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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
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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
Adboost: A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
github.com/surprisetalk

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.

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.

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.

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

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse
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 – The 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.

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.

Contracts in Nix
sraka.xyz
The Book of PF, 4th edition
nostarch.com

Build a more secure network with PF.

'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis'
electrek.co

Jameson Dow - Tesla once again suggested to investors that it has robotaxis operating in San Francisco, even though it does not have permits to do so.

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog
gyrovague.com

Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal b…

Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M
rrauction.com
OpenClaw security assessment [pdf]
zeroleaks.ai
U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high
scientificamerican.com

Jeanna Bryner - Americans are living longer than ever but still well behind the life expectancy of other developed countries

The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404media.co

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

List animals until failure
rose.systems
Sparse File LRU Cache
ternarysearch.blogspot.com

An interesting file system feature that I came across a few years ago is sparse files . In short, many file systems allow you to create a lo...

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
404media.co

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
quantamagazine.org

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies.

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?
webkit.org

Anytime an exciting new web technology starts to land in browsers, developers want to know “when in the world am I going to be able to use this?” Currently, the finalized syntax for Grid Lanes is available in Safari Technology Preview.

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
nmn.sh
This Year in LLVM (2025)
npopov.com
Best of Moltbook
astralcodexten.com

Scott Alexander - ...

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
wikiedu.org

Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…

Outsourcing thinking
erikjohannes.no
The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die
corememory.com

Ashlee Vance - Epic Aerospace's record-setting tug has traveled millions of kilometers, and there's a chance we can bring it back

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
github.com/zupat

Data Processing benchmark featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. - zupat/related_post_gen

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
theregister.com

: AI vision systems can be very literal readers

In praise of –dry-run
henrikwarne.com

For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have…

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications
arxiv.org

General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a critical kernel in high-performance computing and deep learning. While modern architectures like ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) introduce dedicated hardware for matrix operations, existing linear algebra libraries fail to fully exploit its potential, particularly for large matrices. This paper presents MpGEMM, an open-source library that leverages key architectural fea

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]
usenix.org
Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland
github.com/noctalia-dev

A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland. - noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images
github.com/rtvkiz
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Minimal CVE Hardened container image collection. Contribute to rtvkiz/minimal development by creating an account on GitHub.

TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma
arstechnica.com

The website is delayed as senators seek answers from health department watchdog.

Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
theguardian.com

From zoos to soup kitchens, people are hauling away tonnes of surplus spuds after the biggest crop in 25 years

Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
gwern.net

Gwern - Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in Death Note and considering fixes

Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
crl.io
Guest Post from an Iranian
scottaaronson.blog

The following guest post was written by a Shtetl-Optimized fan in Iran, who’s choosing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. I’m in awe of the courage of this individual and the mill…

Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS
genode.org
Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
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Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018
bloomberg.com
US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
bloomberg.com
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
an.dywa.ng

Andy Wang - In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025. The announcement1 says https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101 ↩

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