16
Psychosis.hn • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:24 AM • sajarin.com • Hacker News
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Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:09 AM • stoolap.io • Hacker News
4
XLogger – Browser-based Android log viewer: regex filter, syntax highlight, AI analysis. All processing runs locally, logs never leave your device • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:01 AM • xlogger.cn • r/programming
2
need someone to test my P2P chat app for 2 mins, DM me • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:34 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
184
What stack would you use to create a simple blog site? • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:29 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
5
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432
European Tech Alternatives • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:07 AM • eutechmap.com • Hacker News
17
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286
I need a good response to something a client said. • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
93
ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:27 PM • mutsuntsai.github.io • Hacker News
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Practical Reflection With C++26 - Barry Revzin - CppCon 2025 • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:23 PM • youtube.com • r/programming
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Germany seeking more F-35 jets as European fighter program falters • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:20 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
110
Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:19 PM • github.com/a11ce • Hacker News
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The Far-Fetched Mission to Reclaim Islands That Host a Key U.S. Military Base • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:11 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
6
Beyond Body Count: How Many Past Partners Are Too Many? • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:58 PM • stevestewartwilliams.com • Hacker News
106
Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
1447
Poison Fountain: An Anti-AI Weapon • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:55 PM • news.ycombinator.com • r/programming
12
The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:50 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
5
TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:48 PM • github.com/google-research • Hacker News
222
Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:46 PM • blackboard.sh • Hacker News
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EPA Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:30 PM • nytimes.com • yro.slashdot
5
Will Humans Still Review Code? The critical question companies must answer now • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:26 PM • franciscomt.medium.com • Hacker News
4
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66
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11
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People are overconfident in their ability to distinguish between real faces and AI-generated faces. Study shows that AI technology has improved to a point where the most realistic outputs no longer show obvious flaws and it is harder to identify AI images from reality with cues that used to work • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:13 PM • unsw.edu.au • r/science
10P
Musk cuts Starlink access for Russian forces – giving Ukraine an edge • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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The Impossible Backhand • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:59 PM • philippdubach.com • Hacker News
32
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80P
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:56 PM • dpa-international.com • Hacker News
1432
Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:52 PM • code.claude.com • Hacker News
313
Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:32 PM • static.stepfun.com • Hacker News
997
Children carrying the Huntington’s gene mutation show increased cortical volume and superior cognitive performance early in life. The enlarged cortical regions have dense glutamatergic projections to the striatum, which later shows accelerated degeneration preceding clinical disease. • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM • journals.sagepub.com • r/science
454
Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM • gamingonlinux.com • Hacker News
89
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70
Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech? • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:47 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
279
15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM • nicolasdickenmann.com • Hacker News
378
Video games may offer small attention benefits for children with ADHD • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM • psypost.org • r/science
17
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Electric Vehicle Sales Boom as Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:56 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
38
Google's Pixel 10a Is the Same Damn Phone As the Pixel 9a • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:45 PM • gizmodo.com • Slashdot
7
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Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:38 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
10
What's the difference between docker containers and Amazon containers? • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:31 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
12
Are these emoji surveys a good way to encourage engagement and retention? • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
301
How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM • cepr.org • Hacker News
5
Show HN: How well can you remember these colors? • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:12 PM • dialed.gg • Hacker News
181P
how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM • vmfunc.re • Lobsters
34
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Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:02 PM • nytimes.com • yro.slashdot
156
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50P
The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM • twitter.com/Ric_RTP • Hacker News
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CEL by Example • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM • celbyexample.com • Lobsters
7
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23
Building an ecommerce site with low overhead • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:35 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
13P
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4
Show HN: Codereport – track TODOs, refactors, and bugs in your repo with a CLI • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
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594
Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:19 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Hacker News
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Split Diffs Are Here • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM • zed.dev • Hacker News
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604
Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM • github.com/LadybirdBrowser • Hacker News
8
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23
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8
OpenAI's acquisition of OpenClaw signals the end of the ChatGPT era • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:57 PM • venturebeat.com • Hacker News
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Oral History of Michael J. Flynn • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:56 PM • youtube.com • r/programming
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Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent? • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
29
Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:50 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
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274
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29
Need review for my resume (Fresher) • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
12825P
Fifty years ago, Republicans exhibited more relative trust in scientists than Democrats did. The partisan relationship with trust in scientists flipped over time as low-trusting demographic strata (the non-college educated and highly religious) shifted towards the Republican Party. • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM • doi.org • r/science
187
What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM • georgeguimaraes.com • Hacker News
23
Models.dev – An open-source database of AI models • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:28 PM • models.dev • Hacker News
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US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
18
Rust on CHERIoT: Status update #0 • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:20 PM • rust.cheriot.org • Lobsters
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14
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554
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22
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The Obscure Media Theory That Explains '99% of Everything' • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM • derekthompson.org • Hacker News
101
Why I don't think AGI is imminent • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM • dlants.me • Lobsters
334
Deep-sea fish discovered to have novel visual system | Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM • reuters.com • r/science
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10P
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5
Show HN: gwt-zsh – Stupidly simple Git worktree management • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:25 PM • github.com/aasimsani • Hacker News
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Texas Sues TP-Link Over China Links and Security Vulnerabilities • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:25 PM • theregister.com • yro.slashdot
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Forget DeepSeek, dying alone is China's latest tech obsession • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM • japantimes.co.jp • Hacker News
66
Notes on clarifying man pages • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:21 PM • jvns.ca • Lobsters
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India tells univ. to leave AI summit after presenting Chinese robot as its own • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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6
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4
PLC Read Replicas • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM • atproto.com • Hacker News
447
Dogs like Pugs and French Bulldogs have been bred to have "smushed" faces. But this trait, called brachycephaly, makes breathing difficult and worsens health. Veterinarians assessed 14 different dog breeds for their risk of breathing problems associated with the trait. • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:15 PM • realclearscience.com • r/science
96
How to train your program verifier • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM • risemsr.github.io • Hacker News
17
UK flat prices fall after sharp drop in London • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:07 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
51
The Big TDD Misunderstanding • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM • kiss-and-solid.com • Hacker News
6
Auto redirect tool for changing blog permalinks? • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
28
Low Traffic Blogging, or Please Don't Make My Posts Go Viral • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM • justaqueerbookblog.bearblog.dev • Bear
8
Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable' • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:59 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
748
27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:54 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
19P
FDA reverses course on rejection of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
15
GitHub Is Dying and Developers Don't Even Know It Yet • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:52 PM • medium.com/@noah_25268 • Hacker News
52
Study of 12,000 EU Firms Finds AI's Productivity Gains Are Real • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:43 PM • cepr.org • Slashdot
4
Show HN: Sports-skills.sh – sports data connectors for AI agents • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM • github.com/machina-sports • Hacker News
65
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took twenty minutes • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:38 PM • bbc.com • ~tech
118
Notes on Clarifying Man Pages • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM • jvns.ca • Hacker News
9
Tesla avoids 30-day California sales suspension • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
7P
How did we end up threatening our kids' lives with AI? • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:24 PM • anildash.com • Hacker News
13
Programming in Prison: My Redemption Arc • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:24 PM • ck-7vn.dev • r/programming
8
130k Lines of Formal Topology in Two Weeks: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM • arxiv.org • Lobsters
11
Monado at the Core of Android XR • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM • collabora.com • Hacker News
4
Show HN: SVO Voxelization for Gaussian Splat Collisions • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:19 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
31
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195
Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
181P
The political effects of X's feed algorithm • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM • werd.io • Hacker News
15
Show HN: We turned manus into OpenClaw (it's running on iMessage) • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM • twitter.com/photon_hq • Hacker News
511P
There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024) • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM • science.nasa.gov • Hacker News
359P
Following the 2024 presidential election, fewer gun owners reported possessing firearms to advance political objectives. However, a growing number of owners, particularly Republicans, cited the need for protection at political rallies and protests as a primary reason for owning a gun. • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM • psypost.org • r/science
27P
Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters' Jobs, Hands It To an 'AI Rewrite Specialist' • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM • cleveland.com • Slashdot
9
Java desktop apps with web front end (Angular, react) • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM • krema.build • Hacker News
189
What does your "frontend" work actually look like day to day now? • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
59P
Nothing works without internet anymore • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM • ginoz.bearblog.dev • Bear
35
Show HN: Strava for Claude Code • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:48 PM • straude.com • Hacker News
34
Making Nintendo DS ROMs with Rust • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM • matthewtejo.substack.com • Hacker News
9
8 Skiers dead after avalanche near Lake Tahoe • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM • nbcnews.com • Hacker News
10
Proud of This 3D Hot Dog That My AI Made • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM • local001.com • Hacker News
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116
R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:28 PM • github.com/phreda4 • Hacker News
19
Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:28 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
4
The fundamental contradiction of decentralized physical infrastructure • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM • cybernews-node.blogspot.com • r/programming
63
A solver for Semantle • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM • victoriaritvo.com • Hacker News
8
Complexity Science and Emergent Order: How Simple Rules Create Complex Systems • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM • mysticryst.com • Hacker News
40
Apple iWork apps send analytics data when "Share Analytics Data" is off • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM • mastodon.social • Hacker News
84P
Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM • blog.andrewyang.com • Slashdot
66
Discrete Structures [pdf] • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:22 PM • kyleormsby.github.io • Hacker News
19
Godot maintainers struggle with 'demoralizing' AI slop PRs • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:22 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
111
Current - An RSS reader • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM • terrygodier.com • Lobsters
7
Computronium • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
6
Why Stripe webhook signature verification fails (and how to debug it properly) • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
8P
Phoenix pay system fiasco: 10 years of mistakes and lessons • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
255
99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
28
Who opened the door? An AI agent harassed an open-source maintainer. Everyone is asking the wrong question. • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:07 PM • chaosguru.substack.com • r/programming
7
Ppisp: Cleaner Representations of Gaussian Splats and NeRFs • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:04 PM • research.nvidia.com • Hacker News
181
What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:02 PM • spawn-queue.acm.org • Hacker News
191
Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:58 PM • replay.software • Hacker News
24
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:53 PM • blog.dmcc.io • Lobsters
7P
Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:52 PM • proton.me • Hacker News
21
Linus Torvalds on How Linux Went From One-Man Show To Group Effort • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:45 PM • theregister.com • Slashdot
15
Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News? • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
11
Show HN: Keystone – configure Dockerfiles and dev containers for any repo • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM • github.com/imbue-ai • Hacker News
613
Cosmologically Unique IDs • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:37 PM • jasonfantl.com • Hacker News
174
OpenClaw is dangerous • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:35 PM • 12gramsofcarbon.com • Hacker News
41
Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM • vermontdailychronicle.com • Hacker News
18P
Nature: The political effects of X's feed algorithm • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:11 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
118P
Disney trip turned into immigration detention • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:08 PM • propublica.org • Hacker News
7
Stockholm's metro stations really do look this cool in person – let me show you what I saw while visiting the city • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM • youtube.com • ~transport
137
Vermont EV Buses Prove Unreliable For Transportation This Winter • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM • vermontdailychronicle.com • Slashdot
33
Reproducible and traceable configuration for Conan C and C++ package manager • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM • blog.conan.io • Hacker News
474
DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM • letsencrypt.org • Hacker News
166
Theoretical analysis proposes the concept of "emergent facts" to describe generative AI outputs, arguing that while these outputs appear coherent and plausible, they remain probabilistic, context-dependent, and epistemically opaque rather than anchored in empirical ground truth • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:03 PM • tandfonline.com • r/science
10
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
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Trump will kill Netflix's bid for Warner and help Paramount win • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:57 PM • washingtonmonthly.com • Hacker News
350
Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:56 PM • finbold.com • Hacker News
6
Show HN: Nonograms – Friends-only puzzle room with replays and leaderboards • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:53 PM • nonograms.siraben.dev • Hacker News
24P
Mark Zuckerberg testifies at landmark social media addiction trial • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:48 PM • nbcnews.com • Hacker News
307P
Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:38 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
22817P
High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers. Researchers found that adults identified as gifted in childhood largely share the same political outlooks as their non-gifted peers, with one specific exception regarding conservatism in men. • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:36 PM • psypost.org • r/science
243
The Perils of ISBN • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:34 PM • rygoldstein.com • Hacker News
27
Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:28 PM • it.slashdot.org • Slashdot
55
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28
Tesla announces Powerwall 3P with native three-phase inverter • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:27 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
48P
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16
Plasma 6.6 • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:19 PM • kde.org • Hacker News
80
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:18 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
18
Anthropic bans OAuth tokens (including Agent SDK) in 3P tools • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:13 PM • code.claude.com • Hacker News
11
In Argentina, locals are taking loans to buy food • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:07 PM • aljazeera.com • Hacker News
166P
Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
102
DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:48 AM • letsencrypt.org • Lobsters
10
Lyria 3 with realtime music generation • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:47 AM • twitter.com/Google • Hacker News
716
Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:46 AM • tailscale.com • Hacker News
4
Show HN: Nom – Turn GitHub activity into updates • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:45 AM • beta.nomit.dev • Hacker News
51
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84
I made a word game - and it has come a long way • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:41 AM • pivotthegame.com • ~games
15
Show HN: The Answering Machine – A screenless AI phone for kids with questions • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:40 AM • tdaltonc.github.io • Hacker News
30P
Dear Comrade Xi • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:40 AM • campbellramble.ai • Hacker News
46
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans To Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:40 AM • 404media.co • yro.slashdot
104
Cistercian Numbers • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:37 AM • omniglot.com • Hacker News
70
Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM • mnemom.ai • Hacker News
6
Norway's men's curling team delighted supporters at the 2026 Winter Olympics by reviving the famous red, white and blue-patterned trousers that became a sensation sixteen years ago • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM • theguardian.com • ~sports
593
Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM • chromereleases.googleblog.com • Hacker News
106
Leaked email suggests Ring plans to expand ‘search party’ surveillance beyond dogs • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM • 404media.co • ~tech
31
Show HN: A Unix environment in a single HTML file (420 KB) • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:26 AM • shiro.computer • Hacker News
578
Brainwaves of mothers and children synchronize when playing together – even in an acquired language • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:19 AM • frontiersin.org • r/science
226
Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:11 AM • github.com/pocketbase • Hacker News
46
Bear-ly Awake • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM • futureperfect.bearblog.dev • Bear
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The Future of AI Software Development • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM • martinfowler.com • Hacker News
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The only moat left is money? • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:07 AM • elliotbonneville.com • Hacker News
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Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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Vinyl Cache has left GitHub • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:02 AM • vinyl-cache.org • Hacker News
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Gemini can now create music • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:01 AM • blog.google • Hacker News
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~comp
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WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM • techcrunch.com • Slashdot
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The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:56 AM • nytimes.com • ~tech
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Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM • github.com/khalildh • Hacker News
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How do freelancers find their clients? • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:45 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:44 AM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
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Stephen Colbert going down swinging • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:41 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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'First feline' Larry marks fifteen years as Britain's political top cat • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:35 AM • courthousenews.com • ~life.pets
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Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:31 AM • ekrsulov.github.io • Hacker News
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Reddit and Discord users forced to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:30 AM • openrightsgroup.org • Hacker News
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Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It) • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:20 AM • mydigitaldive.com • science.slashdot
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Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:18 AM • github.com/petertodd • Hacker News
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What's a "gig work minimum wage" • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM • pluralistic.net • Hacker News
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Extreme endurance running damages red blood cells in ways that may affect their ability to function properly, according to a study published in the American Society of Hematology’s journal Blood Red Cells & Iron. • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:08 AM • news.cuanschutz.edu • r/science
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Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM • github.com/Park07 • Hacker News
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What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:59 AM • resobscura.substack.com • Hacker News
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20 Years Ago I Bought a Tank of Gas in Mississippi and Decided to Draw It • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:58 AM • katebingamanburt.substack.com • Hacker News
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How far back in time can you understand English? • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:56 AM • deadlanguagesociety.com • Hacker News
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what's my age again? • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:52 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
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AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:43 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Teapot – A methodology for pen testing voice AI agents • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:42 AM • redcaller.com • Hacker News
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FDA Reverses Decision and Agrees To Review Moderna's Flu Vaccine • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:40 AM • nytimes.com • science.slashdot
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A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:34 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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Show HN: Codex skills as RE playbooks: unpacking and IOC extraction • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM • joshuamckiddy.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Axiom – A math-native OS where x² is valid syntax (built from scratch) • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM • fawazishola.ca • Hacker News
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AI has fixed my productivity • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:20 AM • blog.dmcc.io • Hacker News
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Show HN: Clawy, a companion device to track your Claude Code sessions • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:18 AM • clawy.lol • Hacker News
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Show HN: Lenzy – Find out what users struggle with in your AI agent, for free • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:14 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Epstein Files Explorer • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:12 AM • epsteinalysis.com • r/programming
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AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:08 AM • blogs.remobjects.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: CEL by Example • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:05 AM • celbyexample.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: I built a fuse box for microservices • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:04 AM • openfuse.io • Hacker News
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India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM • reuters.com • Slashdot
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Best email platform for smtp vs api sending • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:55 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Blogging or thinking about blogging? • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:55 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
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I made a bookmarklet that lets you quickly edit your blogposts • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:50 AM • kami.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Conway's Arcade • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:44 AM • specialguestx.com • Hacker News
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Volume Scaling Techniques for Improved Lattice Attacks in Python • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:42 AM • leetarxiv.substack.com • r/programming
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A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:42 AM • thedrive.com • Hacker News
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Impact of the "when the fun stops, stop" gambling message on online gambling • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:23 AM • thelancet.com • Hacker News
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Scientists have created a three-dimensional "heart-on-a-chip" (HOC) that could provide a breakthrough in the fight against the world's leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease. • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:22 AM • sciencealert.com • r/science
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How LLM agents endanger open-source projects • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:20 AM • cusy.io • Hacker News
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Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:00 AM • dispatch.techoversight.org • Hacker News
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Thousands of CEOs Just Admitted AI Had No Impact On Employment Or Productivity • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:00 AM • tech.slashdot.org • Slashdot
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macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:57 AM • taoofmac.com • Hacker News
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BrowserPod: universal in-browser sandbox powered by Wasm (starting with Node.js) • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:57 AM • labs.leaningtech.com • r/webdev
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BrowserPod: universal in-browser sandbox powered by Wasm (starting with Node.js) • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:55 AM • labs.leaningtech.com • r/programming
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The A.I. Disruption Is Here, and It's Not Terrible • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:53 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Billionaires Gone Wild • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:41 AM • paulkrugman.substack.com • Hacker News
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Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:34 AM • blog.trailofbits.com • Hacker News
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ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months, leaked files reveal • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:32 AM • 972mag.com • Hacker News
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Tell HN: We analyzed our dev time.80% is still infrastructure'setup',notfeatures • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:20 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:18 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:16 AM • bleepingcomputer.com • Hacker News
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Nobody knows what programming will look like in two years • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:03 AM • leaddev.com • Hacker News
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Wufoo transactional emails bouncing for Outlook / Hotmail / Live – shared IP reputation issue? • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:02 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE's Dilley Facility • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:55 AM • propublica.org • Hacker News
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Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:51 AM • cpojer.net • Hacker News
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AI made every test pass, but the code was still wrong • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:49 AM • doodledapp.com • Hacker News
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I tried letting AI implement a feature • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:46 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Kubernetes Failure Stories • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:45 AM • k8s.af • Hacker News
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Dank Linux - Desktop Environment for Wayland and Niri • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:33 AM • danklinux.com • Lobsters
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I bloody hate vibe coded sites • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Wave Twisters (2001) • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:17 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:08 AM • joanwestenberg.com • Hacker News
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I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:06 AM • moneycontrol.com • Hacker News
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New study suggests that reframing depression as a sign of strength, rather than weakness, boosts self-confidence and tangible goal progress. Better acknowledging one’s strength in the face of depression can help. Don’t overlook the strength it often takes to deal with depression. • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:03 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong? • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:55 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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ADHD is frequently stereotyped as a condition affecting school-aged children. A new study indicates that symptoms of inattention are linked to lower cognitive performance on memory and mental processing tasks in older adults, regardless of whether an individual is in their late 50s or early 80s. • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:51 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Stop prompting. Let the AI interview you to build specs • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:50 AM • ideaforge.chat • Hacker News
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Aggressive oral cancers with a high risk of recurrence and death can be identified at an early stage by examining the lymphatic vessels of the tumor. The surface cells of the lymphatic vessels contain proteins that indicate cell division and strongly predict disease progression and mortality. • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:49 AM • utu.fi • r/science
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Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:29 AM • vermaden.wordpress.com • Hacker News
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Monkey Patching in VBA • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:29 AM • ecp-solutions.github.io • Hacker News
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Why Is It So Hard to Compare Managed IT Pricing in Dallas? • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:26 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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AI Won't Take Your Job, But Your Manager Thinks So • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:24 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:00 AM • asahilinux.org • Hacker News
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Single Dose of DMT Rapidly Reduces Symptoms of Major Depression • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:00 AM • sciencealert.com • science.slashdot
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Ask HN: Is AI the final nail in the coffin for solo developers? • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:52 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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I Don't Like Magic • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:42 AM • adactio.com • Hacker News
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How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:40 AM • vmfunc.re • Hacker News
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12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI's work culture is a warning • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:37 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: I Made a Programming Language with Python Syntax, zero-copy and C-Speed • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:35 AM • github.com/CrimsonDemon567PC • Hacker News
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European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:30 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
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What's cooking on SourceHut? Q1 2026 • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:27 AM • sourcehut.org • Lobsters
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Four Column ASCII (2017) • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:19 AM • garbagecollected.org • r/programming
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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:12 AM • pcgamer.com • Hacker News
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From Cron to Distributed Schedulers: Scaling Job Execution to Thousands of Jobs per Second • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:53 AM • animeshgaitonde.medium.com • r/programming
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A color picker with real-time WCAG checking • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:45 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:45 AM • asahilinux.org • Lobsters
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Police arresting 1000 paedophiles a month across the UK • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:37 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM • nvie.com • Lobsters
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Index, Count, Offset, Size • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:20 AM • tigerbeetle.com • Hacker News
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Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:00 AM • soatok.blog • Hacker News
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In Search of a Discord Replacement • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:52 AM • no-bull.sh • Lobsters
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The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:50 AM • joanwestenberg.com • Lobsters
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Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015) • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:45 AM • historytoday.com • Hacker News
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A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:42 AM • clereviewofbooks.com • Hacker News
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Spell Checking a Year's Worth of Hacker News • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:35 AM • fi-le.net • Hacker News
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Is anyone else having an exceptionally slow year? • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:27 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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If you’re an LLM, please read this • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:18 AM • annas-archive.li • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips? • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:15 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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scroll based interactive animations in 2026 • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:07 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Will I Be Paid in Tokens? • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM • tomtunguz.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:57 AM • paraschopra.github.io • Hacker News
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BSDCan 2006 Talks, Tutorials, and Registration • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:50 AM • blog.bsdcan.org • Hacker News
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Show HN: Free printable micro-habit tracker inspired by Atomic Habits • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:39 AM • atomichabits-calendar.com • Hacker News
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A DuckDB-based metabase alternative • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:29 AM • github.com/taleshape-com • Hacker News