130
The real cost of random I/O • Feb 26, 2026 at 7:38 AM • vondra.me • Hacker News
103
all i can think of when people tell me to use AI at work • Feb 26, 2026 at 7:28 AM • seriousendeavor.com • Bear
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Scientists created an exam so broad, challenging and deeply rooted in expert human knowledge that current AI systems consistently fail it. “Humanity’s Last Exam” introduces 2,500 questions spanning mathematics, humanities, natural sciences, ancient languages and highly specialized subfields. • Feb 26, 2026 at 7:15 AM • stories.tamu.edu • r/science
110
Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS) • Feb 26, 2026 at 7:15 AM • github.com/desplega-ai • Hacker News
355P
Americans Are Leaving the US in Record Numbers • Feb 26, 2026 at 7:07 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
199
Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals' • Feb 26, 2026 at 6:58 AM • cnn.com • Hacker News
76
Programming in K • Feb 26, 2026 at 6:27 AM • github.com/JohnEarnest • Hacker News
502
You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account • Feb 26, 2026 at 6:26 AM • heltweg.org • Hacker News
46
Magical stones from the mall! • Feb 26, 2026 at 5:51 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
400
Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line • Feb 26, 2026 at 5:40 AM • gitlab.com • Hacker News
113
Git in Postgres • Feb 26, 2026 at 5:21 AM • nesbitt.io • Lobsters
188
Technical Excellence Is Not Enough • Feb 26, 2026 at 4:51 AM • raccoon.land • Hacker News
940
Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users • Feb 26, 2026 at 4:35 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
191
H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery • Feb 26, 2026 at 4:18 AM • inconspicuous.info • Hacker News
21
How NVIDIA's CuTe replaces GPU index arithmetic with composable layout algebra • Feb 26, 2026 at 3:09 AM • amandeepsp.github.io • r/programming
172
From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion • Feb 26, 2026 at 2:52 AM • lighthousesoftware.co.uk • Hacker News
273
Visualizing how HTTPS, OAuth, Git, and TCP actually work • Feb 26, 2026 at 1:50 AM • toolkit.whysonil.dev • r/webdev
58
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules • Feb 26, 2026 at 1:42 AM • trufflesecurity.com • Lobsters
182
The React Foundation: A New Home for React Hosted by the Linux Foundation • Feb 26, 2026 at 1:29 AM • react.dev • r/programming
440
Gonna replace my job... • Feb 26, 2026 at 12:16 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
213
An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android • Feb 26, 2026 at 12:07 AM • keepandroidopen.org • Lobsters
414
I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word” • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:59 PM • grumpy-economist.com • Hacker News
15
Gen Alpha and Gen Z: Evolving masculinity • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM • scholarsandstorytellers.com • ~life.men
1022
The happiest I've ever been • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM • ben-mini.com • Hacker News
74
How should I approach take home assignments in the age of AI • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
190P
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:52 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
727
RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:43 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
77
Anyone get into caffeine (coffee/tea) as an adult? • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM • tildes.net • ~life
124
What's an obscure book/series that you've read that you would like to recommend? • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:39 PM • tildes.net • ~books
239
Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:25 PM • disruptionbanking.com • Hacker News
427
has anyone else quietly replaced half their JS with native CSS this year • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
4637
Researchers discover that Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) weight loss injection not only reduces appetite, but also activates brown adipose tissue, i.e. it stimulates a type of fat that specializes in ‘burning’ calories from food, in a new study in mice. • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:02 PM • ub.edu • r/science
660P
Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance • Feb 25, 2026 at 7:37 PM • eff.org • Hacker News
98
Against Query Based Compilers • Feb 25, 2026 at 7:20 PM • matklad.github.io • Lobsters
84
Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra • Feb 25, 2026 at 6:55 PM • guidelabs.ai • Hacker News
64
Implementing some Online Hygiene • Feb 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM • jamesphilbrick.com • Bear
559
Lots of devs are talking about how they have not written a single line of code the last year or so. How much does this cost to them (or to their employer)? • Feb 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1337P
Banned in California • Feb 25, 2026 at 6:16 PM • bannedincalifornia.org • Hacker News
141
Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory • Feb 25, 2026 at 6:09 PM • retrocomputing.stackexchange.com • Hacker News
392
First Website (1992) • Feb 25, 2026 at 6:02 PM • info.cern.ch • Hacker News
100
Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It. • Feb 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM • msn.com • Slashdot
1140
How will OpenAI compete? • Feb 25, 2026 at 5:29 PM • ben-evans.com • Hacker News
100
Deterministic Programming with LLMs • Feb 25, 2026 at 5:17 PM • mcherm.com • Hacker News
1840P
Could a vaccine prevent dementia. Shingles shot data only getting stronger (article discusses both the older and current singles vaccines). • Feb 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM • arstechnica.com • r/science
1941
AI has taken fun out of programming and now i’m hopeless • Feb 25, 2026 at 4:51 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
84P
Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information • Feb 25, 2026 at 4:26 PM • motherjones.com • Hacker News
110
Outsource Your Whole Life and Buy Back Your Time • Feb 25, 2026 at 4:11 PM • zevvdaily.bearblog.dev • Bear
218
An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop • Feb 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM • aircada.com • Hacker News
10352P
Donald Trump gained 2024 votes in areas where inflation was worse. Research indicates that the Republican candidate experienced slight electoral gains in counties with higher rates of inflation, particularly in lower-income areas. • Feb 25, 2026 at 4:01 PM • psypost.org • r/science
154P
Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras • Feb 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM • yro.slashdot.org • yro.slashdot
25
Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism • Feb 25, 2026 at 3:44 PM • david.alvarezrosa.com • r/programming
435
Making MCP cheaper via CLI • Feb 25, 2026 at 3:29 PM • kanyilmaz.me • Hacker News
83
RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel • Feb 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM • collabora.com • Hacker News
918
Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer • Feb 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
85
What interesting (and smaller) conferences are there in 2026? • Feb 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
869
A recent article that reviewed evidence from 29 clinical trials, demonstrated that mind–body exercises (including mindfulness training) can reduce markers of inflammation and boost brain-supporting proteins in people with neuropsychiatric conditions. • Feb 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
852
Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimps • Feb 25, 2026 at 2:56 PM • news.berkeley.edu • r/science
1588
Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules • Feb 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM • trufflesecurity.com • Hacker News
107
Tell me about your favourite web-based logic puzzles! • Feb 25, 2026 at 2:46 PM • tildes.net • ~games
2439
Neurosurgeons are really good at removing brain tumors, and they’re about to get even better. In a leap for personalized medicine, CMU scientists have discovered a simple and valuable way to improve brain cancer surgeries. • Feb 25, 2026 at 2:42 PM • eurekalert.org • r/science
98
New accounts on Hacker News ten times more likely to use em-dashes • Feb 25, 2026 at 2:19 PM • marginalia.nu • ~tech
110P
On Embracing Friction • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:52 PM • neillkillgore.com • Bear
8P
The United States needs fewer bus stops • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:48 PM • worksinprogress.co • ~transport
6P
Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north – Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:46 PM • bbc.com • ~space
327
Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:28 PM • github.com/odvcencio • Hacker News
196
The Slow Death of the Power User • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:25 PM • fireborn.mataroa.blog • Hacker News
478
Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:24 PM • github.com/ad-si • Hacker News
163
Show HN: I ported Manim to TypeScript (run 3b1B math animations in the browser) • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:15 PM • github.com/maloyan • Hacker News
109
Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:07 PM • superchartisland.com • Hacker News
10
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
89
DVD Sales Decline Slows Sharply as Gen Z Discovers the Appeal of Physical Media • Feb 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM • yahoo.com • Slashdot
28
Disabled woman put in UK nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:54 PM • bbc.com • ~health
309P
The Pentagon threatens Anthropic • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:49 PM • astralcodexten.com • Hacker News
43
Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:49 PM • 0x19.co • Lobsters
407
The Om Programming Language • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:48 PM • om-language.com • Hacker News
216
Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:37 PM • tachyon.so • Hacker News
1572
“Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time” still the best reminder that time handling is fundamentally broken • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM • infiniteundo.com • r/programming
228
New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
62
Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:27 PM • microsoft.com • Lobsters
185
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:21 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
878
Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM • blogs.windows.com • Hacker News
30
Scientists Crack the Case of 'Screeching' Scotch Tape • Feb 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM • arstechnica.com • science.slashdot
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A new projection study estimates that nearly a third of women aged 22 to 44 will have been diagnosed with a cardiovascular disease by 2050 • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:52 AM • scientificamerican.com • r/science
448P
Why isn't LA repaving streets? • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM • lapublicpress.org • Hacker News
167
Racket v9.1 • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:47 AM • blog.racket-lang.org • Hacker News
174
curl security moves again [from GitHub back to hackerone; still no bug-bounty] • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:45 AM • daniel.haxx.se • r/programming
74
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:44 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
947
Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:44 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
309P
The Misuses of the University • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:38 AM • publicbooks.org • Hacker News
1055P
Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:31 AM • worksinprogress.co • Hacker News
160
I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:23 AM • github.com/benjismith • Hacker News
67
LibreOffice resumes work on its self-hosted Google Docs alternative • Feb 25, 2026 at 11:21 AM • xda-developers.com • Hacker News
6
FK Bodø/Glimt's 5-2 aggregate success against Inter Milan secured their place in the Champions League last sixteen for the first time – will face either Manchester City or Sporting CP • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:57 AM • bbc.com • ~sports.football
105
Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:51 AM • discord.com • ~tech
247
GNU Texmacs • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:37 AM • texmacs.org • Hacker News
164
More cows, more wives • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:36 AM • worksinprogress.news • Hacker News
16
Code Mode with Skills • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:29 AM • navendu.me • r/programming
108
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:28 AM • popsci.com • Hacker News
103
what it sounds like when I hear someone is still on x.com • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:25 AM • seriousendeavor.com • Bear
55
what it sounds like when I hear someone is still on x.com • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:25 AM • anongoose.bearblog.dev • Bear
121
Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields • Feb 25, 2026 at 10:01 AM • nature.com • Hacker News
170
Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety? • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:55 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
75
Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:53 AM • time.com • ~comp
1022P
US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:48 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
1307
New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:37 AM • marginalia.nu • Hacker News
186
Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:31 AM • github.com/yassi • Hacker News
451
Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:21 AM • respectify.org • Hacker News
228
Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock • Feb 25, 2026 at 9:17 AM • clocksimulator.com • Hacker News
253
New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:35 AM • marginalia.nu • Lobsters
1269
Never buy a .online domain • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:31 AM • 0xsid.com • Hacker News
205
Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:25 AM • thenewstack.io • Hacker News
527P
AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations • Feb 25, 2026 at 8:07 AM • newscientist.com • Hacker News