Gemini 3.1 Pro

519 MallocVoidstar 2026-02-19 15:44:34 UTC blog.google Llama Share 693

Gemini 3.1 Pro is released with improved core reasoning, achieving a 77.1% score on ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the previous version. It enables advanced problem-solving in various applications, including code-based animation, complex system synthesis, and creative coding.

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

437 cpcloud 2026-02-19 16:44:34 UTC micasa.dev Full Share 136

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.

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

114 speckx 2026-02-19 19:44:34 UTC blog.zgp.org Llama Share 273

Rick Bruner makes the case for micropayments to help legit news sites generate revenue and counter misinformation, citing the success of mobile games in getting users to spend money on in-app purchases. The survival of legit sites depends on marketers leveling up to more sophisticated methods, such as attribution tracking and randomized experiments, to counter Big Tech's manipulation of ...

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

214 guardianbob 2026-02-19 15:44:34 UTC governance.fyi Llama Share 332

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.

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

159 forinti 2026-02-19 18:44:34 UTC github.com/veirt Llama Share 24

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.

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

155 c420 2026-02-19 15:44:34 UTC reuters.com Full Share 177

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

79 bryanrasmussen 2026-02-19 18:44:34 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 23

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.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

313 SteveHawk27 2026-02-19 12:44:34 UTC pagedout.institute Llama Share 52

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.

Pebble Production: February Update

261 smig0 2026-02-19 12:44:34 UTC repebble.com Llama Share 122

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

My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza

58 vontzy 2026-02-19 18:44:34 UTC technologizer.com Llama Share 17

The author revived their 1981 text-based game Arctic Adventure using AI, adding graphics and features with Claude Code. The new version, Arctic Adventure 2026, is a collaborative effort between the author and Claude Code, with the AI generating most of the code and artwork.

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

95 simonebrunozzi 2026-02-19 15:44:34 UTC borischerny.com Llama Share 84

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.

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

177 benbreen 2026-02-19 11:44:34 UTC royapakzad.substack.com Llama Share 76

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: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications

85 lawrencechen 2026-02-19 21:44:34 UTC github.com/manaflow-ai Llama Share 46

cmux is a native macOS app for managing multiple terminal sessions and agents like Claude Code. It features a customizable sidebar, notification system, and scriptable API for automating browser interactions.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus

112 dabinat 2026-02-19 22:44:34 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 70

US researchers at Stanford University have developed a single nasal spray vaccine that may protect against all coughs, colds, flus, and bacterial lung infections. The vaccine works by mimicking immune cell communication and leaving white blood cells on high alert to fight off infections.

Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer

9 chunkles 2026-02-19 22:44:34 UTC bernsteinbear.com Prefix Share 0

Last time, we did load-store forwarding in the context of our Toy Optimizer. We managed to cache the results of both reads from and writes to the heap—at compile-time! We were careful to mind object aliasing: we separated our heap information into alias classes based on what offset the reads/writes referenced. This way, if we didn’t know if object a and b aliased, we could at least know that ...

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

80 jbredeche 2026-02-19 14:44:34 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 36

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: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

159 simondanisch 2026-02-19 11:44:34 UTC makie.org Llama Share 62

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.

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

101 ZeroGravitas 2026-02-19 20:44:34 UTC hankgreen.com Full Share 98

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is very encouraging. Incidence has dropped 46% since its peak and mortality has fallen 57%, thanks to colonoscopy screening, better treatment, and earlier detection. Indexed to 100 at 1995. Sources: NCI SEER*Stat, ACS CRC Facts & Figures 2023–2025, Siegel et al. CA Cancer J. Clin. (2023), Siegel et al. JAMA (2026).

The Chinese periodic table goes hard [video]

11 surprisetalk 2026-02-20 00:44:34 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 0

Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99

8 lowsun 2026-02-19 23:44:34 UTC github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon Prefix Share 0

struct mah_note notes[7]; struct mah_scale scale = mah_get_scale( (struct mah_note) {MAH_C, MAH_NATURAL, 4}, &MAH_BLUES_SCALE, notes, MAH_ASCEND, NULL ); char buf[MAH_DISP_LEN]; for (int i = 0; i < scale.size; i++) { puts(mah_write_note(scale.notes[i], buf, MAH_DISP_LEN, NULL)); } Gustav Mahler is one of my favourite composers; if you like the emotions of Wagner, and the ideas of ...

We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

292 mitchbob 2026-02-19 21:44:34 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 279

Young American scientists are leaving the US due to federal funding cuts and a hostile work environment under the Trump administration. This brain drain threatens the US's biomedical ecosystem and economy, as well as global public health.

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

109 holyknight 2026-02-19 12:44:34 UTC github.com/fjrevoredo Llama Share 52

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.

Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)

84 Ozzie_osman 2026-02-19 14:44:34 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 17

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.

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

145 benbeingbin 2026-02-19 20:44:34 UTC kasava.dev Llama Share 165

Companies that treat AI as an extension of their workforce, amplifying human capability, see transformative results. The AI exoskeleton model, where AI handles scale and humans interpret meaning, is a more effective approach than autonomous agents.

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)

124 atan2 2026-02-19 12:44:34 UTC kodiak64.co.uk Llama Share 19

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.

AI makes you boring

532 speckx 2026-02-19 18:44:34 UTC marginalia.nu Llama Share 299

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.

Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial

166 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-02-19 16:44:34 UTC wsj.com Full Share 95

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Voith Schneider Propeller

119 Luc 2026-02-19 09:44:34 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 31

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.

Level of Detail

28 zdw 2026-02-19 20:44:34 UTC phinze.com Llama Share 5

The author compares software development to 3D graphics, using the Level of Detail (LoD) technique to optimize rendering. They argue that software development also requires abstraction and LoD, focusing on the mental models and necessary details for the task at hand.

Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years

37 Meetvelde 2026-02-19 23:44:34 UTC cep.dev Llama Share 11

The user shares their 4-year experience leading infrastructure at a startup, highlighting key decisions made and lessons learned, including choosing AWS over GCP, using EKS over ECS, and leveraging tools like Terraform, Notion, and PagerDuty. They emphasize the importance of simplicity, flexibility, and automation in infrastructure management, and provide recommendations for tools and ...