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A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k • Feb 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM • log.jasongodfrey.info • Hacker News
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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation • Feb 12, 2026 at 1:58 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
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Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL • Feb 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM • erichlof.github.io • Hacker News
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Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation • Feb 12, 2026 at 1:23 PM • pol.is • Hacker News
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The ten best and ten worst US foreign policy decisions • Feb 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM • cfr.org • ~humanities.history
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GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark • Feb 12, 2026 at 1:06 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
114P
Border Officials Are Said To Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser • Feb 12, 2026 at 12:12 PM • nytimes.com • Slashdot
1768
Gemini 3 Deep Think • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:55 AM • blog.google • Hacker News
255
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM • minimax.io • Hacker News
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I was insulted today - AI style • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM • forkingmad.blog • Bear
269
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:32 AM • livescience.com • Hacker News
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An AI agent published a hit piece on me • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM • theshamblog.com • Hacker News
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:14 AM • theshamblog.com • Lobsters
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Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM • waymo.com • Hacker News
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What creative projects have you been working on? • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~creative
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US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says • Feb 12, 2026 at 10:32 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
250
Request for sources: Discord alternatives • Feb 12, 2026 at 10:12 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
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Fitness Weekly Discussion • Feb 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM • tildes.net • ~health
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My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker • Feb 12, 2026 at 9:34 AM • aimilios.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Why Jony Ive put buttons in the electric Ferrari • Feb 12, 2026 at 9:29 AM • youtube.com • ~transport
1015
Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users • Feb 12, 2026 at 9:24 AM • atha.io • Hacker News
481
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware • Feb 12, 2026 at 9:16 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
20
China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM • arstechnica.com • ~space
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Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM • blog.can.ac • Hacker News
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‘It’s emptiness’: banned Ukrainian athlete accuses International Olympic Committee of fuelling Russia’s propaganda • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:14 AM • theguardian.com • ~sports
328
Apache Arrow is 10 years old • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM • arrow.apache.org • Hacker News
807
Lines of Code Are Back (And It's Worse Than Before) • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM • thepragmaticcto.com • r/programming
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Slop pull request is rejected, so slop author instructs slop AI agent to write a slop blog post criticising it as unfair • Feb 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM • github.com/matplotlib • r/programming
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AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it • Feb 12, 2026 at 6:46 AM • github.com/matplotlib • Hacker News
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Large US study examines how many times people experience passionate love over a lifetime. On average, adults reported experiencing passionate love about twice in their lifetime. 14% had never experienced passionate love, 28% experienced it once, 30% twice, 17% three times and 11% four or more times. • Feb 12, 2026 at 6:17 AM • news.iu.edu • r/science
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Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025) • Feb 12, 2026 at 1:54 AM • openculture.com • Hacker News
449
AI companies are paying influencers to promote AI. Anthropic one the most aggressive ones with Claude Code at the center. • Feb 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM • cnbc.com • r/webdev
559
AI Coding Killed My Flow State • Feb 12, 2026 at 12:37 AM • medium.com/itnext • r/programming
1300
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code • Feb 12, 2026 at 12:18 AM • github.com/tonyyont • Hacker News
484
D Programming Language • Feb 12, 2026 at 12:18 AM • dlang.org • Hacker News
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How to make a living as an artist • Feb 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM • essays.fnnch.com • Hacker News
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How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere” • Feb 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM • niemanlab.org • ~life.men
70P
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet • Feb 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM • 404media.co • yro.slashdot
7
Buddhist monks speak at the National Cathedral in Washington • Feb 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM • youtube.com • ~humanities
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%. Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers • Feb 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM • theguardian.com • r/science
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Need a replacement for my old macbook pro, should I just get another one? • Feb 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM • tildes.net • ~comp
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Blood clotting associated with both Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca COVID vaccines had a genetic cause, according to a new paper | Adenoviral Inciting Antigen and Somatic Hypermutation in VITT • Feb 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM • theatlantic.com • r/science
108
archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog • Feb 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM • gyrovague.com • ~tech
542P
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment • Feb 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM • papers.ssrn.com • Hacker News
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Wireless light/fan switch reccomendations • Feb 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM • tildes.net • ~life.home_improvement
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Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass • Feb 11, 2026 at 5:56 PM • age-verifier.kibty.town • Hacker News
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Why do people hate on PHP so much? • Feb 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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A Hellish 'Hothouse Earth' Getting Closer, Scientists Say • Feb 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM • theguardian.com • Slashdot
103
Do not apologize for replying late to my email • Feb 11, 2026 at 3:54 PM • ploum.net • Lobsters
6
Eight iconic Nordic homes throughout history that reveal the origins of Scandi style – all emerge from a distinctive vision of "soft modernism" that still influences how we live now • Feb 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM • bbc.com • ~design
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics • Feb 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM • missionlocal.org • Hacker News
3
Alone Across Gola (2025) | Award-winning adventure documentary • Feb 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM • youtube.com • ~hobbies