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FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention
dl.acm.org
AI and Trust (2023)
schneier.com

Bruce Schneier - I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the way. At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone else who keeps airlines operating. And the pilot of the plane I flew in. And thousands of other people at the a

Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market
bloomberg.com
How vibe coding is killing open source
hackaday.com

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some…

Data centers in space makes no sense
civai.org

SpaceX acquired xAI on Monday, forming a $1.25 trillion behemoth with the goal of sending data centers into space. They’re not alone either: Google and a host of startups like Lonestar, Axiom, and Nvidia-backed Starcloud are scrambling into the field. Endless solar power, free real estate, and most importantly, huge rockets! What more could you want?

China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing
spectrum.ieee.org

China's space program is quietly building momentum for a moon landing by 2030. Could they outpace NASA's Artemis mission?

OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up
cacm.acm.org
DHS is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics
techcrunch.com

Zack Whittaker - The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines
github.com/alibaba

AliSQL is a MySQL branch originated from Alibaba Group. Fetch document from Release Notes at bottom. - alibaba/AliSQL

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
fortune.com

Ben Weiss - The move is significant since, in the past, generally just crypto VC firms have let startups receive funding in the form of digital assets.

Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
apple.com

Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.

I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored
nikolak.com

20 GDPR deletion requests, 12 ignored. Companies lie about compliance, spam filters eat requests with no consequences, and data protection offices don't act. A first-hand account of how GDPR enforcement fails individuals.

Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux
blog.senko.net

Senko Rašić - Like many developers, I find myself more and more using AI agents to help with software development. I currently use Claude Code, the co...

Deno Sandbox
deno.com

Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.

Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden
internationaljournalofwellbeing.org
Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing
octosphere.social
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221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
fredbenenson.com

Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It’s annoying, but thankfully I’ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impe…

1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
waspdev.com

We usually learn that 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes, 1 MB is 1024 kilobytes, etc. But is this true or a kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
apnews.com

European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
github.com/j178

⚡ Better `pre-commit`, re-engineered in Rust. Contribute to j178/prek development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping
tadpolehq.com

The lightweight, KDL-powered browser automation engine.

Signal Is Down
news.ycombinator.com
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X offices raided in France
apnews.com

French prosecutors have raided the offices of social media platform X as part of an investigation into allegations of spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.

Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy
github.com/ambonvik
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A multithreaded discrete event simulation library in C - ambonvik/cimba

Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
news.ycombinator.com
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Qwen3-Coder-Next
qwen.ai
AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Was
jasonwillems.com

Jason Willems - If you paint a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog in your living room, you are technically creating an unauthorized derivative work—but in practice, no one cares. Private, noncommercial creation has always lived in a space where copyright law exists on paper but is rarely enforced.

New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
blog.adafruit.com
Anthropic is Down
updog.ai

Datadog - Updog By Datadog lets you spot issues with Anthropic early, backed by real impact across Datadog customer base. No status page updates.

The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org
Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants
wired.com

Maddy Varner - A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise.

Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
github.com/mavdol
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⚙️ A secure, durable runtime for AI agents. Run untrusted code in isolated WebAssembly sandboxes. - mavdol/capsule

Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
news.ycombinator.com
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Agent Skills
agentskills.io

A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise.

Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices
ambertherambler.bearblog.dev

Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...

Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)
github.com/oug-t
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Review and refine Git diffs before you push. Contribute to oug-t/difi development by creating an account on GitHub.

KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd
forums.freebsd.org

KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd, making it unusable on systemd-free Linux distributions and BSD systems. KDE’s upcoming Plasma Login Manager will make its first official appearance in Plasma 6.6 (scheduled for release on February 17), explicitly designed as a...

Bunny Database
bunny.net

bunny.net - Deploy globally, query over HTTP, and scale reads with low latency. Bunny Database lets you build fast without paying the serverless tax.

Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
reuters.com
Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X
bbc.com

The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

U.S. Federal Data Is Disappearing
notus.org

The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy.

What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
lars.ingebrigtsen.no

For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s …

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
rentahuman.ai

RentAHuman.ai - The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
safe-now.live
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LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.
github.com/KrystianJonca

Unified AI configuration management CLI. Contribute to KrystianJonca/lnai development by creating an account on GitHub.

From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
github.com/whispem
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A production-ready distributed key-value store with Raft consensus. - whispem/minikv

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition
krzysztofjankowski.com
Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem
bicameral-ai.com
Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
news.ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
news.ycombinator.com
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To Build a Fire:Inside Russia's Campaign of Sabotage in Europe
newyorker.com

Joshua Yaffa - How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent.

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
attheu.utah.edu

Researchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations.

GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
github.com/orgs

Hey everyone, I wanted to provide an update on a critical issue affecting the open source community: the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that is creating significant operational chal...

How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
alignment.anthropic.com
Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features
macrumors.com

The Firefox browser is gaining options to turn off AI enhancements, Mozilla said today. Firefox users who prefer to browse without artificial intelligence will be able to turn off several AI features that Mozilla has added over the last several months. Here's what can be disabled: Translations, which help you browse the web in your preferred language. Alt text in PDFs, which add accessibility descriptions to ima

Julia
borretti.me

Fernando Borretti - An aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive.

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
frommers.com

The law, as written, is clear: You have the right to fly without ID, without paying a $45 fee, and without answering questions, says a career travel…

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
arstechnica.com

Trump admin's "it's classified" ploy put on hold in five different cases.

xAI Joins SpaceX
x.ai

SpaceX announced today that it has acquired xAI.

xAI joins SpaceX
spacex.com

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

Removing macOS 26 Tahoe's unwanted menu icons
weblog.rogueamoeba.com

We can avoid Apple’s heavy-handed implementation of a questionable idea.

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations
githubstatus.com
LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant
github.com/mattermost

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/master/LICENSE.txt#L9 "May be licensed"?? Under what conditions? This is not compliant with open source definition.

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
forums.ankiweb.net

Hi all, Anki’s 19th birthday was about 4 months ago. It would have been a good time to pause and reflect on what Anki has become, and how it will grow in the future. But I ended up letting the moment come and go, as I didn’t feel like I had the free time. It’s a feeling that’s been regrettably common of late, and I’ve come to realise that something has to change. For a number of years, I’ve reached out to some of t

Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech
morningstar.com
Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled
cnbc.com
Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS
github.com/stelviodev

Ship Python to AWS in minutes, not days. Contribute to stelviodev/stelvio development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
news.ycombinator.com
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Common bacteria (Chlamydia) discovered in the eye linked to cognitive decline
medicalxpress.com
Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st
helpx.adobe.com
The Dangerous Drift to Redefine Protest as Terrorism
lawfaremedia.org

The line between civil disobedience and terrorism is collapsing. History warns us what comes next.

The largest number representable in 64 bits
tromp.github.io
Parking lots as economic drains
progressandpoverty.substack.com

Greg Miller - They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.

EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair
epa.gov

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.

The Codex App
openai.com
Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena
blog.google

We’re expanding Game Arena with Poker and Werewolf, while Gemini 3 Pro and Flash top our chess leaderboard.

Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
lists.linuxfromscratch.org
On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]
weber.edu
Zig Libc
ziglang.org
Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
millert.dev
Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine
spader.zone
Hacking Moltbook
wiz.io

Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
ask
China Bans Hidden Car Door Handles
bloomberg.com
Kernighan on Programming
news.ycombinator.com
ask
We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]
static.germantechjobs.de
Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI
wsj.com
Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence
ft.com

Nine countries agree to build joint offshore wind projects and cables in the North Sea

Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation
bloomberg.com
Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
phys.org
Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
github.com/surprisetalk
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AdBoost is the only browser extension that adds ads to web pages! - surprisetalk/AdBoost

UK government launches fuel forecourt price API
gov.uk
MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
koi.ai

Two popular AI coding extensions with 1.5M installs secretly harvest your entire codebase and profile you. Both are still live in the marketplace.

Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system
wesmckinney.com
Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
neutree.ai

When deploying large language models in production, the inference engine becomes a critical piece of infrastructure.

EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline
euronews.com

The former Italian prime minister said the European Union risks subordination, division and deindustrialision all at once if it does not pull closer together. #EuropeNews

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
theverge.com

Tom Warren - Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code

Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
windowscentral.com

People familiar with Microsoft's plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.

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