Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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Users want a toggle to show file paths and search patterns, not verbose mode. The current fix is stripping verbose mode of useful features, creating more problems.

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Common vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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Ring's new Search Party feature uses AI to find lost dogs, but critics worry it could be used for human surveillance. The feature has raised concerns about mass surveillance and Ring's partnerships with law enforcement.

Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data

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Researchers found Chrome extensions leaking user data to data brokers like Similarweb, which collects and resells browsing histories. The issue is alarming as it can be used for targeted advertising, corporate espionage, and credential harvesting.

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

A Discord script is provided to bypass age verification by replicating encryption and payload checks. The script uses a combination of AES-GCM cipher and HKDF to generate a legitimate verification payload.

Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Fluorite is a console-grade game engine integrated with Flutter, allowing developers to write game code in Dart and leverage its tools. It features a data-oriented ECS architecture, physically-accurate lighting, and Hot Reload for rapid development.

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

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GLM-5 is a complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic task model that scales from 355B to 744B parameters and increases pre-training data. It achieves best-in-class performance on reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, closing the gap with frontier models.

Why vampires live forever

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The author believes the modern longevity movement is a vampire disclosure program, where individuals like Peter Thiel and David Johnson are obsessed with blood transfusions to reverse aging. They think vampires drink blood to dilute old blood factors that accelerate aging, not for nutrition.

Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights

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The FAA is closing airspace around El Paso International Airport for 10 days due to special security reasons. All flights to and from the airport will be grounded from late Tuesday through February 20.

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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GLM-5 is a complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic task model that scales from 355B to 744B parameters and increases pre-training data. It achieves best-in-class performance on reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, closing the gap with frontier models.

End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git

User ended self-hosted git service due to AI scrapers, now using mirrors on large gitforges like GitLab and GitHub. Remaining self-hosted service is a static blog hosted on a webserver.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics

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Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, has formed a dark-money group called "Garry's List" to support common-sense policies and candidates in California. The group aims to promote voter education and civic engagement, with plans to spend money on candidates and ballot measures.

NetNewsWire Turns 23

NetNewsWire 7.0.1 is in development to fix regressions and bugs, with a focus on tech debt and polish. Future updates, including 7.2 and 7.3, will depend on progress and Apple's WWDC announcements.

Communities are not fungible

The value of a community lies in its unique, non-fungible relationships and shared history, which cannot be replicated or replaced once disrupted. Treating communities as interchangeable or optimizable resources is misguided, and every decision that disrupts an existing community carries a hidden cost of lost social capital and irreparable damage.

Do not apologize for replying late to my email

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You're tired of receiving unnecessary apologies in emails and want people to stop feeling pressured to reply immediately. You think asynchronous communication means responding at your own pace, not feeling obligated to reply right away.

U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025

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US job growth was almost zero in 2025 but picked up in 2026 with 130,000 new roles added last month. The labor market contracted in four months of 2025, with the largest job gains in health care and construction.

Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists

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Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV

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Rivian R2 reservation links from various countries are being tracked.

Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel

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Fun With Pinball

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Pinball machines use various devices such as solenoids, relays, and steppers to create motion and track features. These devices are connected to a transformer and can be easily swapped or removed if they break down.

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

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Apple released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3 with bug fixes and security improvements, addressing dozens of vulnerabilities. Apple recommends users update their devices as soon as possible to prevent potential exploitation.

Exposure Simulator

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The simulator works with Chrome or Firefox, simulating camera settings like depth-of-field and image noise. It offers three modes: Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and Manual, with a camera meter for exposure control.

AI-First Company Memos

Tech companies like Shopify, Duolingo, and Fiverr adopted an "AI-first" approach where employees must prove AI can't do their job before getting resources. However, Klarna's CEO reversed course after a 40% workforce reduction, admitting quality had suffered, and started hiring humans again, exposing the gap between AI-first announcements and company realities.

US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law

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The National Labor Relations Board dropped a complaint against SpaceX after deciding the agency lacks jurisdiction over the company. SpaceX is now regulated under the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations at railroad and airline companies.

How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?

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The FBI obtained footage from Nancy Guthrie's Google Nest camera without her subscription, possibly from residual data or event history saved on the device. This raises concerns about Nest device privacy, but experts say the chances of footage being used against users are slim.

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST

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A remarkably luminous galaxy, MoM-z14, has been confirmed at zspec=14.44, 280 million years after the Big Bang. Its properties suggest a young stellar population and possible formation of luminous supermassive stars in dense clusters.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

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Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Railway Status

The AI Vampire

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The author is concerned about the negative effects of AI on people's lives, calling it an "AI Vampire" that drains people's energy and leads to burnout. They propose a solution to fight the AI Vampire by changing the workday to 3-4 hours and prioritizing human interaction and self-care.

YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push

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YouTube generated $60bn in revenue in 2025, surpassing Netflix's $45bn. The platform's large audience and various monetization methods allowed it to capitalize on its growth.

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

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The user's microwave oven malfunctioned after five years, causing it to randomly power on the lamp, fan, and turntable, and was stuck on mostly. The issue was caused by a failing LED display that was sharing a pin with the door switch sense circuit, and was fixed by adding a diode in series with the segment A LEDs to prevent leakage current.

Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)

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Richard Feynman was investigated by the FBI during the Cold War due to his security clearance and potential ties to communism. A strongly negative letter in his FBI file, written by someone who knew him well, suggests that his second wife Mary Louise Bell may have been the author.

Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer

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Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas

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The UK government secured a record 14.7GW of new renewable capacity in its latest auction, with solar and onshore wind projects winning contracts at £65/MWh and £72/MWh respectively. This will cut UK gas demand by 95TWh per year and reduce exposure to volatile international gas markets.

Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?

The electronics recycling process is difficult and expensive due to the use of plastics and special metals, and the lack of regulation mandating design-for-recyclability. Reducing and reusing electronics is a more effective approach, and longer-lasting electronics that can be repurposed or reused are a key lever to pull in reducing e-waste.

Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

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Should your developer company go open source?

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The author argues that open-source is not a distribution hack but an architectural decision that requires a clear understanding of the product, business model, and execution bar. To succeed with open-source, founders should focus on differentiations and persona alignment, and be willing to make strategic decisions that will last for years.

Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated

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GreyNoise saw a sudden drop in Telnet traffic, but analysis shows no evidence of core network blocking. Instead, it's likely due to a single actor avoiding GreyNoise's infrastructure or measurement artifacts.

Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again

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Apple's new AI-powered Siri is delayed again, with features now expected to roll out over several iOS updates. The changes, initially expected in iOS 26.4, may now arrive in May or September with iOS 27.

Components will kill pages

The internet is changing with AI-powered chat interfaces replacing traditional website navigation. To adapt, companies should invest in AI-first component libraries to provide seamless, branded experiences.

Covering electricity price increases from our data centers

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Anthropic will cover electricity price increases from data centers by paying for grid upgrades and new power generation. This will reduce strain on the grid and keep prices lower for ratepayers.

Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV

I built an MCP server that gives any local LLM real Google search and now vision capabilities - no API keys needed. Booyah!

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005)

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Steve Jobs gave a historic commencement address at Stanford, warning graduates not to waste their time living someone else's life. The speech, which he wrote himself, has become one of the most influential in history, watched over 120 million times.
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A new tool allows victims of non-consensual explicit images to quickly remove them from Search and opt-in for ongoing protection. The tool also provides support resources and allows users to track their requests.

Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way

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Renovate operator is installed on self-hosted infrastructure with Kubernetes, providing control and observability. It discovers projects, runs renovate jobs every 10 seconds, and executes up to a specified number of jobs in parallel.

NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw's biggest security issues

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Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags

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Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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You question the reliability of detecting synthetic data contamination, especially when it's laundered through human curation or time. This raises concerns about the monoculture of AI models optimizing for the same benchmarks, leading to convergent evolution of blind spots.

FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes

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FDA allows 'no artificial colors' claims for products without petroleum-based colors. New natural color options like beetroot red and spirulina extract are approved, but their safety is still being studied.

Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life (2016)

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A 44-year-old man from France with hydrocephalus had most of his brain missing but lived a normal life with a family and job. His case challenges theories about consciousness and suggests brain plasticity and learning ability are key to awareness.

The Torture Will Continue Until Shareholder Value Improves [video]

Tech workers are frustrated by their companies silence about ICE

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Tech workers describe a "fear-based culture" in their companies due to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Many feel pressured to remain silent and are questioning the future of their work in tech.

Rare, dangerous side effects of some Covid-19 vaccines explained

Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents

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Show HN: Musical Interval Trainer