72
Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity? • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
679
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:28 AM • mashable.com • Hacker News
353
Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
611P
The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM • ahmedeldin.substack.com • Hacker News
193
Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:57 AM • glitchycam.com • Hacker News
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OpenAI president becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:48 AM • sfgate.com • Hacker News
80
planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:44 AM • github.com/nineties • Hacker News
26
The Secret Life of Vector Generators (2001) • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM • jmargolin.com • Hacker News
632
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:06 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
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Cannabis use associated with better decision-making skills in people with bipolar disorder. These cognitive benefits were primarily associated with moderate use. Moderate use was defined as using cannabis between four and twenty-four times per week. • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:02 AM • psypost.org • r/science
27
I need to vent a bit about my boss sharing information late. • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:47 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
10254
Intermittent fasting no better than typical weight loss diets, study finds. Researchers say limited eating approaches such as 5:2 diet not a ‘miracle solution’ amid surge in their popularity. • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:45 AM • theguardian.com • r/science
227
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:26 AM • github.com/unicode-org • Hacker News
10
slot-variants: new utility for component styling • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:24 AM • npmjs.com • r/webdev
18
State of recruitment in the industry • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
27
AI Fails at 96% of (General Work) Jobs (New Study) • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:49 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
1499
Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Category Error • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:42 AM • open.substack.com • r/programming
639
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:32 AM • qwen.ai • Hacker News
59
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:23 AM • github.com/unicode-org • Lobsters
164
February 16, 2005 — The Day YouTube Was Officially Registered • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:41 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
33
Performance with huge number of records in DB (~850k across multiple whole DB) • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:40 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
156
'I Tried Running Linux On an Apple Silicon Mac and Regretted It' • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:34 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
31
Btrfs disk errors to fall asleep to • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM • ounapuu.ee • Hacker News
14
Magnus Carlsen survived and then won a dead-lost position against Fabiano Caruana to win his 21st world championship title at the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship in Germany • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:26 AM • chess.com • ~games.tabletop
197
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM • github.com/antirez • Hacker News
40
A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:54 AM • vincentrolfs.dev • Lobsters
62
open-source-games: A list of open source games • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM • github.com/bobeff • Lobsters
28
Hey solo developers! How do you guys actually find projects to make a living? • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:23 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
23
Assigning Open Problems in Class • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:43 AM • blog.computationalcomplexity.org • Hacker News
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The cost of not caring • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:35 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
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I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:31 AM • mastodon.world • Hacker News
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Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM • jmail.world • Hacker News
221
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499
Defer available in gcc and clang • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM • gustedt.wordpress.com • Hacker News
31
Error payloads in Zig • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM • srcreigh.ca • Lobsters
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DHS has reportedly sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics online • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM • engadget.com • Hacker News
51
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, …) • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:11 PM • swtch.com • r/programming
48
Show HN: JeffTube • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM • jmail.world • Hacker News
20
Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:52 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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The heavy reality of Venezuela's oil • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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Benchmarking LLMs using Wordle • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM • adam.bronte.me • Bear
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Your pet's microchip may now be useless after chip company goes out of business • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:38 PM • local12.com • Hacker News
17
hosting and self-hosting and irc • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:34 PM • blog.dante.cool • Bear
52
Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024) • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:22 PM • cosmo.tardis.ac • Hacker News
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DHS pushes social media giants to dox anonymous accounts critical of ICE • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM • mashable.com • Hacker News
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My AI Manifesto • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM • arks.ink • Bear
82
The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021) • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM • japan-forward.com • Hacker News
26
Dating apps are training us to want the wrong people • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM • bloomberg.com • ~life
249
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
857
In World Trade Center responders, PTSD with cognitive impairment is linked to cortisol-induced neural toxicity and ROS-related apoptotic pathways. The results suggest that chronic cortisol dysregulation may drive accelerated brain aging and cognitive decline. • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM • link.springer.com • r/science
19
Old School Telecine, circa 1980s (2017) • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM • liftgammagain.com • Hacker News
77
Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
19
Project Gorgon developer Sandra Powers has passed away • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM • massivelyop.com • ~games
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Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
182
Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM • pennmedicine.org • Hacker News
505
A beginner's guide to split keyboards • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM • justinmklam.com • Hacker News
408
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM • sgom.es • Hacker News
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New study in healthy rats exposed daily for 21 days to ingredient in newly-approved Wegovy pill showed >60% drop in protective gut bacteria and 70% rise in systemic inflammatory marker • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
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Reddit, Meta, & Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:09 PM • gizmodo.com • Hacker News
434
Why I don't think AGI is imminent • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM • dlants.me • Hacker News
60
Ladybird un-chooses Swift as its successor language to C++ • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM • github.com/LadybirdBrowser • ~comp
98
Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM • zyedidia.github.io • Hacker News
36
stupid technology i want for no reason other than because it's fun • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
13
🧟 ZOMBIES ARE NOT ONLY COMING… THEY ARE RUNNING IN YOUR BROWSER. • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
129
Error payloads in Zig • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM • srcreigh.ca • Hacker News
46
Continuous batching (2025) • Feb 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM • huggingface.co • Hacker News
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Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 • Feb 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM • jmail.world • Hacker News
16
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625
Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship • Feb 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM • fide.com • Hacker News
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The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses • Feb 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM • wsj.com • ~finance
90
The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM • ro.co • Hacker News
2561
I’m joining OpenAI • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM • steipete.me • Hacker News
24
OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM • twitter.com/gdb • Hacker News
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OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM • twitter.com/sama • Hacker News
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Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:35 PM • courthousenews.com • yro.slashdot
39
Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM • gwern.net • Lobsters
52P
Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM • theaviationist.com • Hacker News
85
Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript • Feb 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
171
GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor • Feb 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM • gnu.org.ua • Hacker News
181
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110
Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents • Feb 15, 2026 at 3:06 PM • videocardz.com • Hacker News
131
Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups? • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:58 PM • soatok.blog • Lobsters
247P
State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:49 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
45
I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM • twitter.com/steipete • Hacker News
136
Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM • github.com/gpasquero • Hacker News
70
'Babylon 5' Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:34 PM • cordcuttersnews.com • Slashdot
438
How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM • fabiensanglard.net • r/programming
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Johannes Høsflot Klæbo led Norway to victory in the men's 4 x 7.5km cross-country relay at the 2026 Winter Olympics, winning a record ninth career gold medal • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:20 PM • theguardian.com • ~sports
648
Are other developers just… constantly mentally tired? • Feb 15, 2026 at 2:13 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:50 PM • gero.usc.edu • Hacker News
62
The true history of the Minotaur: what archaeology reveals • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM • nationalgeographic.fr • Hacker News
301
Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:40 PM • microgpt.boratto.ca • Hacker News
23
all this trying • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM • valentine.bearblog.dev • Bear
162
Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
76
Defer available in gcc and clang • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM • gustedt.wordpress.com • Lobsters
506P
Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:29 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
202
How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:07 PM • thunderseethe.dev • Hacker News
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How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:07 PM • thunderseethe.dev • r/programming
267
Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
1002
Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 • Feb 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM • modern-css.com • Hacker News
41
IT helpdesk request? • Feb 15, 2026 at 12:57 PM • tildes.net • ~tech
173
Senior web dev in NYC getting zero traction what stacks are actually hiring right now • Feb 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals • Feb 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM • theintercept.com • Hacker News
104
Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents • Feb 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM • github.com/klawsh • Hacker News
633
LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop • Feb 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM • github.com/TechPaula • Hacker News
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EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear • Feb 15, 2026 at 12:10 PM • environment.ec.europa.eu • Hacker News
310
Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door • Feb 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM • knock-knock.net • Hacker News
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The Mega-Rich Are Turning Their Mansions into Impenetrable Fortresses • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
26
Show HN: DSCI – Dead Simple CI • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM • github.com/melezhik • Hacker News
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Daily soda consumption linked to cognitive difficulties in teens. Sugary beverages disrupt sleep patterns, which in turn leads to difficulties with memory, concentration, and decision-making. • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM • psypost.org • r/science
5
Elfyn Evans has taken the lead of the World Rally Championship after a second Rally Sweden victory in as many years • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM • dirtfish.com • ~sports.motorsports
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Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM • heise.de • Hacker News
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Western Digital sells out 2026 HDD capacity as AI demand pushes prices higher • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM • eteknix.com • Hacker News
196
Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM • github.com/pocketblue • Hacker News
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A teacher-incentive program has led to striking long-term benefits for students, including lower rates of felony arrest and reduced reliance on government assistance in early adulthood, a new study on data of 41,529 eighth-grade students reports • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM • news.ucr.edu • r/science
484
Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:19 AM • videogameschronicle.com • Hacker News
25
LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM • github.com/TechPaula • Lobsters
628
‘Almost impossible to destroy’: material captures CO2 and frees it at the flick of a photoswitch • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM • chemistryworld.com • r/science
28
Towards Fearless Macros (2023) • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:04 AM • lambdaland.org • Lobsters
45
E2EE, the be all and end all of chat? • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:04 AM • amy.is-a.dev • Lobsters
45
Under the current DTC model, investors do not directly own their securities • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:03 AM • foxnews.com • Hacker News
119
An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:53 AM • lithub.com • Hacker News
103
Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM • digitalseams.com • Hacker News
85
One Server. Small Business • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:41 AM • chodounsky.com • Hacker News
389
Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:37 AM • gwern.net • Hacker News
33
Analysis of JWST Data Finds - Old Galaxies in a Young Universe? • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:34 AM • phys.org • science.slashdot
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Communities are not fungible • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:33 AM • joanwestenberg.com • ~tech
383
AI is going to kill app subscriptions • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM • nichehunt.app • Hacker News
136
1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:55 AM • github.com/cavedave • Hacker News
69
Inner-Platform Effect • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:48 AM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
31
A simple way to scale pixel art games • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:32 AM • 30fps.net • Lobsters
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:29 AM • newstatesman.com • Hacker News
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New research shows children who reported feeling less safe in their neighborhoods tended to have smaller amygdalas, a deep brain structure that helps assess threats and process emotions. They were also more likely to show signs of depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM • source.washu.edu • r/science
44
Semantic Diffusion (2006) • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM • martinfowler.com • Hacker News
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Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don't Want to Be in the Family Business • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:39 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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AI is slowly munching away my passion • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM • whynot.fail • Lobsters
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Mississauga teen’s incredible invasive species discovery sparks rapid response at Lake Aquitaine • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:28 AM • thepointer.com • r/science
27
Show HN: Respectlytics – Open-source, privacy-first mobile analytics (MIT+AGPL) • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:14 AM • github.com/respectlytics • Hacker News
69
Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:12 AM • crimede-coder.com • Hacker News
70
A Single Reason To Not Vibe Code • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:07 AM • asindu.xyz • Lobsters
27
Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor) • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:02 AM • github.com/denisepattenson • Hacker News
64
Ring programming language version 1.26 is released! • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:55 AM • ring-lang.github.io • r/programming
40
Rendering the Visible Spectrum • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:55 AM • brandonli.net • Lobsters
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After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:49 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
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When interfaces become disposable • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:43 AM • chrisloy.dev • Hacker News