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Agent Skills
agentskills.io

A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise.

Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices
ambertherambler.bearblog.dev

Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...

KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd
forums.freebsd.org

KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd, making it unusable on systemd-free Linux distributions and BSD systems. KDE’s upcoming Plasma Login Manager will make its first official appearance in Plasma 6.6 (scheduled for release on February 17), explicitly designed as a...

Bunny Database
bunny.net

bunny.net - Deploy globally, query over HTTP, and scale reads with low latency. Bunny Database lets you build fast without paying the serverless tax.

Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
reuters.com
Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X
bbc.com

The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
lars.ingebrigtsen.no

For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s …

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
rentahuman.ai

RentAHuman.ai - The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
safe-now.live
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LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.
github.com/KrystianJonca

Unified AI configuration management CLI. Contribute to KrystianJonca/lnai development by creating an account on GitHub.

From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
github.com/whispem
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A production-ready distributed key-value store with Raft consensus. - whispem/minikv

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition
krzysztofjankowski.com
Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem
bicameral-ai.com
Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
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Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
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To Build a Fire:Inside Russia's Campaign of Sabotage in Europe
newyorker.com

Joshua Yaffa - How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent.

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
attheu.utah.edu

Researchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations.

GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
github.com/orgs

Hey everyone, I wanted to provide an update on a critical issue affecting the open source community: the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that is creating significant operational chal...

How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
alignment.anthropic.com
Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features
macrumors.com

The Firefox browser is gaining options to turn off AI enhancements, Mozilla said today. Firefox users who prefer to browse without artificial intelligence will be able to turn off several AI features that Mozilla has added over the last several months. Here's what can be disabled: Translations, which help you browse the web in your preferred language. Alt text in PDFs, which add accessibility descriptions to ima

Julia
borretti.me

Fernando Borretti - An aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive.

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
frommers.com

The law, as written, is clear: You have the right to fly without ID, without paying a $45 fee, and without answering questions, says a career travel…

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
arstechnica.com

Trump admin's "it's classified" ploy put on hold in five different cases.

xAI Joins SpaceX
x.ai

SpaceX announced today that it has acquired xAI.

xAI joins SpaceX
spacex.com

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

Removing macOS 26 Tahoe's unwanted menu icons
weblog.rogueamoeba.com

We can avoid Apple’s heavy-handed implementation of a questionable idea.

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations
githubstatus.com
LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant
github.com/mattermost

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/master/LICENSE.txt#L9 "May be licensed"?? Under what conditions? This is not compliant with open source definition.

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
forums.ankiweb.net

Hi all, Anki’s 19th birthday was about 4 months ago. It would have been a good time to pause and reflect on what Anki has become, and how it will grow in the future. But I ended up letting the moment come and go, as I didn’t feel like I had the free time. It’s a feeling that’s been regrettably common of late, and I’ve come to realise that something has to change. For a number of years, I’ve reached out to some of t

Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech
morningstar.com
Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled
cnbc.com
Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS
github.com/stelviodev

Ship Python to AWS in minutes, not days. Contribute to stelviodev/stelvio development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
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Common bacteria (Chlamydia) discovered in the eye linked to cognitive decline
medicalxpress.com
Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st
helpx.adobe.com
The Dangerous Drift to Redefine Protest as Terrorism
lawfaremedia.org

The line between civil disobedience and terrorism is collapsing. History warns us what comes next.

The largest number representable in 64 bits
tromp.github.io
Parking lots as economic drains
progressandpoverty.substack.com

Greg Miller - They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.

EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair
epa.gov

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.

The Codex App
openai.com
Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena
blog.google

We’re expanding Game Arena with Poker and Werewolf, while Gemini 3 Pro and Flash top our chess leaderboard.

Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
lists.linuxfromscratch.org
On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]
weber.edu
Zig Libc
ziglang.org
Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
millert.dev
Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine
spader.zone
Hacking Moltbook
wiz.io

Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
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China Bans Hidden Car Door Handles
bloomberg.com
Kernighan on Programming
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We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]
static.germantechjobs.de
Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI
wsj.com
Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence
ft.com

Nine countries agree to build joint offshore wind projects and cables in the North Sea

Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation
bloomberg.com
Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
phys.org
Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
github.com/surprisetalk
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AdBoost is the only browser extension that adds ads to web pages! - surprisetalk/AdBoost

UK government launches fuel forecourt price API
gov.uk
MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
koi.ai

Two popular AI coding extensions with 1.5M installs secretly harvest your entire codebase and profile you. Both are still live in the marketplace.

Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system
wesmckinney.com
Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
neutree.ai

When deploying large language models in production, the inference engine becomes a critical piece of infrastructure.

EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline
euronews.com

The former Italian prime minister said the European Union risks subordination, division and deindustrialision all at once if it does not pull closer together. #EuropeNews

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
theverge.com

Tom Warren - Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code

Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
windowscentral.com

People familiar with Microsoft's plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.

Termux
github.com/termux

Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages. - termux/termux-app

My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
anil.recoil.org

Building httpz, a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser with zero heap allocation using OxCaml's unboxed types, local allocations, and mutable local variables.

What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted
news.theuncommonexecutive.com

Yue Zhao - Make the business case for why now. Pitch your promotion broadly on why invest in expanding your scope, and not fund someone else's promotion.

EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push
spacenews.com

Emma Gatti - EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push

Library of Juggling
libraryofjuggling.com
Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
wired.com

Andy Greenberg - A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.

Why software stocks are getting pummelled
economist.com
Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
lapcatsoftware.com
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
arstechnica.com

Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

Why do people still talk about AGI?
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Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy
flashblaze.xyz

Neeraj Lagwankar - Walkthrough on how to build and deploy a Telegram bot to Cloudflare Workers. Durable Objects are used for per-person DB and grammY is used to interact with the Telegram API

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
notepad-plus-plus.org
Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)
apps.dtic.mil
Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
xikipedia.org
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Wikipedia you can doomscroll

Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)
samuelhewitt.com

Sam Hewitt - Sam Hewitt, Human Interface Designer

Two kinds of AI users are emerging
martinalderson.com

A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.

We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s
chris.pagecord.com

This is one of those thoughts that just sits there and won’t leave me alone. I honestly think we peaked in the late 90s. Maybe I’m doing that whole nostalgia...

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
github.com/gavrielc
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My personal Claude assistant that runs in Apple containers. Lightweight, secure, and built to be understood and customized for your own needs. - gavrielc/nanoclaw

Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications
vatican.va

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60 TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS [ Multimedia ] _______________________

Treasures found on HS2 route
bbc.com

Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.

Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities
iranintl.com
MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger
sciencedaily.com

New research suggests that consistent aerobic exercise can help keep your brain biologically younger. Adults who exercised regularly for a year showed brains that appeared nearly a year younger than those who didn’t change their habits. The study focused on midlife, a critical window when prevention may offer long-term benefits. Even small shifts in brain age could add up over decades.

Margin Call
asymco.com

Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
dmitrybrant.com
Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
ahmedeldin.substack.com

Ahmed Eldin - Palantir took Epstein’s money, Thiel’s backing, and Trump’s blessing to build an AI war machine. If Gaza is the testing ground, America’s next. Are we ready to fight back?

My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
journal.rafaelcosta.me

TL;DR: My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs. An iPhone 15 Pro runs the same code perfectly. A MacBook Pro also runs the same code perfectly. The tensor outputs on the 16 show numerical values an order of magnitude wrong. I suspect it points

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
solidean.com

A practical walk-through of a fixed-width uint128 implementation in modern C++.

Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted
kiki.computer

The accountability monster for people who are easily distracted. Kiki helps you get more done by focusing on one thing at a time. Mac app.

Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings
oregonlive.com

The program helped 94% of participants secure housing while building financial literacy skills that could break the cycle of homelessness.

1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
depthfirst.com

A technical teardown of a 1-click RCE against OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot/ClawdBot), a viral open-source AI assistant trusted by 100,000+ developers with high-privilege access. See how a settings logic flaw and a WebSocket pivot turn a single webpage visit into token exfiltration, safety-control bypass, and arbitrary command execution.

TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
taoofmac.com

Rui Carmo - So… Here we are again.

OpenClaw is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.

Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
idiallo.com

When I moved to a new apartment with my family, the cable company we were used to wasn't available. We had to settle for Dish Network. I wasn't too happy about making that switch, but something on the

Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life
nature.com

In daily life, light exposure influences cognitive performance in 58 UK adults: brighter, more stable days are linked to better vigilance, memory, and visual search, while recent bright light reduces sleepiness and reaction times.

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