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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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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
186
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
343
Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:43 AM • berksoft.ca • Hacker News
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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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America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:04 AM • governance.fyi • Hacker News
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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
700
Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:47 AM • cleantechnica.com • Hacker News
319
I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM • aeris.edbn.me • 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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How can you still like Musk? • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM • balssh.bearblog.dev • Bear
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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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Peer-reviewed study: AI-generated changes fail more often in unhealthy code (30%+ higher defect risk) • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM • codescene.com • r/programming
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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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The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM • servo.org • Lobsters
25
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
759
Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:23 PM • cep.dev • Hacker News
322P
Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Hacker News
329
Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM • vo2maxpro.com • 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
750
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
529
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM • youtube.com • r/programming
266P
H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM • h1bexposed.tech • Hacker News
91
Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM • dolphin-emu.org • Lobsters
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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
519
Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM • dolphin-emu.org • Hacker News
520
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM • arxiv.org • 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
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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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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
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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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Use protocols, not services • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM • notnotp.com • 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
499
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name • Feb 16, 2026 at 1:23 PM • jkap.io • 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
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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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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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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