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You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account
heltweg.org

Philip Heltweg - New immigration rules for the UK are being enforced starting February 2026. This means citizens of 85 additional countries (including the USA and European countries) will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit, even for tourism. Luckily, you can apply (and pay) digitally. Unfortunately, the government very much would prefer you to do so using the official app.

Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line
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Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
grumpy-economist.com

John H. Cochrane - I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
wsj.com
RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
arstechnica.com

RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said.

Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit
disruptionbanking.com

Richardson Chinonyerem - Crypto’s most infamous collapse is back in the spotlight, and this time the blast radius reaches deep into Wall Street. A new lawsuit doesn’t just revisit Jane Street sued for alleged insider trading in Terra's $40B collapse. Lawsuit claims the firm front-ran UST trades using non-public info, accelerating the 2022 meltdown.

Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts
github.com/Zyora-Dev
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Zyora Server Inference Engine for LLM . . Contribute to Zyora-Dev/zse development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
eff.org

Matthew Guariglia - The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their...

Larry Page has moved to Florida
twitter.com
Banned in California
bannedincalifornia.org

Why you can't build a smartphone, electric car, or destroyer in the Golden State.

Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

I can trace this recommendation that swap should be twice the size of the physical memory as far back as 1989, see SunOS 4 installation manual, page 37, but I wonder if there was ever any technical

First Website (1992)
info.cern.ch
How will OpenAI compete?
ben-evans.com

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie

Hiring Engineers When AI Writes Our Code
tolans.com

We designed our interview loop from the ground up around AI.

Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information
motherjones.com

Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
aircada.com

Thinking of using AI for your Shopify 3D models? Read this first. We compare AI-generated 3D 'slop' vs. handcrafted models to show why the human touch is very much required to attain positive ROI.

Making MCP cheaper via CLI
kanyilmaz.me

I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel
collabora.com

Rockchip VDPU381/VDPU383 support is now upstream in Linux, adding mainline H.264/HEVC decode, robust IOMMU reset recovery, and more!

Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
spectrum.ieee.org

How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
trufflesecurity.com

Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.

Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism
david.alvarezrosa.com

Ever wondered why your “clean” polymorphic design underperforms in benchmarks? Virtual dispatch enables polymorphism, but it comes with hidden …

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
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Pure Go tree-sitter runtime. Contribute to odvcencio/gotreesitter development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Slow Death of the Power User
fireborn.mataroa.blog
The Pentagon threatens Anthropic
astralcodexten.com

Scott Alexander - ...

The Om Programming Language
om-language.com
Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw
tachyon.so

AI agent misbehavior isn't a sandbox problem—it's a permissions problem. What the market actually needs is a fundamentally new approach to agentic authorization.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
theregister.com

: It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
blogs.windows.com

Dave Grochocki - Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out updates for Notepad and Paint apps to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. Notepad (version 11.2512.10.0) In this update, we’re introduci

Why isn't LA repaving streets?
lapublicpress.org
Racket v9.1
blog.racket-lang.org
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
arxiv.org

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseu

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
arstechnica.com

Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.

The Misuses of the University
publicbooks.org

Morgan Barry - Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
worksinprogress.co

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one they’re happy to use.

I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
github.com/benjismith

experiments invoking AI agents and asking them to act randomly! - benjismith/ai-randomness

LibreOffice resumes work on its self-hosted Google Docs alternative
xda-developers.com

LibreOffice Online is back, with a few tweaks.

GNU Texmacs
texmacs.org
Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
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US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
reuters.com
New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
marginalia.nu

I’ve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. First most obvious giveaway is the frequency with which you see accounts posting brilliant insights like 13 60 well and t6ctctfuvuh7hguhuig8h88gd to f6gug7h8j8h6fzbuvubt GB I be cugttc fav uhz cb ibub8vgxgvzdrc to bubuvtxfh tf d xxx h z j gj uxomoxtububonjbk P.l.kvh cb hug tf 6 go k7gtcv8j9j7gimpiiuh7i 8ubg or 1662476506 or Аё Bey

Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
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The control room for your Django app. Contribute to yassi/dj-control-room development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
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The webpage of Respectify, an AI-powered comment moderation tool that helps maintain respectful and relevant discussions online.

Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock
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A clean, fullscreen analog clock simulator. View the current time with rendered clock.

Palantir Built the Data Layer That Right to Erasure Can't Touch
frontierlabs.substack.com

Muskan Shafat - Palantir's Ontology, two cities using data well, and what the India AI Summit didn't say

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
app.teamout.com
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What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
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Never buy a .online domain
0xsid.com
Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
thenewstack.io

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - Red Hat is betting a commercially supported Podman Desktop can lure corporate developers away from Docker Desktop.

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
newscientist.com

#author.fullName} - Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

100M-Row Challenge with PHP
github.com/tempestphp

Contribute to tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge development by creating an account on GitHub.

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
therecord.media

Denmark's digital affairs ministry says it plans to switch to the open source LibreOffice software and away from Microsoft products as part of an effort to make the government more digitally independent.

Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play
llmskirmish.com
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LLM Skirmish - An Adversarial In-Context Learning Benchmark

Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE
forum.lazarus.freepascal.org
LLM=True
blog.codemine.be

Your AI coding agent is drowning in noise

Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
theregister.com

opinion: Protect the robot, sacrifice the human

Claude Code Remote Control
code.claude.com

Continue a local Claude Code session from your phone, tablet, or any browser using Remote Control. Works with claude.ai/code and the Claude mobile app.

Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo
dropbox.com
Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code
github.com/mksglu
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Stop losing context to large outputs. Contribute to mksglu/claude-context-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

Turing Completeness of GNU find
arxiv.org

The Unix command \texttt{find} is among the first commands taught to beginners, yet remains indispensable for experienced engineers. In this paper, we demonstrate that \texttt{find} possesses unexpected computational power, establishing three Turing completeness results using the GNU implementation (a standard in Linux distributions). (1) \texttt{find} + \texttt{mkdir} (a system that has only \texttt{find} and \textt

Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They're Enforcing It
wsj.com
Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS
tunaformac.com

New, modern launcher for macOS.

Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
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What Happened to Fry's Electronics
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - Fry's had been struggling for years but it was still a bit of a surprise to see it go

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
time.com

Billy Perrigo - In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.

Five security lessons from the FBI's Washington Post raid
freedom.press

Court documents show how investigators can track digital activities, and reveal ways to harden journalists’ devices

US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards
theguardian.com

Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield

Agents.md file isn't the problem. Your lack of Evals is
tessl.io

Discover why your AGENTS.md file isn't the issue but the lack of evaluations is. Learn how to effectively validate context files for better results.

Fed's Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible unemployment rise
reuters.com
Every privacy concession in history has been permanent
nbtv.substack.com

NBTV Media - Every privacy concession in history has been permanent. So why are we still making them?

Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion
inceptionlabs.ai

Today, we're introducing Mercury 2 — the world's fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant.

Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
cape.co

Cape is premium wireless coverage with an added layer of personal security. Talk, text, and live with the confidence that you’re protected.

Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal
cnbc.com
Anthropic digs in heels in dispute with Pentagon
reuters.com
Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
github.com/moonshine-ai
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Fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) for edge devices - moonshine-ai/moonshine

Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
pi.dev

A terminal-based coding agent

Looks like it is happening
math.columbia.edu

For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state…

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
apple.com

Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time.

LibreOffice Online: A Fresh Start
blog.documentfoundation.org

Mike Saunders - LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Boa

Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah
cnn.com

Hadas Gold - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

Why High FOV Sucks – Fixing It with Panini Projection
youtube.com
How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
blog.cloudflare.com

One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.

We are changing our developer productivity experiment design
metr.org
Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times
mariannefeng.com

Hacking an old kindle to display bus arrival times

Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
distrowatch.com
Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla's EU+EFTA+UK registrations fell 17% in January 2026 — down from already weak 2025 numbers. Without Tesla, BEV registrations would be up 16%.

Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders
bbc.com

Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being shot for refusing orders.

My lobster lost $450k this weekend
pashpashpash.substack.com

Nik Pash - Surprisingly, it wasn't an exploit or a prompt injection.

Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards
axios.com
Steel Bank Common Lisp
sbcl.org
OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
vmfunc.re

vmfunc - 53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.

OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B
cnbc.com
I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone
macky.dev

Velosify Private Limited - Access and control your Mac's terminal from your iPhone. Secure, real-time, end-to-end encrypted. Supports Zsh, Bash, Claude Code, and Codex.

Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs
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Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment
github.com/generalaction
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Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment (🧡 YC W26). Run multiple coding agents in parallel. Use any provider. - generalaction/emdash

1Password Raising Prices ~33%
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Nearby Glasses
github.com/yjeanrenaud

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
news.ycombinator.com
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Hugging Face Skills
github.com/huggingface

Contribute to huggingface/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

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