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Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla's EU+EFTA+UK registrations fell 17% in January 2026 — down from already weak 2025 numbers. Without Tesla, BEV registrations would be up 16%.

Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders
bbc.com

Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being shot for refusing orders.

Steel Bank Common Lisp
sbcl.org
OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
vmfunc.re

vmfunc - 53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.

OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B
cnbc.com
1Password Raising Prices ~33%
news.ycombinator.com
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Nearby Glasses
github.com/yjeanrenaud

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
news.ycombinator.com
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HuggingFace Agent Skills
github.com/huggingface

Contribute to huggingface/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution
keepandroidopen.org

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
9news.com

Denver is getting rid of its automated license plate reading camera vendor Flock Safety.

I'm helping my dog vibe code games
calebleak.com

Caleb Leak - My cavapoo Momo vibe coded playable Godot games. All I had to do was teach her to type, route her input to Claude Code, and build the right tools.

Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety
linkinghub.elsevier.com
Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024)
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp

IZUMI-SANO, Osaka — Kansai Airport is proud to have never had a lost baggage incident in the 30 years since it opened in 1994, earning recognition as the airport with the world’s best baggage service.

An AI doomsday report shook US markets
theguardian.com

Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack

Software 3.1? – AI Functions
blog.mikegchambers.com

Moving beyond Software 3.0’s generate-and-verify loop, AI Functions execute LLM-generated code at runtime, return native Python objects, and use automated post-conditions for continuous verification. This is Software 3.1: where AI doesn’t just write code—it runs it.

Trump Fake Electors Plot
en.wikipedia.org
Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
stripe.com

Stripe announces tender offer to provide liquidity to current and former employees; publishes 2025 annual letter

Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite
mketab.org
Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
hacks.mozilla.org

Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM. Firefox 148 is the first browser to ship this standardized security enhancing API, advancing a safer web for everyone. We expect other browsers to follow soon.

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
wordglyph.xyz

A story about Disneyland's Space Mountain and a 10-year-old inventor.

Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)
github.com/hash-anu
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SNKV- key value store using sqlite b-tree APIs. Contribute to hash-anu/snkv development by creating an account on GitHub.

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
nytimes.com
xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
axios.com
IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
dropsitenews.com

Sharif Abdel Kouddous - A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15.

Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona
fortune.com

Catherina Gioino - Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity
theatlantic.com

Matteo Wong - You don’t “train a human.”

AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days
twitter.com
Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests
decrypt.co

Decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to India with a bold new defense of AI energy use: Humans are less efficient than data centers, when you really think about it.

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
serverhost.com

The latest update of Firefox, version 148, introduces a much-anticipated "AI kill switch" feature, allowing users to disable AI functionalities such as chatbot prompts and AI-generated link summaries. Mozilla emphasizes that once AI features are turned off, future updates will not override this choice. This decision reflects the company’s new revenue-focused strategy regarding AI integrations. […]

Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes
github.com/GreatScott
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ENVeil: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext. - GreatScott/enveil

Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series
intel.com
Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
medicalxpress.com
Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
lyra.horse
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x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026)
federalregister.gov
Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair
ifixit.com

John Deere is still trying to kill the Right to Repair, but Iowa farmers are pushing hard to retake their rights.

Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates
guidelabs.ai
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We release Steerling-8B, an 8B-parameter causal diffusion language model that is interpretable by construction — its predictions are routed through concepts you can measure, audit, and control.

Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
guitarworld.com

The cast of players is yet to be announced – there is no title either – but Shatner says the whole thing was inspired by a guest turn on a Nuclear Messiah record with Chris Poland

ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math research
news.ycombinator.com
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I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
dork.dev
It's Official: The Cybertruck Is More Explosive Than the Ford Pinto
fuelarc.com

We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data […]

Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends
singh-sanjay.com

Why zombie instances survive health checks, and what the choice between server-side and client-side load balancing means for how fast your system detects and reacts to failure.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
gizmodo.com

Bruce Gil - Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth.

Warm Oceans Turned a 3-Inch Forecast into a Record NYC Blizzard
umbrellatoday.app

UmbrellaToday.app - NYC was expecting a dusting. It got 20 inches. The culprit: warmer oceans, a last-minute model shift, and a climate paradox that is only getting stronger.

Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
writings.stephenwolfram.com

Wolfram's Foundation Tool supplements LLM foundation models with deep computation and precise knowledge. CAG (computation-augmented generation) underlies multiple access methods.

Ukrainian hackers uncover how Russian drone operators are using Belarus
informnapalm.org
You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer
twitter.com
Tesla is having a hard time turning over its FSD traffic violation data
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla secured a second extension in NHTSA's FSD traffic violation probe, pushing crash data delivery to March 9 — far past the original January deadline.

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
vladimir.varank.in

My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play with FreeBSD — an OS that I’d aspired to play with for a long while, but had never had a real reason to. During the recent holiday season, right after FreeBSD 15 re

Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
thenevadaindependent.com

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. Unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro funds the project with donor money funneled into a private foundati

IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL
zerohedge.com

Anthropic creator Dario Amodei is making Claude disruption personal...

Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone
0x19.co
Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances
videocardz.com
The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
colino.net

An in-depth write-up about how I made Shufflepuck Cafe run at 60 fps on an 1MHz computer - including two-player network games.

Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)
github.com/vignesh07
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Flows-first PCAP TUI (case files, gorgeous UX). Contribute to vignesh07/babyshark development by creating an account on GitHub.

“Car Wash” test with 53 models
opper.ai

The developer platform for reliable agents

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)
forums.atariage.com
India's VIP culture is out of control
economist.com
Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
nytimes.com
A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
techradar.com

Researchers say a new gel-based electrolyte could increase EV battery energy density while drastically lowering costs

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
techcrunch.com

Zack Whittaker - While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.

Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax
twitter.com
Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot
twitter.com
US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
futurism.com

Frank Landymore - The US government deployed xAI's Grok to give dietary advice -- and it's giving some eyebrow-raising advice.

Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare
lendingtree.com

Families don’t make enough on average to afford child care for two children, according to government benchmarks.

Deplatform Yourself
pluralistic.net
The rise of eyes began with just one
nytimes.com
Writing code is cheap now
simonwillison.net
ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
reuters.com
Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
linguabase.org
What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
smallcultfollowing.com
Samsung Upcycle Promise
xda-developers.com

Your old phone could have been so much more.

Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives
reddit.com/r/DataHoarder
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
youtube.com
Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
text.npr.org
Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs
restofworld.org

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants are ramping up India hiring.

Show HN: C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
github.com/danalec
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Experimental C implementation of “Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths” by Ran Duan, Jiayi Mao, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, and Longhui Yin (STOC 2025) - danalec/DMMSY-SSSP

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
missing.csail.mit.edu

Master powerful tools that will make you a more productive computer scientist and programmer.

A simple web we own
rsdoiel.github.io
If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?
theguardian.com

Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?

First, They Came for the Journalists
codastory.com

Isobel Cockerell - Four stories of reporters in exile from Venezuela to Russia, Cuba to Afghanistan

Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
sowbot.co.uk
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Our mission is to bridge the gap between sustainability and scale by providing researchers and farmers with reproducible, lightweight robotics that reduce labour and environmental impact without proprietary dependencies. The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem is designed to bridge the “prototype gap” in

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
arstechnica.com

LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.

Ed's Stratego Site
edcollins.com
Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
gwern.net
Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
github.com/pgdogdev
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PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. - pgdogdev/pgdog

Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index
anthropic.com

Anthropic's AI Fluency Index measures 11 observable behaviors across thousands of Claude.ai conversations to understand how people develop AI collaboration skills.

Dow drops 600 points as confusion grows after U.S. tariffs
cnbc.com
NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade
theregister.com

: Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help

The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
sabrinas.space
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
spectrum.ieee.org

Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?

How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon
governance.fyi

Dave Deek - A debt-free retailer with 850 stores got a leveraged buyout. A failing electronics chain got a CEO. Thirteen years later, only one is still standing

VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]
pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
github.com/JeffBezanson

a lightweight, robust, scheme-like lisp implementation - JeffBezanson/femtolisp

I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab)
idonutbelieve.com

The place where independent analysis of Donut Lab’s solid-state battery claims, with public test data, reports, and technical commentary is released.

Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good
httptoolkit.com

Dictionary compression could completely change how applications send data over the web. It's recently gained broad support, and offers absurd real-world...

Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
blog.nytsoi.net

Mikko Ahlroth - Facebook is requesting my robots.txt thousands of times per hour.

Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU
Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026
coinerella.com

I used a professional transactional email service with a dedicated IP. One of Germany's largest email providers blocked me anyway - for not sending enough email. And people suggested I should self-host?

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