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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?

Facebook is absolutely cooked
pilk.website

Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse

Blue light filters don't work
neuroai.science

Patrick Mineault - Why controlling total luminance is a better bet

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…

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.

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked
404media.co

In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

Farewell, Rust for web
yieldcode.blog

For now...

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
smithsonianmag.com

Sonja Anderson - The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict

South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection
theguardian.com

Ex-leader sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour over failed martial law declaration in 2024

AI makes you boring
marginalia.nu

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded Show HN projects are overall pretty boring. They generally don't have a lot of work put into them, and as a resul

DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'
techdirt.com

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
github.com/Veirt

a terminal weather app with ascii animation. Contribute to Veirt/weathr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hitler's Greenland Obsession
theatlantic.com

Timothy W. Ryback - After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

The DOJ's Top Antitrust Officer Has Left as Lobbying Surges
jacobin.com

The head of the DOJ’s antitrust division has been ousted after clashing with Attorney General Pam Bondi over how aggressively to crack down on corporate crimes. Her removal lays bare a broader fight within the department over enforcement priorities.

Choosing a language based on its syntax?
gingerbill.org
AI made coding more enjoyable
weberdominik.com
Gemini 3.1 Pro
deepmind.google

Gemini 3.1 Pro is the next iteration in the Gemini 3 series of models, a suite of highly capable, natively multimodal reasoning models.

Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial
wsj.com
Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
micasa.dev
show
Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash
inquirer.com

Barbara Laker | David Gambacorta - Anna Wakeman still questions why 7C Lounge bartenders didn’t stop serving the officer who crashed into her house and upended her life five years ago.

Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)
borischerny.com

I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.

Gemini 3.1 Pro
blog.google
Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands
xcancel.com

#WATCH | Delhi | Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with global tech leaders including the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta, CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei pose for a group photograph at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in Delhi (Source: DD News)

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
governance.fyi

Dave Deek - Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings

Meta CEO Knew Kids Were Being Hurt and He Covered It Up
dispatch.techoversight.org

LOS ANGELES – As Mark Zuckerberg completed his testimony in a landmark child safety trial at Los Angeles Superior Court, The Tech Oversight Project released the following statement: "What we saw in the courtroom today confirms what parents, researchers, and child safety advocates have known for years: Mark Zuckerberg built a

Can random experimental choice lead to better theories?
journals.sagepub.com
Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
anthropic.com

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

Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Famous Signatures Through History
signatory.app

Draw your signature with a natural pen feel. Export as PNG or SVG. Free, fast, no signup.

C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime
sandordargo.com

When I was looking for the next topic for my posts, my eyes stopped on std::is_within_lifetime. Dealing with lifetime issues is a quite common source of bugs, after all. Then I clicked on the link and I read Checking if a union alternative is active. I scratched my head. Is the link correct? It is — and it totally makes sense. Let’s get into the details and first check what P2641R4 is about. What does std::is_within_

The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI
learningloom.substack.com

Shrijith Venkatramana - Why verification, not prompting, could shape the next decade of engineering

Pebble Production: February Update
repebble.com

February Pebble Production and Software Updates

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)
kodiak64.co.uk

Jon Woods - An in-depth overview of some of the unusual and very advanced technical tricks used in the Commodore 64 game, Seawolves.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
pagedout.institute
DOGE Track
dogetrack.info

An automatically-generated and frequently updated site for presenting data on DOGE’s rampage across government, designed to work on large screens and mobile phones.

UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours
theregister.com

: 'Why not 12?' says lawyer

Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
github.com/fjrevoredo
show

An encrypted local cross-platform journaling app. Contribute to fjrevoredo/mini-diarium development by creating an account on GitHub.

Without America to rely on, EU gearing up to be a global power in its own right
theatlantic.com

Joseph de Weck - Without America to rely on, the EU is gearing up to be a global power in its own right.

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
github.com/sstraust

maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! Contribute to sstraust/shannonmax development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
oban.pro

Parker and Shannon Selbert - Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.

I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
bsky.app/profile/thomasgermain.bsky.social

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
makie.org
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
bbc.com

It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

From Paris to New Delhi, the Push to Ban Teens from Social Media Is Going Global
wsj.com
Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial
ft.com

Big Tech chief takes stand in legal case over whether company’s products are addictive to children

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com

INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT Following my recent rants about computer generated effects ( here and here ), I thought it would be fun to look i...

US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'
theguardian.com

Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat

European Tech Alternatives
eutechmap.com

EU Tech Map - Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are GDPR compliant, and store data in Europe.

Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container
github.com/a11ce
show

A Docker image is a piece of executable code that produces some output given some input. - a11ce/docker-lisp

Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down
reddit.com/r/homeassistant
Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript
blackboard.sh
FDA reverses course and will review Moderna's mRNA flu shot, company says
cnn.com

Deidre McPhillips - The US Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and will review a new mRNA flu vaccine from Moderna, the pharmaceutical company said Wednesday,

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