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Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
github.com/jim11662418

Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock. - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock

GitHub Is Down
github.com/
It's not you; GitHub is down again
githubstatus.com
Why Is the Sky Blue?
explainers.blog
Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail
bbc.com

Lai's supporters say this amounts to a death sentence, but authorities say it demonstrates the rule of law.

Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
defusedcyber.com

A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the tradecraft.

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It
hbr.org

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s n

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
discord.com

Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
theverge.com

Stevie Bonifield - Age verification for all.

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations
quantamagazine.org

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues.

AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports
reuters.com
Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
sciencedirect.com
Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?
newyorker.com

Dhruv Khullar - GLP-1 drugs, which have helped some people curb drug and alcohol use, may unlock a pathway to moderation.

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
codeberg.org

smnx - UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)

Thoughts on Generating C
wingolog.org
Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior
topgear.com

Love the iMac and iPhone? This one’s for you

Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure
wirewiki.com
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Explore internet infrastructure. Inspect domain names, IP addresses, DNS servers and more. Wirewiki offers free online tools to query internet infrastructure.

Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
theregister.com

FOSDEM 2026: One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

Offpunk 3.0
ploum.net
Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth
alltheviews.world
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Nobody knows how the whole system works
surfingcomplexity.blog

One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…

A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down
wsj.com
TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
apnews.com

Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract computer chip maker, has announced it will be manufacturing advanced 3-nanometer semiconductors in Japan to meet booming AI demand.

Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
harshanu.space

Harshanu - A Guide to comparing Claude Code Compiler with GCC

Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more
mayoclinic.org
CIA Erased the World Factbook with No Warning
techdirt.com

For over half a century, the CIA’s World Factbook has been one of the most quietly useful things the federal government has ever produced. A comprehensive, regularly updated, freely available…

NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers
twitter.com
In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks
bbc.com

In the race for AI, tech firms are asking for their staff to work long hours. But there are risks, experts say

Microsoft Outlook thinks Microsoft Azure emails are spam
twitter.com
Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
odd-lots-books.netlify.app
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
blundergoat.com

Matthew Hansen - AI handles writing code but leaves the hard work: investigation, context, validation. Why vibe coding has limits and AI assistance can backfire.

Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures
bobbiec.github.io
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Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2
mattst88.com
Stop generating, start thinking
localghost.dev

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
arxiv.org

Using nationally representative data from the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies (ANES), this paper traces how the U.S. social media landscape has shifted across platforms, demographics, and politics. Overall platform use has declined, with the youngest and oldest Americans increasingly abstaining from social media altogether. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter/X have lost ground, while TikTok and Reddit ha

Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
voidtools.com
Art of Roads in Games
sandboxspirit.com

How games implement roads

More Mac malware from Google search
eclecticlight.co

Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marek’s disease?

Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler
github.com/apple-oss-distributions

Contribute to apple-oss-distributions/xnu development by creating an account on GitHub.

A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
gtaforums.com

Ready2Play Complete package to play easy and without installation on modern Windows systems. Just extract to desired location and start the launcher to play, Enjoy! Features - Improved compatibility and performance - GTA + London + 1961 (Windows version) - Supports Steam version (Install detectio...

The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes
phys.org
Apple Container 0.9.0
github.com/apple

Highlights ⌨️ denotes breaking CLI changes. 👩‍💻 denotes breaking API changes. Core Use Kata 3.26.0 kernel Unpack layer content compressed with zstd Install kernels compressed with zstd Configure ...

Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage
expressnews.com

Molly Smith - Amazon launched drone delivery service in North Texas in early December, shortly after Prime Air delivery was unveiled in San Antonio.

Corporations Don't Have to Maximize Profits (2015)
nytimes.com

The business judgment rule gives directors protection from judicial second-guessing about how to best serve their companies and shareholders.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
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Tech Independence
sive.rs
Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens
nullcathedral.com

_NULL - Roundcube's HTML sanitizer doesn't treat SVG feImage href as an image source. Attackers can bypass remote image blocking to track email opens.

Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
latent.space

Ankit Maloo - Most expert work isn’t “produce a probable artifact”; it's "choose a good move considering other agents, guessing hidden state". LLMs default to single-shot artifacts and need World Models to progress

The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
blog.svgames.pl

A short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.

Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver
nytimes.com
Bun v1.3.9
bun.com

Fixes 23 issues (addressing 13 👍). Run multiple scripts in --parallel or --sequential. bun:test mock & spyOn get Symbol.dispose support. ESM bytecode compilation. Faster Bun.markdown. Faster RegExp, String.prototype.trim, String.prototype.startsWith.

Stop Using Face ID
pcmag.com

Biometric locks like face recognition are easy to set up—but thanks to a legal loophole, they're easier for law enforcement to bypass than a passcode.

The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster
insideevs.com
Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
fabiensanglard.net
Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
underhillgame.com
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Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
github.com/microsoft

Summary It's possible in Copilot to bypass any billing / 'premium request' usage by taking advantage of: Subagents and tool calls not consuming any 'requests'. Request cost being calculated on the ...

Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This study expands the evidence of a beneficial association of omega-3 and LOD to EOD as well. These findings suggest that an increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids earlier in life may slow the development of EOD. Additional research is needed to confirm our findings, particularly in more diverse p …

Vouch
github.com/mitchellh

A contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate. - mitchellh/vouch

Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop
alfioemanuele.io

Bringing Passkeys to the Linux desktop

I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
blog.otterstack.com
Five disciplines discovered the same math independently
freethemath.org

Bruce Stephenson - The same math predicts market crashes, power grid blackouts, and cardiac failures. At least six fields discovered it independently. Most didn't know about each other.

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
aaronmate.net

Aaron Maté - "Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims."

Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?
marginalrevolution.com

Tyler Cowen - No: Economic theory predicts that transformative technologies may influence interest rates by changing growth expectations, increasing uncertainty about growth, or raising concerns about existential risk. Examining US bond yields around major AI model releases in 2023-4, we find economically large and statistically significant movements concentrated at longer maturities. The median and mean yield responses across […]

Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges
thecradle.co

US tech companies requested that Washington impose sanctions after the UN rights official sent 'threatening letters' warning them of complicity in the genocide in Gaza

Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019)
habr.com

Русская версия этой статьи. Modern PC motherboards' firmware follow UEFI specification since 2010. In 2013, a new technology called Secure Boot appeared, intended to prevent bootkits from being...

RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
datatracker.ietf.org

Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without any proper explanation or definition. This document rectifies that deficiency. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
siddhantkhare.com

Siddhant Khare - You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

I am happier writing code by hand
abhinavomprakash.com

Abhinav Omprakash - I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll? This was the third time I gave claude-code a try. I felt the same feelings every single time and ended up deleting claude-code after 2-3 weeks,

Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing
blog.hofstede.it
Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks
bloomberg.com

Bitcoin tumbled below $61,000, as the unwinding of leveraged bets and broader market turbulence deepened a selloff that has wiped out all of the gains since President Donald Trump’s election set off a speculative rush into cryptocurrencies.

GitHub Agentic Workflows
github.github.io

Automated repository agents running in GitHub Actions.

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
znah.net

Experimental simulation of emergent complexity through graph-rewriting automata.

Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs
cinegraphs.ai
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Dave Farber has died
lists.nanog.org
Why E cores make Apple silicon fast
eclecticlight.co

Apple silicon architecture is designed to get background processes out of the way of our apps running in the foreground, by using the E cores.

OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift
finance.yahoo.com
Slop Terrifies Me
ezhik.jp

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
hyperallergic.com

I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”

In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests
abc.net.au

As the New START treaty curbing the US and Russian nuclear weapons programs expires, the work we do here in the red centre has become more important than ever before.

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600
github.com/joshuanwalker

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 - joshuanwalker/Raiders2600

Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs
arcan-fe.com

This is the concluding follow up to the article on ‘Arcan as Operating System Design’. When combined, we have reach the end of trying to explain what Arcan actually ‘is’ on …

Quartz crystals
pa3fwm.nl
Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox
github.com/jingkaihe

Matchlock secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox. - jingkaihe/matchlock

DoNotNotify is now Open Source
donotnotify.com
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA
theguardian.com

The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

OpenClaw is changing my life
reorx.com

Reorx - I want to share some thoughts on my recent experience with OpenClaw. Over the past year, I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already assist with programming—seemingly replacing programmers—but I never felt it brought any revolutionary change to the way I work. Sure, agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor have made writing code easier, but at the end of the day

SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses
jurist.org

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that asks whether the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applies to users who sign up for newsletters from websites that use Meta's tracking...

LineageOS 23.2
lineageos.org

LineageOS - Material Expressive is here!

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)
rogerebert.com
Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
techcrunch.com

Ivan Mehta - Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025 but wasn't discovered until early February.

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users
kenklippenstein.com

Ken Klippenstein - Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse
thatjoescott.com

Jeff Espiritu - It’s been talked about for a while (in fact I covered this 6 years ago), but a lot of things have been said about the potential collapse of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC. This global current that keeps Europe and North America (but especially Europe) from being covered in ice is increasingly under threat of slowing or even stopping. The results would b

Vouch
github.com/mitchellh
Beyond agentic coding
haskellforall.com

AI dev tooling can do better than chat interfaces

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
github.com/localgpt-app
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Contribute to localgpt-app/localgpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
nytimes.com
The silent death of good code
amit.prasad.me
FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs
fda.gov
You Are Here
brooker.co.za
Tiny C Compiler
bellard.org

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