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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
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
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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
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 …

The wonder of modern drywall
worksinprogress.news

Yassine Meskhout - How gypsum changed construction

AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going
nickolinger.com

An AI bot is littering open source with PRs

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.

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.

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
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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...

Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]
dwarkesh.com

Dwarkesh Patel - "That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"

Building a TUI is easy now
hatchet.run

Deploy More Resilient Apps. Hatchet is a platform for building distributed web apps that solves scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting.

CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'
wired.com

Dell Cameron - US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

Good Riddance, 4o
mahadk.com

It should've happened sooner.

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
wired.com

Reece Rogers - Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.

IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes
github.com/nearai

IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired implementation in Rust focused on privacy and security - nearai/ironclaw

I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini)
coder.com

I wanted everything OpenClaw offered: a personal AI agent on my own hardware, connected to my real tools, available around the clock. But I also wanted a system where the secure setup is the default, without requiring constant hardening and maintenance.

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
eff.org

Rindala Alajaji and Samantha Baldwin - Discord has begun rolling out mandatory age verification and the internet is, understandably, freaking out. We’ve written extensively about why age verification mandates are a censorship and surveillance nightmare. Discord’s shift only reinforces those concerns.

Open source is not about you (2018)
gist.github.com

Open Source is Not About You. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

How did the Maya survive?
theguardian.com

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
ios-countdown.win

A countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer.

Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
github.com/zed-industries

The blade graphics library is a mess and causes several issues for both Zed users as well as other 3rd party apps using GPUI. This PR removes blade and implements the linux platform using wgpu whic...

I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably
jitbit.com

I asked Claude Code to remove Jquery. It failed miserably. - Thursday, 12 February 2026 - Alex's blog'

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace
bloodinthemachine.com

Brian Merchant - The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

Monosketch
monosketch.io

MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.

US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases
cnn.com

Ella Nilsen - The Trump Environmental Protection Agency delivered a significant blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules to revoke a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety.

Ask HN: AI Depression
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?
aljazeera.com

Mohammad Mansour - US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?
blog.feld.me

OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases. I can't remember ever having a good experience with software using GnuTLS. LibreSSL is incomplete... What happened now? Last year an article from Haproxy about how terribly …

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
cordcuttersnews.com

Luke Bouma - In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi. The transition comes at a pivotal time for the series, which has […]

CSS-Doodle
css-doodle.com
MinIO repository is no longer maintained
github.com/minio
Ring owners are returning their cameras
msn.com
Lena by qntm (2021)
qntm.org
New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
nickbostrom.com
The wonder of modern drywall
worksinprogress.co

No person should get excited about a blank wall. But your wall at home is a reminder that most advancements are almost entirely invisible.

Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
economist.com
Cloudflare adds real-time Markdown rendering for AI agents
blog.cloudflare.com

The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Markdown for Agents automatically converts any HTML page requested from our network to markdown.

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
skipthe.tips

vladimirj.dev - Many dark patterns stand between you and 'No Tip'. A free browser game about tipping culture, guilt, and tiny buttons.

Lifetime Lead Exposure Can Triple Alzheimer's Risk
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
AWS Adds support for nested virtualization
github.com/aws
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
noheger.at
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
theverge.com

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy - Flock off

Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions
herbertlui.net

When you need to make an anxiety-inducing decision, ask yourself: What is the worst realistic outcome? Will you be able to recover from it? Let’s say you want to make a product and sell it, and you need to invest in inventory. The manufacturer needs you to order $1,000 worth to meet their minimum. The […]

Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Discord just killed anonymity
michael-dev-tech.github.io
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could
techdirt.com

The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, “necessary” is something that’s on a continually sliding scale with Trump bac…

Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
realfood.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - The Dietary Guidelines for Americans reset U.S. nutrition policy by restoring science, common sense, and real food as the foundation of national health.

Alarm bells just rang at San Francisco's 2 buzziest tech companies
sfgate.com

Stephen Council - "The world is in peril," one researcher wrote, "And not just from AI."

Fixing retail with land value capture
worksinprogress.co

How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere.

What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)
support.apple.com

They're pronounced the same, but, technically speaking, there is a distinct difference between a disc and a disk.

I was insulted today – AI style
forkingmad.blog

There I was minding my own business, plodding through the working day, getting on with my tasks. A colleague asked me to proof-read his report and offer f...

Amazon gets FCC approval to launch 4,500 Leo internet satellites
cnbc.com
Show HN: Generate Web Interfaces from Data
github.com/puffinsoft
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Generative UIs for the web. Contribute to puffinsoft/syntux development by creating an account on GitHub.

Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
bbc.com

The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.

Rari – Rust-powered React framework
rari.build

A performance-first React framework powered by Rust

Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills
moltis.org
show

One Rust binary that runs the full AI assistant: multi-provider LLM routing, tools, memory, sandboxed execution, and multi-channel access.

Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
log.jasongodfrey.info

A party balloon mistaken for a cartel drone shut down El Paso for hours. Here's what it cost.

How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]
youtube.com
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
pol.is
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
openai.com
Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL
github.com/calebwin
show

A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL - calebwin/pgclaw

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Shut Up: Comment Blocker
rickyromero.com
ai;dr
0xsid.com
Gemini 3 Deep Think
blog.google
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
minimax.io
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
livescience.com

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

Show HN: 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source)
github.com/mutable-state-inc
show

Contribute to mutable-state-inc/lean-collab development by creating an account on GitHub.

An AI agent published a hit piece on me
theshamblog.com

Summary: 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…

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
waymo.com

Waymo will begin fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver —an important step in bringing our technology to more riders in more cities. This latest system serves as the primary engine for our next era of expansion, with a streamlined configuration that drives down costs while maintaining our uncompromising safety standards. Designed for long-term growth across multiple vehicle platforms, this system’

Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
thepragmaticcto.com

Allan MacGregor 🇨🇦 - The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse

US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
ft.com

Central bank’s research undercuts Trump’s claims that foreign companies will pay for levies

Texas Lawmakers Sound Alarm on 'Torture, Killing, and Inhumane Treatment'
commondreams.org

At least three inmates have died in the facility in just two months, including one who witnesses say was choked to death by guards.

Administration working to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
nbcnews.com

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)
loriemerson.net

If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir
bbc.com

South Korea's spy agency says Ki Ju Ae's prominent public presence indicates she is the chosen heir.

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
atha.io

Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a basic requirement of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: your account has a verified email, so there's no problem.

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app
bbc.com

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
aethermug.com

What exists is a matter of public opinion

The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
lwn.net

The team behind Tyr started 2025 with little to show in our quest to produce a Rust GPU driv [...]

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