1669
1300
The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
6 months ago
1272
698
Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
706
499
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/
573
445
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-leo-xiv-tells-priests-to-use-their-brains-not-ai-to-write-homilies
561
108
Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel
https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journal
552
628
Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
https://docs.hetzner.com/de/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/
551
264
Binance Fired Employees Who Found $1.7B in Crypto Was Sent to Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employees-iran-firings.html
482
326
Terence Tao, at 8 years old [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf
456
3
Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1rce0lf/hetzner_european_hosting_provider_to_increase/
454
132
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2026)
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
434
361
FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me
https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/
398
129
Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
https://magicalmushroom.com/index
384
Writing code is cheap now
https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/code-is-cheap/
371
106
ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/asml-unveils-euv-light-source-advance-that-could-yield-50-more-chips-by-2030-2026-02-23/
449
"Car Wash" test with 53 models
https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test
345
80
The first general computer action model
https://si.inc/posts/fdm1/
325
65
Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
311
233
A simple web we own
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02/21/a_simple_web_we_own.html
308
175
Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/making-wolfram-tech-available-as-a-foundation-tool-for-llm-systems/
302
209
I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/22/a-new-start-after-60-i-baked-a-pie-every-day-for-a-year-and-it-changed-my-life
297
I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/
288
273
AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380
72
Freemediaheckyeah
https://fmhy.net/
267
119
The peculiar case of Japanese web design
https://sabrinas.space
257
101
Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/vegas-police-are-big-users-of-license-plate-readers-public-has-little-input-because-its-a-gift
248
139
The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
https://oxc.rs/
237
186
You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer
https://twitter.com/i/status/2025987544853188836
227
240
$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-spent-30-billion-ditch-110200869.html
224
151
Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
https://hackernews.love/
206
74
UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380883-unix99-a-unix-like-os-for-the-ti-994a/
195
61
Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025
https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/crawler.html
189
What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/23/ubuntu-rustnation/
181
45
Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
https://sowbot.co.uk/
179
Samsung Upcycle Promise
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-promised-make-old-phones-useful-galaxy-upcycle/
172
57
Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)
https://llm-timeline.com/
156
96
Museum of Plugs and Sockets
https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html
Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot
https://twitter.com/anthropicai/status/2025997928242811253
271
Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
https://www.linguabase.org/words-with-spaces.html
150
47
Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)
https://github.com/vignesh07/babyshark
146
15
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
135
112
The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
https://www.mikeayles.com/blog/heavy-haulage-basics/
127
97
Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1rb9ot4/decided_to_fly_to_the_us_to_buy_some_hard_drives
117
82
Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances
https://videocardz.com/newz/stop-killing-games-update-says-eu-petition-advances
113
105
IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ibm-plunges-after-anthropics-latest-update-takes-cobol
122
VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]
https://pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev/VTT_CR_00092_26.pdf
111
28
C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
https://github.com/danalec/DMMSY-SSSP
107
25
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/an-introduction-to-the-codex-seraphinianus.html
100
16
Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator
https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-memory-allocator/
95
77
Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation
https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/
92
23
SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade5a7
91
53
Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
https://blog.nytsoi.net/2026/02/23/facebook-robots-txt
115
Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5719338
88
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7A1QoUEI
87
22
The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
https://www.combinatorprize.org/
86
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/ais-can-generate-near-verbatim-copies-of-novels-from-training-data/
85
17
The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/02/23/the-challenges-of-porting-shufflepuck-cafe-to-the-8-bits-apple-ii/
42
What I learned designing a barebones UI engine
https://madebymohammed.com/miniui