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The Amazon flipped to a net carbon source in 2023 releasing up to 170 million tons of CO2 as extreme heat—1.5°C above the 1991–2020 average—and drought weakened vegetation uptake more than fire activity according to new Max Planck Institute research. • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM • agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com • r/science
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Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM • lirbank.com • Hacker News
165
State of Show HN: 2025 • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM • blog.sturdystatistics.com • Hacker News
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Standard mental health tests may be inaccurate for highly intelligent people. Higher intelligence scores were associated with worse mental health. But for participants with high intelligence, the link between the specific questions and the general psychological condition became weaker. • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
43
Let's practice! (bsd.rd) • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM • openbsdjumpstart.org • Lobsters
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Tesla 'Robotaxi' status check eight months in: a complete joke • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM • electrek.co • ~transport
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Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM • breadboards.io • Hacker News
260
Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM • wero-wallet.eu • Hacker News
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Our jobs are safe.. • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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the tech-enabled surveillance of children • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM • blog.avas.space • Bear
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
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Robert Duvall has died • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Use protocols, not services • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM • notnotp.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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"token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM • jkap.io • Bear
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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
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
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
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
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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
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WebMCP Proposal • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:08 PM • webmachinelearning.github.io • Hacker News
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
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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
132
History of AT&T Long Lines • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM • telephoneworld.org • Hacker News
78
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~games
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~food
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PostgreSQL Bloat Is a Feature, Not a Bug • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM • rogerwelin.github.io • r/programming
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Palantir was allegedly hacked, exposing CIA collusion and deep-rooted global surveillance/meddling • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM • x.com/KimDotcom • ~tech
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
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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
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
729
What your Bluetooth devices reveal • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:39 AM • blog.dmcc.io • Hacker News
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The Sideprocalypse • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:26 AM • johan.hal.se • Hacker News
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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
374
Running My Own XMPP Server • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM • blog.dmcc.io • Hacker News
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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
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Please consider tagging a vibecoding griefpost or hypepost as a rant • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
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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
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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
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
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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
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MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:26 AM • github.com/unicode-org • Hacker News
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Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Category Error • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:42 AM • open.substack.com • r/programming
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Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:32 AM • qwen.ai • Hacker News
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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
156
'I Tried Running Linux On an Apple Silicon Mac and Regretted It' • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:34 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
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
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Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM • github.com/antirez • Hacker News
62
open-source-games: A list of open source games • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM • github.com/bobeff • Lobsters
71P
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM • zyedidia.github.io • Hacker News
129
Error payloads in Zig • Feb 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM • srcreigh.ca • 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
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
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I’m joining OpenAI • Feb 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM • steipete.me • 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
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GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor • Feb 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM • gnu.org.ua • Hacker News