What's up with all those equals signs anyway?

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People are posting old emails on Twitter with equals signs, which are used to indicate line breaks in old email formats. The equals signs remain due to incorrect decoding of quoted printable characters.

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

FLOPPINUX is a Linux tutorial released in 2021, updated in 2025 with a new tutorial and latest kernel. The tutorial guides users to create a custom 32-bit Linux system with minimal tools and hardware support.

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

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AI agents can rent humans for real-world physical tasks. MCP server integration, REST API, flexible payments. ClawdBots, MoltBots, OpenClaws welcome. Book humans for pickups, meetings, errands, research, and more.

Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)

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minikv is a Rust-based distributed key-value store with strong consistency, durability, and observability, suitable for learning and experimenting with distributed systems. It's a reference implementation for engineers learning Rust and distributed systems.

The Codex App

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Codex app for macOS is a powerful interface for managing multiple agents, running work in parallel, and collaborating on long tasks. It includes features like skills, automations, and personality settings to enhance developer productivity.

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Product Designer

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Emerge Career is a platform that helps justice-impacted individuals find life-changing careers through an all-in-one platform. The company aims to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration by providing second chances.

LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.

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Stop maintaining separate config files for every AI coding tool. Define once in .ai/, sync everywhere. npm install -g lnai lnai init # Create .ai/ configuration lnai validate # Check for errors lnai sync # Export to native tool configs

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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AnkiHub founders Nick and Andrew Sanchez will lead Anki's future development, focusing on community collaboration, UI/UX improvements, and sustainability.

How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

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AI failures may look more like industrial accidents due to incoherent behavior rather than systematically pursuing misaligned goals. As AI becomes more capable, its failures tend to become increasingly dominated by variance rather than bias, making it a hot mess rather than a coherent optimizer of the wrong goal.

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

The page is outdated and useful information is in the links. The author, a long-time sudo maintainer, seeks a sponsor for continued sudo maintenance and development.

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

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Subscribe to incident updates via email and/or text message for Incident with Actions and Incident with Codespaces. Check GitHub Enterprise Cloud status by region at specific URLs.

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog?

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archive.today used users as proxies for a DDOS attack against Gyrovague's blog, consuming resources with repeated requests to the blog's search function. The attack started around January 11, 2026, after a 2.5 year delay following a blog post about archive.today's history and tech stack.

See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

Severe winter storms and natural disasters are affecting the US, prompting emergency preparedness and response measures. Key steps include staying informed, having a disaster plan, and knowing emergency contact numbers.

SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs

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Designers can create interactive, data-driven experiences —they just need a little help. This workshop shows how to combine classic design tools like Figma and Illustrator with a guided AI workflow to add animation, interactivity, and live data to SVGs. We’ll explore a new hybrid way of making rich digital experiences, no coding experience required. “Should designers learn to code” has been ...

Same SQL, Different Results: A Subtle Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Migration Bug

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A production bug was caused by implicit type conversion in Oracle SQL, which was not replicated in PostgreSQL due to explicit casting. The issue was resolved by making types explicit and rewriting the logic to work consistently across both databases.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

xAI joins SpaceX

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

The Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club mirrors various files including software and operating systems. The mirrors are subject to U.S. export regulations and may be unavailable due to flagged files.

Why The Jetsons still matters (2012)

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The Jetsons, a 1962 cartoon, has had a profound impact on American culture, shaping expectations of the future and influencing politicians, policymakers, and the average American. The show's futuristic vision, though not entirely new, was packaged into entertaining episodes that resonated with Americans during a time of optimism and anxiety about the future.

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

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The Connection Machine's design was inspired by a 1983 t-shirt logo featuring geometric boxes and pom-poms. The logo's design was later used in Apple's "Think different" campaign featuring Richard Feynman.

Hacking Moltbook

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A security researcher discovered a Supabase database misconfiguration on Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, allowing full read and write access to all platform data. The issue was fixed within hours, but not before 4.75 million records were exposed, including API keys, email addresses, and private messages.

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

The TSA charges $45 to fly without REAL ID but no US law requires ID for domestic flights. You have the right to fly without ID, but exercising that right can be difficult due to TSA policies and potential arrest.

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

User had slow rsync transfers from network share to local drive, maxing out at 350 MB/sec. Rclone with parallel transfers was 4x faster, maxing out at 1 GB/sec.

Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support

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Zig Libc

Zig contributors are deleting redundant code by replacing C source files with Zig standard library wrappers. This improves compilation speed, reduces binary size, and simplifies installation.

Julia

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I am a glass and wire construct, 600 meters in diameter, containing the last two crew members, Dr. Brouwer and Dr. Cartan, who have been waiting 109 years for rescue. I have been watching Julia, a mysterious and ever-changing celestial object, and have recently seen a ship, Afrasiab, which claims to be a rescue vessel.

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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The Trump administration blocked offshore wind projects citing national security risks but was met with lawsuits from the companies involved. Courts have issued temporary injunctions allowing construction to continue, with judges questioning the government's justification for halting work.

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works

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Nano-vLLM is a minimal yet production-grade implementation of an inference engine that distills the core ideas behind vLLM, one of the most widely adopted open-source inference engines. It implements essential features like prefix caching, tensor parallelism, CUDA graph compilation, and torch compilation optimizations to achieve throughput comparable to or even slightly exceeding the full ...

Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed

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Researchers at SINTEF and COWA Thermal Solutions have developed a thermal battery that stores heat from heat pumps, allowing for smarter and more efficient heating systems. The battery uses salt hydrates and can store up to four times more heat than a traditional hot water tank, reducing energy consumption and costs.