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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.

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
GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
news.ycombinator.com
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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)
news.ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
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Kernighan on Programming
news.ycombinator.com
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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?
news.ycombinator.com
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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.

FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect
ftp.belnet.be
Ian's Shoelace Site
fieggen.com

If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed
sintef.no

Researchers have developed a heat storage unit that takes up less space than a regular hot water tank. It charges when electricity is cheap and releases heat when needed.

GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building
phoronix.com
Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work
research.google
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
forkingmad.blog

A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years. Their announcem...

Apple I Advertisement (1976)
apple1.chez.com
Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival
phys.org
Real engineering failures instead of success stories
failhub.substack.com

Vlad Khambir - Silent scope growth, false alignment, and architecture without context

We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?
theguardian.com

My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse?

English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
yaledailynews.com
Over half of American adults can't read at 6th Grade Levels
moneywise.com
Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015)
shazow.net
Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown
github.com/VoidenHQ
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Define, test, and document APIs like a developer, not a SaaS user. No accounts. No lock-in. No telemetry. Just Markdown, Git, hotkeys, and your damn specs. - VoidenHQ/voiden

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
adventuregamestudio.co.uk
Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code
github.com/zuckermanai
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A personal AI that starts minimal, self-improves in real-time, and shares its discoveries with other agents. - zuckermanai/zuckerman

How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users
blog.algomaster.io

Ashish Pratap Singh - Scaling is a complex topic, but after working at big tech on services handling millions of requests and scaling my own startup (AlgoMaster.io) from scratch, I’ve realized that most systems evolve through a surprisingly similar set of stages as they grow.

Amiga Unix (Amix)
amigaunix.com
FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
gyptazy.com

gyptazy - A recap of FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, focusing on open source as a foundation for European digital sovereignty, community-driven innovation, BSD and Linux ecosystems, and the future of free software in Europe.

'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE
businessinsider.com

Peter Gelling - Small businesses struggled to observe the national shutdown to protest ICE. Here's why a boycott of companies like OpenAI and Amazon could be easier and more effective.

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
netbird.io
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
mariozechner.at

Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.

New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s
politico.eu

The minority coalition’s program also envisions a crackdown on screen time and stricter smartphone rules in schools.

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