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Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research
arxiv.org

Recent advances in foundational models have yielded reasoning systems capable of achieving a gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad. The transition from competition-level problem-solving to professional research, however, requires navigating vast literature and constructing long-horizon proofs. In this work, we introduce Aletheia, a math research agent that iteratively generates, verifies, and

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
arstechnica.com

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals
theintercept.com

Sam Biddle - Activist are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
github.com/TechPaula

A 6502 based laptop design. Contribute to TechPaula/LT6502 development by creating an account on GitHub.

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
environment.ec.europa.eu

The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.

Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court
heise.de

Falk Steiner - Data analysis provider Palantir wants to obtain a counterstatement in court – and triggers a wave of solidarity for a small Swiss magazine.

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
videogameschronicle.com

Sato helmed design for consoles including Mega Drive, Saturn…

An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop
lithub.com

Pecan nuts were already a dietary staple for Native Americans in various parts of what is now the United States before Antoine’s innovation established the basis for a commercial pecan industry. Th…

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
gwern.net

Gwern - Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.

AI is going to kill app subscriptions
nichehunt.app

Curated niche app opportunities from Reddit, scored by difficulty and demand.

1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists
github.com/cavedave

Attempt to convert 1943 Irish language sci-fi book Manannán to modern orthography - cavedave/Manannan

Inner-Platform Effect
en.wikipedia.org
Kimi Claw
kimi.com
Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
greenwald.substack.com

Glenn Greenwald - Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)
github.com/s-macke

Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986). Contribute to s-macke/starflight-reverse development by creating an account on GitHub.

I Fixed Windows Native Development
marler8997.github.io
A Pokémon of a Different Color
matthew.verive.me
Two different tricks for fast LLM inference
seangoedecke.com
Git is a file system. We need a database for the code
gist.github.com

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
scottlocklin.wordpress.com

DjVu is a vastly superior file format for books, mathematical papers and just about anything else you can think of to original PDF (current year PDF adopted some of its innovations, but they’…

Seeing Theory
seeing-theory.brown.edu

Daniel Kunin - A visual introduction to probability and statistics.

No Coding Before 10am
michaelxbloch.substack.com

Michael Bloch - Engineering is no longer about writing code. Here is one startup's playbook for building in the AI agent era.

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
oat.ink
Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF
zamoshi.substack.com

Michael McIntosh - Dignity moves, the mission of survival, and $140 million across the river

Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
kotaku.com

Zack Kotzer - The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors

Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
flashpointarchive.org
Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)
caucascapades.wordpress.com

During my first trip to Eastern Europe, I found an “Orpheus”  electric guitar leaning against a wall in the basement of a music shop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Half of its parts were missin…

OpenAI Has Murdered Orion
reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI
NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
newpipe.net
I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
k7r.eu

For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to...

Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova
sciencedaily.com

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a slow-motion cosmic fade-out. The leftover debris continues to glow in infrared light, offering a long-lasting signal of the black hole’s birth. The finding reshapes our understanding of how some of the universe’s biggest

Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
github.com/alichherawalla
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The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images - Privacy First, Zero Internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone. Privacy first....

Show HN: Threat Radar – Live cyber threat intelligence dashboard
radar.offseq.com
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OffSeq Threat Intelligence - Real-time cyber threat intelligence radar showing the latest vulnerabilities, malware, and cyber threats affecting European countries and beyond.

Evolving Git for the Next Decade
lwn.net

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world [...]

Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications
blog.sao.dev
Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
arstechnica.com

Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.

Dune II written in HTML5/JS
github.com/oklemenz

Dune II - The Building of A Dynasty reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript - oklemenz/Dune2JS

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 …

US Military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations
reuters.com
Descent, ported to the web
mrdoob.github.io
News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
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.

Dutch House of Representatives advances controversial 36% tax law
tradingview.com

The Netherlands’ House of Representatives advanced a legislative proposal on Thursday to introduce a 36% capital gains tax on savings and most liquid investments, including cryptocurrencies.The legislation reached the 75-vote threshold required to advance, with 93 lawmakers voting in favor of it, a…

A header-only C vector database library
github.com/abdimoallim

A header-only C vector database library. Contribute to abdimoallim/vdb development by creating an account on GitHub.

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 (2016)
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
A Programmer's Loss of Identity
ratfactor.com
Vim 9.2
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.

Golf game built last night with Claude Code, Svelte and ThreeJS
the-golf-is-golfing.com
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.

Unicorn Jelly
unicornjelly.com
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
OpenAI should build Slack
latent.space

Latent.Space - a quiet day lets us answer a Sam Altman question

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
show

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
Discord: A case study in performance optimization
newsletter.fullstack.zip
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 …

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
fortune.com

Preston Fore - Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.

The wonder of modern drywall
worksinprogress.news

Yassine Meskhout - How gypsum changed construction

Launching Interop 2026
hacks.mozilla.org

Interop 2025 brought a bunch of new web platform features & fixes, but here's what's coming in 2026…

AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going
nickolinger.com

An AI bot is littering open source with PRs

How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
usatoday.com

As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.

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.

Breaking the spell of vibe coding
fast.ai

Rachel Thomas - Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

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
show

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...

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