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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 A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

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
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

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 …

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: The Linux kernel's 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
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
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
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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

Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
medicalxpress.com
Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment
ft.com

Chipmaker swaps last year’s complex framework with AI start-up in favour of equity cheque

Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2
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.

I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video]
youtube.com
Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran
cnbc.com
The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
taalas.com

By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its widespread adoption is hindered by two key barriers: high latency and astronomical cost. Interactions with language models lag far...

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
coinerella.com

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
jimmyhmiller.com

Jimmy Miller - Understanding large codebase can be incredibly difficult. In this post I walk through how I learn a codebase use turbopack as my case study.

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
learn.pimoroni.com
Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance
caimito.net

Modern browsers now support everything needed to build sophisticated, reactive web interfaces without React, Vue, or Angular. Web components, custom elements, shadow DOM, and native event systems l...

Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
github.com/olvvier

reading the undocumented mems accelerometer on apple silicon macbooks via iokit hid - olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer

Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching
arxiv.org

Scaling language models to long contexts is often bottlenecked by the size of the key-value (KV) cache. In deployed settings, long contexts are typically managed through compaction in token space via summarization. However, summarization can be highly lossy, substantially harming downstream performance. Recent work on Cartridges has shown that it is possible to train highly compact KV caches in latent space that clos

Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system
bbc.com

Osaka's mayor says he is 'lost for words' and that he has 'nothing but appreciation' for the gesture.

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
together.ai

Standard diffusion language models can't use KV caching and need too many refinement steps to be practical. CDLM fixes both with a post-training recipe that enables exact block-wise KV caching and trajectory-consistent step reduction — delivering up to 14.5x latency improvements

Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass
arstechnica.com

Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
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…

China confirms visa-free travel for UK and Canadian nationals
bbc.com

Relaxed visa rules for British and Canadian passport holders will come into force on 17 February.

Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel
github.com/tmustier

Experimental Excel sidebar agent add-in. Multi-model. Powered by Pi. - tmustier/pi-for-excel

An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review
sour.coffee
MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
gist.github.com

MuMu Player Pro (NetEase) silently runs 17 system reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes on macOS - news.md

Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99
github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon
show

Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.

The #1 most downloaded skill on OpenClaw marketplace was malware
twitter.com
Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus
bbc.com

A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt
cnn.com

Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed - A federal judge in Minnesota held a Trump administration attorney in civil contempt for “flagrant disobedience of court orders” in the case of a noncitizen swept up in the immigration crackdown there earlier this year.

Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
github.com/manaflow-ai
show

Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents - manaflow-ai/cmux

A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression
economist.com
We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
theguardian.com

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"
texastribune.org

Jessica Priest - Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
hankgreen.com
AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
kasava.dev

Kasava - Kasava is the AI-native platform purpose-built for product development. Plan, build, and monitor with AI-powered workflows.

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
blog.zgp.org
Palantir partnership is at heart of Anthropic, Pentagon rift
semafor.com

The roots of the conflict point to the changing nature of software stacks as top officials push to modernize the military.

Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought [video]
youtube.com
YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users
pcmag.com

Background play in Brave appears to have been restrored, though.

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup
theregister.com

: IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
blog.adafruit.com
Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists
aftermath.site

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey
shiftmag.dev

Ivan Brezak Brkan - AI adoption is skyrocketing among developers, but productivity improvements remain low. Discover the real impact of AI coding assistants.

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