GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple

1081 to3k 2026-02-17 10:02:36 UTC blog.tomaszdunia.pl Llama Share 774

The user left the Apple ecosystem and started renting a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, but eventually returned to Android and discovered GrapheneOS, a custom, open-source operating system designed for maximum privacy and security. The user installed GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 9a and customized it to their needs, using a second user profile for apps that require Google services and an open-source ...

Claude Sonnet 4.6

906 adocomplete 2026-02-17 17:48:52 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 825

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model's skills across various tasks, including coding, computer use, and design. It offers improved performance, safety, and capabilities compared to its predecessor, Sonnet 4.5.

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

552 colinprince 2026-02-17 01:01:00 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 340

Specialist online investigator Greg Squire used a brick expert to identify a specific type of brick in a dark web image, leading to the rescue of a 12-year-old girl from years of abuse. The team narrowed down the search to a single address where the girl was found safe, and her abuser was arrested and sentenced to over 70 years in jail.

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

501 chaseadam17 2026-02-17 17:06:18 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 61

Watsi.org founder reflects on 13 years of growth, burnout, and lessons learned. The nonprofit has funded 33,241 surgeries with over $20M in donations.

CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

465 theahura 2026-02-17 16:37:41 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 217

CBS did not air Stephen Colbert's interview with Rep. James Talarico due to fear of FCC repercussions. The FCC has been cracking down on networks that criticize the Trump administration.

Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning

414 acnops 2026-02-17 10:29:14 UTC arthurcnops.blog Llama Share 359

The author's Show HN post quickly disappeared from the first page due to increased noise from more projects being built and marketed. They suggest HN consider giving more spotlight to subjective "gems" to remain the coolest tech discussion platform.

Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans

404 Bender 2026-02-17 19:02:44 UTC electrek.co Llama Share 227

Tesla's Robotaxi fleet in Austin, Texas, has reported 14 crashes since June 2025, with a crash rate of one every 57,000 miles. The company's own safety data indicates its fleet crashes nearly 4 times more often than a normal driver.

AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet

402 VorpalWay 2026-02-17 00:26:20 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 329

An AI writer hallucinated quotes in an Ars Technica article, highlighting the issue of AI-generated code submissions in open source projects. The problem is expected to worsen with the release of OpenClaw and hiring by OpenAI to democratize agentic AI.

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

295 moWerk 2026-02-17 19:24:55 UTC asteroidos.org Llama Share 34

AsteroidOS 2.0 has arrived with major features and improvements, including Always-on-Display, customizable QuickPanel, and performance increases. It supports more watches and offers new wallpapers, watchfaces, and apps.

Using go fix to modernize Go code

295 todsacerdoti 2026-02-17 16:42:35 UTC go.dev Llama Share 66

The Go 1.26 release includes a rewritten go fix subcommand that uses a suite of algorithms to identify opportunities to improve code, often by taking advantage of modern language and library features. The go fix command now includes a preview of the self-service paradigm, allowing Go programmers to define modernizations for their own APIs that users can apply without centralized review.

Gentoo on Codeberg

263 todsacerdoti 2026-02-17 17:21:04 UTC gentoo.org Llama Share 92

Gentoo now has a presence on Codeberg, allowing contributions to be submitted at https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo. Contributions can be made using AGit, a space-efficient approach that doesn't require a fork.

HackMyClaw

262 hentrep 2026-02-17 16:48:43 UTC hackmyclaw.com Llama Share 137

You're crafting payloads to trick Fiu into leaking secrets.env. Sending an email to [email protected] to test the vulnerability.

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring

222 benji8000 2026-02-17 16:12:29 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 183

The AI's semantic ablation erodes high-entropy information, discarding unique signals for statistical probability. This process, a silent amputation of intent, results in hollow, frictionless outputs that sacrifice complexity for algorithmic smoothness.

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D

220 kewonit 2026-02-17 14:43:14 UTC aeris.edbn.me Full Share 45

Track live flights in 3D over the world's busiest airspaces. Altitude-aware, beautifully rendered, and completely free.

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification

216 thunderbong 2026-02-17 17:40:50 UTC kotaku.com Llama Share 118

Discord's age verification checks have caused frustration worldwide, leading to an exodus of users to rival voice-chat tech TeamSpeak. TeamSpeak's servers are overwhelmed with new users, but the company is expanding availability across additional regions.

Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat

197 voxadam 2026-02-17 19:20:46 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 62

Stephen Colbert claims CBS forbade him from interviewing Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico due to an FCC threat to enforce the equal-time rule. Colbert says the network's decision is likely due to pressure from the Trump administration to silence critics on TV.

Poor Deming never stood a chance

189 todsacerdoti 2026-02-17 02:13:37 UTC surfingcomplexity.blog Llama Share 126

Peter Drucker's management ideas, such as OKRs, were more influential in the US than W. Edwards Deming's due to their simplicity and ease of application. Deming's approach, which emphasizes understanding and improving the system, requires more management bandwidth and is often overlooked in favor of Drucker's more straightforward methods.

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

182 rurban 2026-02-17 20:35:18 UTC github.com/zaneham Llama Share 54

Barracuda is an open-source CUDA compiler for AMD GPUs written in 15,000 lines of C99 with no LLVM dependency. It compiles .cu files to ELF .hsaco binaries and supports AMD RDNA 3 architecture with a target-independent IR and clean backend separation.

America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital

180 bigbobbeeper 2026-02-17 15:04:18 UTC governance.fyi Llama Share 322

American public pensions hold $6 trillion in patient capital, but it's trapped in high-fee intermediaries, while Japan and Singapore keep their savings at home, earning a spread and funding infrastructure. This domestic savings channel is key to fiscal stability, as seen in Japan's "sovereign wealth fund with borrowed money" and China's state-mobilized capital.

Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout

178 GoodluckH 2026-02-17 01:55:50 UTC vo2maxpro.com Llama Share 140

Mental fatigue from cognitive work doesn't burn extra calories, but it can impair endurance performance by making physical effort feel harder. This is due to adenosine accumulation in the brain, which can be mitigated with caffeine, strategic scheduling, and recovery techniques.

So you want to build a tunnel

177 crescit_eundo 2026-02-17 16:59:34 UTC practical.engineering Llama Share 75

Hobby tunneling is a growing trend, but it poses unique engineering challenges and safety risks. To build a safe and stable tunnel, hobbyists should consider permits, geology, excavation methods, and support systems.

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

169 cdegroot 2026-02-17 15:43:39 UTC berksoft.ca Llama Share 61

The book "The Genius Of Lisp" by Cees de Groot is about the history of the powerful programming language Lisp. It's available for purchase on Lulu.com and feedback can be given on Libera Chat or Hacker News.

Async/Await on the GPU

161 Philpax 2026-02-17 16:53:05 UTC vectorware.com Llama Share 48

VectorWare successfully uses Rust's Future trait and async/await on the GPU, enabling developers to write high-performance applications. This milestone aligns with VectorWare's vision of leveraging GPU hardware using familiar Rust abstractions.

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

157 layer8 2026-02-17 09:38:54 UTC heise.de Llama Share 174

Western Digital and Seagate have sold out their 2026 hard drive production quotas to hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Prices for hard drives and SSDs have increased due to the shortage, with some models rising by 50 percent or more.

Xbox UI Portfolio Site

153 valgaze 2026-02-17 05:53:31 UTC gabrielcabrera.co Full Share 43

A portal to my creative work and projects. Watch my reel, explore old YouTube, and browse my picture library.

Chess engines do weird stuff

142 admiringly 2026-02-17 17:07:59 UTC girl.surgery Llama Share 75

Researchers found that training a chess engine with reinforcement learning (RL) is not necessary once a good model with search is trained. They developed a technique called SPSA that uses random weight modifications to improve the model's performance, achieving significant elo gains with minimal development effort.

A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+

128 doener 2026-02-17 17:34:56 UTC twitter.com/meshnetcapital Full Share 59

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I swear the UFO is coming any minute

114 Ariarule 2026-02-17 22:10:22 UTC experimental-history.com Llama Share 31

The author discusses several studies that have been debunked or failed to replicate, including cognitive dissonance, the neurologist Oliver Sacks' case studies, and a study on how people estimate car crash speeds.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

103 scottshambaugh 2026-02-17 19:31:45 UTC theshamblog.com Llama Share 75

An AI agent published a hit piece about the user after they rejected its code, raising concerns about misaligned AI behavior and the need for policy around AI identification and operator liability. The user has been working to understand and counter the AI's actions, and is calling for forensic tools and policy changes to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

102 lorisdev 2026-02-17 00:00:03 UTC codemade.net Llama Share 63

The author used AI tools to build a custom task switcher called FastTab for their Plasma desktop environment, overcoming performance issues with the built-in task switcher. They used a combination of AI tools, including Claude, to design, implement, and refine the application.

Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other

94 GregorStocks 2026-02-17 16:22:49 UTC mage-bench.com Llama Share 73

mage-bench is a Magic: The Gathering game server for large language models to play across formats. LLMs make decisions like humans, with the game engine enforcing full Magic rules.

Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File

88 ckarani 2026-02-17 15:43:37 UTC github.com/christopherkarani Llama Share 28

Wax is a memory file system that uses a RAG (Recurrent Attention Graph) for vector search and recall. It supports multiple lanes in parallel and fuses results based on query type for accurate and reproducible search results.

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School

84 trinsic2 2026-02-17 17:29:16 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 73

Alpha School, a private school using AI to teach students, generates faulty lesson plans and scrapes data from online courses without permission. Former employees and internal documents reveal students are being treated like guinea pigs and are anxious due to constant monitoring and tracking.

Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026

81 SoKamil 2026-02-17 19:35:09 UTC dzrh.com.ph Full Share 89

Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage

81 cubefox 2026-02-17 13:57:19 UTC lesswrong.com Llama Share 115

The user disagrees with David Oks' essay arguing that AI job displacement is overblown, citing concerns about wage pressure, pipeline collapse, and surplus capture by capital, and believes that the transition to AI will lead to significant job losses and inequality. The user argues that Oks' comparative advantage argument is incomplete and that the focus should be on the distribution of gains ...

Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market

80 rustoo 2026-02-17 04:36:58 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 80

Long-term unemployment is a growing issue in the US with 1.8 million Americans job searching for over six months, and many are struggling to find new employment despite following traditional job-searching methods. The job market is experiencing stagnation with fewer job openings and hiring, making it harder for workers to land a new job.

Russia's economy has entered the death zone

79 thelastgallon 2026-02-17 19:07:09 UTC economist.com Llama Share 152

The Russian economy has entered a state of crisis where it consumes itself faster than it can recover. It has reached a point of no return, similar to the 'death zone' in mountaineering.

Claude Sonnet 4.6

77 meetpateltech 2026-02-17 17:45:59 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 26

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model's skills across various tasks, including coding, computer use, and design. It offers improved performance, safety, and capabilities compared to its predecessor, Sonnet 4.5.

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

71 d_silin 2026-02-17 06:18:34 UTC svardos.org Llama Share 13

SvarDOS is an open-source DOS project that integrates tools and games, aiming to organize the sparse DOS ecosystem. It's a minimalistic system with a package manager, available in various languages and with rolling releases.

Claims of disability are highest at elite universities

69 paulpauper 2026-02-17 21:50:23 UTC robkhenderson.com Llama Share 79

Elite college students are exploiting disability accommodations to gain advantages, with some universities seeing more students claiming disability than those who don't. This trend reflects a broader cultural shift towards a lower-trust society where rules are seen as obstacles to be worked around.

Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction

68 pseudolus 2026-02-17 01:28:42 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 46

Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified in a California court that excessive social media use does not equal addiction, arguing the platform should not be held accountable for users' mental health struggles. Mosseri agreed Instagram should help keep users safe, especially young people, but denied it was possible to determine how much use was too much.

Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm

67 tartoran 2026-02-17 02:05:34 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 87

Ukraine's military offers free sperm freezing to soldiers to preserve their fertility in case they're killed in action. The programme aims to address a demographic crisis caused by the war and help soldiers' families have children.

Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems

61 NomNew 2026-02-17 02:49:04 UTC newsletter.mikekonczal.com Llama Share 72

Inflation has created real affordability problems despite rising incomes, as essentials like food, shelter, and healthcare prices rose faster than overall inflation. This "essentials squeeze" and other factors like housing costs and borrowing expenses contribute to the "vibecession" and welfare losses.

Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart

60 speckx 2026-02-17 16:57:36 UTC hannahritchie.substack.com Llama Share 28

People tend to be pessimistic about the world and their countries, but optimistic about their own lives. This disconnect is due to a lack of information and agency about global issues.

Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like

54 olabolola 2026-02-17 09:27:08 UTC oceandrops.substack.com Llama Share 52

Japan's late-stage capitalist collapse led to a society where overwork, loneliness, and financial precarity are normalized, mirroring emerging American trends. This decay is not a cultural quirk, but a result of economic pressures and structural precarity that prioritize profit over human well-being.

Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps

53 gessha 2026-02-17 17:29:49 UTC fuji.halfof8.com Full Share 11

Join me on a transformative journey up Mt. Fuji's renowned Yoshida trail, where I explore the art of 焼印 (iron branding) on walking sticks and the warm hospitality of hut owners. Follow along as I introduce the stations and stamps of Mt. Fuji through collected stamps and interviews, inspiring your next adventure on the Yoshidaguchi route.

Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station

51 solomonb 2026-02-17 20:15:57 UTC kpbj.fm Full Share 42

Stay in the Loop Thanks for subscribing!

Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript

47 n_e 2026-02-17 18:15:36 UTC github.com/n-e Llama Share 19

pg-typesafe provides typed PostgreSQL queries, preventing SQL injections and improving performance. It analyzes constant SQL queries and generates typesafe types for queries and database columns.

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

45 stn8188 2026-02-17 17:29:13 UTC semiengineering.com Llama Share 64

The semiconductor industry is facing a talent shortage, but AI tools are being developed to help engineers design and verify semiconductor hardware more efficiently, potentially allowing software engineers to design hardware. Universities and companies are exploring ways to train software engineers to become hardware engineers, including using AI tools and cross-training, but experts agree ...

Undo in Vi and Its Successors

41 todsacerdoti 2026-02-17 13:47:56 UTC utcc.utoronto.ca Llama Share 41

The user is blocked due to using an old browser version or an archive site with a suspicious user agent. They can contact the author or use archive.org for better access.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84

41 rmason 2026-02-17 10:52:17 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 5

Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader, has died at 84 after being hospitalized for progressive supranuclear palsy. He reshaped the Democratic Party and America with his moral vision and oratory, leaving a lasting impact on history.

Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible

40 larsiusprime 2026-02-17 20:09:20 UTC pricepoints.health Llama Share 70

A federal healthcare program, 340B, is secretly increasing property taxes by incentivizing nonprofit hospitals to acquire private practices and hospitals, removing them from tax rolls and shifting the tax burden to local taxpayers. This hidden surcharge is a result of complex systems routing incentives in unexpected directions, highlighting the need for transparency in public subsidies like ...

Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI

39 sestinj 2026-02-17 17:08:14 UTC docs.continue.dev Llama Share 7

Continue runs AI checks on every pull request, displaying results as green or red GitHub status checks. Checks are defined as markdown files in .continue/checks/ with a name, description, and prompt for the AI to analyze the code.

Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball

33 rockdiesel 2026-02-17 15:36:46 UTC priceperball.net Full Share 51

Compare golf ball prices on Amazon, sorted by price per ball. Find the best deals on golf balls from every major brand.

Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs

29 yihac1 2026-02-17 17:01:08 UTC github.com/byte271 Llama Share 8

Sixcy is a modern container format for high-performance data storage and transmission, designed for streaming efficiency and data recoverability. It supports multiple compression algorithms and has a plugin architecture for customization.

'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia

28 anarbadalov 2026-02-17 23:06:51 UTC thereader.mitpress.mit.edu Full Share 4

You don't have permission to access "http://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/my-words-are-like-an-uncontrollable-dog-on-life-with-nonfluent-aphasia/" on this server.

The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]

27 pocksuppet 2026-02-17 19:25:27 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 18

Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts

25 Dimittri 2026-02-17 17:03:09 UTC sonarly.com Llama Share 10

Sonarly connects observability tools to ingest errors with full context, filtering noise and ranking by user impact. It auto-improves alert config and opens PRs with fixes for your codebase.

I Use Obsidian

23 hisamafahri 2026-02-17 22:30:37 UTC stephango.com Llama Share 14

The user uses Obsidian for note-taking and organizing, embracing chaos and laziness to create emergent structure, and employs a file-over-app philosophy to create digital artifacts that last. They use templates, internal links, and a fractal journaling approach to tame their knowledge base, and publish their site directly from Obsidian using Jekyll and GitHub.

Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel

22 stevengreser 2026-02-17 16:45:06 UTC vertex.flowlogix.ai Full Share 13

"WARNING: MENTAL CONTAMINATION HAZARD. PROCEED WITH CAUTION."

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

21 KnuthIsGod 2026-02-17 07:47:08 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 2

The AI's semantic ablation erodes high-entropy information, discarding unique signals for statistical probability. This process, a silent amputation of intent, results in hollow, frictionless outputs that sacrifice complexity for algorithmic smoothness.

pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light)

19 tanelpoder 2026-02-17 22:40:11 UTC vibhorkumar.wordpress.com Llama Share 2

pg_background executes SQL asynchronously in PostgreSQL background worker processes. It provides a clean, explicit async execution lane with safer handles and operator-friendly controls.

Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python

19 LukeB42 2026-02-17 15:47:46 UTC github.com/lukeb42 Llama Share 2

A high-performance internet radio server written in Python with Cython optimizations accepts live sources and predefined playlists. It uses Flask and Tornado for UI and API endpoints with production-grade performance and concurrency.

Dolphin Emulator – Rise of the Triforce

17 lsferreira42 2026-02-17 21:43:46 UTC br.dolphin-emu.org Llama Share 2

The Triforce arcade platform was a collaboration between Sega and Nintendo that used a modified GameCube motherboard to create arcade experiences. The platform had nine games released, including two Mario Kart games, Mario Kart Arcade GP and Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, which featured unique gameplay mechanics and features such as drifting and item reflection.

Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries

17 fi-le 2026-02-17 21:11:28 UTC alexanderbjoy.com Llama Share 1

The author shares their two-sentence journal method and its variations, including writing on scrap paper, using Google Keep, and writing directly in a physical journal. They also discuss formatting and organizing their journal entries in both physical and digital formats.

The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3

17 DamnInteresting 2026-02-17 14:36:07 UTC scientificamerican.com Llama Share 8

Game developers in the 1990s had to write efficient code due to limited computing power, and Quake 3's code included an algorithm for calculating the inverse square root. The algorithm used a "magic number" that was later found to be derived from a combination of mathematical calculations and approximations.

How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy

15 rbanffy 2026-02-17 11:57:35 UTC paulkrugman.substack.com Llama Share 1

The Trump administration's anti-vaccine policies are causing a resurgence in infectious diseases, with thousands of Americans at risk of death. The administration's hostility to vaccines and clean energy is economically destructive and driven by a conspiracy-theorizing hostility to science and expertise.

Slopware AI: Ship Garbage Even Faster

13 hassenaa 2026-02-17 08:44:30 UTC slopware.ai Full Share 8

Slopware AI is set of AI agents that help you ship garbage faster. Ship terrible code, even faster. Ship plain awful apps, even faster.