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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
Why 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

Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]
youtube.com
Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential"
dwarkesh.com

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

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.

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
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?

Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone
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.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made Palestinians evaporate
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
MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm
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.

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
ask
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
show

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

Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
log.jasongodfrey.info

A party balloon mistaken for a cartel drone shut down El Paso for hours. Here's what it cost.

How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]
youtube.com
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
anthropic.com

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

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
pol.is
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
openai.com
Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL
github.com/calebwin
show

A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL - calebwin/pgclaw

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Shut Up: Comment Blocker
rickyromero.com
ai;dr
0xsid.com
Gemini 3 Deep Think
blog.google
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
minimax.io
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
livescience.com

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

Show HN: 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source)
github.com/mutable-state-inc
show

Contribute to mutable-state-inc/lean-collab development by creating an account on GitHub.

An AI agent published a hit piece on me
theshamblog.com

Summary: 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…

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
waymo.com

Waymo will begin fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver —an important step in bringing our technology to more riders in more cities. This latest system serves as the primary engine for our next era of expansion, with a streamlined configuration that drives down costs while maintaining our uncompromising safety standards. Designed for long-term growth across multiple vehicle platforms, this system’

Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
thepragmaticcto.com

Allan MacGregor 🇨🇦 - The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse

US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
ft.com

Central bank’s research undercuts Trump’s claims that foreign companies will pay for levies

Texas Lawmakers Sound Alarm on 'Torture, Killing, and Inhumane Treatment'
commondreams.org

At least three inmates have died in the facility in just two months, including one who witnesses say was choked to death by guards.

Administration working to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
nbcnews.com

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)
loriemerson.net

If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir
bbc.com

South Korea's spy agency says Ki Ju Ae's prominent public presence indicates she is the chosen heir.

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
atha.io

Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a basic requirement of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: your account has a verified email, so there's no problem.

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app
bbc.com

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
aethermug.com

What exists is a matter of public opinion

The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
lwn.net

The team behind Tyr started 2025 with little to show in our quest to produce a Rust GPU driv [...]

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
theregister.com

: Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'

I Regret to Inform You That the FDA Is FDAing Again
marginalrevolution.com

Alex Tabarrok - I had high hopes and low expectations that the FDA under the new administration would be less paternalistic and more open to medical freedom. Instead, what we are getting is paternalism with different preferences. In particular, the FDA now appears to have a bizarre anti-vaccine fixation, particularly of the mRNA variety (disappointing but not surprising […]

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
blog.can.ac

Cross-posted from X / @_can1357 In fact only the edit tool changed. That’s it. 0x0: The Wrong Question The conversation right now is almost entirely about …

Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM
ericmigi.github.io
Apache Arrow is 10 years old
arrow.apache.org

pmc - The Apache Arrow project was officially established and had its first git commit on February 5th 2016, and we are therefore enthusiastic to announce its 10-year anniversary! Looking back over these 10 years, the project has developed in many unforeseen ways and we believe to have delivered on our objective of providing agnostic, efficient, durable standards for the exchange of columnar data. How it started From the s

America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out
threathunter.ai

ThreatHunter.ai - CISA has lost a third of its workforce, has no confirmed director, and its acting leader uploaded sensitive documents to public ChatGPT. Meanwhile, China is pre-positioned inside U.S. critical infrastructure. Here is why this should terrify every American.

The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024)
theshamblog.com

In my day job I work with ion thrusters for spacecraft, which are essentially electric-powered rockets that fling Xenon gas out at super high speeds to provide thrust and allow satellites to change…

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
github.com/matplotlib

This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

Resist and Unsubscribe
resistandunsubscribe.com
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
arstechnica.com

He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.

Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
geo-racers.com
show
From specification to stress test: a weekend with Claude
juxt.pro

A behavioural specification language, AI agent teams, and a Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed system built in 48 hours.

The missing digit of Stela C
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com

One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in…

65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
tildeweb.nl
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)
openculture.com

Though he died too young, Carl Sagan left behind an impressively large body of work, including more than 600 scientific papers and more than 20 books.

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
github.com/tonyyont

Warcraft III Peon voice notifications for Claude Code. Stop babysitting your terminal. - tonyyont/peon-ping

D Programming Language
dlang.org

D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax.

How to make a living as an artist
essays.fnnch.com
Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback
torrentfreak.com
The Problem with LLMs
deobald.ca

Premise Six months ago, a friend of mine, with whom I work on the nonprofit Pariyatti mobile app, sent me this blog post by Vijay Khanna: From Idea to App in 7 Hours. By now, this is a fairly common zero-to-one LLM coding story. (LLM is short for Large Language Model but for the purposes of this essay, we’ll use it as a substitute for what is broadly categorized as “generative AI” in early 2026.

Heroku is not dead
nombiezinja.com

When I read the blog https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/ , I had also thought Heroku was done. Then I talked to my friends who still work there, and I don't think Heroku is dead. I am going to talk about what happened, with a focus on organization dynamics in a start-up post acquis

Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative
hologram.page

Hologram v0.7.0: 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions, pushing runtime coverage from 34% to 96%. Plus enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure work.

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
papers.ssrn.com
Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to
niemanlab.org

For a new report released Wednesday, the Pew Research Center surveyed 3,560 U.S. adults in December 2025 about their relationship to the news and how they perceive its value in everyday life. The study found "no consensus about the importance of following the news," but there was one thin…

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
age-verifier.kibty.town
Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again
techcrunch.com

Amanda Silberling - While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May iOS update, or even until the release of iOS 27 in September.

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