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Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?"
airuniversity.af.edu
The Switch to Linux and the Beginning of My Self-Hosting Journey
hazemkrimi.tech

How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
simonwillison.net
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Simon Willison - A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests—we need artifacts …

Google handed ICE student journalist's bank and credit card numbers
theintercept.com

Jessica Washington - Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

ClawHub
clawhub.ai

ClawHub — a fast skill registry for agents, with vector search.

London's most controversial cyclist
the-londoner.co.uk

How Cycling Mikey's quest for road safety divided London

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
campedersen.com

src={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
londoncentric.media

Jim Waterson - Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?

Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
paperboat.website
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Welcome to paperboat.website!

Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss
cell.com
Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)
github.com/rowboatlabs
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Open-source AI coworker, with memory. Contribute to rowboatlabs/rowboat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers
infinitelymore.xyz

Joel David Hamkins - I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
entire.io

Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.

Bazzite Post-Mortem
ba.antheas.dev
Disruption with Some GitHub Services
githubstatus.com
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
jamesdrandall.com

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
bloomberg.com
Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'
threads.com

Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' as it has become the number 1 site for tracking the Epstein files

Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
lexi-lambda.github.io
Redefining Go Functions
pboyd.io
Oxide raises $200M Series C
oxide.computer

Raising our Series C round of financing

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
techxplore.com
America's $1T AI Gamble
apricitas.io

Joseph Politano - US AI-Related Investment Keeps Breaking Records, With Total Software, Computer, & Data Center Spending Now Exceeding $1T Per Year

Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
khronos.org

When those of us in the Vulkan® working group want to modify the API—whether it’s a new hardware feature to expose, a new use case we want to address, or even just a gap in the spec we want to address—we have one invaluable tool that we make heavy use of: extensions! Extensions are a wonderful way for us to get improvements to the Vulkan API out to developers without waiting for a new core version. They let vendors e

Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds
bbc.com

The author's erotic novel featured an 18-year-old protagonist who role-played as a toddler.

Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)
npr.org

Westerners tend to be more individualistic than Easterners. Did our ancestors plant these cultural differences hundreds of years ago when they chose which grains to grow?

Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
github.com/distr-sh
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The Open Source control plane for self-managed, BYOC, and on-prem deployments. Everything you need to distribute applications to self-managed customers out of the box. - distr-sh/distr

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
europeanbusinessmagazine.com

A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

RLHF from Scratch
github.com/ashworks1706

A theoretical and practical deep dive into Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and it’s applications in Large Language Models from scratch. - ashworks1706/rlhf-from-scratch

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
code.idtech.space

fn - Rad-Therapy II - port of Half-Life 2 to Nuclide.

The Epstein Network Visualizer
epsteinvisualizer.com
Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
qwen.ai
Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
netviews.app
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NetViews is a modern macOS network scanning and diagnostic tool for IT and network professionals.

AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
arxiv.org

As autonomous AI agents are increasingly deployed in high-stakes environments, ensuring their safety and alignment with human values has become a paramount concern. Current safety benchmarks primarily evaluate whether agents refuse explicitly harmful instructions or whether they can maintain procedural compliance in complex tasks. However, there is a lack of benchmarks designed to capture emergent forms of outcome-dr

Why "just prompt better" doesn't work
bicameral-ai.com
Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
wallstreetraider.com
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A 40-year odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam. How the most comprehensive financial simulator ever made was born, nearly died, and was resurrected.

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
newrepublic.com

Logan McMillen - In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
github.com/TrevorS

Contribute to TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model
github.com/antirez

Pure C inference of Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model - antirez/voxtral.c

Zulip.com Values
zulip.com

Learn about the values that are behind everything we do as we work to build the world’s best organized team chat software.

What functional programmers get wrong about systems
iankduncan.com

Type systems verify properties of programs. Production correctness is a property of systems. The gap between these is where the interesting failures live.

Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
quantamagazine.org

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
jamanetwork.com
The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
bbc.com

A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
chainlift.io

LiftKit by Chainlift is an open-source design system based on the golden ratio available for React/Next.js, Webflow, and Figma.

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs
arstechnica.com

Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs.

Is AI the Paperclip?
newcartographies.com

Nicholas Carr - Scale at all costs.

America has a tungsten problem
noleary.com
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
truthout.org

Sharon Zhang - Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
blog.prosody.im

On 11th February, Let’s Encrypt will be rolling out a change to the certificates they issue to servers by default. Although there is generally nothing that Prosody operators need to do, servers using the new certificates may experience problems connecting to some other XMPP servers on the network.

Game Theory Patterns at Work
daeus.blog

Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…

MIT Living Wage Calculator
livingwage.mit.edu
An articulated archer automaton [video]
youtube.com
Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)
sneak.berlin
Luce: First Electric Ferrari
ferrari.com
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
taggart-tech.com

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

Another GitHub outage in the same day
githubstatus.com
US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses
theguardian.com

While AI is having an impact on the workplace, experts suggest tariffs, overhiring during the pandemic and simply maximising profits may be bigger factors

Testing Ads in ChatGPT
openai.com
This Whistle Fights Fascists
theverge.com

Sean Hollister - I print whistles now. You can too.

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
theguardian.com

Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work

The Markets of Old London (2024)
spitalfieldslife.com
Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy
cbsnews.com

Eddie Bauer, a 106-year-old retailer, points to declining sales and "tariff certainty" as factors behind its latest move to seek bankruptcy protection.

Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them
omnara.com

Omnara - Use Claude Code on mobile with voice support. Code anywhere - local or remote environments with seamless handoff between phone and desktop.

From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
thejournal.ie

Jeff Jarvis - Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
jsgroth.dev
Ice Kid Prisons
propublica.org

Mica Rosenberg - ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you
theregister.com

: Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
research.google
Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months
rte.ie

An Irish man living in the US for almost 20 years has said he is in fear for his life after being detained by immigration officials last year.

Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance
commerce.senate.gov
Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?
marginalrevolution.com

Tyler Cowen - To be clear, I am not blaming Singapore on this one.  But it is striking to me how much Americans do not talk about Singapore any more.  They are much, much more likely to talk about Europe or England, for instance.  I see several reasons for this: 1. Much of the Singapore fascination came from […]

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
github.com/jim11662418

Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock. - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock

GitHub Is Down
github.com/
GitHub is down again
githubstatus.com
AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'
macrumors.com

Apple's next-generation AirPods Pro will feature cameras to see around a user, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami". In a new post on X, Kosutami said that the next AirPods Pro will be able to see around the wearer, presumably via cameras in each earbud. Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the 2026 AirPods Pro will feature a "more significant" hardware upgrade in the form at lea

Why is the sky blue?
explainers.blog
Sandboxels
neal.fun
Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail
bbc.com

Lai's supporters say this amounts to a death sentence, but authorities say it demonstrates the rule of law.

Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
defusedcyber.com

A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the tradecraft.

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It
hbr.org

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s n

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
discord.com

Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
theverge.com

Stevie Bonifield - Age verification for all.

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations
quantamagazine.org

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues.

San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens
techcrunch.com

Anthony Ha - A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday.

AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports
reuters.com
Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
sciencedirect.com
Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?
newyorker.com

Dhruv Khullar - GLP-1 drugs, which have helped some people curb drug and alcohol use, may unlock a pathway to moderation.

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
codeberg.org

smnx - UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)

Thoughts on Generating C
wingolog.org
Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior
topgear.com

Love the iMac and iPhone? This one’s for you

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries
reuters.com
Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure
wirewiki.com
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Explore internet infrastructure. Inspect domain names, IP addresses, DNS servers and more. Wirewiki offers free online tools to query internet infrastructure.

Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders
printableclassics.com
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Printable Classics Team - Download and print beautiful, customizable versions of classic literature. Adjust font size, page layout, and margins for your perfect reading experience.

Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
theregister.com

FOSDEM 2026: One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

Offpunk 3.0
ploum.net
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
alltheviews.world
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Big Tech groups race to fund unprecedented $660B AI spending spree
ft.com

Executives face choice between cutting returns to shareholders, raiding reserves or tapping the markets

Nobody knows how the whole system works
surfingcomplexity.blog

One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…

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