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LLMs fail at automating remote work, Opus 4.5 is the best and scores 3.75% automation rate • Feb 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM • remotelabor.ai • r/webdev
122
Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water • Feb 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
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The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM • ardentperf.com • Hacker News
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11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM • homolova.sk • Hacker News
101
Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM • techcrunch.com • Slashdot
776
Breaking the spell of vibe coding • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM • fast.ai • Hacker News
969
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
899
I'm not worried about AI job loss • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM • davidoks.blog • Hacker News
171
Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM • cloudrouter.dev • Hacker News
185
Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video] • Feb 13, 2026 at 1:56 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
14
Finnish nuclear development group Steady Energy has begun building a pilot plant in Helsinki that aims to pave the way for Europe's first small nuclear heat reactor • Feb 13, 2026 at 1:37 PM • reuters.com • ~enviro
178
The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming • Feb 13, 2026 at 1:18 PM • martinfowler.com • Hacker News
355
Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video] • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM • dwarkesh.com • Hacker News
544
Building a TUI is easy now • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM • hatchet.run • Hacker News
149P
EPA Reverses Long-Standing Climate Change Finding, Stripping Its Own Ability To Regulate Emissions • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM • nbcnews.com • Slashdot
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Even when youre right, you lose • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM • youtube.com • ~humanities
436P
CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting' • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:13 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
93
Evolving Git for the next decade • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:09 PM • lwn.net • Lobsters
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No association found between COVID-19 shots during pregnancy and autism or behavioral issues. Findings suggest that children born to vaccinated mothers show no difference in reaching developmental milestones compared to those born to unvaccinated mothers. • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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A Matplotlib maintainer closed a pull request made by an AI. The "AI" went on to publish a rant-filled blog post about the "human" maintainer. • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
353
Instagram's URL Blackhole • Feb 13, 2026 at 11:42 AM • medium.com/@shredlife • Hacker News
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Children of mothers exposed to higher nighttime temperatures during pregnancy had a higher risk of being diagnosed with autism, according to a study on 295,000 mothers in California from 2001 to 2014 • Feb 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM • news.tulane.edu • r/science
485
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter • Feb 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM • harmonique.one • Hacker News
138
spent 3 hours debugging something that was literally a typo • Feb 13, 2026 at 11:14 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
218
I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent • Feb 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
216
IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes • Feb 13, 2026 at 11:10 AM • github.com/nearai • Hacker News
86
Waymo is Asking DoorDash Drivers To Shut the Doors of Its Self-Driving Cars • Feb 13, 2026 at 10:30 AM • techcrunch.com • Slashdot
6
What did you do this week (and weekend)? • Feb 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
407
Open source is not about you (2018) • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM • gist.github.com • Hacker News
306
How did the Maya survive? • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Toddlers eating high amounts of processed meats and sugary snacks at age 2 show lower IQ scores by age 7, according to a new study of 3,400 children. The negative impact on cognitive development was nearly 2.5x stronger for children who experienced physical growth delays during infancy. • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:22 AM • cambridge.org • r/science
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Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM • ios-countdown.win • Hacker News
151
Assistant to the Regional Manager • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:11 AM • smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net • Hacker News
79
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM • noheger.at • Lobsters
614
Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM • github.com/zed-industries • Hacker News
401
How are you using AI in a way that doesn’t suck? • Feb 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Scientists Capture the Clearest View Yet of a Star Collapsing Into a Black Hole: an event astronomers have anticipated for decades, but have had limited evidence for. The star appears to have undergone direct collapse, turning into a black hole without first exploding and becoming a supernova. • Feb 13, 2026 at 8:43 AM • news.columbia.edu • r/science
90
moss-kernel: Rust Linux-compatible kernel • Feb 13, 2026 at 8:13 AM • github.com/hexagonal-sun • Lobsters
427
Visual introduction to PyTorch • Feb 13, 2026 at 7:59 AM • 0byte.io • Hacker News
77
New Architecture Could Cut Quantum Hardware Needed to Break RSA-2048 by Tenfold, Study Finds • Feb 13, 2026 at 7:30 AM • thequantuminsider.com • r/programming
995
Monosketch • Feb 13, 2026 at 7:18 AM • monosketch.io • Hacker News
265P
US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases • Feb 13, 2026 at 7:17 AM • cnn.com • Hacker News
83
Hare 0.26.0 released • Feb 13, 2026 at 7:14 AM • harelang.org • Lobsters
42
Repotting houseplants: is it really necessary? How to know when to do it? • Feb 13, 2026 at 7:07 AM • tildes.net • ~hobbies
45
The blogging itch • Feb 13, 2026 at 6:45 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
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Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI • Feb 13, 2026 at 6:42 AM • techcrunch.com • r/programming
99
Recovered 1973 diving decompression algorithm • Feb 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM • github.com/edelprino • r/programming
274
WolfSSL sucks too, so now what? • Feb 13, 2026 at 5:18 AM • blog.feld.me • Hacker News
154
Very little HTML and CSS usage in frontend development • Feb 13, 2026 at 5:15 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
124
Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence • Feb 13, 2026 at 4:17 AM • openculture.com • Hacker News
41
Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash • Feb 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM • theverge.com • yro.slashdot
258
Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database • Feb 13, 2026 at 3:53 AM • github.com/alibaba • Hacker News
1011
Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube • Feb 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM • cordcuttersnews.com • Hacker News
195
Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong? • Feb 13, 2026 at 3:09 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
217
CSS-Doodle • Feb 13, 2026 at 3:02 AM • css-doodle.com • Hacker News
47
After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM • earth.com • ~humanities.history
880
MinIO repository is no longer maintained • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:46 AM • github.com/minio • Hacker News
218
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve • Feb 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM • blog.exe.dev • Hacker News
693
Ring owners are returning their cameras • Feb 13, 2026 at 1:23 AM • msn.com • Hacker News
409
Audio is the one area small labs are winning • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:39 AM • amplifypartners.com • Hacker News
513
Lena by qntm (2021) • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM • qntm.org • Hacker News
181
New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] • Feb 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM • nickbostrom.com • Hacker News
5
Web API Changelog - February 2026 | Spotify for Developers • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:43 PM • developer.spotify.com • ~comp
84P
Something big is happening • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM • shumer.dev • ~tech
28P
Why America is slipping in the Olympics • Feb 12, 2026 at 11:14 PM • youtube.com • ~sports
410
The wonder of modern drywall • Feb 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM • worksinprogress.news • Hacker News
107
Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction • Feb 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM • note.com • Hacker News
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jmail.world • Feb 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
12
Humble Comics Bundle: The Witcher + Cyberpunk by Dark Horse • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM • humblebundle.com • ~books
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Younger women find men with beards less attractive than older women do. The research indicates that postmenopausal women perceive certain masculine characteristics, such as body shape and facial features, differently than women who are still in their reproductive years. • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM • psypost.org • r/science
258P
Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
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Moderna won’t run phase III vaccine trials as skepticism grows in US • Feb 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM • biospace.com • ~health
911
Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you • Feb 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM • skipthe.tips • Hacker News
209
Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing • Feb 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM • github.com/preservim • Hacker News
51
Feeding the Fire: Psychology, Engagement, and Algorithmic Media • Feb 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM • technically-good.ca • Bear
414
AWS Adds support for nested virtualization • Feb 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM • github.com/aws • Hacker News
6
Why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy • Feb 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM • theguardian.com • ~health.mental
1382
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues • Feb 12, 2026 at 6:52 PM • noheger.at • Hacker News
901
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash • Feb 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
126P
Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions • Feb 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM • herbertlui.net • Hacker News
539
Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) • Feb 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
72P
An AI agent published a hit piece on me • Feb 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM • theshamblog.com • ~tech
152
What are you working through? • Feb 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM • tildes.net • ~life
39
Apple has a transparency issue • Feb 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM • youtube.com • Lobsters
309
Discord just killed anonymity • Feb 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM • michael-dev-tech.github.io • Hacker News
22
Europe's most powerful rocket launches for first time, carrying thirty-two Amazon internet satellites to orbit • Feb 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM • space.com • ~space
513
Ok it's 2026. What are the AI gains? • Feb 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
6689
Lifetime Lead Exposure Triples Alzheimer’s Risk: Most adults born before 1980 carry a significant lead burden from leaded gasoline and paint. The study suggests that nearly 18% of new dementia cases in the U.S. each year may be linked to this historical environmental exposure. • Feb 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM • neurosciencenews.com • r/science
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.plan files (2020) • Feb 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM • matteolandi.net • Lobsters
493
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification • Feb 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM • matrix.org • Hacker News
310P
ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could • Feb 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM • techdirt.com • Hacker News
167
Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box • Feb 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM • realfood.gov • Hacker News
269P
Fixing retail with land value capture • Feb 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM • worksinprogress.co • Hacker News
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Serenity: zen gliding to the sound of procedurally generated music • Feb 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM • blog.gingerbeardman.com • ~games