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The Dance Floor Is Disappearing in a Sea of Phones
bloomberg.com

Electronic music’s club culture is facing an existential moment as bigger venues, higher ticket prices and social media turn dance floors into spectator events.

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
susam.net
Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents – Stripe Dot Dev Blog
stripe.dev

Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.

What Is a Database Transaction?
planetscale.com

What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?

Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not
hypha.pub
Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
hypha.pub
What's the best way to learn a new language?
bbc.com

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

DHS pausing TSA PreCheck, Global Entry programs amid funding lapse
nbcnews.com

The suspension is set to start at 6 a.m. ET Sunday, a DHS spokesperson said.

U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974
ielp.worldtradelaw.net

If the Supreme Court strikes down nonreciprocal tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the Trump Administration reportedly plans to re-impose some of the tariffs by citing authorities in other laws.

Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows
wsj.com
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much
nytimes.com
Japanese Woodblock Print Search
ukiyo-e.org
Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep dive
github.com/Leading-AI-IO

A comprehensive guide to Palantir Foundry's Ontology strategy. / 世界最強のデータプラットフォーム「パランティア」の中核概念である『オントロジー』の戦略と実装を解き明かすOSS書籍プロジェクト。 - Leading-AI-IO/palantir-ontology-strategy

Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake
garryslist.org

This restaurant chain's 96% stock collapse is a warning for every company facing the AI age

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
sambent.com

On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
boristane.com

The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.

Are compilers deterministic?
blog.onepatchdown.net
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
therage.co

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
science.org
Password managers less secure than promised
ethz.ch

Researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular, cloud-based password managers. During testing, they were able to view and even make changes to stored passwords. 

Why is Claude an Electron app?
dbreunig.com

Drew Breunig - If code is free, why aren’t all apps native?

Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU
github.com/xaskasdf
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High-efficiency LLM inference engine in C++/CUDA. Run Llama 70B on RTX 3090. - xaskasdf/ntransformer

EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)
eduke32.com
Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming
inputlag.science
Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust
harudagondi.space

Applying the type-driven mindset to rust via the "Parse, don't Validate" pattern

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
anuragk.com
Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
blog.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Greenland ice melt surges unprecedentedly amid warming
phys.org
Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++
github.com/a-e-k

A tiny, single-header -like 2D rasterizer for C++ - a-e-k/canvas_ity

The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
boristane.com

AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.

Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation
carbuzz.com

The Mirai has faced several challenges in an automotive world that's not built for hydrogen. Despite everything, it still remains in production.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia – By Elon Musk
newrepublic.com

Edith Olmsted - The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
antipolygraph.org

A former CIA analyst describes her polygraph experiences with the CIA and as a contractor working for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), FBI, and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
dialup95.com
What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
milk.com
The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated
nekonomicon.irixnet.org
Trump raises tariffs to 15% day after Supreme Court ruling
bbc.co.uk

After the Supreme Court outlawed most of his tariffs on Friday, Trump announced new global tariffs of 10%. On Saturday he said he would increase these to 15%.

Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust
github.com/Ragnaroek
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wolf3D in Rust. Contribute to Ragnaroek/iron-wolf development by creating an account on GitHub.

macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)
igorstechnoclub.com

EARLY ACCESS If you want a deeper, up-to-date treatment of sandbox-exec

CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
koreaherald.com

Jie Ye-eun - Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are locked in a race to mass-produce sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, but Chinese rivals are making gains elsewhere — fl

Chris Lattner: Claude C Compiler
modular.com

Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.

zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
github.com/tnm

Your personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32. GPIO, cron, memory, and more. - tnm/zclaw

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU
itv.com
Palantir Captured the UK Ministry of Defence
ft.com

Insufficient details about the US data intelligence company’s recent contract have been made public

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws: I'm …

Large Language Model Reasoning Failures
arxiv.org

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable reasoning capabilities, achieving impressive results across a wide range of tasks. Despite these advances, significant reasoning failures persist, occurring even in seemingly simple scenarios. To systematically understand and address these shortcomings, we present the first comprehensive survey dedicated to reasoning failures in LLMs. We introduce a novel categor

LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
neowin.net

LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in."

24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
ahmedkaddoura.com
EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)
environment.ec.europa.eu

The new law will ensure that batteries are collected, reused and recycled in Europe and will support the shift to a circular economy.

Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool
github.com/coccinelle

Source code of the Coccinelle project (mirror of the main Coccinelle repository located at Inria) - coccinelle/coccinelle

AI uBlock Blacklist
github.com/alvi-se

Websites I personally found that are completely generated by AI. Pull requests welcome. - alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist

When etcd crashes, check your disks first
nubificus.co.uk

Charalampos Mainas - Setting up a cloud-edge continuum testbed for a computer vision demo taught us something fundamental about distributed systems: etcd doesn’t forgive slow storage.

Acme Weather
acmeweather.com
Trunk Based Development
trunkbaseddevelopment.com
I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
thelocalstack.eu
How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model
tinfoil.sh

Tinfoil - How we cryptographically guarantee that we are serving specific, untampered model weights that clients can verify on each request.

Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems
biometricupdate.com

Anthony Kimery - As Colorado lawmakers once again revisit online age verification, the debate is no longer about whether to protect children online.

Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency
mojodojo.io

We manage millions of dollars in annual Meta ad spend. Not thousands. Millions. Our retail clients grow their businesses through Meta Ads, and for a lot of them, it’s their single most important…

OpenAI employees raised alarms about Canada shooting suspect months ago
wsj.com
Excessive token usage in Claude Code
github.com/anthropics

Bug Description Starting from today's morning with the updated to CC 2.1.1 - the usage is ridiculous. I am working on the same projects for months, same routines, same time. But today it hits 5h li...

What Is OAuth?
leaflet.pub

Wherein I [try to] answer a seemingly straightforward question: "WTF is OAuth, anyhow?"

Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents
june.kim
Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
twitter.com
Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
gamedate.org

Schedule sessions for dead games, niche mods, and retro netplay. No account needed.

Be wary of Bluesky
kevinak.se
CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
worldwideweb.cern.ch

CERN - 2019 rebuilding of the original NeXT web browser

Judge scolds Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial
cbsnews.com
From 'buy America' to 'bye America', Wall Street exodus gathers pace
reuters.com
Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
bloodinthemachine.com

Brian Merchant - Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
aol.com

AOL - Vibe coding everything is just not worth it, says A16z partner Anish Acharya.

Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)
adamj.eu
I hate AI side projects
dylancastillo.co
FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
arstechnica.com

Brendan Carr wants "patriotic" shows for Trump's yearlong America 250 celebration.

Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects
loonlang.com
Turn Dependabot off
words.filippo.io
'A Big Fuck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center
commondreams.org

"It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.

Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
mines.fyi
show

Search and map 91,000+ US mines from MSHA public data. Filter by state, commodity, operator, and mine type. Free.

Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox
neowin.net

A massive leadership shakeup at Microsoft's gaming division sees Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond leaving the company.

OpenScan
openscan.eu
I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
dixken.de

What happens when you responsibly disclose a critical vulnerability exposing personal data - including that of minors - and the organization responds with legal threats instead of a thank you?

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
juno-labs.com

Every company building an AI assistant is funded by advertising. They are also building hardware that listens and watches 24/7. Local on-device inference is the only way out.

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
arstechnica.com

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
bbc.co.uk

Wingstop, Burger King, and others have walked away from an industry commitment to avoid using fast-growing chickens

Facebook is cooked
pilk.website

Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse

Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index
axios.com
Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
neuroai.science

Patrick Mineault - Why controlling total luminance is a better bet

Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI
twitter.com
Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
anthropic.com

Claude Code Security is one step towards our goal of more secure codebases and a higher security baseline across the industry.

Keep Android Open
f-droid.org

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During out talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most w...

Lil' Fun Langs
taylor.town

Taylor Troesh - a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists

Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - A federal judge has rejected Tesla’s bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash...

No Skill. No Taste
blog.kinglycrow.com

I was reading a thread on HN and I started writing this super long comment and rewriting and editing and thought, hey, if I'm doing this I clearly care enough about the state of Show HN and HN in general to write a post on it. I've written code since

The Gay Tech Mafia
wired.com

Zoë Bernard - Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
bbc.com

The Supreme Court rules with a 6-3 majority that Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs via a law reserved for national emergencies.

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
harpers.org

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
spencer.wtf

Spencer Dixon - How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...

Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
github.com/IronsideXXVI
show

Contribute to IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
github.com/ggml-org

Announcement We are happy to announce that ggml.ai (the founding team of llama.cpp) are joining Hugging Face in order to keep future AI truly open. Georgi and team are joining HF with the goal of s...

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
bleepingcomputer.com

PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year.

How to stop being boring
joanwestenberg.com

The most interesting people I know aren't trying to be interesting. Thank God. They're saying what they actually think and wearing what they actually like, pursuing hobbies that genuinely fascinate them, regardless of whether those hobbies are cool. The most mind-numbingly boring people I know are working overtime to seem

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