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Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM • mage-bench.com • Hacker News
11
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
497
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
127
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
166
Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:43 AM • github.com/christopherkarani • 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
100
why i love my low-traffic blog • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:20 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
524P
America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:04 AM • governance.fyi • Hacker News
632
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
132
The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:12 AM • servo.org • r/programming
52
Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM • blog.michielborkent.nl • Lobsters
203P
Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM • lesswrong.com • Hacker News
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How a single typo led to RCE in Firefox • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM • kqx.io • Lobsters
64P
The "AI god" narrative is actually a corporate power grab • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM • thebignewsletter.com • ~tech
82
Vinyl Cache has left github • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM • vinyl-cache.org • Lobsters
204
Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM • venturebeat.com • Hacker News
218
Permacomputing • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM • wiki.xxiivv.com • Hacker News
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How can you still like Musk? • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM • balssh.bearblog.dev • Bear
108
A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:47 AM • zknill.io • Hacker News
209
Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:01 AM • floedb.ai • Hacker News
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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
938
Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM • arthurcnops.blog • Hacker News
2070
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM • blog.tomaszdunia.pl • Hacker News
361
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:38 AM • heise.de • Hacker News
47P
EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM • politico.eu • yro.slashdot
466
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
1031
AI Isn't Intelligent, It's PREDICTION (and Why My Panic Has Passed) • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:05 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
85
The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM • servo.org • Lobsters
107
How to Review an AUR Package • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:34 AM • bertptrs.nl • Hacker News
25
Behind the curtain: Tildes architecture • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:14 AM • tildes.net • ~tildes
35
Messy 2026 F1 cars leave a deeply disturbing impression • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM • the-race.com • ~sports.motorsports
217
Xbox UI Portfolio Site • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM • gabrielcabrera.co • Hacker News
50
That One Workday You Will Never Forget, What Happened? • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
166
Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
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
1700
Deer prevent forests from regrowing on abandoned farmland by consuming saplings and depleting the "seedbank" in the soil, an 18-year Cornell study finds. But while high deer density halts reforestation, it unexpectedly boosts overall plant diversity by preventing dominant weeds from taking over. • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM • journals.plos.org • r/science
322P
Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Hacker News
208
Built a video downloader with drag & drop and zero ads • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
106
An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM • reddit.com • 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
83P
Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Lobsters
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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
223
Dolphin Emulator - Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM • dolphin-emu.org • r/programming
177
Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM • codemade.net • Hacker News
148
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM • forestrydiary.com • Hacker News
266P
H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM • h1bexposed.tech • Hacker News
244
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM • docker.com • Hacker News
174
My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM • technologizer.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
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
95
Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026 • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM • wccftech.com • Slashdot
68
Modern CSS Code Snippets • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM • modern-css.com • Lobsters
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
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
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
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
181
Suicide Linux (2009) • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM • qntm.org • Hacker News
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
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
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
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
79P
the tech-enabled surveillance of children • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM • blog.avas.space • Bear
61
Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction • Feb 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM • bbc.com • Slashdot
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
434P
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
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
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
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
226
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
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
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How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News