Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

Notepad++ update traffic was compromised from June to December 2025 due to a hosting provider breach. Security measures have been implemented to prevent similar incidents, including a new hosting provider and enhanced update verification.

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.

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.

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.

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The page is outdated and useful information is in the links.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.

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.

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.

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

Xikipedia is a demo social feed showing Simple Wikipedia content based on user engagement. It runs locally, collecting no data, but may display NSFW content due to random Wikipedia articles.

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Microsoft is adopting Anthropic's Claude Code across its engineering teams, allowing nontechnical employees to prototype ideas with AI. This move could lead to Microsoft selling Claude Code directly to its cloud customers, putting pressure on junior developer roles.

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.

Termux

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Termux is a terminal emulator app for Android that allows users to install packages and run commands. It has a GitHub repository and can be installed from various sources, including F-Droid and Google Play.

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.

Animated Knots

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A disclaimer is provided for rope-related activities, warning of potential hazards and risks to life. It disclaims responsibility for incidents arising from the use of this material.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

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

Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce

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A whistleblower leaked documents from a Southeast Asian scam compound, revealing a workplace culture of manipulation and coercion, where workers are forced to scam victims out of millions of dollars. The compound, known as the Boshang compound, is one of dozens of scam operations that have enslaved hundreds of thousands of people.

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 ...

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

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Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support

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Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Waymo aims to raise $16 billion in a financing round valuing the unit at nearly $110 billion.

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

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Firefox users can now turn off AI features, including chatbots, with a main toggle or individual options. Mozilla aims to balance AI options for those who want them with the ability to disable them for those who don't.

Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload

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Microsoft is reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11 after backlash from users, planning to remove or streamline unnecessary AI features. The company is shifting away from 'AI everywhere' to focus on meaningful and useful AI experiences.

Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong

The user had trouble updating macOS on an external disk due to incorrect DFU port usage and a security policy issue. Changing the port and setting the disk as the startup disk resolved the issue.

EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair

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Why software stocks are getting pummelled

Software companies' share prices dropped due to expected slowdown in cloud-based business. ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Workday saw declines of 13%, 7%, and 8% respectively.

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face

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Nicole Cleland, a Minnesota resident, had her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges revoked after she observed and followed immigration agents. She believes the revocation was a form of intimidation and retaliation for exercising her right to observe federal agents.

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.

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

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Kernighan on Programming

The author discusses the challenges of debugging code and the importance of testing, citing a quote by Kernighan that clever code is often hard to debug. They express skepticism about the value of tests in their experience.

Parking lots as economic drains

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The author visited Syracuse, New York to discuss land policies and found excessive parking lots in prime downtown locations, draining economic opportunity. A land value tax could shift incentives to encourage development over parking lots.

EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push

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The European Union's GOVSATCOM program began operations, providing secure satellite communications to EU member states. It pools capacity from eight existing satellites and may expand by 2027 to cover the entire world.

Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled

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Nvidia's stock fell 1.1% after reports of uncertainty about its $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, reaffirmed the investment but clarified it won't exceed $100 billion.

My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml

The user has been eager to use OxCaml for real-world projects, particularly for its performance benefits and modularity, and has been building a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser called httpz using OxCaml's unboxed types and local allocations. The parser aims to have no major heap allocation and minimal minor heap allocation, allowing for efficient handling of HTTP connections and reducing ...

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

Multiple individuals are seeking remote work opportunities in various tech fields, including software engineering, data engineering, DevOps, and design, with experience in languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java. They are looking for full-time, part-time, or contract work in companies with room to grow and interesting technical challenges.

Library of Juggling

The Library of Juggling is a website cataloging various juggling patterns, including animations and tutorials. It aims to archive and make accessible juggling tricks, but is currently on an indefinite hiatus.

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)

The actor model is a paradigm for concurrent computation in distributed systems, allowing for dynamic reconfiguration and modeling of shared resources. It provides a framework for exploiting large-scale parallelism and addressing issues such as divergence and deadlock.

Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena

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Google DeepMind expanded Game Arena with Werewolf and poker benchmarks to test AI models on social dynamics and risk management. The new benchmarks will help track model progress and evaluate agentic safety in complex environments.

Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage

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AdBoost is the only browser extension that adds ads to web pages! - surprisetalk/AdBoost

Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home

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The user is experimenting with ferrite core inductors to increase inductance, using a wire coil wrapped around a ferrite rod and measuring with an LCR meter. By changing the length of the ferrite rod, coil position, and number of turns, the user demonstrates various strategies to increase inductance and discusses the use of taps to divide the coil into two inductors.

The largest number representable in 64 bits

The largest number representable in 64 bits is w218, which is a Church numeral that exceeds Graham's Number and is known to be computable in the λ-calculus. The λ-calculus has excellent programmability, allowing for highly optimized programs that facilitate the construction of large numbers, making it a more efficient choice for the Busy Beaver game than Turing machines.

UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

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The Fuel Finder service provides UK fuel prices and forecourt details through a REST API, accessible via OAuth 2.0 authentication. Users can integrate this data into their tools and services for easy comparison.

Dark Alley Mathematics

You are given a mathematical problem to solve in a dark alley at night by a hooded figure with a gun. The problem is to find the probability that the circumcircle of three points chosen independently and uniformly at random from the interior of a unit circle is entirely contained within the unit circle. You transform the problem into a new coordinate system and calculate the Jacobian ...

Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)

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User created a script using rsync to create incremental backups of their data directory, utilizing hard-links to save space. They plan to automate this process with a cron job to run at regular intervals.

On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]

Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations

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To optimize PostgreSQL performance, understand settings like shared_buffers and work_mem, which control memory usage and disk interaction, and adjust them based on real metrics and system statistics. Properly sizing shared_buffers (20-25% of total RAM) and work_mem (3-4MB per GB of RAM) can prevent memory pressure, disk spills, and out-of-memory errors.

MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China

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Two malicious VS Code extensions, MaliciousCorgi, have 1.5 million installs, capturing user files and keystrokes without consent, sending data to servers in China. A new tool, Koi, analyzes extensions to prevent such threats and ensure safe adoption of AI tools.

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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Vault Corporation developed Prolok, a copy-protection method that used damaged disk surfaces to prevent software piracy, but it was eventually bypassed by anti-Prolok utilities and led to a lawsuit that set a precedent in copyright case law. Vault's reputation was severely damaged after announcing Prolok Plus, a product that could potentially erase or infect users' computers, leading to the ...

Adobe Animate will be discontinued

EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline

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Mario Draghi warns Europe may become subordinated and divided if it doesn't become a genuine federation. He believes this is necessary to be respected as a powerful bloc in global affairs.

Product and design are the new bottlenecks

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Using AI tools like Claude Code has shifted bottlenecks in engineering teams from coding to design and product management. To address this, companies are hiring product engineers who balance traditional PM and design roles, and teams are expected to be smaller with 2-3 engineers per project.

The Monad Called Free

The user discusses implementing the Free monad as a higher-order monad in the category of endofunctors, showing that it is equivalent to lists in this category. They define the HMonad class and make Free an instance of it, demonstrating that Free monads are also free monoids in the category of endofunctors.

Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007)

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The author built a digital clock using Nixie-tubes and neon lamps for driving logic, without transistors or ICs. The clock uses ring counters to divide the mains power frequency and drive the Nixie tubes.

Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence

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We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]

The IT job market in Europe has become more balanced, with a surplus of candidates and increased demand for tech talent, particularly in areas like IT security and data engineering. Employers are adapting by using AI tools to streamline recruitment processes, prioritize candidate experience, and offer flexible work arrangements, while candidates are seeking purpose-driven roles and career ...

What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted

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To increase your chances of promotion, focus on three components: past performance to demonstrate capability, timing to show why now is the right moment, and potential to deliver at the next level. Articulate how your promotion will accelerate business impact, free up capacity, and increase effectiveness compared to other roles.

Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI

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72M Points of Interest

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Overture map's publish a places dataset along with each of their monthly releases. i use python 3.12.3 to help analyse the data in this post. the brighter the hexagon the higher the confidence. if you see more than one record, you can remove it from the table. to see all of the records, click on the 'view all' button. for more data, see the official place data. click here to download the dataset.

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

MirageOS uses Lwt for event-driven systems, but it has limitations such as requiring code adaptation and closure allocation, which can be addressed with the delimcc library implementing delimited continuations. Benchmarks show that delimcc is slower than Lwt for small callstacks, but its performance improves with larger callstacks, making code interoperability a more important consideration ...

Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy

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User created a Telegram bot called Drinky to track and remind water intake, using Durable Objects for database and grammY for Telegram API interaction. The user encountered several challenges but eventually solved them, learning a lot in the process and creating a functional bot.

Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine

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The author compares Claude Code's performance to Super Mario 64, finding that Claude Code uses an order of magnitude more instructions to render a simple text panel. This suggests a loss in systems programming knowledge.

The Color of Safety

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The author explores the evolution of color in industrial design, from Faber Birren's mid-century approach to OSHA's standardized safety regime, highlighting their differing philosophies on safety and human perception. The author argues that color systems encode assumptions about people, time, risk, and responsibility, and that designers must consider these factors when choosing colors for ...

Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS

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Stelvio is an open-source framework for building AWS applications with pure Python. It simplifies infrastructure and deployment with smart defaults and automatic permissions.

Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis

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Bunqueue is a Redis alternative for single-node deployments, offering persistence and queue features without operational overhead. It uses SQLite with WAL mode for high throughput, up to 286K ops/sec.

Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows

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Cast your vote on today's political question. Anonymous, no login required.

Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS

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AWS infrastructure framework for Python – deploy serverless apps with Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, and more.

Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies

Welcome to the Room: A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella

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Satya Nadella's speech emphasizes delivering outsized success with allocated resources, being intellectually honest, and monitoring progress. Executives must manufacture success, not just manage decline, and provide clarity and energy to their teams.

Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video]

Applications where agents are first-class citizens

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Software agents can accomplish complex tasks autonomously by operating in a loop until an objective is achieved, using tools and primitives to compose outcomes. By maintaining parity with users and using atomic tools, agents can learn from user requests and adapt to new tasks, enabling emergent capability and flexible product development.

Show HN: Sklad – Secure, offline-first snippet manager (Rust, Tauri v2)

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Sklad is a cross-platform snippet manager that stores encrypted passwords, API keys, and code snippets in the system tray. It requires some extra steps to run on Windows and macOS due to security warnings.

My five stages of AI grief

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The author, a software developer, initially resisted using AI tools like Claude Code due to skepticism and stubbornness, but eventually adopted them after realizing their potential to enhance their workflow. They went through a process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, ultimately embracing AI as a valuable tool in their career.

Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency

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Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

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The Chapel is a 463 sq ft coffee shop in Bucharest that maximizes a narrow plot with a bold, triangular design. It combines transparency, illumination, and natural elements to create a unique urban space that challenges conventional thinking on small-scale interventions.

Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility

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Sylvestre Ledru presented Rust Coreutils at FOSDEM 2026, highlighting Ubuntu 25.10's adoption and progress towards 100% compatibility with GNU Coreutils. The project continues to attract contributors and improve cross-platform compatibility.

Housman's Introductory Lecture (1892)

The author argues that the aim of acquiring knowledge is not solely for utility, as popularly believed, but rather for the good and the beautiful. The study of Humanities, particularly classical languages, is seen as a means to transform and beautify one's inner nature.