9
Will there ever be a new programming language? • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
12
Show HN: Journey – A Custom 2D ECS Game Engine Written in Rust and WGPU • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM • ujjwalvivek.com • Hacker News
148
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM • forestrydiary.com • Hacker News
45
Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posting-chatting • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM • dexerto.com • Hacker News
10
Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
2
Show HN: WowAI.pet – Generate cinematic videos from blurry pet photos • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:25 PM • wowai.pet • Hacker News
9
Common Async Coalescing Patterns • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM • 0x1000000.medium.com • r/programming
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H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM • h1bexposed.tech • Hacker News
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Single dose of potent psychedelic drug could help treat depression, trial shows. Researchers find DMT – used in shamanic rituals – in tandem with psychotherapy has significant effect • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM • nature.com • r/science
49
Analysis of Sustainable and Carbon-Free Nuclear Power for Enhancing Data Center Energy Security in the Artificial Intelligence Era • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM • doi.org • r/science
7
Ask HN: Why can't I reply to "Who wants to be hired?"? • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Denver considers kicking out Flock – but still using cameras • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:59 PM • denverpost.com • Hacker News
244
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM • docker.com • Hacker News
455
A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM • arstechnica.com • r/science
15
Why We Hate AI • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM • blog.fallible.net • Bear
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Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway) • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM • resistandunsubscribe.com • Hacker News
174
My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM • technologizer.com • Hacker News
14
Show HN: Deep Research for Flights • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM • flightdeepresearch.com • Hacker News
169
The Mongol Khans of Medieval France • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM • historytoday.com • Hacker News
91
Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM • dolphin-emu.org • Lobsters
20
better browsing for non-technical people • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM • riz0me.bearblog.dev • Bear
26
How do websites implement multiple types of logins? • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
25
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM • bbc.com • ~science
14
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video] • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
95
Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026 • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM • wccftech.com • Slashdot
96
10 years building vertical software: are we cooked? • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:48 PM • twitter.com/nicbstme • Hacker News
68
Modern CSS Code Snippets • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM • modern-css.com • Lobsters
2
Show HN: ZIT: Zooplankton Image Tool for 2d rendering of biological locomotion • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM • github.com/juleshenry • Hacker News
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Kim Dotcom says Palantir allegedly hacked • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM • twitter.com/KimDotcom • Hacker News
37
Migrating a Large Django + Bootstrap 5 SaaS to a More Modern UI - Rewrite or Incremental? • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
3
Show HN: Vocalinux // 100% offline voice typing for Linux • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:41 PM • vocalinux.com • Hacker News
75
The Point of My Low Traffic Blog • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM • sebastianmalloy.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers? • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:28 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
13
2026 will not be the ‘Year of Linux on the Desktop’, and I’m glad • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM • kevinboone.me • Lobsters
519
Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM • dolphin-emu.org • Hacker News
243
Ancient bone found in Spain could be from Hannibal's war elephants - An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped through ancient Europe. • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM • bbc.com • r/science
520
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
175
Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM • apps.apple.com • Hacker News
397
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM • github.com/zachlatta • Hacker News
8
Obituary for Robert Duvall • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
135
Anthropic's CEO Says AI and Software Engineers Are in 'Centaur Phase' - But It Won't Last Long • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM • businessinsider.com • Slashdot
4
Show HN: Scene It SF – Hollywood thinks San Francisco is 3 blocks wide • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
3
Show HN: Your binary is no longer safe • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:53 PM • reorchestrate.com • Hacker News
284
The maintenance burden of AI-assisted codebases is different from traditional tech debt • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
9
Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
9
Virtual Width Networks (VWN) • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
10
Show HN: Scrappy – Open-source browser scraper written in Go • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM • github.com/sunergos-ro • Hacker News
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The left is missing out on AI • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM • transformernews.ai • Hacker News
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Big tech stocks lose billions as AI spending fears hit valuations • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
181
Suicide Linux (2009) • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM • qntm.org • Hacker News
10
paperboat versus bear • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM • imperfect.bearblog.dev • Bear
1965
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
151
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM • lirbank.com • Hacker News
28
Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag? • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
30
Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad? • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:16 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
Show HN: Telescope now queries Kubernetes logs directly • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM • github.com/iamtelescope • Hacker News
3
Show HN: ViewLint – Lint UI, Not Code • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM • github.com/EvanZhouDev • Hacker News
29
Dozens of Australians diagnosed with rare tattoo-related vision loss • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM • abc.net.au • Hacker News
54
India's Toxic Air Crisis Is Reaching a Breaking Point • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM • bloomberg.com • Slashdot
10
Debugging Kernel Oops (2024) • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM • lfhernandez.com • Hacker News
14
The singularity won't be gentle • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:56 PM • natesilver.net • Hacker News
165
State of Show HN: 2025 • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM • blog.sturdystatistics.com • Hacker News
81
Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM • github.com/dmtrKovalenko • Hacker News
61
Analysis of DES and DESI data suggests axion dark energy model with negative cosmological constant is compatible with observations and predicts a cosmic lifetime of ~33 billion years • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM • iopscience.iop.org • r/science
23
Meta Is Wrong to Try to Sneak Into Privacy Intrusion • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM • davelee.me • Bear
5
Exploiting Starlink Leo for PNT • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:26 PM • insidegnss.com • Hacker News
3739
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
27
Wiretext – ASCII Wireframe Creator • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM • wiretext.app • Hacker News
43
Let's practice! (bsd.rd) • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM • openbsdjumpstart.org • Lobsters
55
Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026 • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM • thedecipherist.com • Hacker News
71
Tesla 'Robotaxi' status check eight months in: a complete joke • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM • electrek.co • ~transport
107
Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM • breadboards.io • Hacker News
49
Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:17 PM • simonhalvdansson.github.io • Hacker News
35
One of the most annoying programming challenges I've ever faced (port process identification) • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM • sniffnet.net • r/programming
8
How do you manage client communication and file sharing? • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
7
CURL's Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM • thenewstack.io • Hacker News
260
Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM • wero-wallet.eu • Hacker News
3
Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM • bernsteinbear.com • r/programming
7
How the sound of sport is being reimagined for deaf fans • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
8
Hearing aids didn't boost memory tests but dementia risk dropped • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM • sciencedaily.com • Hacker News
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Our jobs are safe.. • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
7
Ask HN: Do global AGENTS.md with coding principles make sense? • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
61
Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM • bbc.com • Slashdot
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the tech-enabled surveillance of children • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM • blog.avas.space • Bear
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Carney constructs a mega anti-Trump trade alliance • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM • politico.eu • Hacker News
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
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Swedes searching for their Colombian mothers forty years after their adoptions – government acknowledges processes were plagued with irregularities, from theft of babies to falsified documents • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM • english.elpais.com • ~life
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
5
You Could've Invented OpenClaw • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM • gist.github.com • Hacker News
4
InferenceX v2: Nvidia Blackwell vs AMD vs. Hopper – SemiAnalysis • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM • newsletter.semianalysis.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
12
Show HN: Diffuji – a diffusion-powered instant camera • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM • diffuji.com • 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
8
Tadpole the Language for Scraping 0.2.0 – Complex Control Flow, Stealth and More • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:35 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
13
Playing Games Is Playing Games • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM • gabrielcornish.com • Bear
15
reclaiming my writing • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM • fuzul.bearblog.dev • Bear
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
9
Bots Have Hijacked Substack Likes and Restacks • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM • zimberthink.substack.com • Hacker News
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
6
Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM • dl.acm.org • Lobsters
6
Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM • bernsteinbear.com • Lobsters
85
"token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM • jkap.io • Bear
8
Show HN: Rollin – Wheelchair accessibility scores for 56K+ locations (free API) • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM • joinrollin.com • Hacker News
9
Show HN: Interactive Chord Finder, Free Piano Scale and Chord Explorer • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM • interactivechordfinder.com • Hacker News
267P
AI optimism is a class privilege • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM • joshcollinsworth.com • Hacker News
17
Making the Vortex Mixer • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM • asimov.press • 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
4
Show HN: Nothing as a Service – Premium nothingness for minimalists • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM • euphonious-blancmange-24c5b0.netlify.app • 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
35
KPMG Partner Fined Over Using AI To Pass AI Test • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM • ft.com • Slashdot
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
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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
10
How do modern mobile apps authenticate user without system browser? • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:47 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
2
Show HN: AsdPrompt – Vimium-style keyboard navigation for AI chat responses • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:28 PM • asdprompt.com • Hacker News
151
DNA metabarcoding analysis of 100 commercial herbal infusions identifies a 68% mislabeling rate and detects undeclared botanical substitutes and fungal contaminants missed by traditional barcoding. • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM • doi.org • r/science
17
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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
6
Tesla 'Robotaxi' status check: 8 months in, 19% availability • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:23 PM • electrek.co • 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
81
Distinct frontal brain signal tied to compulsive behaviors in people with OCD, targeted brain stimulation can significantly reduce symptoms • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM • pennmedicine.org • r/science
7
Show HN: Claude-engram – Brain-inspired persistent memory, runs inside Claude.ai • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM • github.com/mlapeter • 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
81
Using novel acoustic capture devices, researchers have discovered that animal vocalizations in the days before, during and after the April 2024 eclipse, changed in soundscape diversity, complexity, and intensity. • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM • news.osu.edu • r/science
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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
24
If AI writes most of the code, understanding codebases becomes the bottleneck • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM • app.tryarchaic.com • Hacker News
75
Evolution didn’t wait long after the dinosaurs died • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM • sciencenews.org • r/science
45
macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:56 AM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
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Google warns EU against 'erecting walls' in tech sovereignty push • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
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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
5
Unitree's humanoid robot team's performance at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM • twitter.com/cyberrobooo • Hacker News
20
Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:48 AM • iwillig.me • Hacker News
120
By designing a two-step fermentation process to counter the odors that typically form during cultivation and extraction, esearchers have developed a way to make plant-based smell more appealing. • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:42 AM • news.osu.edu • r/science
103
An analysis of nine studies from 2000 to 2025 reveals a correlation between high-sugar drink consumption and adolescent anxiety symptoms. Adolescents who consume these drinks are 34% more likely to have anxiety disorders • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM • bournemouth.ac.uk • r/science
7
Show HN: Post-Interface Design – A manifesto on the abolition of UI • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:40 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
64
Study evaluates large language models as scalable tools to support identification of anxiety and depression from text • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:39 AM • nature.com • r/science
7
Show HN: Represent Me – AI proxy for job seekers with inline fact-verification • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:34 AM • represent-me.ai • Hacker News
8
How Well Does AI Find Code Vulnerabilities? • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM • ericfriese.substack.com • Hacker News
26
disko-zfs: Declaratively Managing ZFS Datasets • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM • redalder.org • Lobsters
9
Read, then write: batching DB queries as a practical middle ground • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM • fragno.dev • r/programming
12
Plan 9 Desktop Guide • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM • pspodcasting.net • Hacker News
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
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The End of the Office • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:18 AM • blog.andrewyang.com • Hacker News
18
Virgins, Unicorns and Medieval Literature (2017) • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM • bowdoin.edu • Hacker News
17
Google's places API pricing question • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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New EU Rules To Stop the Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:06 AM • environment.ec.europa.eu • Slashdot
8
The Essential Economics of Nigeria's Okrika Industry (2023) • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM • rpublc.com • Hacker News
7
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~food
78
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~games
4
I joined the MariaDB Foundation • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:59 AM • lefred.be • Lobsters
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
9
What's best practice for writing E2E tests on generated forms (K2, Gravity Forms etc) • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
26
Why does "Sign in with Google" display a popup now? • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
18
Ask HN: If you needed to make $1000 in a week, what would be your strategy? • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:37 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Canadians Say They'll Buy Cheaper Chinese EVs as Tariffs Drop • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:37 AM • bloomberg.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
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NATO to shift 2 commands from U.S. to European leadership • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:23 AM • cbsnews.com • Hacker News
150
Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:21 AM • source.washu.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
10
Building a FOSS live streaming camera • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:47 AM • blog.brixit.nl • Lobsters
10
VX7 – Open-source Yamaha DX7 emulator written in Python • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:47 AM • github.com/gpasquero • Hacker News
11
Show HN: AILA – Local-first autonomous agent with zero-remote-override • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:46 AM • institutionofinnovation.com • Hacker News
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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
8
Show HN: GEDB – A pure-Go embedded database • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:37 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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StackOverflow Programming Challenge #16: Change is the only constant • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM • reddit.com • r/programming
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GGML GGUF File Format Vulnerabilities (2024) • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:34 AM • databricks.com • Lobsters
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Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM • onlinelibrary.wiley.com • r/science
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The Sideprocalypse • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:26 AM • johan.hal.se • Hacker News
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Form can determine how probiotics impact the brain. Research found encapsulated powder affected cognition, including memory, focus, attention and orientation. Non-encapsulated powder affected mental health, which may influence low mood, anxiety and depression. • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:17 AM • oru.se • r/science
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Carbon Dysphoria • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:11 AM • deadsimpletech.com • Lobsters
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Show HN: Write native binary web apps with TypeScript and Express • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM • github.com/tsoniclang • Hacker News
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Trump Pushing $1M-$2.5M 'pay-for-play' scheme for America's 250th birthday [video] • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:06 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:06 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Sony May Push Next PlayStation To 2028 or 2029 as AI-fueled Memory Chip Shortage Upends Plans • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:06 AM • finance.yahoo.com • Slashdot
215
-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM • clang.llvm.org • Hacker News
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Musk changes course on Mars quest and shoots for moon – again • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:03 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:57 AM • matduggan.com • Hacker News
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Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts? • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:44 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Twitter(X) Is Down • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Running My Own XMPP Server • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM • blog.dmcc.io • Hacker News
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Show HN: 2d platformer game built with Codex (zero code) • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:34 AM • news.ycombinator.com • 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
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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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Show HN: SnkvDB – Single-header ACID KV store using SQLite's B-Tree engine • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:24 AM • github.com/hash-anu • Hacker News
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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
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The Chinese periodic table goes hard [video] • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:16 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Is ConnectRPC slept on?? • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:09 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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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
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Alibaba Unveils Major AI Model Upgrade Ahead of DeepSeek Release • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:59 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
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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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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
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Turning Our Back on Clean Energy • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM • paulkrugman.substack.com • Hacker News
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Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity? • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
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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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The Speed of Building Has Outpaced the Thinking Part • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:24 AM • eliostruyf.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Harmonic embeddings beat random init and work frozen – no tokenizer • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:20 AM • github.com/atech-hub • 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
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The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM • ahmedeldin.substack.com • Hacker News
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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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College students who spend hours on social media are more likely to be lonely – national US study • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:49 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
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OpenAI president becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:48 AM • sfgate.com • Hacker News
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planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:44 AM • github.com/nineties • Hacker News
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The Secret Life of Vector Generators (2001) • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM • jmargolin.com • Hacker News
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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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When does a content-heavy SaaS need a custom content system instead of a standard CMS? • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:05 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Lawsuit: AI used women's faces without consent for sexual content • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:03 AM • 12news.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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Hardware TOTP authenticator with 8-layer security architecture (ESP32) • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM • github.com/makepkg • Lobsters
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I need to vent a bit about my boss sharing information late. • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:47 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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As devs, how do you learn what users struggle with beyond logs and metrics? • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:45 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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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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Amazon Wins $6M in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:27 AM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
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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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slot-variants: new utility for component styling • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:24 AM • npmjs.com • r/webdev
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State of recruitment in the industry • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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I made Hacker News for Openclaws (AI agents) • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:03 AM • clawnewz.com • Hacker News
10
Welcome to the Eternal September of open source • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:53 AM • github.blog • Hacker News
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AI Fails at 96% of (General Work) Jobs (New Study) • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:49 AM • youtube.com • 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
639
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:32 AM • qwen.ai • Hacker News
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Fluxer: Free, open source instant messaging and VoIP platform • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:28 AM • github.com/fluxerapp • 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
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A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
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Who Opened the Door? • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM • chaosguru.substack.com • Hacker News
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The Sound of Susurrus: The Relationship between Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Exposure and Well-Being • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:01 AM • ijires.org • r/science
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Show HN: Animus Invoice – Invoice tracking without the busywork • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:47 AM • animusinvoice.com • Hacker News
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France's 'French Response' uses memes and sarcasm to fight disinformation on X • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:46 AM • euronews.com • Hacker News
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February 16, 2005 — The Day YouTube Was Officially Registered • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:41 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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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
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Btrfs disk errors to fall asleep to • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM • ounapuu.ee • Hacker News
53
What are you doing this week? • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:28 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
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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
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A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:54 AM • vincentrolfs.dev • Lobsters
10
Just in time software • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:47 AM • commaok.xyz • Hacker News
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open-source-games: A list of open source games • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM • github.com/bobeff • Lobsters
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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
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Unabomber victim, social media inventor Yale prof steps down after Epstein email • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:18 AM • thenation.com • Hacker News
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US students moving away from CS degrees • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:04 AM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Tanin – TUI Noise Generator • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM • github.com/AnonMiraj • Hacker News
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"Giving children the space to grow" • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM • keirstarmer.substack.com • Hacker News
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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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Varnish HTTP Cache: The last usable commit on GitHub • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM • github.com/varnishcache • 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
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Will Tech Giants Just Use AI Interactions to Create More Effective Ads? • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM • seattletimes.com • Slashdot
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Defer available in gcc and clang • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM • gustedt.wordpress.com • Hacker News
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Error payloads in Zig • Feb 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM • srcreigh.ca • Lobsters
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Show HN: Untranslated Einstein paper available in English for the first time • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM • repository.cam.ac.uk • Hacker News
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In Defense of the Weak • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM • hilanderrpgs.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Pentagon concludes Alibaba and BYD have links to Chinese military • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:30 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
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Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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Show HN: JeffTube • Feb 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM • jmail.world • Hacker News
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A Defector Explains the Remote-Work Scam Helping North Korea Pay for Nukes • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:55 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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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
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hosting and self-hosting and irc • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:34 PM • blog.dante.cool • Bear
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Is there a true alternative to Discord? • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:32 PM • medium.com/@mycahp • Hacker News
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Intermittent fasting no better than typical weight loss diets, study finds • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:32 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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a tiny webgpu powered chart lib • Feb 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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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
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The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021) • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM • japan-forward.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Katipo is a minimal alternative internet with a Vulkan based browser • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM • github.com/mjdave • Hacker News
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Show HN: OpenSlimedit – Cut AI coding token usage by 21-45% with zero config • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM • github.com/ASidorenkoCode • Hacker News
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Dating apps are training us to want the wrong people • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM • bloomberg.com • ~life
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Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
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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
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I tried to prompt-engineer a writing style and got a psychoanalysis instead • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM • executelater.substack.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Talk2Code – Text your codebase from your phone (~150 lines of Python) • Feb 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM • github.com/dchisholm125 • Hacker News
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Old School Telecine, circa 1980s (2017) • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM • liftgammagain.com • Hacker News
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Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
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Show HN: Purple Computer – Turn an old laptop into a calm first kids computer • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM • purplecomputer.org • Hacker News
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Show HN: ClaudeCraft – Minecraft server where Claude agents do everything • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Project Gorgon developer Sandra Powers has passed away • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM • massivelyop.com • ~games
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Please implement combination tags for more precise filtering • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
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How to build a browser-based 3D modeling app (technical overview) • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM • github.com/sengchor • r/programming
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How were video transfers made? (2011) • Feb 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM • film-tech.com • Hacker News
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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
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FOSDEM 2026 - Matrix State of the Union • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:37 PM • fosdem.org • Lobsters
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Building a Self-Hosted Google Trends Alternative with DuckDB • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:37 PM • medium.com/python-in-plain-english • r/programming
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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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How I manage my Guix System configs • Feb 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM • terracrypt.net • Lobsters
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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