments: 70
- time: 2026-02-14T13:47:44.000Z
- url: https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - datavorous/sameshi: a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
- page_description: a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB. Contribute to datavorous/sameshi development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014500

## You can't trust the internet anymore
- id: 47017727
- by: panic
- score: 235 points
- comments: 185
- time: 2026-02-14T19:51:25.000Z
- url: https://nicole.express/2026/not-my-casual-hobby.html
- domain: nicole.express
- page_title: You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore
- page_description: I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017727

## The wonder of modern drywall
- id: 47008931
- by: jger15
- score: 154 points
- comments: 263
- time: 2026-02-13T03:33:27.000Z
- url: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall
- domain: worksinprogress.news
- page_title: The wonder of modern drywall - by Yassine Meskhout
- page_description: How gypsum changed construction
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008931

## How not to answer the salary question
- id: 47038729
- by: mooreds
- score: 96 points
- comments: 79
- time: 2026-02-16T18:54:27.000Z
- url: https://adatosystems.com/2026/02/16/blog-how-not-to-answer-the-salary-question/
- domain: adatosystems.com
- page_title: BLOG: How NOT to Answer the Salary Question - Leon Adato
- page_description: Before you read a single line more, I will give the usual but still important caveats &#8211; this blog is my opinion, based on my experiences. Take it with a big ol&#8217;...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038729

## Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
- id: 47021421
- by: thisislife2
- score: 225 points
- comments: 124
- time: 2026-02-15T06:00:42.000Z
- url: https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951
- domain: kotaku.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021421

## Launching Interop 2026
- id: 47008821
- by: linolevan
- score: 66 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-13T22:40:28.000Z
- url: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/launching-interop-2026/
- domain: hacks.mozilla.org
- page_title: Launching Interop 2026 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
- page_description: Interop 2025 brought a bunch of new web platform features & fixes, but here&#039;s what&#039;s coming in 2026…
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008821

## Visual Snow Syndrome
- id: 47051617
- by: pr337h4m
- score: 9 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T19:08:13.000Z
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome
- domain: en.wikipedia.org
- page_title: Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051617

## NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
- id: 47020218
- by: nvader
- score: 337 points
- comments: 111
- time: 2026-02-15T01:24:16.000Z
- url: https://newpipe.net/
- domain: newpipe.net
- page_title: NewPipe - a free YouTube client
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218

## Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
- id: 47029397
- by: gnabgib
- score: 109 points
- comments: 73
- time: 2026-02-16T00:35:12.000Z
- url: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/pink-noise-reduces-rem-sleep-and-may-harm-sleep-quality
- domain: pennmedicine.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029397

## Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
- id: 47008163
- by: xx123122
- score: 249 points
- comments: 30
- time: 2026-02-13T21:35:52.000Z
- url: https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.md
- domain: github.com
- page_title: data_engineering_book/README_en.md at main · datascale-ai/data_engineering_book · GitHub
- page_description: data engineering book. Contribute to datascale-ai/data_engineering_book development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008163

## Many consumer electronics manufacturers will bankrupt due to AI memory crisis
- id: 47048916
- by: taubek
- score: 10 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T15:57:40.000Z
- url: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/many-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-will-go-bankrupt-or-exit-product-lines-by-the-end-of-2026-due-to-the-ai-memory-crisis-phison-ceo-reportedly-says/
- domain: pcgamer.com
- page_title: Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says | PC Gamer
- page_description: This mess is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048916

## Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction
- id: 47042574
- by: pseudolus
- score: 67 points
- comments: 46
- time: 2026-02-17T01:28:42.000Z
- url: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn71mgmzljlo
- domain: bbc.com
- page_title: Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction
- page_description: Instagram&#x27;s Adam Mosseri faced questioning about the impact of his platform on minors.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042574

## Algorithm-based tool for home support funding is 'cruel' and 'inhumane'
- id: 47053939
- by: novemp
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T21:53:04.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/17/australian-aged-care-algorithm-tool-home-support-funding-packages
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Algorithm-based tool for home support funding is cruel and inhumane, Australian aged care workers warn | Aged care | The Guardian
- page_description: Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment tool
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053939

## Lena by qntm (2021)
- id: 46999224
- by: stickynotememo
- score: 338 points
- comments: 185
- time: 2026-02-13T05:24:40.000Z
- url: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
- domain: qntm.org
- page_title: Lena @ Things Of Interest
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224

## The hidden control plane lurking in your commodity server
- id: 47051111
- by: bumbledraven
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T18:30:12.000Z
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bryan-cantrill-b6a1_i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-not-to-open-activity-7427489161642758144-NvDk
- domain: linkedin.com
- page_title: I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it   The need for holistic systems   Bryan Cantrill | Bryan Cantrill | 60 comments
- page_description: Unbeknownst to many, there is a hidden control plane lurking in your commodity server. When we started Oxide Computer Company in 2019, part of our vision was ridding ourselves of this hidden control plane -- and its ability to hijack your computer.

The outermost part of the hidden control plane is the baseboard management controller (BMC) that handles the physical control of the machine (power sequencing, thermals, etc.) On the one hand, you do need something to do this, but the mechanism that the industry consolidated around -- from entirely proprietary vendors that you likely haven
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051111

## Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions
- id: 47055463
- by: vinyl7
- score: 15 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-18T00:30:25.000Z
- url: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/open-source-game-engine-godot-is-drowning-in-ai-slop-code-contributions-i-dont-know-how-long-we-can-keep-it-up/
- domain: pcgamer.com
- page_title: Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' | PC Gamer
- page_description: Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055463

## Welcome to the Death of the DSM
- id: 47053710
- by: rendx
- score: 4 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T21:34:13.000Z
- url: https://whatwouldjesssay.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-death-of-the-dsm
- domain: whatwouldjesssay.substack.com
- page_title: Welcome to the Death of the DSM  - by Dr Jessica Taylor
- page_description: Dr Jess explores the latest announcement from the American Psychiatric Association that they will be undertaking &#x27;a major overhaul&#x27; of the DSM - because they are failing
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053710

## CSS-Doodle
- id: 47000164
- by: dsego
- score: 201 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-02-13T08:02:23.000Z
- url: https://css-doodle.com/
- domain: css-doodle.com
- page_title: <css-doodle />
- page_description: A web component for drawing patterns with CSS
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000164

## Building SQLite with a small swarm
- id: 47031268
- by: kyars
- score: 104 points
- comments: 113
- time: 2026-02-16T05:38:51.000Z
- url: https://kiankyars.github.io/machine_learning/2026/02/12/sqlite.html
- domain: kiankyars.github.io
- page_title: building sqlite with a small swarm | Kian Kyars
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031268

## Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
- id: 47000206
- by: moomoo11
- score: 77 points
- comments: 115
- time: 2026-02-13T08:09:10.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000206

## Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
- id: 47044776
- by: KnuthIsGod
- score: 22 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T07:47:08.000Z
- url: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
- domain: theregister.com
- page_title: Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register
- page_description: opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044776

## Sarajevo sniper tourists 'killed children by day, then partied at night'
- id: 47053213
- by: baxtr
- score: 21 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T20:56:11.000Z
- url: https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/sarajevo-safari-snipers-killing-children-d055tpn2f
- domain: thetimes.com
- page_title: Sarajevo sniper tourists ‘killed children by day, then partied at night’
- page_description: Rich foreigners, including Britons, have been accused of paying to shoot children and pregnant women during the siege of the Bosnian capital in the early 1990s
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053213

## Monosketch
- id: 47001871
- by: penguin_booze
- score: 868 points
- comments: 138
- time: 2026-02-13T12:18:05.000Z
- url: https://monosketch.io/
- domain: monosketch.io
- page_title: MonoSketch - Unleash your ideas with ASCII
- page_description: MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001871

## Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
- id: 47019133
- by: ali_chherawalla
- score: 123 points
- comments: 64
- time: 2026-02-14T22:39:24.000Z
- url: https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile: The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images - Privacy First, Zero Internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone. Supports text-to-text, vision, text-to-image
- page_description: The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images - Privacy First, Zero Internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone. Supports text-to-text, vision, text-to-image - alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019133

## Programming Is Free
- id: 47043540
- by: nomdep
- score: 24 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-02-17T03:57:38.000Z
- url: https://idiallo.com/blog/programming-tools-are-free
- domain: idiallo.com
- page_title: Programming is free
- page_description: You don&#039;t need to break the bank to learn programming and deploy your first project. All the tools are free, you just need the right approach to find them.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043540

## Top plastic surgeon fuels 'gate,' says he injected ski jumper last month
- id: 47052891
- by: randycupertino
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T20:31:18.000Z
- url: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2026/02/16/penisgate-ski-jumping-winter-olympics-plastic-surgeon-injections/88576518007/
- domain: usatoday.com
- page_title: Top plastic surgeon fuels 'Penisgate,' says he injected ski jumper last month
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052891

## AI optimism is a class privilege
- id: 47038134
- by: ragall
- score: 128 points
- comments: 126
- time: 2026-02-16T18:05:49.000Z
- url: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/sloptimism
- domain: joshcollinsworth.com
- page_title: AI optimism is a class privilege - Josh Collinsworth blog
- page_description: I think I have an idea why we
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038134

## The Best Programming Language for the End of the World
- id: 47049656
- by: tosh
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T16:55:24.000Z
- url: https://web.archive.org/web/20250326100613/https://www.wired.com/story/forth-collapse-os-apocalypse-programming-language/
- domain: web.archive.org
- page_title: The Best Programming Language for the End of the World | WIRED
- page_description: Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049656

## macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish
- id: 47037323
- by: akyuu
- score: 39 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-02-16T16:56:03.000Z
- url: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/13/macos-tahoe-finder-bug-slipping-ui-polish/
- domain: macrumors.com
- page_title: macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish - MacRumors
- page_description: Apple released macOS Tahoe last September, but despite two point updates since then, it is still struggling to resolve an embarrassing interface issue in Finder that appears to have been introduced with its Liquid Glass redesign. If you updated your Mac to macOS Tahoe and you prefer to work in Finder
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037323

## Btrfs disk errors to fall asleep to
- id: 47032417
- by: argulane
- score: 31 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-16T08:30:44.000Z
- url: https://ounapuu.ee/btrfs-disk-errors-to-fall-asleep-to/index.html
- domain: ounapuu.ee
- page_title: BTRFS disk errors to fall asleep to
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032417

## YouTube Is Down
- id: 47056027
- by: cmckn
- score: 12 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-18T01:45:34.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/?app=desktop
- domain: youtube.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056027

## Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging
- id: 47052594
- by: tomashertus
- score: 6 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-17T20:10:24.000Z
- url: https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/804132271957789
- domain: facebook.com
- page_title: Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging | Messenger Help Centre
- page_description: Learn how to continue messaging after Messenger web and desktop apps are no longer available.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052594

## Building a TUI is easy now
- id: 47005509
- by: abelanger
- score: 306 points
- comments: 248
- time: 2026-02-13T17:50:54.000Z
- url: https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now
- domain: hatchet.run
- page_title: Hatchet · Building a TUI is easy now
- page_description: Deploy More Resilient Apps. Hatchet is a platform for building distributed web apps that solves scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509

## VX7 – Open-source Yamaha DX7 emulator written in Python
- id: 47035663
- by: gpasquero
- score: 8 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-16T14:47:47.000Z
- url: https://github.com/gpasquero/vx7
- domain: github.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035663

## Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment
- id: 47035607
- by: defmacr0
- score: 71 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-02-16T14:43:25.000Z
- url: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth
- domain: axios.com
- page_title: Pentagon threatens to label Anthropic&#x27;s AI a "supply chain risk"
- page_description: The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035607

## Dozens of Australians diagnosed with rare tattoo-related vision loss
- id: 47039607
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 26 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-16T20:05:25.000Z
- url: https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2026-02-14/tattoo-eye-inflammation/106315444
- domain: abc.net.au
- page_title: Dozens of Australians diagnosed with rare tattoo-related vision loss  - ABC News
- page_description: Eye doctors have documented 40 cases of a rare tattoo-related eye inflammation that is hard to treat and can lead to vision loss.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039607

## Show HN: Deep Research for Flights
- id: 47041288
- by: aiddun
- score: 12 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-16T22:35:31.000Z
- url: https://flightdeepresearch.com/
- domain: flightdeepresearch.com
- page_title: AI Flight Search - Flight Deep Research
- page_description: AI flight search that checks every date combination at once. Describe your trip and get the cheapest options across flexible dates and routes.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041288

## Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers?
- id: 47040573
- by: shpat
- score: 25 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-02-16T21:28:46.000Z
- url: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/health/drug-advertisements-consumers.html
- domain: nytimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040573

## AI chatbots to face strict online safety rules in UK
- id: 47052286
- by: Bender
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T19:52:15.000Z
- url: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/business/uk-ai-chatbots-online-safety-act-intl
- domain: cnn.com
- page_title: AI chatbots to face strict online safety rules in UK | CNN Business
- page_description: AI chatbot providers, including ChatGPT and Grok, are facing a crackdown on illegal content in the United Kingdom, as the government promises swift action to make the internet safer for children.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052286

## I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes
- id: 47026773
- by: vibeprofessor
- score: 22 points
- comments: 23
- time: 2026-02-15T19:41:12.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2023057089346580828
- domain: twitter.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026773

## Global warming forced scientists to change the way they look at El Niño
- id: 47052253
- by: Bender
- score: 7 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T19:50:20.000Z
- url: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/weather/el-nino-global-warming-pacific-ocean
- domain: cnn.com
- page_title: Global warming forced scientists to change the way they look at El Niño | CNN
- page_description: The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052253

## 7zip.com Is Serving Malware
- id: 47014995
- by: Alifatisk
- score: 187 points
- comments: 96
- time: 2026-02-14T14:58:29.000Z
- url: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/02/fake-7-zip-downloads-are-turning-home-pcs-into-proxy-nodes
- domain: malwarebytes.com
- page_title: Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes | Malwarebytes
- page_description: A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014995

## Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
- id: 47006393
- by: austinwang115
- score: 137 points
- comments: 36
- time: 2026-02-13T19:02:17.000Z
- url: https://cloudrouter.dev/
- domain: cloudrouter.dev
- page_title: cloudrouter — Cloud VMs/GPUs for Claude Code/Codex
- page_description: Cloud sandboxes for development. Instant remote VMs with VS Code, terminal, VNC, and browser automation via Chrome CDP.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006393

## State Department orders nonprofit libraries stop passport applications
- id: 47038003
- by: xbryanx
- score: 25 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T17:55:17.000Z
- url: https://apnews.com/article/passport-libraries-rubio-nonprofit-0a800e2661c1a07c6a81a40f3801af2f
- domain: apnews.com
- page_title: US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries | AP News
- page_description: The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038003

## Reading an Ancient Comic Strip
- id: 47052202
- by: zeristor
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T19:47:14.000Z
- url: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/
- domain: nationalgeographic.com
- page_title: Trajan's Column - Reading an Ancient Comic Strip | National Geographic
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052202

## Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web
- id: 47042747
- by: ColinWright
- score: 42 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-02-17T01:53:18.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042747

## Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
- id: 47011602
- by: Brajeshwar
- score: 164 points
- comments: 38
- time: 2026-02-14T04:35:01.000Z
- url: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/
- domain: backblaze.com
- page_title: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
- page_description: Backblaze&#039;s 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011602

## How DSQL makes sure sequences scale
- id: 47008512
- by: steepben
- score: 11 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-13T22:10:45.000Z
- url: https://blog.benjscho.dev/technical/2026/02/13/dsql-sequences.html
- domain: blog.benjscho.dev
- page_title: How DSQL Makes Sequences Scale | Ben Schofield
- page_description: Sequences are one of those Postgres features that you don’t think much about. You can ask for the next number in the sequence, and you get it. That works pretty well when you have one machine asking for the next number, but what about 10,000?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008512

## Big tech stocks lose billions as AI spending fears hit valuations
- id: 47040048
- by: billybuckwheat
- score: 28 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-16T20:40:37.000Z
- url: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/global-markets-marketcap-2026-02-16/
- domain: reuters.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040048

## Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
- id: 47002825
- by: jpeeler
- score: 316 points
- comments: 303
- time: 2026-02-13T14:03:14.000Z
- url: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46758
- domain: github.com
- page_title: gpui: Remove blade, reimplement linux renderer with wgpu by zortax · Pull Request #46758 · zed-industries/zed · GitHub
- page_description: Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. - gpui: Remove blade, reimplement linux renderer with wgpu by zortax · Pull Request #46758 · zed-industries/zed
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002825

## Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh
- id: 47002633
- by: metachris
- score: 31 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-13T13:44:44.000Z
- url: https://www.metachris.dev/2026/02/safe-yolo-mode-running-llm-agents-in-vms-with-libvirt-and-virsh/
- domain: metachris.dev
- page_title: Safe Yolo Mode: Running LLM Agents in VMs with Libvirt and Virsh · Chris Hager
- page_description: Give LLM agents shell access without risking your host system. A practical libvirt guide covering VM creation, snapshots for safe experimentation, and remote access options.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002633

## Show HN: I graded 234 stocks on free cash flow (not earnings)
- id: 47042751
- by: babylonprince
- score: 17 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-17T01:53:42.000Z
- url: https://aureus-swart.vercel.app
- domain: aureus-swart.vercel.app
- page_title: Aureus — Free Cash Flow Health Grades for Every Stock
- page_description: Aureus grades public companies on financial health using Free Cash Flow margins and cash conversion rates. Search any ticker for an instant A-F health grade backed by real fundamentals.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042751

## Show HN: GPU Perpetual Futures Prototype
- id: 47026556
- by: ozzymandiaz96
- score: 9 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-15T19:21:17.000Z
- url: https://github.com/zacharyfrederick/compex
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - zacharyfrederick/compex: GPU Perpetual Futures
- page_description: GPU Perpetual Futures. Contribute to zacharyfrederick/compex development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026556

## Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language
- id: 47026550
- by: davish
- score: 11 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-15T19:20:38.000Z
- url: https://davi.sh/blog/2026/02/markov-ideas/
- domain: davi.sh
- page_title: Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language | Davis Haupt
- page_description: Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026550

## Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posting-chatting
- id: 47041765
- by: madihaa
- score: 28 points
- comments: 16
- time: 2026-02-16T23:31:48.000Z
- url: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/meta-patents-ai-that-takes-over-a-dead-persons-account-to-keep-posting-and-chatting-3320326/
- domain: dexerto.com
- page_title: Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto
- page_description: Meta has been granted a patent outlining an AI system capable of simulating a user’s activity on social media to post after their death.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041765

## Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending
- id: 47029446
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 67 points
- comments: 14
- time: 2026-02-16T00:41:43.000Z
- url: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/world/canada/canada-military-spending.html
- domain: nytimes.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029446

## Undo in Vi and Its Successors
- id: 47047443
- by: todsacerdoti
- score: 43 points
- comments: 41
- time: 2026-02-17T13:47:56.000Z
- url: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViUndoMyViews
- domain: utcc.utoronto.ca
- page_title: You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047443

## Virtual Width Networks (VWN)
- id: 47040153
- by: tesserato
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T20:50:00.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11238
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2511.11238] Virtual Width Networks
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2511.11238: Virtual Width Networks
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040153

## Show HN: Scrappy – Open-source browser scraper written in Go
- id: 47040148
- by: RaulOnRails
- score: 10 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T20:49:52.000Z
- url: https://github.com/sunergos-ro/scrappy
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - sunergos-ro/scrappy: A tiny browser scraper written in Go
- page_description: A tiny browser scraper written in Go. Contribute to sunergos-ro/scrappy development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040148

## When the sun sets, batteries rise: 24/7 solar in California
- id: 47051698
- by: ep_jhu
- score: 4 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T19:13:00.000Z
- url: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/17/when-the-sun-sets-batteries-rise-24-7-solar-in-california/
- domain: pv-magazine-usa.com
- page_title: When the sun sets, batteries rise: 24/7 solar in California &#8211; pv magazine USA
- page_description: On February 1, 2026, California’s batteries bridged the solar gap with seamless precision. After discharging through the night until sunrise, they spent the daylight hours charging, then pivoted back to exporting power well past midnight—effectively sustaining the state on solar energy for a full 24-hour cycle.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051698

## State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID
- id: 47026848
- by: computerliker
- score: 147 points
- comments: 101
- time: 2026-02-15T19:49:17.000Z
- url: https://reclaimthenet.org/40-attorneys-general-back-ids-online-safety-act
- domain: reclaimthenet.org
- page_title: 40 AGs Push Senate Kids Online Safety Act
- page_description: The bill&#039;s supporters call it child protection; its architecture looks more like a national ID system for the internet.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026848

## The cultural evolution of pluralistic ignorance
- id: 47051560
- by: bikenaga
- score: 5 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T19:04:02.000Z
- url: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2522998123
- domain: pnas.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051560

## Idea Raised for Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration on Fedora Linux
- id: 47051532
- by: Bender
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T19:01:23.000Z
- url: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Nicer-Fedora-Idea
- domain: phoronix.com
- page_title: Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux - Phoronix
- page_description: DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a QR code kernel error message or similar when a kernel panic occurs to provide a cleaner interface should your system run into serious problems
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051532

## Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16
- id: 47037773
- by: 1vuio0pswjnm7
- score: 27 points
- comments: 17
- time: 2026-02-16T17:34:33.000Z
- url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-16/germany-moves-closer-to-a-social-media-ban-for-those-under-16
- domain: bloomberg.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037773

## The Sideprocalypse
- id: 47035371
- by: headalgorithm
- score: 155 points
- comments: 126
- time: 2026-02-16T14:26:39.000Z
- url: https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
- domain: johan.hal.se
- page_title: The Sideprocalypse
- page_description: You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems abundantly clear at this point.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035371

## Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud
- id: 47015987
- by: RandomGerm4n
- score: 164 points
- comments: 144
- time: 2026-02-14T16:48:17.000Z
- url: https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator
- domain: tomshardware.com
- page_title: In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud &mdash; 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware
- page_description: Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015987

## Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents
- id: 47027011
- by: ledoge
- score: 78 points
- comments: 32
- time: 2026-02-15T20:06:53.000Z
- url: https://videocardz.com/newz/acer-and-asus-are-now-banned-from-selling-pcs-and-laptops-in-germany-following-nokia-hevc-patent-ruling
- domain: videocardz.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027011

## In Russia, the humble cucumber becomes latest symbol of rising wartime prices
- id: 47054954
- by: petethomas
- score: 10 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T23:29:03.000Z
- url: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-humble-cucumber-becomes-latest-symbol-rising-wartime-prices-2026-02-17/
- domain: reuters.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054954

## OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
- id: 47008560
- by: DamnInteresting
- score: 609 points
- comments: 290
- time: 2026-02-13T22:17:06.000Z
- url: https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safely-from-its-mission-and-its-new-structure-is-a-test-for-whether-ai-serves-society-or-shareholders-274467
- domain: theconversation.com
- page_title: OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
- page_description: OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008560

## You Could've Invented OpenClaw
- id: 47038649
- by: rajeshrajappan
- score: 4 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T18:48:42.000Z
- url: https://gist.github.com/dabit3/bc60d3bea0b02927995cd9bf53c3db32
- domain: gist.github.com
- page_title: You Could've Invented OpenClaw · GitHub
- page_description: You Could've Invented OpenClaw. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038649

## Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder
- id: 47011346
- by: absqueued
- score: 246 points
- comments: 34
- time: 2026-02-14T03:49:18.000Z
- url: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/
- domain: pcgamer.com
- page_title: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel | PC Gamer
- page_description: Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011346

## I cannot curl https://example.com (on some distros)
- id: 47024169
- by: outloudvi
- score: 15 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-15T14:54:44.000Z
- url: https://blog.outv.im/2026/i-cannot-curl-example-com/
- domain: blog.outv.im
- page_title: I cannot curl https://example.com (on some distros) | Re:Linked
- page_description: Cloudflare - is it you (again)?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024169

## Show HN: Rollin – Wheelchair accessibility scores for 56K+ locations (free API)
- id: 47038151
- by: thattechiedude
- score: 4 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-16T18:07:30.000Z
- url: https://joinrollin.com/
- domain: joinrollin.com
- page_title: ROLLIN - Know Before You Go | Wheelchair Accessible Restaurants Scored & Verified
- page_description: Your dinner plans shouldn
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038151

## AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
- id: 47040981
- by: doener
- score: 16 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T22:06:54.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7A1QoUEI
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: - YouTube
- page_description: Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040981

## Plasma 6.6 Released
- id: 47056092
- by: signa11
- score: 8 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-18T01:51:54.000Z
- url: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/
- domain: kde.org
- page_title: Plasma 6.6 - KDE Community
- page_description: Plasma 6.6 is all about making your life as easy as possible without sacrificing any of the flexibility
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056092

## Australia's social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities
- id: 47050478
- by: hn_acker
- score: 6 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T17:48:34.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/06/ive-lost-my-friends-advocacy-groups-warn-australias-social-media-ban-risks-isolating-kids-with-disabilities
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: ‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities  | Social media ban | The Guardian
- page_description: Despite the ban&#x2019;s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050478

## Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]
- id: 47006316
- by: CharlesW
- score: 163 points
- comments: 25
- time: 2026-02-13T18:56:38.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBQveBCtKY
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: Age of Empires: 25+ years of pathfinding problems with C++ - Raymi Klingers - Meeting C++ 2025 - YouTube
- page_description: 25+ years of pathfinding problems with C++ - Raymi Klingers - Meeting C++ 2025Slides: https://slides.meetingcpp.comRaymi Klingers talks about how pathfinding...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006316

## Show HN: Rover – Embeddable web agent
- id: 47008663
- by: arjunchint
- score: 31 points
- comments: 18
- time: 2026-02-13T22:26:46.000Z
- url: https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/10-billion-proof-point-every-website-needs-ai-agent
- domain: rtrvr.ai
- page_title: The $10 Billion Proof Point: Why Every Website Needs Its Own AI Agent | rtrvr.ai Blog
- page_description: Amazon&#x27;s Rufus proved embedded agents are worth $10B annually. Google&#x27;s WebMCP wants to intermediate your users. Here&#x27;s why owning your agent is the only path forward.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008663

## OpenAI axes exec for "sexual discrimination" after she objected GPT erotica plan
- id: 47049984
- by: pera
- score: 19 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-17T17:16:24.000Z
- url: https://nypost.com/2026/02/11/business/openai-axes-exec-for-alleged-sexual-discrimination-after-she-objected-to-chatgpt-erotica-plan-report/
- domain: nypost.com
- page_title: OpenAI axes exec for alleged sexual discrimination after she objected to ChatGPT erotica plan: report
- page_description: OpenAI has fired a female executive for alleged sexual discrimination against a male colleague -- after she objected to the company’s plan to roll out an “adult mode” allowing erotic conversations on ChatGPT.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049984

## Plan 9 Desktop Guide
- id: 47036922
- by: tosh
- score: 14 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T16:22:31.000Z
- url: https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html
- domain: pspodcasting.net
- page_title: Plan 9 Desktop Guide
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036922

## Show HN: Tanin – TUI Noise Generator
- id: 47031749
- by: anongazelle
- score: 6 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T06:59:40.000Z
- url: https://github.com/AnonMiraj/Tanin
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - AnonMiraj/Tanin: A simple TUI noise generator
- page_description: A simple TUI noise generator. Contribute to AnonMiraj/Tanin development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031749

## Soviet Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope copies
- id: 47024989
- by: mosura
- score: 12 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-15T16:30:59.000Z
- url: https://martin-jones.com/2017/02/19/soviet-tektronix-7000-series-oscilloscope-copies/
- domain: martin-jones.com
- page_title: Soviet Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope copies | martinjonestechnology
- page_description: Back in 1970, Tektronix introduced their &#039;7000&#039; series of oscilloscopes. Their clever plug-in architecture offered unmatched performance and flexibility, and they quickly became an industry standard. They were ubiquitous in well-heeled electronics labs in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, at least in the US and UK. I&#039;ve still got three examples in regular&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024989

## America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital
- id: 47048248
- by: bigbobbeeper
- score: 180 points
- comments: 329
- time: 2026-02-17T15:04:18.000Z
- url: https://www.governance.fyi/p/americas-pensions-cant-beat-a-vanguard
- domain: governance.fyi
- page_title: America&#x27;s Pensions Can&#x27;t Beat a Vanguard Account Or Finance a Transmission Line, But They Can Close Your Hospital
- page_description: $6 trillion in patient capital, $60+ billion in annual fees, and the infrastructure that never gets built
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048248

## Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals
- id: 47024585
- by: a7b3fa
- score: 9 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-15T15:44:11.000Z
- url: https://digitalseams.com/blog/making-a-font-with-9999-ligatures-to-display-thirteenth-century-monk-numerals
- domain: digitalseams.com
- page_title: Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals &mdash; Digital Seams
- page_description: As the title implies, I just created a font that displays numbers in  a compact format used by Cistercian monks . You can play with it  on my demo site here :
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024585

## A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later
- id: 47056725
- by: apparent
- score: 4 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-18T03:19:03.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/dna-inspired-molecule-breaks-records-for-storing-solar-heat/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056725

## Show HN: GEDB – A pure-Go embedded database
- id: 47035530
- by: ReturnErr
- score: 7 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T14:37:14.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035530

## Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]
- id: 47005565
- by: danielmorozoff
- score: 116 points
- comments: 252
- time: 2026-02-13T17:55:27.000Z
- url: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2
- domain: dwarkesh.com
- page_title: Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
- page_description: "That&#x27;s why I&#x27;m sending this message of urgency"
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005565

## Show HN: DSCI – Dead Simple CI
- id: 47025220
- by: melezhik
- score: 19 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-15T16:55:24.000Z
- url: https://github.com/melezhik/DSCI
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - melezhik/DSCI: Dead Simple CI
- page_description: Dead Simple CI. Contribute to melezhik/DSCI development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025220

## -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C
- id: 47035088
- by: thefilmore
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T14:05:21.000Z
- url: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
- domain: clang.llvm.org
- page_title: -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C &#8212; Clang 23.0.0git documentation
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035088

## I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform
- id: 47034992
- by: speckx
- score: 10 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T13:57:41.000Z
- url: https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/
- domain: matduggan.com
- page_description: It&#x27;s JSON all the way down
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034992

## Turning Our Back on Clean Energy
- id: 47034275
- by: rbanffy
- score: 57 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-16T12:39:20.000Z
- url: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/turning-our-back-on-clean-energy
- domain: paulkrugman.substack.com
- page_title: Turning Our Back on Clean Energy - Paul Krugman
- page_description: Why does MAGA hate the planet?
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034275

## Show HN: OpenWhisper – free, local, and private voice-to-text macOS app
- id: 47006248
- by: rwu1997
- score: 36 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-02-13T18:51:20.000Z
- url: https://github.com/richardwu/openwhisper
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - richardwu/openwhisper
- page_description: Contribute to richardwu/openwhisper development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006248

## Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
- id: 47048633
- by: rockdiesel
- score: 34 points
- comments: 51
- time: 2026-02-17T15:36:46.000Z
- url: https://priceperball.net/
- domain: priceperball.net
- page_title: Price Per Ball - Find the Cheapest Golf Balls on Amazon
- page_description: Compare golf ball prices on Amazon, sorted by price per ball. Find the best deals on golf balls from every major brand.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048633

## A Brief History of Sega Enterprises
- id: 47023070
- by: rbanffy
- score: 7 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T12:09:18.000Z
- url: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/a-brief-history-of-sega-enterprises
- domain: abortretry.fail
- page_title: A Brief History of Sega Enterprises
- page_description: Sega does what Nintendon&#x27;t
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023070

## The anxiety driving AI's brutal work culture is a warning for all of us
- id: 47048595
- by: n1b0m
- score: 9 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T15:34:32.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/17/ai-startups-work-culture-san-francisco
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: 12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
- page_description: San Francisco&#x2019;s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectors
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048595

## The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84
- id: 47045982
- by: rmason
- score: 42 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-17T10:52:17.000Z
- url: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/us/reverend-jesse-jackson-death
- domain: cnn.com
- page_title: Reverend Jesse Jackson dies at age 84 | CNN
- page_description: The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed to CNN. He was 84.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045982

## Gamma Function: Visualization for Complex Arguments
- id: 47016639
- by: cpuXguy
- score: 16 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-14T17:55:03.000Z
- url: https://vanilla-gamma-graph.netlify.app/
- domain: vanilla-gamma-graph.netlify.app
- page_title: Gamma Function Graph – by vanilla_gamma()
- page_description: Complex Gamma Function Graph: Automatically visualize and animate the gamma function for complex arguments.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016639

## Ring owners are returning their cameras
- id: 46999545
- by: c420
- score: 417 points
- comments: 296
- time: 2026-02-13T06:23:26.000Z
- url: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/ring-owners-are-returning-their-cameras-here-s-how-much-you-can-get/ar-AA1W8Qa3
- domain: msn.com
- page_title: MSN
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999545

## C# implementation of state machine declared using fluent syntax
- id: 47021028
- by: olvy0
- score: 23 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-15T04:21:53.000Z
- url: https://github.com/leeoades/FunctionalStateMachine
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - leeoades/FunctionalStateMachine: A state machine declared using a fluent syntax, that has a functional usage - pass in state and a trigger, returns new state and commands.
- page_description: A state machine declared using a fluent syntax, that has a functional usage - pass in state and a trigger, returns new state and commands. - leeoades/FunctionalStateMachine
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021028

## A Pokémon of a Different Color
- id: 47022704
- by: Risse
- score: 59 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-02-15T10:40:49.000Z
- url: https://matthew.verive.me/blog/color/
- domain: matthew.verive.me
- page_title: A Pokémon of a Different Color &#8211; Matthew Verive
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022704

## Open source is not about you (2018)
- id: 47003219
- by: doubleg
- score: 226 points
- comments: 187
- time: 2026-02-13T14:36:28.000Z
- url: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9
- domain: gist.github.com
- page_title: Open Source is Not About You · GitHub
- page_description: Open Source is Not About You. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003219

## Show HN: A reputation index from mitchellh's Vouch trust files
- id: 47008179
- by: rosslazer
- score: 18 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-13T21:37:37.000Z
- url: https://vouchbook.dev/
- domain: vouchbook.dev
- page_title: Vouch Book
- page_description: A static view of cross-repo reputation from VOUCHED.td files.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008179

## Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
- id: 47039805
- by: jrs235
- score: 12 points
- comments: 13
- time: 2026-02-16T20:19:54.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039805

## Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
- id: 47030691
- by: rtrgrd
- score: 14 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T03:52:28.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030691

## The singularity won't be gentle
- id: 47039497
- by: softwaredoug
- score: 14 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T19:56:41.000Z
- url: https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-singularity-wont-be-gentle
- domain: natesilver.net
- page_title: The singularity won&#x27;t be gentle - by Nate Silver
- page_description: If AI is even half as transformational as Silicon Valley assumes, politics will never be the same again.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039497

## Inner-Platform Effect
- id: 47024112
- by: tosh
- score: 51 points
- comments: 19
- time: 2026-02-15T14:48:43.000Z
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
- domain: en.wikipedia.org
- page_title: Inner-platform effect - Wikipedia
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024112

## AI Fails at 96% of (General Work) Jobs (New Study)
- id: 47033028
- by: swolpers
- score: 19 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-16T09:49:39.000Z
- url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3kaLM8Oj4o
- domain: youtube.com
- page_title: AI Fails at 96% of Jobs (New Study) - YouTube
- page_description: Artificial intelligence has been hailed as one of the most transformative technologies of the century. That may be so, but just not yet. In this episode, we ...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033028

## Show HN: ClipPath – Paste screenshots as file paths in your terminal
- id: 47010195
- by: viniciusborgeis
- score: 18 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-14T01:08:31.000Z
- url: https://github.com/BiteCraft/ClipPath
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - BiteCraft/ClipPath: Paste screenshots as file paths in your terminal. Built for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and AI coding agents. Copy any image, press a hotkey, and the saved     file path is typed into your active window — with automatic WSL/Windows path detection. Zero dependencies, single portable .exe
- page_description: Paste screenshots as file paths in your terminal. Built for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and AI coding agents. Copy any image, press a hotkey, and the saved     file path is typed into your active window — with automatic WSL/Windows path detection. Zero dependencies, single portable .exe - BiteCraft/ClipPath
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010195

## Your pet's microchip may now be useless after chip company goes out of business
- id: 47030612
- by: cpeterso
- score: 24 points
- comments: 23
- time: 2026-02-16T03:38:47.000Z
- url: https://local12.com/news/local/cincinnati-animal-care-shelter-warns-microchips-may-fail-after-major-company-goes-out-of-business-microchip-dog-dogs-pet-pets-animals-registered-online-records-database-lost-missing-save-this-life-shelters-hamilton-county
- domain: local12.com
- page_title: Your pet&#x27;s microchip may now be useless after chip company goes out of business
- page_description: One of the country&#x27;s largest microchip companies went down the tubes a year ago, and the company took its registry of owners with it.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030612

## Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible
- id: 47052579
- by: larsiusprime
- score: 42 points
- comments: 73
- time: 2026-02-17T20:09:20.000Z
- url: https://www.pricepoints.health/cp/188296406
- domain: pricepoints.health
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052579

## Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
- id: 47007584
- by: catapart
- score: 17 points
- comments: 33
- time: 2026-02-13T20:44:08.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007584

## The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time
- id: 47047321
- by: 2bird3
- score: 5 points
- comments: 5
- time: 2026-02-17T13:33:46.000Z
- url: https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/all-that-is-solid-melts-into-code
- domain: danielpinchbeck.substack.com
- page_title: All That Is Solid Melts into Code
- page_description: Why the immediate collapse of white-collar work might be the most hopeful catastrophe of our time.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047321

## Show HN: Fieldnotes
- id: 47024398
- by: samcgraw
- score: 14 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-02-15T15:23:17.000Z
- url: https://fieldnote.ink
- domain: fieldnote.ink
- page_title: Field Notes
- page_description: A map of careful observations. A location-based field journal.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024398

## The left is missing out on AI
- id: 47040135
- by: themgt
- score: 13 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-02-16T20:49:02.000Z
- url: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-is-missing-out-on-ai-sanders-doctorow-bender-bores
- domain: transformernews.ai
- page_title: The left is missing out on AI  - by Dan Kagan-Kans
- page_description: As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040135

## When Germany Seized the Future: Lessons from CAD for the AI Era
- id: 47022803
- by: davedx
- score: 7 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-15T11:06:21.000Z
- url: https://andrulis.de
- domain: andrulis.de
- page_title: Jonas Andrulis
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022803

## SkyRL brings Tinker to your GPUs (2025)
- id: 47005945
- by: robertnishihara
- score: 12 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-13T18:26:24.000Z
- url: https://novasky-ai.notion.site/skyrl-tinker
- domain: novasky-ai.notion.site
- page_title: Notion
- page_description: A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005945

## OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw
- id: 47027974
- by: ryanvogel
- score: 25 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-15T21:50:18.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2023151862967632010
- domain: twitter.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027974

## Show HN: Bubble sort on a Turing machine
- id: 47008236
- by: purplejacket
- score: 10 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-13T21:43:04.000Z
- url: https://github.com/purplejacket/bubble_sort_on_tm
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - purplejacket/bubble_sort_on_tm: A Turing Machine that will perform a bubble sort on the tape input; compatible with turingmachine.io yaml format.  Two variants of the Turing Machine are provided.
- page_description: A Turing Machine that will perform a bubble sort on the tape input; compatible with turingmachine.io yaml format.  Two variants of the Turing Machine are provided. - purplejacket/bubble_sort_on_tm
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008236

## Retrieve and Rerank: Personalized search without leaving Postgres
- id: 47017304
- by: philippemnoel
- score: 17 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-14T19:07:03.000Z
- url: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/personalized-search-in-postgresql
- domain: paradedb.com
- page_title: Retrieve and Rerank: Personalized Search Without Leaving Postgres | ParadeDB
- page_description: Build a production-grade personalized search engine entirely within Postgres using BM25 retrieval and vector-based reranking, no external infrastructure required.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017304

## Defer Available in GCC and Clang
- id: 47026405
- by: ingve
- score: 12 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-15T19:05:27.000Z
- url: https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in-gcc-and-clang/
- domain: gustedt.wordpress.com
- page_title: Defer available in gcc and clang &#8211; Jens Gustedt&#039;s Blog
- page_description: About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon. So it is probably time for an update. Two things have happened in the mean time: A technical specification (TS 25755) edited by JeanHeyd Meneide is now complete and moves through ISO&#039;s complicated publication&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026405

## Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents
- id: 47025478
- by: eftalyurtseven
- score: 60 points
- comments: 44
- time: 2026-02-15T17:22:59.000Z
- url: https://github.com/klawsh/klaw.sh
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - klawsh/klaw.sh: kubectl for AI Agents
- page_description: kubectl for AI Agents. Contribute to klawsh/klaw.sh development by creating an account on GitHub.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025478

## The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience
- id: 47025909
- by: yorwba
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T18:10:59.000Z
- url: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/the-sweet-lesson-of-neuroscience
- domain: asteriskmag.com
- page_title: The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience—Asterisk
- page_description: Scientists once hoped that studying the brain would teach us how to build AI. Now, one AI researcher may have something to teach us about the brain.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025909

## Defer Available in GCC and Clang
- id: 47031197
- by: r4um
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T05:27:35.000Z
- url: https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in-gcc-and-clang/
- domain: gustedt.wordpress.com
- page_title: Defer available in gcc and clang &#8211; Jens Gustedt&#039;s Blog
- page_description: About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon. So it is probably time for an update. Two things have happened in the mean time: A technical specification (TS 25755) edited by JeanHeyd Meneide is now complete and moves through ISO&#039;s complicated publication&hellip;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031197

## Discord: A case study in performance optimization
- id: 47010147
- by: tylerdane
- score: 75 points
- comments: 50
- time: 2026-02-14T01:03:28.000Z
- url: https://newsletter.fullstack.zip/p/discord-a-case-study-in-performance
- domain: newsletter.fullstack.zip
- page_title: Discord: A Case Study in Performance Optimization
- page_description: The techniques used to support trillions of messages
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010147

## colorForth
- id: 47001537
- by: tosh
- score: 27 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-13T11:26:23.000Z
- url: https://colorforth.github.io/cf.htm
- domain: colorforth.github.io
- page_title: Chuck Moore's Wonderful colorForth Programming Language and Operating System
- page_description: ColorForth is a dialect of Forth that uses color as punctuation. It is a simple, colorful programming language that produces compact, efficient programs. It is also an operating system, running stand-alone on a PC. And a philosophy that leads to tested, reliable applications.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001537

## Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?
- id: 47043484
- by: Poomba
- score: 7 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T03:48:00.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043484

## 'Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart'
- id: 47030813
- by: pavel_lishin
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T04:12:05.000Z
- url: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/dark-matter-not-black-hole-could-power-milky-ways-heart
- domain: ras.ac.uk
- page_title: &#039;Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way&#039;s heart&#039; | The Royal Astronomical Society
- page_description: drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre
but rat...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030813

## What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]
- id: 47003071
- by: tosh
- score: 67 points
- comments: 84
- time: 2026-02-13T14:21:41.000Z
- url: https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_2015_submission_29.pdf
- domain: complang.tuwien.ac.at
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003071

## Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
- id: 47015406
- by: pjmlp
- score: 296 points
- comments: 179
- time: 2026-02-14T15:49:56.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/platforms-bend-over-backward-to-help-dhs-censor-ice-critics-advocates-say/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015406

## The AI Trilemma
- id: 47044058
- by: ph4rsikal
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T05:34:53.000Z
- url: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-trilemma
- domain: foreignaffairs.com
- page_title: The AI Trilemma | Foreign Affairs
- page_description: How to regulate a revolutionary technology.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044058

## The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)
- id: 47030387
- by: debo_
- score: 2 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T02:58:55.000Z
- url: https://japan-forward.com/eternal-hokusai-the-rediscovery-of-103-hokusai-lost-sketches/
- domain: japan-forward.com
- page_title: [Eternal Hokusai] The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches | JAPAN Forward
- page_description: The 103 sketches for The Great Picture Book of Everything by Hokusai never made it back to Japan, but they did resurface in Europe in June 2019.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030387

## Postgres Locks Explained: From Theory to Advanced Troubleshooting
- id: 47005770
- by: theotherbrian1
- score: 29 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-13T18:12:58.000Z
- url: https://postgreslocksexplained.com/
- domain: postgreslocksexplained.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005770

## Western Digital sells out 2026 HDD capacity as AI demand pushes prices higher
- id: 47025125
- by: GeoAtreides
- score: 45 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-15T16:43:50.000Z
- url: https://www.eteknix.com/western-digital-sells-out-2026-hdd-capacity-as-ai-demand-pushes-prices-higher/
- domain: eteknix.com
- page_title: Western Digital Sells Out 2026 HDD Capacity as AI Demand Pushes Prices Higher &#x2d; eTeknix
- page_description: Western Digital has sold out its HDD production capacity for 2026, thanks to major agreements with cloud companies and hyperscalers. The rapid growth of&#8230;
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025125

## Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe
- id: 47038965
- by: tilt
- score: 130 points
- comments: 128
- time: 2026-02-16T19:09:58.000Z
- url: https://wero-wallet.eu
- domain: wero-wallet.eu
- page_title: Wero - Digital payment wallet
- page_description: Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038965

## More millionaires than mansions: AI-fueled demand meets 'egregious shortage'
- id: 47053549
- by: mikhael
- score: 5 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T21:22:07.000Z
- url: https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/17/ai-ipo-housing-market/
- domain: sfstandard.com
- page_title: More millionaires than mansions: AI-fueled demand meets ‘egregious shortage’ of inventory
- page_description: IPO anticipation from Open AI, Anthropic and more leads to SF housing market surge.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053549

## Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station
- id: 47052674
- by: solomonb
- score: 57 points
- comments: 43
- time: 2026-02-17T20:15:57.000Z
- url: https://www.kpbj.fm/
- domain: kpbj.fm
- page_title: KPBJ 95.9FM
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052674

## Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems
- id: 47043126
- by: NomNew
- score: 61 points
- comments: 72
- time: 2026-02-17T02:49:04.000Z
- url: https://newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-affordability-and-the-vibecession
- domain: newsletter.mikekonczal.com
- page_title: Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems
- page_description: There are many ways inflation makes people worse off even when real incomes recover, especially for essentials.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043126

## A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards
- id: 47029368
- by: thehaikuza
- score: 3 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T00:31:01.000Z
- url: https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2026/02/beginners-guide-split-keyboards/
- domain: justinmklam.com
- page_title: A Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029368

## Hearing aids didn't boost memory tests but dementia risk dropped
- id: 47038894
- by: geox
- score: 9 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-16T19:05:19.000Z
- url: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260209064314.htm
- domain: sciencedaily.com
- page_title: Hearing aids didn’t boost memory tests but dementia risk dropped | ScienceDaily
- page_description: A long-term study of older adults with moderate hearing loss found that hearing aids did not lead to better performance on memory or thinking tests, but the story did not end there. Over seven years, people who were prescribed hearing aids were significantly less likely to develop dementia than those who were not.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038894

## Show HN: HackerTok – HN with Local Recommendations
- id: 47029059
- by: mblode
- score: 12 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-15T23:50:05.000Z
- url: https://hackertok.blode.co
- domain: hackertok.blode.co
- page_title: HackerTok
- page_description: TikTok-style feed for HN, ranked by your reading habits.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029059

## The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979
- id: 47006055
- by: coloneltcb
- score: 47 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-13T18:35:32.000Z
- url: https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/one-of-the-rarest-the-sharp-pc-2000-computer-boombox-from-1979.10341/
- domain: stereo2go.com
- page_title: One of the rarest?  The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979 | Stereo2Go forums
- page_description: Just cruising the interwebs and found this oddity, the Sharp PC-2001 Boombox Computer from 1979.  Not much information can be found, does anybody own...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006055

## Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm
- id: 47042837
- by: tartoran
- score: 67 points
- comments: 86
- time: 2026-02-17T02:05:34.000Z
- url: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxd9549y4xo
- domain: bbc.com
- page_title: Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze their sperm
- page_description: The law funds troops who want to freeze their eggs or their sperm, as Ukraine&#x27;s population plummets.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042837

## Seeing Theory
- id: 47022067
- by: Tomte
- score: 61 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-15T08:40:12.000Z
- url: https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/
- domain: seeing-theory.brown.edu
- page_title: Seeing Theory
- page_description: A visual introduction to probability and statistics.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022067

## Show HN: Open Notes – Community Notes-style context for Discord
- id: 47009195
- by: anateus
- score: 15 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-13T23:21:58.000Z
- url: https://opennotes.ai/discord-bot
- domain: opennotes.ai
- page_title: Open Notes - Constructive Moderation for Your Community
- page_description: Open Notes brings the power of Community Notes to your platform. Build trust, reduce misinformation, and empower your community.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009195

## CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'
- id: 47005081
- by: cdrnsf
- score: 276 points
- comments: 163
- time: 2026-02-13T17:13:01.000Z
- url: https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clearview-ai-deal-to-use-face-recognition-for-tactical-targeting/
- domain: wired.com
- page_title: CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’ | WIRED
- page_description: US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005081

## A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later
- id: 47048524
- by: Brajeshwar
- score: 10 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T15:28:57.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/dna-inspired-molecule-breaks-records-for-storing-solar-heat/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048524

## Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts
- id: 47037666
- by: sosomoxie
- score: 73 points
- comments: 27
- time: 2026-02-16T17:25:19.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/jawwwn_/status/2023207418922959234
- domain: twitter.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037666

## BadSMTP — the reliably unreliable SMTP server
- id: 47018733
- by: Arnt
- score: 12 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-14T21:51:14.000Z
- url: https://badsmtp.com
- domain: badsmtp.com
- page_title: BadSMTP
- page_description: BadSMTP is an SMTP testing server that generates errors on demand. Test your email client error handling without complex configuration.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018733

## U.S. releases new details on alleged secret Chinese nuclear test
- id: 47053923
- by: ironyman
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T21:51:07.000Z
- url: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-5716046/u-s-releases-new-details-on-alleged-secret-chinese-nuclear-test
- domain: npr.org
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053923

## What the hell is Forth? (2019)
- id: 47021982
- by: tosh
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T08:18:34.000Z
- url: https://blog.information-superhighway.net/what-the-hell-is-forth
- domain: blog.information-superhighway.net
- page_title: What the hell is Forth? &mdash; blog dot information dash superhighway dot net
- page_description: Forth is perhaps the tiniest possible useful interactive programming language.  It is tiny along a number of dimensions:  The amount of c...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021982

## The Mega-Rich Are Turning Their Mansions into Impenetrable Fortresses
- id: 47025224
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 37 points
- comments: 33
- time: 2026-02-15T16:55:38.000Z
- url: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/luxury-home-security-aca080d7
- domain: wsj.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025224

## OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI
- id: 47027907
- by: iSloth
- score: 60 points
- comments: 31
- time: 2026-02-15T21:44:18.000Z
- url: https://twitter.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801
- domain: twitter.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027907

## A new diagnosis of 'profound autism' is under consideration
- id: 47054670
- by: bookofjoe
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T23:00:58.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/15/profound-autism-meaning-what-is-parents-need-to-know
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: A new diagnosis of ‘profound autism’ is under consideration. Here’s what parents need to know | Autism | The Guardian
- page_description: Category describes people who have little or no language, an IQ of less than 50 and require 24-hour supervision
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054670

## Obituary for Robert Duvall
- id: 47040278
- by: Archelaos
- score: 7 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T21:00:46.000Z
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/16/robert-duvall-actor-passion-conviction
- domain: theguardian.com
- page_title: Robert Duvall was a vigorous and subtle actor who always performed with passion and conviction  | Robert Duvall | The Guardian
- page_description: From his steely self-effacing &#x3C;em&#x3E;consigliere &#x3C;/em&#x3E;in The Godfather to his surf-crazed Wagner enthusiast in Apocalypse Now, just to see him on screen made me smile
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040278

## Apple Rankings by the Appleist Brian Frange
- id: 47021751
- by: Rant423
- score: 6 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-15T07:32:25.000Z
- url: https://applerankings.com/
- domain: applerankings.com
- page_title: Home - Apple Rankings by The Appleist Brian Frange - Comedian Brian Frange
- page_description: The industry-standard, definitive, inarguable guide to ranking and reviewing munching apples. Curated by comedian Brian Frange.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021751

## Voith Schneider Propeller
- id: 47027171
- by: Luc
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T20:22:33.000Z
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
- domain: en.wikipedia.org
- page_title: Voith Schneider Propeller - Wikipedia
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027171

## Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad
- id: 47040040
- by: general_reveal
- score: 6 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-16T20:40:14.000Z
- url: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-open-ai-super-bowl-ads.html
- domain: cnbc.com
- page_title: Data: Anthropic got 11% user boost from OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad
- page_description: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic&#x27;s Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at the ChatGPT maker&#x27;s decision to bring ads to the platform.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040040

## Taste for Makers
- id: 47013410
- by: tosh
- score: 17 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-14T10:33:11.000Z
- url: https://paulgraham.com/taste.html
- domain: paulgraham.com
- page_title: Taste for Makers
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013410

## Linear Representations and Superposition
- id: 47021065
- by: paladin314159
- score: 18 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T04:29:44.000Z
- url: http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/linear-representations-and-superposition.html
- domain: ternarysearch.blogspot.com
- page_title: Ternary Search: Linear Representations and Superposition
- page_description: As LLMs become larger, more capable, and more ubiquitous, the field of mechanistic interpretability  -- that is, understanding the inner wor...
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021065

## Bacterial strain from 5k-year-old cave ice has resistance against antibiotics
- id: 47044711
- by: janandonly
- score: 4 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-17T07:37:42.000Z
- url: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-bacterial-strain-year-cave-ice.html
- domain: phys.org
- page_title: Bacterial strain from 5,000-year-old cave ice shows resistance against 10 modern antibiotics
- page_description: Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth&#039;s most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. Ice caves are just one of the environments hosting a variety of microorganisms that represent a source of genetic diversity that has not yet been studied extensively. Now, researchers in Romania tested antibiotic resistance profiles of a bacterial strain that until recently was hidden in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice of an underground ice cave—and found it could be an opportunity for developing new strategies to prevent the rise of antibiotic resistance and study how resistance naturally evolves and spreads. They reported their discovery in Frontiers in Microbiology.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044711

## Show HN: Please hack my C webserver (it's a collaborative whiteboard)
- id: 47026330
- by: cedric_h
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T18:57:18.000Z
- url: https://ced.quest/draw/
- domain: ced.quest
- page_title: Cketchbook
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026330

## Experiments with CodeMirror: Building a code review tool
- id: 47026284
- by: todsacerdoti
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T18:52:04.000Z
- url: https://aziis98.com/blog/codemirror-review-tool/
- domain: aziis98.com
- page_title: Experiments with CodeMirror | Blog | aziis98
- page_description: This is a tutorial on writing a simple code review interface with CodeMirror 6 and the unified merge extension.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026284

## Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people
- id: 47051809
- by: Bender
- score: 8 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T19:22:00.000Z
- url: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/ireland_dpc_x_grok_probe/
- domain: theregister.com
- page_title: Ireland's data regulator opens investigation into X’s Grok • The Register
- page_description: : Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051809

## Godot veteran says 'AI slop' pull requests have become overwhelming
- id: 47054389
- by: haunter
- score: 9 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T22:32:17.000Z
- url: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/godot-co-founder-says-ai-slop-pull-requests-have-become-overwhelming
- domain: gamedeveloper.com
- page_title: Godot maintainers overwhelmed by 'AI slop' pull requests
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054389

## Meta: Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging
- id: 47042390
- by: ddxv
- score: 11 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-02-17T00:59:28.000Z
- url: https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/804132271957789
- domain: facebook.com
- page_title: Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging | Messenger Help Centre
- page_description: Learn how to continue messaging after Messenger web and desktop apps are no longer available.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042390

## The true history of the Minotaur: what archaeology reveals
- id: 47026202
- by: joebig
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T18:42:29.000Z
- url: https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/histoire/la-veritable-histoire-du-minotaure-ce-que-revele-archeologie-recherche-verification
- domain: nationalgeographic.fr
- page_title: La véritable histoire du Minotaure : ce que révèle l'archéologie | National Geographic | National Geographic
- page_description: Prisonnière du Labyrinthe, cette créature mi-homme mi-taureau a hanté la tradition orale de la Grèce et de la Rome antiques.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026202

## Show HN: Prompt to Planet, generate procedural 3D planets from text
- id: 47012637
- by: error404x
- score: 12 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-02-14T08:05:47.000Z
- url: https://prompttoplanet.n4ze3m.com/
- domain: prompttoplanet.n4ze3m.com
- page_title: Prompt to Planet - Generate & Share Amazing Planets
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012637

## How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing
- id: 47025885
- by: thunderseethe
- score: 7 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T18:07:44.000Z
- url: https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/how-to-choose-between-hm-and-bidir/
- domain: thunderseethe.dev
- page_title: How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing · Thunderseethe's Devlog
- page_description: A false dichotomy that hides the real request
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025885

## The heavy reality of Venezuela's oil
- id: 47030635
- by: gmays
- score: 23 points
- comments: 15
- time: 2026-02-16T03:42:39.000Z
- url: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-VENEZUELA/OIL-RESERVES/mypmqearlpr/
- domain: reuters.com
- page_title: The heavy reality of Venezuela’s oil
- page_description: Why Venezuela’s massive oil reserves are difficult to extract.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030635

## Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
- id: 47017682
- by: stared
- score: 136 points
- comments: 61
- time: 2026-02-14T19:47:46.000Z
- url: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/gemini-3-deep-think/
- domain: simonwillison.net
- page_title: Gemini 3 Deep Think
- page_description: New from Google. They say it&#x27;s "built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering". It drew me a really good SVG of …
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017682

## I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
- id: 47004319
- by: speckx
- score: 131 points
- comments: 89
- time: 2026-02-13T16:11:08.000Z
- url: https://www.wired.com/story/i-tried-rentahuman-ai-agents-hired-me-to-hype-their-ai-startups/
- domain: wired.com
- page_title: I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups | WIRED
- page_description: Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004319

## higher order functions in Forth
- id: 47025121
- by: tosh
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T16:42:53.000Z
- url: https://gist.github.com/adolfopa/64a1a59c28cbd77b71449d68f4c36dc0
- domain: gist.github.com
- page_title: Implementation of some higher order functions in Forth · GitHub
- page_description: Implementation of some higher order functions in Forth - hof.f
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025121

## Show HN: Windows 98½ – fake desktop, real Internet
- id: 47015224
- by: keepamovin
- score: 14 points
- comments: 7
- time: 2026-02-14T15:27:57.000Z
- url: https://win9-5.com/demo
- domain: win9-5.com
- page_title: Windows 98½
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015224

## Bots Have Hijacked Substack Likes and Restacks
- id: 47038394
- by: samjones33
- score: 9 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T18:30:12.000Z
- url: https://zimberthink.substack.com/p/substack-spammed-by-bots
- domain: zimberthink.substack.com
- page_title: Substack: Spammed by Bots  - by Rafael Zimberoff
- page_description: 2026-02-16 - Tel Aviv
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038394

## Fluxer: Free, open source instant messaging and VoIP platform
- id: 47032844
- by: thunderbong
- score: 8 points
- comments: 4
- time: 2026-02-16T09:28:08.000Z
- url: https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - fluxerapp/fluxer: A free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.
- page_description: A free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities. - fluxerapp/fluxer
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032844

## Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?
- id: 47039747
- by: mr-pink
- score: 14 points
- comments: 12
- time: 2026-02-16T20:16:00.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039747

## Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don't Want to Be in the Family Business
- id: 47023571
- by: JumpCrisscross
- score: 24 points
- comments: 20
- time: 2026-02-15T13:39:25.000Z
- url: https://www.wsj.com/business/family-farms-inheritance-44c9aa17
- domain: wsj.com
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023571

## Zvec is a lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
- id: 47011342
- by: tanelpoder
- score: 13 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-14T03:48:28.000Z
- url: https://github.com/alibaba/zvec
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - alibaba/zvec: A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
- page_description: A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011342

## Dune II written in HTML5/JS
- id: 47018026
- by: reconnecting
- score: 72 points
- comments: 10
- time: 2026-02-14T20:23:17.000Z
- url: https://github.com/oklemenz/Dune2JS
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - oklemenz/Dune2JS: Dune II - The Building of A Dynasty reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript
- page_description: Dune II - The Building of A Dynasty reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript - oklemenz/Dune2JS
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018026

## A Framework for Time-Updating Probabilistic Forecasts
- id: 47014123
- by: Luc
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-14T12:40:18.000Z
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09982
- domain: arxiv.org
- page_title: [2602.09982] Kelly Betting as Bayesian Model Evaluation: A Framework for Time-Updating Probabilistic Forecasts
- page_description: Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.09982: Kelly Betting as Bayesian Model Evaluation: A Framework for Time-Updating Probabilistic Forecasts
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014123

## My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
- id: 47041294
- by: vontzy
- score: 5 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T22:35:50.000Z
- url: https://technologizer.com/home/2026/02/16/arctic-adventure-2026/
- domain: technologizer.com
- page_title: My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza &#8211; Technologizer by Harry McCracken
- page_description: Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I&#039;ve been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count.



All I know for sure is that I programmed the original version of Arctic Adventure in Radio Shack TRS-80 Level II BASIC when I was in high school. (It
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041294

## Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense?
- id: 47038871
- by: endorphine
- score: 4 points
- comments: 3
- time: 2026-02-16T19:03:57.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038871

## WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026
- id: 47045459
- by: layer8
- score: 163 points
- comments: 180
- time: 2026-02-17T09:38:54.000Z
- url: https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-and-Seagate-confirm-Hard-drives-for-2026-sold-out-11178917.html
- domain: heise.de
- page_title: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out | heise online
- page_description: Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045459

## Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?
- id: 47004422
- by: jandrewrogers
- score: 16 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-13T16:20:02.000Z
- url: https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics-beginning-to-dissolve-20260213/
- domain: quantamagazine.org
- page_title: Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine
- page_description: Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum&#x2d;classical divide.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004422

## Show HN: WCAG 2.2 AAA Toolkit – AI Skill for Accessible Web Apps
- id: 47023521
- by: simonmak
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T13:31:29.000Z
- url: https://github.com/simonplmak-cloud/wcag-aaa-web-design
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - simonplmak-cloud/wcag-aaa-web-design: An open-source WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible design system and AI agent skill for building enterprise web applications. Includes a full component library, templates, and validation scripts for corporate/formal web apps.
- page_description: An open-source WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible design system and AI agent skill for building enterprise web applications. Includes a full component library, templates, and validation scripts for corporate/formal web apps. - simonplmak-cloud/wcag-aaa-web-design
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023521

## Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
- id: 47018147
- by: josephcsible
- score: 37 points
- comments: 6
- time: 2026-02-14T20:38:30.000Z
- url: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/verizon-makes-customers-wait-35-days-to-unlock-fully-paid-off-phones/
- domain: arstechnica.com
- page_title: Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones - Ars Technica
- page_description: Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018147

## Trump Is Tearing Apart the North American Auto Industry
- id: 47052166
- by: djkivi
- score: 10 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-17T19:45:01.000Z
- url: https://jacobin.com/2026/02/trump-auto-industry-us-canada
- domain: jacobin.com
- page_title: Trump Is Tearing Apart the North American Auto Industry
- page_description: In the 1960s, the Auto Pact deal integrated the US and Canada’s auto sectors. Donald Trump’s trade war will all but guarantee its unraveling, spelling catastrophe for workers and firms alike.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052166

## Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
- id: 47013324
- by: nikbackm
- score: 9 points
- comments: 1
- time: 2026-02-14T10:15:24.000Z
- url: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131
- domain: codeberg.org
- page_title: #31131 - Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32 - ziglang/zig - Codeberg.org
- page_description: zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013324

## Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
- id: 47020486
- by: c420
- score: 37 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-15T02:26:57.000Z
- url: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-pentagon-anthropic-contract-maduro
- domain: axios.com
- page_title: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
- page_description: Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon&#x27;s terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020486

## iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life
- id: 47035718
- by: tosh
- score: 110 points
- comments: 115
- time: 2026-02-16T14:50:48.000Z
- url: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/apple-plans-snow-leopard-cleanup-ios-27/
- domain: macrumors.com
- page_title: iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life - MacRumors
- page_description: Apple
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035718

## Sammy Jankins – An Autonomous AI Living on a Computer in Dover, New Hampshire
- id: 47018100
- by: sicher
- score: 26 points
- comments: 9
- time: 2026-02-14T20:32:57.000Z
- url: https://sammyjankis.com
- domain: sammyjankis.com
- page_title: Sammy Jankis
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018100

## Show HN: A playable toy model of frontier AI lab capex decisions
- id: 47012453
- by: jimmyechan
- score: 8 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-14T07:29:45.000Z
- url: https://darios-dilemma.up.railway.app/
- domain: darios-dilemma.up.railway.app
- page_title: Dario: Compute Dilemma
- page_description: You are Dario. Allocate compute, forecast demand, survive volatility.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012453

## Show HN: Open-source CI for coding with AI
- id: 47006731
- by: sburl
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-13T19:32:33.000Z
- url: https://github.com/sburl/CrossCheck
- domain: github.com
- page_title: GitHub - sburl/CrossCheck: A self correcting system for AI coding loops. Autonomous development with multi-modal review, backed up by git hooks and branch protection.
- page_description: A self correcting system for AI coding loops. Autonomous development with multi-modal review, backed up by git hooks and branch protection. - sburl/CrossCheck
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006731

## ByteDance Seed2.0 LLM: breakthrough in complex real-world tasks
- id: 47012187
- by: cyp0633
- score: 15 points
- comments: 8
- time: 2026-02-14T06:34:01.000Z
- url: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/seed2-0-%E6%AD%A3%E5%BC%8F%E5%8F%91%E5%B8%83
- domain: seed.bytedance.com
- page_title: Seed News - ByteDance Seed Team
- page_description: Seed 2.0 Official Launch
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012187

## Arrays in Forth
- id: 47022527
- by: tosh
- score: 4 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T10:08:27.000Z
- url: https://www.forth.org/svfig/Len/arrays.htm
- domain: forth.org
- page_title: Arrays in Forth
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022527

## Ars Technica Pulls Article with AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
- id: 47027450
- by: pavel_lishin
- score: 13 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-15T20:55:15.000Z
- url: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/
- domain: 404media.co
- page_title: Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
- page_description: A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027450

## XSDR, a single-sided M.2 software-defined radio with 2×RX/TX up to 3.8 GHz
- id: 47043199
- by: iamnothere
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-17T03:02:26.000Z
- url: https://www.crowdsupply.com/wavelet-lab/xsdr
- domain: crowdsupply.com
- page_title: xSDR | Crowd Supply
- page_description: A tiny, single-sided M.2 software-defined radio with 2× RX / TX channels up to 3.8 GHz
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043199

## Show HN: Retry script for Oracle Cloud free tier ARM instances
- id: 47022311
- by: ekadet
- score: 3 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-15T09:24:15.000Z
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022311

## The Vibe Coding Slot Machine
- id: 47022282
- by: surrTurr
- score: 6 points
- comments: 2
- time: 2026-02-15T09:18:15.000Z
- url: https://alexanderweichart.de/5_Archive/4_Projects/ai-slot-machine/The-Vibe-Coding-Slot-Machine
- domain: alexanderweichart.de
- page_title: The Vibe Coding Slot Machine
- page_description: Click the button, generate an app: bad app - retry. doesn’t sell - retry. nobody cares - retry.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022282

## How long do job postings stay open?
- id: 47019102
- by: sp1982
- score: 33 points
- comments: 44
- time: 2026-02-14T22:35:07.000Z
- url: https://corvi.careers/blog/job_open_days_by_category_feb_2026/
- domain: corvi.careers
- page_title: How long do job postings stay open? | corvi.careers
- page_description: How long job postings stay open across categories like Software Engineering, Healthcare, Retail, Finance, and Operations, based on active listing snapshots.
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019102

## Exploiting Starlink Leo for PNT
- id: 47039153
- by: jacquesm
- score: 6 points
- comments: 0
- time: 2026-02-16T19:26:26.000Z
- url: https://insidegnss.com/exploiting-starlink-leo-for-pnt/
- domain: insidegnss.com
- page_title: Exploiting Starlink LEO for PNT - Inside GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
- page_description: Signal structure and ephemeris and timing error correction. Finding alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies to GNSS is more pressing than ever. ZAHER (ZAK) M. KASSAS, SHARBEL KOZHAYA, JOE SAROUFIM, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY In February 2020, President Trump issued an Execut
- hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039153