1515
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I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
6 months ago
927
203
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
540
194
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
522
346
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-orders-deletion-of-the-uks-largest-court-reporting-database/
487
103
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
https://jmail.world/jemini
446
79
Rise of the Triforce
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
433
213
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5
396
240
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/
379
129
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/good-news-uk-discord-users-were-part-of-a-peter-thiel-linked-data-collection-experiment
377
316
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out
362
163
Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12670
336
280
Privilege Is Bad Grammar
https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/privilege-is-bad-grammar/
313
Use Protocols, Not Services
https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/
287
335
The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-israeli-spyware-firm-that-accidentally
276
131
Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
https://github.com/zachlatta/freeflow
264
236
"token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name
https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/
262
250
A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards
https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2026/02/beginners-guide-split-keyboards/
261
245
Defer Available in GCC and Clang
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in-gcc-and-clang/
143
Running My Own XMPP Server
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/xmpp-turn-stun-coturn-prosody/
223
88
Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-llm-evaluation-to-guardrails
211
156
Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
183
99
H-1B Exposed: The Talent Shortage Is a Myth
https://www.h1bexposed.tech/
177
235
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performance-goals/
173
22
Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser
https://glitchycam.com
164
263
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
https://anthony.noided.media/blog/ai/programming/2026/02/14/i-guess-i-kinda-get-why-people-hate-ai.html
64
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg
81
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
https://www.docker.com/blog/run-nanoclaw-in-docker-shell-sandboxes/
157
127
The Sideprocalypse
https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
153
80
WebMCP Proposal
https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/
82
Neurons outside the brain
https://essays.debugyourpain.com/p/you-are-not-just-your-brain
151
102
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business
69
Robert Duvall Dead at 95
https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/hollywood-legend-robert-duvall-dead-at-95-11531295
135
8
How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97f0nfU5Px0
134
34
State of Show HN: 2025
https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/show_hn/
133
136
AI optimism is a class privilege
https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/sloptimism
70
picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
https://github.com/antirez/picol
130
132
Wero – Digital payment wallet, Made in Europe
https://wero-wallet.eu
128
47
My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
https://technologizer.com/home/2026/02/16/arctic-adventure-2026/
121
51
A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
https://tempus-word.de/en/index
120
29
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
https://forestrydiary.com/
116
68
Suicide Linux (2009)
https://qntm.org/suicide
112
115
iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/apple-plans-snow-leopard-cleanup-ios-27/
111
41
Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale
https://planetscale.com/blog/zero-downtime-migrations-at-petabyte-scale
110
75
Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/pink-noise-reduces-rem-sleep-and-may-harm-sleep-quality
108
122
-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
106
Building SQLite with a small swarm
https://kiankyars.github.io/machine_learning/2026/02/12/sqlite.html
105
73
Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wildex-identify-plants-animals/id6748092158
67
The Mongol Khans of Medieval France
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mongol-khans-medieval-france
54
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
https://www.lirbank.com/harnessing-postgres-race-conditions
83
How Not to Answer the Salary Question
https://adatosystems.com/2026/02/16/blog-how-not-to-answer-the-salary-question/
93
15
Show HN: Breadboard – a modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas
https://breadboards.io/
26
Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium
https://github.com/HenryNdubuaku/maths-cs-ai-compendium
85
History of AT&T Long Lines
https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-distance-network/history-of-att-long-lines/
27
Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts
https://twitter.com/jawwwn_/status/2023207418922959234
30
LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf]
http://papers.voltropy.com/LCM
The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation
https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-long-tail-of-llm-assisted-decompilation/
18
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth
