Are we having the wrong nightmares about generative AI? (jessicahullman.substack.com)
Portable GELI block device encryption for Linux (2021) (bijanebrahimi.github.io)
Boilerplate Tax – Ranking popular programming languages by density (boyter.org)
3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines (news.mit.edu)
Wobbling gyroscopes could harvest energy from ocean waves (physicsworld.com)
Can I get a version of Windows that hasn''t been infiltrated by Co-Pilot malware? (learn.microsoft.com)
StartupCheck – Painfully honest AI tools that roast your startup ideas (star.tupcheck.me)
AI is locking people out. At Scale (conesible.de)
Four hundred car batteries wired together [video] (www.youtube.com)
How AWS S3 is built [video] (www.youtube.com)
Erebor: New bank by Palmer Luck [pdf] (www.occ.gov)
How ICE''s new software tools could speed up deportations (www.economist.com)
I''m Behind and I Don''t Care (kukicola.io)
Move Your Eyes, Change Your Life: EMDR Has Entered the Zeitgeist and Therapy (www.thecut.com)
Spacemolt (www.fanaticalfuturist.com)
The tiny technology that rules the world (bigthinkmedia.substack.com)
Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn''t plug-and-play (www.theregister.com)
Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (en.wikipedia.org)
''Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food'': Sam Altman on How Much Power AI Uses (www.news18.com)
Debian''s Master Is Deleting Criticism of SystemD and Other Things (techrights.org)
The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) (quod.lib.umich.edu)
Disagree and commit is not disagree and complain (dougrathbone.com)
Why SaaS companies are scared Takes ODE 15 mins to do what takes them 6 months (www.llewellynsystems.com)
Amazfit T-Rex Ultra 2 review:flagship battery life at fraction of Garmin''s price (www.t3.com)
OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill (bsky.app)
Andromeda Star Collapsed Directly into a Black Hole (www.universetoday.com)
Scientists discover new dinosaur species deep in the Sahara Desert (abcnews.com)
Welcome to the Era of Anarchic Antitrust (www.economist.com)
Peter Steinberger accuses HN of attacking him; Twittersphere backs him (twitter.com)
The 17% Risk (domofutu.substack.com)
Lawyer says Google shut down his Gmail, Voice and Photos after NotebookLM upload (discrepancyreport.com)
Microsoft-Controlled Media with Embargo and Press Operatives (techrights.org)
Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5x Faster, 6x More Expensive (www.marc0.dev)
Tech billionaires limit their children''s screen time (fortune.com)
Amazon''s cloud unit hit by outage involving AI tools in December (www.reuters.com)
Openclaw.net (github.com)
Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 (hypha.pub)
Node.js in the Browser (github.com)
Built an open-source tool that lets you deploy containers to your VPS via MCP (github.com)
HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with Nginx in a Bastille Jail (blog.hofstede.it)
What''s the best way to learn a new language? (www.bbc.com)
CDC: Why Decompression Is Worth the Complexity (wael.nasreddine.com)
Reality''s Moat (davidbeyer.xyz)
Stillpoint MCP – Delivering encouragement messages improves model results (www.modelwelfare.xyz)
Optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing Any Text Parameter (gepa-ai.github.io)
Tech Influencers Slam Hacker News Toxicity After OpenAI Hire Attacks (x.com)
NASA''s Artemis II rocket experienced interrupted flow of helium (www.nasa.gov)
DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs (apnews.com)
Microsoft throws spox under the bus in ICC email flap (www.theregister.com)
U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 (ielp.worldtradelaw.net)
Willie Colón, salsa pioneer, has died at 75 (www.npr.org)
AI Agent Achieves 1000 Turns Without Drift or Loss of Coherence [pdf] (github.com)
Mini Claw Code – Write your own mini coding agent (github.com)
Estonias Tiger Leap: the schools project that wired a nation for the digital age (estonianworld.com)
DHS pausing TSA PreCheck, Global Entry programs amid funding lapse (www.nbcnews.com)
Giving Claude Code Eyes: Round-Trip Screenshot Testing (medium.com)
We Have (Software) Replicators (schappi.com)
A Firefox Addon to relive old YouTube videos (github.com)
Meta has an answer to YouTube Face (lolware.net)
Help me pick a thumbnail, swipe right to vote (ytvote.com)
Astronomical Ceiling of Senenmut''s Tomb (en.wikipedia.org)
California Succession Proposition on the Ballot (ballotpedia.org)
DHS Will Suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry (www.washingtonpost.com)
Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows (www.wsj.com)
JPMorgan concedes it closed Trump''s accounts after Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)
Ways to Harness AI (lukasfischer.ch)
The importance of limiting syndication feed requests in some way (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (techcrunch.com)
I scanned 30 popular AI projects for tamper-evident LLM evidence. 0 had it (github.com)
Open source IoT board with 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V chip and lots of I/O for 29 (liliputing.com)
Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (machinelearning.apple.com)
CL-Kawa: A Turducken of Programming Languages (atgreen.github.io)
Scammers fleeced pensioner out of 1,338. So he sued his bank for 379M (www.abc.net.au)
Influencers want to adopt the ''analog lifestyle'' for 2026 (www.latimes.com)
Caltech Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair Has Died (www.caltech.edu)
Your Disk Just Lied to You – and Your Checksums Said Everything Was Fine (medium.com)
Japanese Woodblock Print Search (ukiyo-e.org)
Fix Your Tools (ochagavia.nl)
Giant stop killing games updates 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Sexting study reveals an "alarming" reality for teens who share explicit images (www.psypost.org)
Palantir''s secret weapon isn''t AI – it''s Ontology. An open-source deep dive (github.com)
Biometric injection attacks, AI-powered fake IDs move the goalposts (www.biometricupdate.com)
FULU Bounties – Ring Video Doorbells (bounties.fulu.org)
Apple''s AI Pendant Sounds Like a Watered-Down Humane AI Pin (gizmodo.com)
Riskiest CLO Funds Are Flashing a Warning Sign: Credit Weekly (www.bloomberg.com)
The cost isn''t building or buying – it''s what comes after (gobiraj.substack.com)
Chinese boxing robots win fans in San Francisco (restofworld.org)
Evolving a Modular Dev Experience in Emacs (poyo.co)
Regime-Declared Mathematics as Survivor Sets (zboralski.github.io)
Of the Greate Liberation of Websytes (elliotbonneville.com)
Why every AI video tool feels broke (www.openslop.ai)
Experimenting a New Syntax to Write SVG (2022) (yuanchuan.dev)
No-circles: Read what they don''t. Think what they can''t (www.no-circles.com)
Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations for PCIe 7.0 (www.phoronix.com)
Hackers expose vulnerabilities in Discord''s age verification system (www.ibtimes.com)
Hatchat – a Slack-like chat application on top of SQLite (github.com)
The Flying Wallendas (en.wikipedia.org)
Final Bench: The Real Bottleneck to AGI Is Self-Correction (huggingface.co)
Free Sort Feed Alternative for Instagram Content Creators (chromewebstore.google.com)
Gurning contests (en.wikipedia.org)
NASA''s Artemis 2 rocket hit by new problem expected to bump moonshot into April (spaceflightnow.com)
Apple M5 Pro/Max and TSMC SOIC-MH 2.5D chiplet packaging (old.reddit.com)
The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter (opennhp.org)
The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well (www.softwaremaxims.com)
Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don''t Make the Same Mistake (garryslist.org)
A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (www.sambent.com)
US judge upholds 243M verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash (www.reuters.com)
Attention is all you need to bankrupt a university (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
Chroma-print – Rust library for styled terminal printing using ANSI escape codes (github.com)
The History of a Security Hole (www.os2museum.com)
Why a Raspberry Pi Can''t Be a Stoplight [video] (www.youtube.com)
Intel "Nova Lake-S" Coming in 2027, CES Launch Alongside AMD "Olympic Ridge" (www.techpowerup.com)
Open AI Letter to Congress February 12 2026 (assets.bwbx.io)
I''m #1 on Google thanks to AI bullshit [video] (www.youtube.com)
Trump Threatens Netflix with ''Consequences'' over Rice Board Seat (www.bloomberg.com)
Lobste.rs Migrates from MariaDB to SQLite (lobste.rs)
What happens when your creative tools start thinking with you (twitter.com)
Steinberger, Karpathy et al. on the negativity of Hacker News (twitter.com)
The Future of Math Research in the Age of AI (siliconreckoner.substack.com)
How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution (boristane.com)
Trump Demeans Himself as He Attacks the Supreme Court (www.wsj.com)
Are compilers deterministic? (blog.onepatchdown.net)
What I Learned Using Local Vision Models for Scraping (seanneilan.com)
Self-Hosting (en.wikipedia.org)
Questions to ask yourself every decade (stephango.com)
End-to-End Test-Time Training for Long Context (arxiv.org)
The Origins of Computers on Overhead Projectors [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Government Is Hiring Tech People Again (presentofcoding.substack.com)
Cyber-attacks may disrupt smart factories by targeting time (www.uel.ac.uk)
Can the government ''steal'' equity from seized homes? (www.usatoday.com)
Polymorphic HOCs in React with TypeScript (jsdev.space)
SIMD in Pure Python (2024) (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scale (aws.amazon.com)
Who''s liable when your AI agent burns down production? (reading.sh)
Opinion: How to Solve AI''s ''Jagged Intelligence'' Problem (undark.org)
Fighting games have a product design problem (cthor.me)
Shell Permission Errors for Busy Coding Agents (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
Emacs native/idiomatic Claude Code UI (github.com)
Reshaping What Sustainable Cognition Looks Like (alanscottencinas.com)
Org Politics 101 – The Myth of the Just World (2013) (www.manager-tools.com)
StrongForth (www.stephan-becher.de)
Peter Steinberger on Hacker News (twitter.com)
Open APIs Are Over (tomtunguz.com)
Pentagon demonstrates U.S. potential to quickly deploy nuclear power via airlift (www.npr.org)
Theft of trade secrets is on the rise (www.wsj.com)
Software Devaluation Starts (medium.com)
Western US gripped by extreme snow drought: ''I''ve never seen a winter like this'' (www.theguardian.com)
The Subprime Compute Crisis (theosbornletter.substack.com)
Tech Layoffs Are Not About AI: An Insider View from a Former Amazon Manager [video] (www.youtube.com)
Metabolism (Architecture) (en.wikipedia.org)
Size-optimized generic sorting for C & C without function pointers (github.com)
Trump orders Pentagon, federal agencies to release files on UFOs and aliens (www.aljazeera.com)
How did you solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace? (nairel.com)
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station costs rise to 48B (www.telegraph.co.uk)
AI writes the code now. What''s left for software engineers? (sfstandard.com)
Pentagon and Energy Department airlifts nuclear reactor from California to Utah (www.pbs.org)
Inscryption made me nostalgic for retro card Games, so I made one (aracana.online)
Let''s Build Recursive Language Models (Theory and Code) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Sleep‑aligned fasting improves key heart and blood‑sugar markers (medicalxpress.com)
mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: spike protein a contributor to cardiac cellular stress (www.frontiersin.org)
Hemmi/Post 1460 Versalog (Sliderule emulator) (thingsabove.github.io)
NASA astronauts'' moon mission delayed due to rocket issue (www.bbc.com)
OpenAI is Suddenly in Trouble? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Your Android phone has a desktop mode you''re probably not using (www.makeuseof.com)
The Kingkiller Chronicles Completion Using LLMs (thethirdsilence.com)
Democratizing cryptographic silicon verification with Infra-Red imaging (2024) (www.bunniestudios.com)
Announcing Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU90 (blogs.oracle.com)
Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks (www.science.org)
One man''s trail of alleged abuse through SF''s private club scene (sfstandard.com)
Colorado Democrats suggest age verification on OS level (twitter.com)
Intense sunlight reduces plant diversity and biomass across global grasslands (phys.org)
Agent-First Software Development Lifecycle (github.com)
End of Productivity Theater (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
The future of AI is uncertain even for Anthropic and OpenAI (www.albertplaya.com)
Inferno (en.wikipedia.org)
Reader – web scraping that outputs clean Markdown for LLMs (github.com)
Tim O''Reilly – Why AI Needs Us (timoreilly.substack.com)
OpenBrowser-AI MCP (openbrowser.me)
Anki-CLI (github.com)
Visualize Your Turborepo Workspace (turbograph.dev)
ClipSafe (clipsafe.app)
Forever – Claude Memory System (forever.squidcode.com)
NSA and IETF, Part 6 (blog.cr.yp.to)
I built an app to organize web links like collections. Would love feedback (linkits.xyz)
SB26-051 Age Attestation on Computing Devices – Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov)
Happy Zelda''s 40th first LLM running on N64 hardware (4MB RAM, 93MHz) (github.com)
RIP Willie Colón (salsa legend) (www.billboard.com)
Password managers less secure than promised (ethz.ch)
Graph Topology and Battle Royale Mechanics (blog.lukesalamone.com)
Epstein Financial Forensics: Automated Financial Reconstruction from EFTA (github.com)
When Code is Free, Why is Claude is an Electron app? (www.dbreunig.com)
What If Our Websites Lost Their Soul? (I Tried to Get It Back) (thetechtipsss.blogspot.com)
The Big List of Naughty Strings (github.com)
The Web is your Canvas – QuillMonkey (www.quillmonkey.com)
Natural Language Processing Template Engine (pythonforprediction.wordpress.com)
Thermal drone footage shows Musk''s AI power plant flouting clean air regs (floodlightnews.org)
We estimate that Claude Opus 4.6 has a 50%-time-horizon of around 14.5 hours (twitter.com)
Grove: Detect worktree conflicts at write time to scale parallel agents (github.com)
SQLite-Vector: highly efficient vector extension for SQLite (github.com)
California tried to protect students'' data. Tech companies found loopholes (themarkup.org)
Reasoning Models Fabricate 75% of Their Explanations (ArXiv:2505.05410) (ai.gopubby.com)
Gamepad Controls Elden Ring Streamer IRL Using a Wild Balance Hack (kotaku.com)
Online Pebble Development (cloudpebble.repebble.com)
Fury over Discord''s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK (arstechnica.com)
Apple''s Ferret AI model is a step towards Siri seeing and controlling apps (appleinsider.com)
I got annoyed by Claude Code''s history, so I built a search CLI (github.com)
Trump says he''ll raise tariffs to 15 percent after Supreme Court ruling (apnews.com)
Museum Excavation in Cologne Finds Ancient Roman Governor''s Palace and Basilica (allthatsinteresting.com)
Breast imaging with ultra-low field MRI (www.nature.com)
MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatib (github.com)
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We''ve Been Fighting the Wrong Transportation Fight – Strong Towns (www.strongtowns.org)
Rhythms the Compendium: Life aboard an aircraft carrier (2021) (thelexicans.wordpress.com)
Aesthetics of single threading (ta.fo)
EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source) (www.eduke32.com)
Ace is a complete BASIC compiler for the Amiga computer platform (github.com)
Identity Theft 2.0 (rekt.news)
Toggle: A simple and keyboard friendly graphics drawing tool (github.com)
Tracing Chinese Immigration Through Food (2023) (sundaylongread.com)
Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming (inputlag.science)
I quit my job to run EpsteinExposed.com full time (old.reddit.com)
Parse, Don''t Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust (www.harudagondi.space)
New Technical Briefing: Digital Fingerprinting (blog.citp.princeton.edu)
Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism (www.fastcompany.com)
The Power of Constraints (collabfund.com)
JPMorgan Admits It Shut Trump''s Accounts After Jan. 6 Capitol Attack (www.nytimes.com)
How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip? (www.anuragk.com)
Sensei – Open-source linter for AI agent skill files (github.com)
Toyota Mirai hydrogen car depreciation: 65% value loss in a year (carbuzz.com)
She Graduated with Honors but She Can''t Read (garryslist.org)
The Strange Case of South American Chickens (2023) (www.randyschickenblog.com)
I want Artificial Competence, not more Artificial Intelligence (jdauriemma.com)
Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026 (blog.cloudflare.com)
Greenland ice melt surges unprecedentedly amid warming (phys.org)
Valve breaks silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity – yes, it''s because of the RAM (www.pcgamer.com)
Why aren''t smart people happier? (www.experimental-history.com)
Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze (www.phoronix.com)
_ Considered Harmful (campedersen.com)
A Centenarian Decathlon Calculator (www.modernmedlife.com)
Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header -like 2D rasterizer for C (github.com)
Compendium: An strace-like x86 Linux syscall tracer in Rust (pker.xyz)
I Donut believe, third party validation [video] (www.youtube.com)
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much (www.nytimes.com)
The multitrophic diversity of specialized grass-shoot insects (www.sciencedirect.com)
The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead (boristane.com)
Hallucinations, Zero Discoveries: Forcing an LLM to Invent Math (medium.com)
Ukraine Paves the Way for Pirate Site Blocking, Despite Ongoing War (torrentfreak.com)
That time the US military burned down one of its own bases with a ''bat bomb'' (taskandpurpose.com)
Pelorus Jack (en.wikipedia.org)
Scientists camouflage heart rate from invasive radar-based surveillance (techxplore.com)
LA.''s mansion tax chokes new construction as permits plunge 40% (www.msn.com)
OpenClaw''s hidden OTel plugin shows where all your tokens go (signoz.io)
OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage (www.tomshardware.com)
Documentation Is King: How AI Earned Its Keep (medium.com)
NASA moon rocket suffers setback likely to delay March launch: officials (www.cbc.ca)
Project Pele (en.wikipedia.org)
People are buying old iPods again (www.axios.com)
Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst (antipolygraph.org)
Why Are We Still Writing CRUD UI with Hands? (shivekkhurana.com)
The Hater''s Guide to Anthropic (www.wheresyoured.at)
Tyler Cowen on Latin America (cpsi.media)
U.S. plans Peace Corps-style "Tech Corps" to counter China''s AI exports (restofworld.org)
"apython": Accelerated asm Python 3.12 (github.com)
More Lessons from 14 years at Google (addyosmani.com)
AI Is Going Away (undeleted.ronsor.com)
FCC calls on broadcasters to air ''pro-America content'' for 250th anniversary (www.theverge.com)
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My Desk Setup: From Multi-Monitor to Single Screen with Virtual Desktops (www.ssp.sh)
DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit (dialup95.com)
Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level (uk.pcmag.com)
How Standards Proliferate (xkcd.com)
Slide rule simulator teaches you how to calculate the old-fashioned way (hackaday.com)
The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun (www.nytimes.com)
Cooperative Multitasking (en.wikipedia.org)
Text-Based Google Directions (gdir.telae.net)
The Compression of Everything (blog.approximated-intelligence.de)
What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form (milk.com)
I let a bunch of strangers control my receipt printer (printergobrr.com)
Why Do LLMs Hallucinate? (sicheng.dev)
Catherine of Braganza, the Queen Who Brought Tea to England (www.thecollector.com)
Take Off (benn.substack.com)
Grandson of Reese''s PB Cup inventor accuses Hershey of replacing ingredients (www.cbsnews.com)
Ghostty Configs Sharing WebSite (ghostty-style.vercel.app)
IPv6 Address Assignment (lpar.ath0.com)
My Life as a GitLab instance: How I use GitLab to manage almost everything (www.iduoad.com)
JSON library might be your most expensive dependency (kmaliszewski9.github.io)
Refactoring Slop (elijahpotter.dev)
The Easiest Price Drop Alert Engine -No Signup. No Browser Extensions. No Apps (www.pricedropnotifications.com)
The Flawed Paper Behind Trump''s 100k H-1B Fee (eig.org)
EFF''s Policy on LLM-Assisted Contributions to Our Open-Source Projects (www.eff.org)
The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated (nekonomicon.irixnet.org)
Your pricing sucks (and your billing system is why) (arnon.dk)
Do You Back into a Parking Spot or Back Out? (www.nytimes.com)
Extinct Code Grew Leopard Spots: AI-assisted evolution of a 90s screensaver (psychodeli.com)
Trump raises tariffs to 15% day after Supreme Court ruling (www.bbc.co.uk)
The "Enshittification" of Consumer Products (littlegreensteps.substack.com)
How far back in time can you understand English? (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)
Accelerating Science with AI and Simulations (news.mit.edu)
Books and Screens (aeon.co)
When Your Workouts Turn into a Work of Art (2024) (www.nytimes.com)