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LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM • theregister.com • Slashdot
421
Farewell, Rust • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM • yieldcode.blog • r/programming
320
Farewell, Rust for web • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM • yieldcode.blog • Hacker News
152
Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:31 PM • smithsonianmag.com • Hacker News
137
Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:29 PM • matklad.github.io • Hacker News
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South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:26 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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AI makes you boring • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:12 PM • marginalia.nu • Hacker News
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DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' • Feb 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM • techdirt.com • Hacker News
306
A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:47 PM • github.com/Veirt • Hacker News
103
AI makes you boring • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM • marginalia.nu • Lobsters
95P
Hitler's Greenland Obsession • Feb 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
34
Top twenty worldwide with social-engineering and a cheat that's still undetected • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:58 AM • ud2.rip • ~games
65
Saying goodbye to Discord. • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:55 AM • hailsandales.club • Bear
108
The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:42 AM • hannahilea.com • Hacker News
434
Babies born between 2003 and 2006 were exposed to many more “forever chemicals” (PFAS) before birth than scientists previously understood, according to analysis in umbilical cord blood • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:29 AM • mountsinai.org • r/science
976
Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:23 AM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
197
AI made coding more enjoyable • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM • weberdominik.com • Hacker News
130
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM • missing.csail.mit.edu • Lobsters
617
Gemini 3.1 Pro • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:14 AM • deepmind.google • Hacker News
331P
Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial • Feb 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
851
Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:54 AM • micasa.dev • Hacker News
231
Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022) • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM • borischerny.com • Hacker News
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Those who can, teach history • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:26 AM • historytoday.com • ~humanities.history
56
The RAM Crunch Could Kill Products and Even Entire Companies, Memory Exec Admits • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:25 AM • theverge.com • Slashdot
25
UMD scientists create ‘smart underwear’ to measure human flatulence • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:20 AM • cbmg.umd.edu • ~science
1870
Gemini 3.1 Pro • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:19 AM • blog.google • Hacker News
1367
Second pregnancy uniquely alters female brain: Both first and second pregnancy have strong and unique impact on mothers’ brains. During second pregnancy, the brain is more strongly altered in networks involved in sensory cues and attention. These may be beneficial when caring for multiple children. • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM • nature.com • r/science
110
How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013) • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:14 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
73
Tiny pixel bears (Bearblog Creation Festival) • Feb 19, 2026 at 10:01 AM • departure.blog • Bear
771P
America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks • Feb 19, 2026 at 9:52 AM • governance.fyi • Hacker News
175
Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones • Feb 19, 2026 at 9:45 AM • keybeekeyboard.com • Hacker News
41
Cosmologically Unique IDs • Feb 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM • jasonfantl.com • r/programming
166
Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice • Feb 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
32
What are important historical books lost to time? • Feb 19, 2026 at 8:52 AM • tildes.net • ~books
125
I fix email deliverability issues for a living, AMA • Feb 19, 2026 at 8:13 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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EV Sales Boom As Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports • Feb 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM • financialpost.com • Slashdot
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
40
Oldschool HTML website • Feb 19, 2026 at 3:57 AM • 5cs.me • r/webdev
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
114
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
4
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
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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
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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
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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
187
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
101
Why I don't think AGI is imminent • Feb 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM • dlants.me • Lobsters
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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
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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
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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
65
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took twenty minutes • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:38 PM • bbc.com • ~tech
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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages • Feb 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM • jvns.ca • Hacker News
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
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
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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
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99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization • Feb 18, 2026 at 2:02 PM • spawn-queue.acm.org • Hacker News