Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

159 cpcloud 2026-02-19 16:32:34 UTC micasa.dev Full Share 58

Log incidents with severity and location, link them to appliances and vendors, and resolve them when fixed. A vendor directory with contact info, quote history, and every job they've done for you. Attach files—manuals, invoices, photos—directly to projects and appliances. Stored in the same SQLite file.

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

12 bryanrasmussen 2026-02-19 18:32:34 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 3

Archaeologists in Córdoba, Spain, found a bone that may be from one of Hannibal's war elephants used in the Second Punic War. The bone, dated to the third century B.C.E, is the first elephant bone linked to that chronology found in Iberia and Europe.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

491 PunchTornado 2026-02-19 16:32:34 UTC deepmind.google Llama Share 335

Gemini 3.1 Pro is a highly intelligent model that outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro in reasoning and multimodal capabilities. It has improved safety performance and satisfied child safety evaluations, with results available in the Gemini 3 Pro model card.

A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

34 forinti 2026-02-19 18:32:34 UTC github.com/veirt Llama Share 7

The program displays real-time weather with animated effects and auto-location detection. It can be customized with a config file or flags to change settings such as units and HUD visibility.

Pebble Production: February Update

210 smig0 2026-02-19 13:32:34 UTC repebble.com Llama Share 94

Pebbleland is busy shipping 3 new hardware products with associated software. Production is in the final stages with waterproof testing and last minute tweaks.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

205 SteveHawk27 2026-02-19 12:32:34 UTC pagedout.institute Llama Share 40

Paged Out! Institute's issue #8 is their biggest issue to date, with over 1 million downloads and a new web viewer for articles. The issue features various topics, including Breakout Model Synthesis, query-based compilers, and AgentRoam, a multimodal agent for exploring open-world games.

Choosing a Language Based on Its Syntax?

17 todsacerdoti 2026-02-19 17:32:34 UTC gingerbill.org Llama Share 24

The user argues that people often judge programming languages based on their syntax rather than their semantics, which is a misguided approach as semantics are the foundation of a language. Experienced programmers tend to focus on the actual language semantics rather than syntax, and language designers should ignore opinions on minor syntactic decisions from inexperienced programmers.

Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails

154 benbreen 2026-02-19 11:32:34 UTC royapakzad.substack.com Llama Share 63

The author discusses the limitations of AI-generated summarization tools, particularly in multilingual contexts, and how subtle shifts in system prompts can reshape summaries and influence downstream decisions.

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

129 simondanisch 2026-02-19 11:32:34 UTC makie.org Llama Share 46

Researchers integrated a physically-based GPU ray tracing pipeline into Makie, a Julia plotting ecosystem, to create photorealistic 3D scenes. This allows for interactive exploration and visualization of complex data in various fields.

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

40 jbredeche 2026-02-19 14:32:34 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 13

People are granting AI agents more autonomy as they gain experience, but the risk of agent actions varies widely, with most being low-risk and reversible, while some involve sensitive security-related actions, financial transactions, and medical information. Effective oversight of agents requires new forms of post-deployment monitoring infrastructure and human-AI interaction paradigms that ...

Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app

88 holyknight 2026-02-19 12:32:34 UTC github.com/fjrevoredo Llama Share 44

Mini Diarium is a private journal app with AES-256-GCM encryption and local-only storage. It offers password and key file authentication, with key file support for secure unlocking and revocation.

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

98 sorentwo 2026-02-19 11:32:34 UTC oban.pro Llama Share 46

To bridge the gap between Elixir and Python, Oban can be used to exchange durable jobs between the two languages, enabling collaboration and leveraging packages lacking in one ecosystem. A demo app called "Badge Forge" was built to print conference badges using WeasyPrint, a Python library, and Oban, which allows Elixir and Python to share a message queue and database.

AI makes you boring

269 speckx 2026-02-19 18:32:34 UTC marginalia.nu Llama Share 183

User argues AI-aided development has led to boring projects on Hacker News, lacking original thinking and discussion. AI models can't replace human immersion in a problem, resulting in shallow ideas.

South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

127 Geekette 2026-02-19 18:32:34 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 53

A South Korean court sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour for leading an insurrection in December 2024. The court found Yoon guilty of disrupting the constitutional order and causing massive social costs to South Korean society.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

158 MallocVoidstar 2026-02-19 15:32:34 UTC console.cloud.google.com Full Share 84

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Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves

84 atan2 2026-02-19 12:32:34 UTC kodiak64.co.uk Llama Share 7

The Commodore 64 game Seawolves uses unique techniques like combining NMIs and IRQs for efficient raster management and rendering. The game also employs various tricks like sprite multiplexing, real-time water distortion, and animation techniques to create a visually appealing experience.

Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale

42 Ozzie_osman 2026-02-19 15:32:34 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 9

PlanetScale migrates large databases without downtime, using a process that involves taking a consistent non-locking snapshot of the data, replicating changes throughout the migration, and running a VDiff to verify data correctness. This allows for a seamless transition to the new system.

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial

63 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-02-19 16:32:34 UTC wsj.com Full Share 32

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Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation

25 paraschopra 2026-02-19 14:32:34 UTC journals.sagepub.com Full Share 20

Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)

70 simonebrunozzi 2026-02-19 15:32:34 UTC borischerny.com Llama Share 58

You read Oliver Sacks' book and learned about the Ginkgo biloba tree being a living fossil. You're interested in the oldest foods we consume today, noting Ginkgo nuts are an East Asian delicacy.

Voith Schneider Propeller

87 Luc 2026-02-19 09:32:34 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 24

The Voith Schneider Propeller is a highly maneuverable marine propulsion system with a cyclorotor design, widely used on tugs and ferries. It allows for almost instantaneous direction change and is highly efficient, making it a popular choice for vessels requiring extreme maneuverability.

America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks

153 guardianbob 2026-02-19 15:32:34 UTC governance.fyi Llama Share 187

Economic shocks, not procrastination, are the dominant predictors of saving regret. Institutional design, such as Singapore's mandatory retirement savings, can mitigate the effects of shocks and reduce regret.

CTO Says 93% of Developers Use AI, but Productivity Is Still 10%

8 taubek 2026-02-19 19:04:34 UTC shiftmag.dev Prefix Share 0

I had the chance to attend this year’s Pragmatic Summit and catch Laura Tacho – CTO at DX, executive advisor, and Austrian Innovator of the Year – in her keynote. She presented her latest research, Measuring Developer Productivity & AI Impact, based on three months of data collected through February 1. The research surveyed 121.000 developers across 450+ companies. A striking 92.6% of ...

Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up

4 acarminati 2026-02-19 18:32:34 UTC news.ycombinator.com Prefix Share 0

Hi HN, I’ve been building a small infrastructure tool called Provisioner: a per-board provisioning sidecar for SBC bring-up and lab automation. https://github.com/alessandrocarminati/provisioner The model is simple: one instance per board. It sits next to the hardware, owns the serial console, exposes access over SSH, and serves boot artifacts (kernel, initramfs, rootfs) via TFTP/HTTP. It’s ...

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

6 freitasm 2026-02-19 19:17:34 UTC theregister.com Prefix Share 0

Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday. Kaschit Pandya detailed the extent of the tech reorganization during a panel at the Association of Government Accountants yesterday, describing it as the biggest in two decades. This happened as the Trump ...

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

53 sammy0910 2026-02-19 11:32:34 UTC github.com/sstraust Llama Share 9

Shannonmax is a tool that helps optimize Emacs keybindings by analyzing logged data to determine the most efficient key sequences. It compares actual keybinding lengths to theoretical lengths based on usage frequency and keyboard size.

15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

188 fp64enjoyer 2026-02-19 02:32:34 UTC nicolasdickenmann.com Llama Share 68

Nvidia's consumer GPUs have a 64:1 FP64:FP32 ratio, weakening double-precision performance. This is due to market segmentation, as most consumer workloads don't need FP64, but enterprise hardware relies on it.

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

81 exvi 2026-02-19 07:32:34 UTC singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com Llama Share 14

The Cloud Tank is an old visual effect technique using a large water tank with salt and fresh water layers to create organic shapes, like clouds, by injecting paint into the tank. This technique was used in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Independence Day, but has since become obsolete with computer-generated effects.

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

186 kristianp 2026-02-19 03:32:34 UTC static.stepfun.com Llama Share 84

Step 3.5 Flash is a capable open-source foundation model that delivers frontier reasoning and agentic capabilities with exceptional efficiency, rivaling top-tier proprietary models in reasoning depth and real-time interaction. It achieves a generation throughput of 100-300 tok/s and supports a cost-efficient 256K context window, making it a robust engine for coding, agents, and agentic tasks.

DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

49 hn_acker 2026-02-19 18:32:34 UTC techdirt.com Llama Share 11

Two inexperienced DOGE bros, Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, used ChatGPT to terminate National Endowment for the Humanities grants based on DEI keywords. They ignored expert staff and forged the director's signature on termination emails.