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Norway is a Winter Olympic giant. Why isn't it better at ice hockey? • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM • nytimes.com • ~sports.hockey
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Plasma 6.6 released • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:10 AM • kde.org • Lobsters
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Gentoo on Codeberg • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:09 AM • gentoo.org • Lobsters
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China Planted So Many Trees Around the Taklamakan Desert It Turned It Into a Carbon Sink. Study suggests the increased vegetation leads to more “evapotranspiration” — basically, the plants sweat, which can lead to localized cooling and even more rainfall. • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM • zmescience.com • r/science
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why i love my low-traffic blog • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:20 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
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Can we get a filter or stricter moderation for AI-generated "slop" posts? • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:47 AM • cleantechnica.com • Hacker News
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The "AI god" narrative is actually a corporate power grab • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM • thebignewsletter.com • ~tech
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Researchers found a strain of bacteria buried under 5000 years of cave ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. The bacterium also has over 100 genes that are known to be resistance-related. Psychrobacter is known to infect humans and animals, though rarely as it prefers cold environments. • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:55 AM • frontiersin.org • r/science
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Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM • arthurcnops.blog • Hacker News
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GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM • blog.tomaszdunia.pl • Hacker News
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EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM • politico.eu • yro.slashdot
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AI Isn't Intelligent, It's PREDICTION (and Why My Panic Has Passed) • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:05 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Behind the curtain: Tildes architecture • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:14 AM • tildes.net • ~tildes
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Messy 2026 F1 cars leave a deeply disturbing impression • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM • the-race.com • ~sports.motorsports
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Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:23 PM • cep.dev • Hacker News
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Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM • youtube.com • r/programming
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'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
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Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM • dolphin-emu.org • Hacker News
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SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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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
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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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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
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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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Privilege is bad grammar • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM • tadaima.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
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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