963
912
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google/model-garden/gemini-3.1-pro-preview?pli=1
6 months ago
704
371
AI Makes You Boring
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_132_ai_bores/
654
218
Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
https://micasa.dev
790
Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance
612
9
Gemini 3.1
https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-pro/
521
575
AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
https://www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-exoskeleton
517
549
We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-science-funding-cuts
436
74
Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf
419
564
Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-lidar-microvision-adas
345
117
0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-release-28-boiorix/
208
DOGE Track
https://dogetrack.info/
316
California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report Themselves
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/californias-new-bill-requires-doj-approved-3d-printers-that-report-on-themselves/
312
161
Pebble Production: February Update
https://repebble.com/blog/february-pebble-production-and-software-updates
311
473
America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks
https://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-save
289
171
Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/minecraft-java-is-switching-from-opengl-to-vulkan-for-the-vibrant-visuals-update/
282
162
South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/yoon-suk-yeol-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-leading-insurrection-in-south-korea
270
168
IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/irs_job_cuts/
266
48
A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
https://github.com/Veirt/weathr
257
184
European Tech Alternatives
https://eutechmap.com/map
231
91
Step 3.5 Flash: Fast Enough to Think. Reliable Enough to Act
https://static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/
212
125
Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-trial-0e9a7fa0
202
77
15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern
https://nicolasdickenmann.com/blog/the-great-fp64-divide.html
199
394
Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
https://blog.zgp.org/micropayments-as-a-reality-check-for-news-sites/
198
95
Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
https://makie.org/website/blogposts/raytracing/
195
76
Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux
192
128
Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8rz7yedo
189
50
DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-bros-grant-review-process-was-literally-just-asking-chatgpt-is-this-dei/
133
How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-ai-affecting-productivity-and-jobs-europe
170
59
Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript
https://blackboard.sh/blog/electrobun-v1/
152
Something Is Going on with Colorectal Cancer
https://www.hankgreen.com/crc
142
183
Farewell Rust
https://yieldcode.blog/post/farewell-rust/
22
Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves
https://kodiak64.co.uk/blog/seawolves-technical-tricks
137
54
Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
https://oban.pro/articles/bridging-with-oban
104
Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today
https://borischerny.com/food/2022/01/17/Dinosaur-food.html
131
65
Show HN: An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
https://github.com/fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
119
Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy
118
33
Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/
106
Mark Zuckerberg overruled 18 wellbeing experts to keep beauty filters on Insta
https://www.ft.com/content/0c6d8ff6-f207-431b-bfb9-1d8b42bb4b6d
49
Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty
https://matklad.github.io/2026/02/14/justifying-text-wrap-pretty.html
96
AI made coding more enjoyable
https://weberdominik.com/blog/ai-coding-enjoyable/
100
16
Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
http://singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/old-school-effects-cloud-tank.html
98
10
Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down
https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1r8ftc0/i_control_my_home_assistant_over_lora_radio_when/
90
60
US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/us-funding-for-global-internet-freedom-effectively-gutted
89
38
Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baby-chicks-pass-the-bouba-kiki-test-challenging-a-theory-of-language/
88
66
A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/19/a-psychedelic-medicine-performs-well-against-depression
85
99
Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones
https://keybeekeyboard.com/
84
25
The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era
https://hannahilea.com/blog/musidex/
83
28
Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container
https://github.com/a11ce/docker-lisp
21
ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
https://github.com/sstraust/shannonmax
80
13
ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds
https://mutsuntsai.github.io/reference-finder/
79
32
How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/how-i-launched-3-consoles-and-found-true-love-at-babbages-store-no-9/
19
Hitler's Greenland Obsession
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/hitler-greenland/685984/
37
The Popper Principle
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-popper-principle/
92
CTO Says 93% of Developers Use AI, but Productivity Is Still 10%
https://shiftmag.dev/this-cto-says-93-of-developers-use-ai-but-productivity-is-still-10-8013/
University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/texas-university-ut-regents-unnecessarily-controversial-subjects/
72
6
Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/politics/trump-attorney-contempt-minnesota-immigration
70
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t
69
What Is a Centipawn Advantage?
https://win-vector.com/2026/02/19/what-is-a-centipawn-advantage/
8
The #1 most downloaded skill on OpenClaw marketplace was malware
https://twitter.com/chiefofautism/status/2024483631067021348
Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked
https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/
41
I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
https://bsky.app/profile/thomasgermain.bsky.social/post/3mf5jbn5lqk2k
64
7
Meta CEO Knew Kids Were Being Hurt and He Covered It Up
https://dispatch.techoversight.org/email/23724686-b700-489a-9677-327799e75e5e/
63
14
Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-police-7c-bar-overserving-car-crashes-20260219.html
61
5
FDA reverses course and will review Moderna's mRNA flu shot, company says
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/health/fda-moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-reversal
