235
Neurons outside the brain • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM • essays.debugyourpain.com • Hacker News
180
How not to answer the salary question • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM • adatosystems.com • Hacker News
212
Robert Duvall has died • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
147
"I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video] • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Use protocols, not services • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM • notnotp.com • Hacker News
172
A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM • tempus-word.de • Hacker News
1127
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM • smithsonianmag.com • Hacker News
19
How should I improve my process of setting up websites and domains for new customers? • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
23
Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:37 PM • bernsteinbear.com • Hacker News
109
LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf] • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM • papers.voltropy.com • Hacker News
667
What is the most "overrated" technology or trend in web development right now, and why? • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
499
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:23 PM • jkap.io • Hacker News
110
The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:19 PM • blog.chrislewis.au • Hacker News
85
"token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM • jkap.io • Bear
267P
AI optimism is a class privilege • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM • joshcollinsworth.com • Hacker News
611P
Privilege is bad grammar • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM • tadaima.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
66
Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52 • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM • dexerto.com • Hacker News
415
Here it comes... Chatgpt is gonna start showing "personalized" ads based on your chat history • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
308
Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:57 PM • royapakzad.substack.com • Hacker News
24P
State Department orders nonprofit libraries stop passport applications • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
100
One of the most annoying programming challenges I've ever faced • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:53 PM • sniffnet.net • r/programming
87
What's the point of having a low traffic blog? • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:42 PM • sameoldstory.co • Bear
147
Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024) • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:35 PM • planetscale.com • Hacker News
44P
Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16 • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:34 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
17
ヾʕ´(ｪ)｀ʔﾉ♡ • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM • gom.bearblog.dev • Bear
104
Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM • twitter.com/jawwwn_ • Hacker News
61
Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:23 PM • phys.org • Hacker News
422
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM • anthony.noided.media • Hacker News
34
A "Cosmic Odometer" that visualizes our helical path through the Milky Way and calculates your exact cosmic mileage since birth (or any other date) • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM • cosmicodometer.space • ~space
1897
Some brands of bottled water contain significantly higher levels of microplastics than tap water, according to results from a novel method for detecting nanoplastics. • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM • news.osu.edu • r/science
83
Building a model that visualizes strategic golf • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM • golfcoursewiki.substack.com • Hacker News
226
WebMCP Proposal • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:08 PM • webmachinelearning.github.io • Hacker News
297
Low-dose psilocybin reduces weight gain and hyperglycemia in mice fed obesogenic diet. Results showed that, compared to the control group, mice that received psilocybin had reduced body-weight gain, liver steatosis, hyperglycemia, and insulin resistance. • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM • psypost.org • r/science
110P
Ireland Launches World's First Permanent Basic Income Scheme For Artists, Paying $385 a Week • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM • irishcentral.com • Slashdot
45
macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:56 AM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
1922
Higher cardiorespiratory fitness correlates with greater emotional resilience as researchers find lower-fit individuals face a 775% increased risk of shifting from moderate to high anxiety under stress compared to fitter peers who maintain significantly better anger control and lower trait anxiety. • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
139
How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
20
Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:48 AM • iwillig.me • Hacker News
26
disko-zfs: Declaratively Managing ZFS Datasets • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM • redalder.org • Lobsters
132
History of AT&T Long Lines • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM • telephoneworld.org • Hacker News
68
Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM • github.com/SpaceTurth • Hacker News
52
STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM • slyka.net • Hacker News
88P
The End of the Office • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:18 AM • blog.andrewyang.com • Hacker News
98P
New EU Rules To Stop the Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:06 AM • environment.ec.europa.eu • Slashdot
78
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~games
7
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~food
69
Show HN: I built a "Socratic" AI to stop my daughter from copy-pasting homework • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:55 AM • thinkqurio.com • Hacker News
39
Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:54 AM • observablehq.com • Hacker News
298
PostgreSQL Bloat Is a Feature, Not a Bug • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM • rogerwelin.github.io • r/programming
68P
Palantir was allegedly hacked, exposing CIA collusion and deep-rooted global surveillance/meddling • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM • x.com/KimDotcom • ~tech
513P
Research found that obesity confers 70% higher risk of infection-related severe outcomes. For most of the 925 diseases, including flu, COVID-19, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infection, obese people were more likely to be hospitalized or die than those with a healthy BMI • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:25 AM • cidrap.umn.edu • r/science
92
Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
119
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:17 AM • lucumr.pocoo.org • r/webdev
113
Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM • github.com/HenryNdubuaku • Hacker News
146P
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM • axios.com • Slashdot
52
Browse code by meaning • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:58 AM • haskellforall.com • Lobsters
83
TIL: Docker log rotation • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:58 AM • ntietz.com • Lobsters
226
iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
79
Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:49 AM • cormullion.github.io • Hacker News
502P
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM • rockpapershotgun.com • Hacker News
90P
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:43 AM • axios.com • Hacker News
729
What your Bluetooth devices reveal • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:39 AM • blog.dmcc.io • Hacker News
953
Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM • onlinelibrary.wiley.com • r/science
283
The Sideprocalypse • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:26 AM • johan.hal.se • Hacker News
47P
Carbon Dysphoria • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:11 AM • deadsimpletech.com • Lobsters
215
-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM • clang.llvm.org • Hacker News
82
Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts? • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:44 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
70
Twitter(X) Is Down • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
374
Running My Own XMPP Server • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM • blog.dmcc.io • Hacker News
863P
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM • legalcheek.com • Hacker News
210
How do you improve as a developer in this AI era without getting left behind? • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
46
I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:24 AM • matduggan.com • Lobsters
26
Diagnostics Factory • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM • matklad.github.io • Lobsters
42
The Chinese periodic table goes hard [video] • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:16 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
544
While most American teenagers do not engage in sexting, those who do face a high probability of negative consequences. Findings suggest that nearly half of adolescents who send sexually explicit images experience nonconsensual sharing of those images or become targets of sextortion. • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:03 AM • psypost.org • r/science
188
Please consider tagging a vibecoding griefpost or hypepost as a rant • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
13
How I cheated on transactions. Or how to make tradeoffs based on my Cloudflare D1 support • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:43 AM • event-driven.io • r/programming
65P
Turning Our Back on Clean Energy • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM • paulkrugman.substack.com • Hacker News
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
38P
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
3145
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
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
23
Assigning Open Problems in Class • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:43 AM • blog.computationalcomplexity.org • Hacker News
71P
The cost of not caring • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:35 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
2435
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
582P
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM • jmail.world • Hacker News
221
Building SQLite with a small swarm • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:38 AM • kiankyars.github.io • Hacker News
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
53P
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
38P
The heavy reality of Venezuela's oil • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
24
Benchmarking LLMs using Wordle • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM • adam.bronte.me • Bear
48
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
36P
DHS pushes social media giants to dox anonymous accounts critical of ICE • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM • mashable.com • Hacker News
69P
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
77
Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
81P
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
3520
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
64P
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
233
Scientists confirm non-genitally stimulated orgasms are biologically real. Findings indicate that these non-genitally stimulated orgasms trigger a surge in the hormone prolactin, mirroring the physiological response seen in typical sexual climaxes. • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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
411P
Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 • Feb 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM • jmail.world • Hacker News
16
Need help for my neocities site • Feb 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
625
Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship • Feb 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM • fide.com • Hacker News
120P
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
90
OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM • twitter.com/sama • Hacker News
57
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
Voith Schneider Propeller • Feb 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
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
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