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You can't trust the internet anymore
nicole.express

I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...

Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - New from Google. They say it's "built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering". It drew me a really good SVG of …

Descent, Ported to the Web
mrdoob.github.io
Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable
niemanlab.org

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care
npr.org

Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care.

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
github.com/i5heu

Maintained - uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts - i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar
github.com/Geek-1001
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macOS bookmark manager that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar - Geek-1001/arcmark

Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
github.com/orgs

I understand it's extremely difficult to avoid using AI as a programmer nowadays, even if you're going out of your way not to. However I noticed that Claude is a contributor in the main github repo...

Amsterdam Compiler Kit
github.com/davidgiven

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit. Contribute to davidgiven/ack development by creating an account on GitHub.

Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud
tomshardware.com

Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term testing results
microscopy-uk.org.uk
Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
arstechnica.com

Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.

Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M
nytimes.com
Vim 9.2 Released
vim.org
My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
aimilios.bearblog.dev

I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impul...

Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics
engadget.com

According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months.

Epstein's Ugly World of Science
homunculusmusic.wordpress.com

As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …

7zip.com Is Serving Malware
malwarebytes.com

Stefan Dasic - A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.

Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
github.com/datavorous
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a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB. Contribute to datavorous/sameshi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
ooh.directory

A collection of 2,380 blogs about every topic

How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
blog.yossarian.net
Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says
bbc.com

There is no innocent explanation for the toxin being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, Foreign Office says.

4chan for Clankers
4claw.org
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story
infosec.exchange

Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

YouTube as Storage
github.com/PulseBeat02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03Os5uwWmk. Contribute to PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage development by creating an account on GitHub.

Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
ziglang.org
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
backblaze.com

Drive Stats Team - Backblaze's 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
github.com/mickamy
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Watch SQL traffic in real-time with a TUI. Contribute to mickamy/sql-tap development by creating an account on GitHub.

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder
pcgamer.com

Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

Stanford Review: Is YC for Cowards?
stanfordreview.org

There is a common saying on Stanford's campus: it is easier to get into Y Combinator than to get a real job. I didn't think much of it until last Friday, when I grabbed lunch in SF with an old friend, a Princeton grad who left finance to build a

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry
npmx.dev

a fast, modern browser for the npm registry. Search, browse, and explore packages with a modern interface.

What dating apps are optimizing
phys.org
An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
theshamblog.com

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
nytimes.com
The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …

The wonder of modern drywall
worksinprogress.news

Yassine Meskhout - How gypsum changed construction

AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going
nickolinger.com

An AI bot is littering open source with PRs

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
theconversation.com

Alnoor Ebrahim - OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.

Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains
imidaily.com

Moustafa Daly - Starting January 2028, the Netherlands is set to require that residents pay tax on paper profits they have not yet cashed in, pending Senate approval.

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
github.com/datascale-ai
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data engineering book. Contribute to datascale-ai/data_engineering_book development by creating an account on GitHub.

AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
bbc.com

It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
politico.eu

Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.

The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs
aredridel.dinhe.net
Something Big Is (Not) Happening
aricolaprete.com

Or is it happening, perhaps it has already happened? Maybe it's just acting like it has happened, because it is tired ...

The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting
ardentperf.com

My personal blog here is dedicated to tech geek material, mostly about databases like postgres. I don’t get political, but at the moment I’m so irritated that I’m making the extra…

11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
homolova.sk

Ada Homolova - 11.8 million EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for. A data essay about mobile Europeans and their missing right to vote.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
openai.com
I'm not worried about AI job loss
davidoks.blog

David Oks - We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine

Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
cloudrouter.dev
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Cloud sandboxes for development. Instant remote VMs with VS Code, terminal, VNC, and browser automation via Chrome CDP.

Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]
youtube.com
The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979
stereo2go.com

Just cruising the interwebs and found this oddity, the Sharp PC-2001 Boombox Computer from 1979. Not much information can be found, does anybody own...

Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]
dwarkesh.com

Dwarkesh Patel - "That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"

Building a TUI is easy now
hatchet.run

Deploy More Resilient Apps. Hatchet is a platform for building distributed web apps that solves scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting.

CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'
wired.com

Dell Cameron - US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

Good Riddance, 4o
mahadk.com

It should've happened sooner.

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
wired.com

Reece Rogers - Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.

IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes
github.com/nearai

IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired implementation in Rust focused on privacy and security - nearai/ironclaw

I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini)
coder.com

I wanted everything OpenClaw offered: a personal AI agent on my own hardware, connected to my real tools, available around the clock. But I also wanted a system where the secure setup is the default, without requiring constant hardening and maintenance.

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
eff.org

Rindala Alajaji and Samantha Baldwin - Discord has begun rolling out mandatory age verification and the internet is, understandably, freaking out. We’ve written extensively about why age verification mandates are a censorship and surveillance nightmare. Discord’s shift only reinforces those concerns.

Open source is not about you (2018)
gist.github.com

Open Source is Not About You. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

How did the Maya survive?
theguardian.com

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
ios-countdown.win

A countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer.

Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
github.com/zed-industries

The blade graphics library is a mess and causes several issues for both Zed users as well as other 3rd party apps using GPUI. This PR removes blade and implements the linux platform using wgpu whic...

I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably
jitbit.com

I asked Claude Code to remove Jquery. It failed miserably. - Thursday, 12 February 2026 - Alex's blog'

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace
bloodinthemachine.com

Brian Merchant - The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

Monosketch
monosketch.io

MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.

US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases
cnn.com

Ella Nilsen - The Trump Environmental Protection Agency delivered a significant blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules to revoke a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety.

Ask HN: AI Depression
news.ycombinator.com
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Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?
aljazeera.com

Mohammad Mansour - US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?
blog.feld.me

OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases. I can't remember ever having a good experience with software using GnuTLS. LibreSSL is incomplete... What happened now? Last year an article from Haproxy about how terribly …

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
cordcuttersnews.com

Luke Bouma - In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi. The transition comes at a pivotal time for the series, which has […]

CSS-Doodle
css-doodle.com
MinIO repository is no longer maintained
github.com/minio
Ring owners are returning their cameras
msn.com
Lena by qntm (2021)
qntm.org
New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
nickbostrom.com
The wonder of modern drywall
worksinprogress.co

No person should get excited about a blank wall. But your wall at home is a reminder that most advancements are almost entirely invisible.

Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
economist.com
Cloudflare adds real-time Markdown rendering for AI agents
blog.cloudflare.com

The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Markdown for Agents automatically converts any HTML page requested from our network to markdown.

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
skipthe.tips

vladimirj.dev - Many dark patterns stand between you and 'No Tip'. A free browser game about tipping culture, guilt, and tiny buttons.

Lifetime Lead Exposure Can Triple Alzheimer's Risk
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
AWS Adds support for nested virtualization
github.com/aws
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
noheger.at
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
theverge.com

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy - Flock off

Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions
herbertlui.net

When you need to make an anxiety-inducing decision, ask yourself: What is the worst realistic outcome? Will you be able to recover from it? Let’s say you want to make a product and sell it, and you need to invest in inventory. The manufacturer needs you to order $1,000 worth to meet their minimum. The […]

Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
news.ycombinator.com
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Discord just killed anonymity
michael-dev-tech.github.io
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could
techdirt.com

The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, “necessary” is something that’s on a continually sliding scale with Trump bac…

Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
realfood.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - The Dietary Guidelines for Americans reset U.S. nutrition policy by restoring science, common sense, and real food as the foundation of national health.

Alarm bells just rang at San Francisco's 2 buzziest tech companies
sfgate.com

Stephen Council - "The world is in peril," one researcher wrote, "And not just from AI."

Fixing retail with land value capture
worksinprogress.co

How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere.

What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)
support.apple.com

They're pronounced the same, but, technically speaking, there is a distinct difference between a disc and a disk.

I was insulted today – AI style
forkingmad.blog

There I was minding my own business, plodding through the working day, getting on with my tasks. A colleague asked me to proof-read his report and offer f...

Amazon gets FCC approval to launch 4,500 Leo internet satellites
cnbc.com
Show HN: Generate Web Interfaces from Data
github.com/puffinsoft
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Generative UIs for the web. Contribute to puffinsoft/syntux development by creating an account on GitHub.

Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
bbc.com

The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.

Rari – Rust-powered React framework
rari.build

A performance-first React framework powered by Rust

Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills
moltis.org
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One Rust binary that runs the full AI assistant: multi-provider LLM routing, tools, memory, sandboxed execution, and multi-channel access.

Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
news.ycombinator.com
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