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ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants
bmj.com
Google just gave us an accidental first look at Android's PC future
androidauthority.com

Google has accidentally given us a look at Aluminium OS, which unifies Android and Chrome OS for PCs and Chromebooks.

Show HN: The HN Arcade
andrewgy8.github.io
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A directory of games from Hacker News Show HN posts.

Devuan – Debian Without Systemd
devuan.org

Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.

I Stopped Following the News
mertbulan.com

A personal reflection on the decision to stop following daily news and its impact on my well-being.

ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
asml.com
Make.ts
matklad.github.io
Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp
engineering.fb.com

WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats. WhatsApp’s experience creating and distri…

Apple Workers Are Livid That Cook Saw "Melania" Hours After CBP Killed Pretti
theintercept.com

Sam Biddle - Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cook’s coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death.

Germany issued formal travel advisory for US
newsweek.com

Germany has advised citizens demonstrations can lead to clashes with migration and security authorities. 

Apple MacBook Pro order deliveries delayed until mid March
apple.com

Get a new MacBook Pro laptop with monthly financing options. Select a model or customise your own. Buy now at apple.com.

Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
monkeyball-online.pages.dev
AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release
aisle.com

AISLE's autonomous analyzer found all 12 CVEs in the January 2026 coordinated release of OpenSSL, the open-source cryptographic library that underp...

Transmission 4.1.0
github.com/transmission

Transmission 4.1.0 This is Transmission 4.1.0. We've been working on this release for over a year now, and we're excited to finally get it over the finish line! What's New in 4.1.0 Highlights Impr...

US population growth slows as immigration declines
reuters.com
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
blog.neocities.org
Notes on starting to use Django
jvns.ca
Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son
web3isgoinggreat.com

Molly White - Two crypto thieves decided to settle an argument over who was wealthier by screensharing as they transferred crypto between wallets to prove ownership. In doing so, one of them — known online as "Lick" — revealed a wallet address that crypto sleuth zachxbt quickly tied to the theft of around $90 million from US government wallets containing seized crypto assets, including a $20 million theft zachxbt reported in Octob

"IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
arstechnica.com

A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.

Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM
infocom.tambo.co
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Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
wired.com

David Gilbert - Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings justified before probes completed
washingtonpost.com
TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
bbc.com

Defendants include Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, and YouTube parent Google.

Parametric CAD in Rust
campedersen.com

import Image from 'next/image'; import plate from './plate.png'; import bracket from './bracket.png'; import mascot from './mascot.png'; import hub from './hub.

Time Station Emulator
github.com/kangtastic

Synchronize most radio-controlled ("atomic") clocks and watches using almost any phone or tablet - kangtastic/timestation

Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (2025)
cnn.com

Andrea Kane - Eating too much ultraprocessed food can be bad for us, yet they can be so hard to resist because they’re hyper-palatable. Here are 5 things to know to cut back.

Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors court filing alleges
reuters.com
How many chess games are possible?
win-vector.com

How Many Chess Games are Possible? Here is a fun question: how many different games of chess are possible? Counting the number of possible chess games is quite hard, as the numbers are large and ch…

The bachelor tax – what it costs in taxes to be single
bachelor-tax.vercel.app

Estimate your income taxes for single and joint filers based on 2025 US Federal Tax Brackets

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary
joshtumath.uk
Ice Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates
theintercept.com

Noah Hurowitz - ICE is terrorizing communities in unmarked cars. These Pacific Northwest activists built a public database that tracks their license plates.

Arm's Cortex A725 Ft. Dell's Pro Max with GB10
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - Arm’s 7-series cores started out as the company’s highest performance offerings.

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
amutable.com

Amutable: A New Secure Foundation

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
science.org
Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE
wired.com

Maxwell Zeff - A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.

LLM-as-a-Courtroom
falconer.com

How we built a multi-agent courtroom simulation to decide when code changes require documentation updates—and why the legal system is humanity's best framework for binary decisions under uncertainty.

Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
github.com/moltbot
Prism
openai.com
Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
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FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
nbcnews.com
DHS: Critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was never recorded
404media.co

Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

One Human and One Agent = One Browser from Scratch
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor's FastRender browser project - thousands of parallel agents producing ~1.6 million lines of Rust - that they were inspired to take …

AI2: Open Coding Agents
allenai.org

SERA is the first in our family of Open Coding Agents, achieving state-of-the-art performance at low cost.

SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned
haveibeenpwned.com

In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users. The impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user’s country. The attackers later attempted to e

Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI
oneusefulthing.org

Ethan Mollick - Thriving in a world of agents

OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing
openssl-library.org
A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)
tailscale.com

Aperture is an AI gateway that doesn't get in the way of developers, and works with most AI tools.

Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores
cnn.com
430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
nytimes.com
Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
tech.lgbt

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
finance.yahoo.com

At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.

Show HN: Fuzzy Studio – Apply live effects to videos/camera
fuzzy.ulyssepence.com
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Apply stunning real-time shader effects to your videos. Kaleidoscope, color grading, wave distortion, and more.

Trump raises US tariffs on South Korea imports to 25%
bbc.com

Trump has accused Seoul of "not living up" to a trade deal that was reached last year.

Windows 11 January Update Breaks Notepad
winbuzzer.com

Markus Kasanmascheff - Microsoft's January 2026 security update has broken Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, introducing dual bugs affecting app launches and cloud storage

The age of Pump and Dump software
tautvilas.medium.com
Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
lightwaves.io
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Lightwaves - Free EU independence check for websites. Analyzes Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs and more. Score from 0-100 for GDPR compliance.

TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
cnn.com

Scottie Andrew - Some TikTok users are accusing the app of censorship after they attempted and failed to upload videos about ICE. TikTok says the ongoing glitches are related to a power outage.

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
alexxcons.github.io
Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
emsh.cat
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India and EU announce landmark trade deal
bbc.com

The long-awaited deal comes as both Delhi and Brussels contend with economic and geopolitical pressure from the US.

Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II
news.ycombinator.com
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I made my own Git
tonystr.net
The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
nesbitt.io

Andrew Nesbitt - System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.

Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE
pride.com

The shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE agents prompted celebs to speak out, and now they say they are paying the price.

We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)
consciousdigital.org

Yoav Aviram - YourDigitalRights.org will continue supporting email-based requests exclusively. Our mission is to make data rights accessible to as many people as possible. Following our analysis, we believe that online forms introduce significant friction, deterring individuals from exercising their rights, particularly those who aren't technically sophisticated.

Is OpenAI Dead Yet?
isopenaideadyet.com

Tracking the demise of OpenAI. Is it dead yet? Check here to find out.

The state of Linux music players in 2026
crescentro.se

Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.

Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals
bbc.com

A leak exposes for the first time the extent of Russia’s misuse of Interpol to request the arrest of critics.

France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s
rte.ie

French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time.

Doing the thing is doing the thing
softwaredesign.ing

Prakhar Gupta - Software Engineer, LITM

Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
kimi.com
A list of fun destinations for telnet
telnet.org

Telnet Admin - A list of fun destinations for telnet

Hacker News: Savage Edition
dosaygo-studio.github.io
Heathrow drops the liquids rule
flymag.com

John Cushma - London Heathrow has eliminated carry-on liquids limits, making airport security easier for all travelers from January 2026.

US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for travelers
infosec.exchange

We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International: "Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)." "If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government

iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch
macrumors.com

Alongside iOS 26.2.1, Apple today released an updated version of iOS 12 for devices that are still running that operating system update, eight years after the software was first released. iOS 12.5.8 is available for the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 6, meaning Apple is continuing to support these devices for 13 and 12 years after launch, respectively. The iPhone 5s came out in September 2013, while the iPhone 6 launched i

TikTok removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
cnbc.com
TikTok disallows DMs with the word "Epstein"
twitter.com
Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
betakit.com

Alex Riehl - Y Combinator has revised its standard deal terms to exclude Canada as a permitted site of investment, implying that Canadian startups aspiring to join will have to incorporate elsewhere.

You have to know how to drive the car
seangoedecke.com
Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
news.ycombinator.com
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I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor
msn.com
Toy implementations of the 30 foundational papers recommended by Ilya Sutskever
github.com/pageman

Sutskever 30 implementations inspired by https://papercode.vercel.app/ - pageman/sutskever-30-implementations

Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting
mprnews.org
State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
ntdotdev.wordpress.com

Hi! Long time no see, huh? :) It’s been three years since my last State of the Windows article, which was about the inconsistencies in the Windows 11 user experience. Since then, Microsoft (a…

Refusing to Use Twitter
blog.korny.info

Korny Sietsma - I’ve completely stopped using Twitter (now called X) and I wanted to post something explaining why. I stopped posting or reading the feeds quite a while ago, but despite most people I know agreeing it’s a terrible place, friends persist in sharing X posts and I get lured in to reading them. But no more. If you send me a Twitter/X link, I’ll either ignore it or politely ask you to share the content another way; or fl

People who know the formula for WD-40
wsj.com
A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
twitter.com
Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle
quantamagazine.org

The Bonnet problem asks when just a bit of information is enough to uniquely identify a whole surface.

AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility
danielsada.tech

Daniel Sada - A love letter on owning AI generated code and the importance of personal accountability in code reviews

Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering
visualrambling.space

Understanding Threshold Map in Ordered Dithering.

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container. This feature launched as ChatGPT Code Interpreter nearly three years ago, was …

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype
theregister.com

Opinion: Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus
tetrisbench.com
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Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc.
workdaycase.com

Workday Case Website

Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
godotengine.org

With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.

Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click
ourguide.ai
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Ourguide Team - Click-by-click guidance on your screen for any task. Step-by-step assistance for learning new software and completing any workflow.

Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews
reddit.com/r/google
AI code and software craft
alexwennerberg.com

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