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Khamenei Dead
twitter.com
"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow
windowscentral.com

After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
collapseofindustrialcivilization.com

Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …

Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)
gist.github.com

Verified Spec-Driven Development. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The whole thing was a scam
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
help.obsidian.md

Headless Sync - Obsidian Help

Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
rockoder.com

Ganesh Pagade - A systems analysis of how AI-assisted development creates a gap between output speed and understanding, and why organizations cannot see it happening.

Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications
cerovac.com

Perhaps well-intended, the auto-scrolling content can be a real nightmare for multiple groups of users. I've done a mobile app audit and turning on screen reader exposed quite a messy experience - and yes, web can suffer from the same issue.

Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation
github.com/nocodemf
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agentic life simulation from inception. Contribute to nocodemf/werld development by creating an account on GitHub.

Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access
github.com/google-gemini

Over the past week, we saw reports from Gemini CLI users experiencing account disruptions. These were the result of a series of Antigravity bans rolled out to address violations of the Antigravity ...

OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
wired.com

Kate Knibbs - Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

The Life Cycle of Money
doap.metal.bohyen.space
Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
nowigetit.us
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Customer Update on Simplenote
forums.simplenote.com

Simplenote Forums Support Customer Update on Simplenote Customer Update on Simplenote staff-lynn · Staff · September 5, 2025 at 6:09 pm Copy link Add topic to favorites We appreciate your…

Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government
anthropic-timeline.vercel.app
What AI coding costs you
tomwojcik.com

What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

Latency numbers every programmer should know
cheat.sh
Don't trust AI agents
nanoclaw.dev

AI agents need a security model that assumes things will go wrong. The right response isn't better permission checks, it's architecture that makes trust unnecessary.

Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash
github.com/junevm
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compress any image to 16 bytes and reconstruct a blurry preview. Like blurhash and thumbhash, but smaller. - junevm/splathash

OpenAI – How to delete your account
help.openai.com

Delete your account by submitting a request to our Privacy Portal or within ChatGPT directly.

The Future of AI
lucijagregov.com

The Parents’ Paradox: AI, Ethics, and the Limits of Machine Morality This post is based on a talk I gave at The AI & Automation Conference in London on February 25, 2026, and my slides. A…

Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code
mksg.lu

MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%. 315 KB becomes 5.4 KB.

Israel Is Attacking Iran
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
unsloth.ai

A big new upgrade to our Dynamic Quants!

Iran agreed zero enriched uranium, and israel immediately bombs Tehran
twitter.com
Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements
dspace.networks.imdea.org
US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran
cnn.com

Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, Haley Britzky, Eugenia Yosef, Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, Nadeen Ebrahim - Israel launched what it called a “preemptive strike” against Iran Saturday morning, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz, as a state of emergency was declared across the country.

U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran
nytimes.com
The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
cnn.com

Oren Liebermann - Israel launched what it called a “preemptive strike” against Iran Saturday morning, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz, as a state of emergency was declared across the country.

How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
help.openai.com
Rust is just a tool
lewiscampbell.tech

A programming language should not be your identity.

Cash issuing terminals
computer.rip
OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. DoW classified network
reuters.com
Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
blog.timcappalli.me

Tim Cappalli - Passkeys are the future of authentication, but using them for data encryption is a disaster waiting to happen. Overloading these credentials creates a dangerous blast radius that can lead to the irreversible loss of a user's most sacred memories and documents.

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
twitter.com
"Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Dept. of War to deploy our models"
twitter.com
Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment
a-cup-of.coffee

Discover how Bootc and OSTree are revolutionizing Linux system deployment, offering modern, efficient, and immutable management.

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
glashrvatske.hrt.hr

Interior Minister Davor Božinović announced Friday that Croatia is officially free of landmines. Thirty-one years after the end of the Homeland War, all known minefields have been cleared — a major milestone for the country.

Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court
reuters.com
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
anthropic.com

Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

We Will Not Be Divided
notdivided.org

Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself
science.org
Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon dispute
thehill.com
Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux
github.com/wkoszek

Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust. Boots Linux. - wkoszek/emuko

I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
twitter.com
The Lancet: Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
thelancet.com
Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health
emt.pensoft.net

Alessandra Bez Birolo, Marcelo Tosatti, Oldemar de Oliveira Carvalho Junior, Assiya Haddout - Estuaries are vital ecosystems bridging terrestrial and marine environments, supporting nutrient cycling, biodiversity, and services like flood protection. Yet, they face threats from pollution, habitat fragmentation, overfishing, and climate change, demanding robust bioindicators for effective monitoring. This synthesis highlights otters—semi-aquatic mustelids such as the Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis), Nort

Trump Bans Anthropic from All US Federal Agencies
twitter.com
The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages
blog.cloudflare.com

We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user interface.

Trump orders US Government to cut ties with Anthropic
abcnews.com

ABC News - The Pentagon had set a 5:00 p.m. ET deadline for Anthropic to agree to a deal.

President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
npr.org

Trump announced that Federal agencies would be cease using Anthropic's tools within six months.

Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff
nytimes.com
Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic AI tech 'immediately'
cnbc.com
The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock
origami-robotics.com
Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
beyondthejoke.co.uk

Tributes have been paid to Rob Grant, the comedy writer best known as the co-creator of long running hit sitcom Red Dwarf. Grant was also one of the main writers on Spitting IMage for many years, writing regularly with Doug Naylor.The news was broken by the Red Dwarf fan site, Ganymede and Titan. (note - at the time of writing the site has gone down due, presumably, to so many fans trying to find out more details).Cr

Leaving Google has actively improved my life
pseudosingleton.com

In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...

Let's discuss sandbox isolation
shayon.dev

A dive into the spectrum of sandboxing and isolation, from Linux namespaces and gVisor to hardware-enforced microVMs and WebAssembly, and why picking the right boundary matters for multi-tenant workloads.

GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware
promptarmor.com

Vulnerabilities in the GitHub Copilot CLI expose users to the risk of arbitrary shell command execution via indirect prompt injection without any user approval. We demonstrate that malware can be downloaded from external servers and executed with no user interaction beyond the initial query to the Copilot CLI.

Anthropic refuses to bend to Pentagon on AI safeguards as dispute nears deadline
apnews.com

President Donald Trump says he's ordering all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts
redblobgames.com
Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds
getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

We're giving 100% of our tariff refund back to our customers.

Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025
twitter.com
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
dignitymemorial.com
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
minimaxir.com

No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.

Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM
blog.skypilot.co

Alex Kim - OpenClaw gives an AI agent full access to your system. Here's why you should run it on an isolated cloud VM, and how to set that up.

Tech people keep falling for the same scam
explodingcomma.com

JFC. Another tech writer I used to respect who is now posting about how the future is now fantastically wonderful and wide-open because anyone can create an app to do...

747s and Coding Agents
carlkolon.com

Comparing a career flying the 747 and a career coding with AI assistance.

Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users
theregister.com

: Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings?

Allocating on the Stack
go.dev

A description of some of the recent changes to do allocations on the stack instead of the heap.

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
cbsnews.com
Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions
github.com/hjtenklooster
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Recover files created and modified by Claude Code from JSONL session transcripts - hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery

Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices
blog.danlew.net

Journalists, I beg of you: please stop confusing unsold eBay listings for actual sales. I’m ticked off after seeing this Patch post about NYC MetroCards selling for $5,000 and this WSJ article about Trader Joe’s totes going for $50,000. Yes, someone listed these items for absurdly

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
cnn.com

Sean Lyngaas - A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study
theguardian.com

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
mendral.com

Sam Alba & Andrea Luzzardi - We gave our AI agent a SQL interface to billions of CI log lines in ClickHouse. How we ingest, store, and query 1.5 billion log lines a week.

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
github.com/c3d

As a consequence of recent legislative activity in [California][cal] and [Colororado][col]: * California residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2027. * Colorado residents may no longer u...

Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window
github.com/qwibitai
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A lightweight alternative to Clawdbot / OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK - qwibitai/n...

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices
eff.org

Saira Hussain - In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
understandingai.org

Timothy B. Lee - Anthropic faces a Friday deadline to allow domestic surveillance and automated killer robots.

Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure
browser-use.com

From AWS Lambda to Unikraft micro-VMs with a control plane architecture.

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
techcrunch.com

Russell Brandom - The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
pcgamer.com

It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)
reuters.com
Sam Altman: We raised a $110B round from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank
twitter.com
A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
blog.cloudflare.com

The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like.

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
retrotick.com
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Run classic Windows and DOS executables directly in your browser. Drag and drop any .exe — no installation required.

Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults
jamanetwork.com
US Customs destroys rare floppy disk
twitter.com
PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI
postmarketos.org
Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX
apnews.com

Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
news.ycombinator.com
ask

Oprettet: 27-02-2026 kl. 10.40 Opdateret: 27-02-2026 kl. 11.40 Opdateret: 27-02-2026 kl. 12:17

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
f-droid.org

Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for...

Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case
bbc.com

Migrant workers alleged they were subjected to abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory for Dyson.

Breaking Free
forbrukerradet.no

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other actors in Europe and the US, we are sending letter to policymakers in the EU/EEA, U

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
claude.com

Apply to the Claude for Open Source program. Eligible OSS maintainers and contributors get Claude Max for 6 months on us.

Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style
dionisiydk.blogspot.com

The rewrite engine is an absolutely brilliant invention by John Brant and Don Roberts, introduced with the Refactoring Browser (see  “A Refa...

The complete Manic Miner disassembly
skoolkit.ca
The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]
gwern.net
Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993
graydon2.dreamwidth.org

This is a semi-satirical / joking-not-joking post (spun out of a private mastodon post) that I will be taking absolutely no questions or comments about. If it does not amuse you please do not tell me in gruesome well-actually detail why it is a bad idea.My proposal: Computers should have

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
moultano.wordpress.com

With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

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