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What's your actual PR wait time? Trying to figure out if my team is broken or this is normal • Feb 19, 2026 at 8:23 AM • github.com • r/programming
125
I fix email deliverability issues for a living, AMA • Feb 19, 2026 at 8:13 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
336
I traced 3,177 API calls to see what 4 AI coding tools put in the context window • Feb 19, 2026 at 7:55 AM • theredbeard.io • r/programming
467
Pebble Production: February Update • Feb 19, 2026 at 7:36 AM • repebble.com • Hacker News
162
Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025) • Feb 19, 2026 at 7:24 AM • kodiak64.co.uk • Hacker News
497
Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] • Feb 19, 2026 at 7:13 AM • pagedout.institute • Hacker News
544
DOGE Track • Feb 19, 2026 at 7:13 AM • dogetrack.info • Hacker News
194
Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app • Feb 19, 2026 at 6:54 AM • github.com/fjrevoredo • Hacker News
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The Popper Principle • Feb 19, 2026 at 6:52 AM • theamericanscholar.org • Hacker News
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How do developers learn to confidently express what they know without feeling like they’re stating the obvious or overselling themselves? • Feb 19, 2026 at 6:52 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Paged Out! #8 • Feb 19, 2026 at 6:16 AM • pagedout.institute • Lobsters
100
ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory • Feb 19, 2026 at 6:15 AM • github.com/sstraust • Hacker News
191
Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban • Feb 19, 2026 at 6:07 AM • oban.pro • Hacker News
289
Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia • Feb 19, 2026 at 5:55 AM • makie.org • Hacker News
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office • Feb 19, 2026 at 5:10 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
133
AI, Entropy, and the Illusion of Convergence in Modern Software • Feb 19, 2026 at 3:49 AM • abelenekes.com • r/programming
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The algorithmic feed on X could be shifting political views toward conservatism. Research found accounts using the 'For You' feed saw more change toward conservative political opinions and priorities, particularly around policy, criminal investigations into Donald Trump and the war in Ukraine • Feb 19, 2026 at 3:37 AM • natureasia.com • r/science
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I'm Not Reading That • Feb 19, 2026 at 3:30 AM • karldaniel.co.uk • Bear
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Flu shot: US Food and Drug Administration will review Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, company says • Feb 19, 2026 at 2:03 AM • cnn.com • ~health
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Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life • Feb 19, 2026 at 2:00 AM • thehill.com • Slashdot
223P
Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:54 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
115
Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:43 AM • singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com • Hacker News
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US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:41 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
184
What stack would you use to create a simple blog site? • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:29 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
432
European Tech Alternatives • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:07 AM • eutechmap.com • Hacker News
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
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
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
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Poison Fountain: An Anti-AI Weapon • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:55 PM • news.ycombinator.com • r/programming
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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FK Bodø/Glimt's fairytale continues as they added Inter Milan to their list of prized scalps – puts them within touching distance of a place in the Champions League last sixteen • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM • bbc.com • ~sports.football
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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
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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
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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
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
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How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe • Feb 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM • cepr.org • 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
156
Ditching Discord • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:55 PM • wiki.alopex.li • Lobsters
594
Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:19 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Hacker News
604
Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption • Feb 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM • github.com/LadybirdBrowser • Hacker News
201P
All Look Same? • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM • alllooksame.com • Hacker News
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Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video] • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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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
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What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents • Feb 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM • georgeguimaraes.com • 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
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My journey to the microwave alternate timeline • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM • lesswrong.com • 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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Notes on clarifying man pages • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:21 PM • jvns.ca • Lobsters
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Sizing chaos • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM • pudding.cool • Hacker News
96
How to train your program verifier • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM • risemsr.github.io • Hacker News
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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
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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM • jvns.ca • Hacker News
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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
511P
There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024) • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM • science.nasa.gov • Hacker News
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What does your "frontend" work actually look like day to day now? • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Nothing works without internet anymore • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM • ginoz.bearblog.dev • Bear
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R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:28 PM • github.com/phreda4 • 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
111
Current - An RSS reader • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM • terrygodier.com • Lobsters
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
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
613
Cosmologically Unique IDs • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:37 PM • jasonfantl.com • Hacker News
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OpenClaw is dangerous • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:35 PM • 12gramsofcarbon.com • Hacker News
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Disney trip turned into immigration detention • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:08 PM • propublica.org • Hacker News
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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
474
DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM • letsencrypt.org • Hacker News
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • Feb 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
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Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:56 PM • finbold.com • Hacker News
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Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:38 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
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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
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Bruteforcing the Bitwarden master password I forgor • Feb 18, 2026 at 12:27 PM • compilercrim.es • Lobsters
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
716
Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:46 AM • tailscale.com • Hacker News
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Sandwich bill of materials • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:42 AM • nesbitt.io • ~tech
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I made a word game - and it has come a long way • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:41 AM • pivotthegame.com • ~games
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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans To Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:40 AM • 404media.co • yro.slashdot
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Cistercian Numbers • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:37 AM • omniglot.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Feb 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~comp
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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
200P
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
119
Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor • Feb 18, 2026 at 10:31 AM • ekrsulov.github.io • Hacker News
209
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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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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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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How far back in time can you understand English? • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:56 AM • deadlanguagesociety.com • Hacker News
194
AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:08 AM • blogs.remobjects.com • Hacker News
122
Show HN: CEL by Example • Feb 18, 2026 at 9:05 AM • celbyexample.com • Hacker News
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Blogging or thinking about blogging? • Feb 18, 2026 at 8:55 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear