Gemini 3.1 Pro

963 MallocVoidstar 2026-02-19 15:19:57 UTC blog.google Llama Share 910

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.

AI makes you boring

700 speckx 2026-02-19 18:12:16 UTC marginalia.nu Llama Share 371

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.

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

654 theahura 2026-02-19 02:52:26 UTC code.claude.com Llama Share 791

Claude Code usage is subject to Anthropic's commercial agreement and usage policy. Authentication methods include OAuth tokens and API keys, with restrictions on usage and third-party development.

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

653 cpcloud 2026-02-19 15:54:14 UTC micasa.dev Full Share 215

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. PDFs and scanned documents are automatically OCR’d and analyzed.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

612 PunchTornado 2026-02-19 16:14:07 UTC deepmind.google Llama Share 9

Gemini 3.1 Pro is a highly intelligent model that outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro in reasoning and multimodal capabilities. It has improved safety performance and satisfied child safety evaluations, with results available in the Gemini 3 Pro model card.

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

520 benbeingbin 2026-02-19 19:55:11 UTC kasava.dev Llama Share 575

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.

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

516 mitchbob 2026-02-19 20:56:23 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 544

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.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

436 SteveHawk27 2026-02-19 12:13:44 UTC pagedout.institute Llama Share 74

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.

Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

412 mhb 2026-02-19 16:23:39 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 559

MicroVision aims to produce a solid-state lidar sensor for under $200, a price drop that could make lidar affordable for advanced driver-assistance systems. This move could alter the calculus of autonomous-car design by lowering the cost of precise three-dimensional sensing.

DOGE Track

345 donohoe 2026-02-19 12:13:39 UTC dogetrack.info Full Share 205

An automatically-generated and frequently updated site for presenting data on DOGE’s rampage across government, designed to work on large screens and mobile phones.

0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

343 jonbaer 2026-02-19 19:37:00 UTC play0ad.com Llama Share 116

Wildfire Games releases 0 A.D. version 28, "Boiorix", a free open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The game features a new Germanic faction, improved text rendering, and various bug fixes.

California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves

314 fortran77 2026-02-19 19:16:12 UTC blog.adafruit.com Full Share 370

Pebble Production: February Update

312 smig0 2026-02-19 12:36:00 UTC repebble.com Llama Share 161

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

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

311 guardianbob 2026-02-19 14:52:18 UTC governance.fyi Llama Share 471

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.

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan

289 tuananh 2026-02-19 01:55:33 UTC gamingonlinux.com Llama Share 171

Mojang is switching Minecraft Java from OpenGL to Vulkan for better performance and visual improvements. This change will require modders to update their work and may leave out old devices that don't support Vulkan.

South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

282 Geekette 2026-02-19 18:26:44 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 162

A South Korean court sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour for leading an insurrection in December 2024. The court found Yoon guilty of disrupting the constitutional order and causing massive social costs to South Korean society.

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

270 freitasm 2026-02-19 19:16:33 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 168

The IRS tech arm lost 40% of its IT staff and 80% of tech leaders in a major reorganization. The agency aims to improve efficiency with cross-functional teams and AI, but faces challenges in digitizing paper returns and implementing tax changes.

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

265 forinti 2026-02-19 17:47:25 UTC github.com/veirt Llama Share 48

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.

European Tech Alternatives

257 puppion 2026-02-19 05:07:37 UTC eutechmap.com Full Share 184

Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are GDPR compliant, and store data in Europe.

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

230 kristianp 2026-02-19 02:32:00 UTC static.stepfun.com Llama Share 89

Step 3.5 Flash is a capable open-source foundation model that delivers frontier reasoning and agentic capabilities with exceptional efficiency, rivaling top-tier proprietary models in reasoning depth and real-time interaction. It achieves a generation throughput of 100-300 tok/s and supports a cost-efficient 256K context window, making it a robust engine for coding, agents, and agentic tasks.

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

212 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-02-19 16:07:14 UTC wsj.com Full Share 125

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15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

202 fp64enjoyer 2026-02-19 01:46:07 UTC nicolasdickenmann.com Llama Share 77

Nvidia's consumer GPUs have a 64:1 FP64:FP32 ratio, weakening double-precision performance. This is due to market segmentation, as most consumer workloads don't need FP64, but enterprise hardware relies on it.

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

199 speckx 2026-02-19 19:42:31 UTC blog.zgp.org Llama Share 395

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 ...

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

198 simondanisch 2026-02-19 10:55:13 UTC makie.org Llama Share 94

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.

Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications

194 lawrencechen 2026-02-19 21:30:04 UTC github.com/manaflow-ai Llama Share 76

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

192 dabinat 2026-02-19 22:08:24 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 128

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.

DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

188 hn_acker 2026-02-19 18:01:50 UTC techdirt.com Llama Share 50

Two inexperienced DOGE bros, Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, used ChatGPT to terminate National Endowment for the Humanities grants based on DEI keywords. They ignored expert staff and forged the director's signature on termination emails.

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe

171 pseudolus 2026-02-19 00:22:45 UTC cepr.org Llama Share 133

European policymakers face a critical choice in adopting artificial intelligence, with optimists predicting a productivity boom and sceptics warning of uneven diffusion and inequality. A recent study found that AI adoption increases labour productivity by 4% on average in the EU, with benefits concentrated among medium and large firms.

Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript

168 merlindru 2026-02-19 03:46:07 UTC blackboard.sh Llama Share 59

User built a desktop app framework called Electrobun after being frustrated with existing tools. Electrobun is now stable and allows for cross-platform development with features like webview partitions and solid tooling.

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

162 ZeroGravitas 2026-02-19 20:32:09 UTC hankgreen.com Full Share 152

An interactive data journalism piece exploring the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer, with population simulations, risk factors, and prevention information.

Farewell, Rust for web

142 skwee357 2026-02-19 18:42:51 UTC yieldcode.blog Llama Share 183

The user tried to build a web application in Rust but faced issues with compilation time, lack of maturity in the web aspect, and difficulties with dynamic things like templates, i18n, and SQL. They eventually switched to Node.js, which provided a more suitable environment for web development, despite its imperfections, and allowed them to focus on their business.

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)

142 atan2 2026-02-19 12:24:33 UTC kodiak64.co.uk Llama Share 22

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.

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

137 simonebrunozzi 2026-02-19 15:30:42 UTC borischerny.com Llama Share 103

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.

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

137 sorentwo 2026-02-19 11:07:15 UTC oban.pro Llama Share 54

To bridge the gap between Elixir and Python, Oban can be used to exchange durable jobs between the two languages, enabling collaboration and leveraging packages lacking in one ecosystem. A demo app called "Badge Forge" was built to print conference badges using WeasyPrint, a Python library, and Oban, which allows Elixir and Python to share a message queue and database.

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

131 holyknight 2026-02-19 11:54:21 UTC github.com/fjrevoredo Llama Share 65

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.

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

119 jbredeche 2026-02-19 14:14:14 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 50

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 ...

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

118 bryanrasmussen 2026-02-19 18:31:50 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 34

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.

Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial

117 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-02-19 06:54:28 UTC ft.com Llama Share 106

The Financial Times offers a limited time deal with savings based on annual price, then $75 per month after February 25th. Cancel anytime during the trial period for complete digital access to quality journalism on any device.

AI made coding more enjoyable

104 domysee 2026-02-19 16:20:26 UTC weberdominik.com Llama Share 97

Software engineer finds AI tools helpful for automating tedious tasks like code writing and testing, but still prefers to verify code manually. AI assistance has greatly reduced the time spent on mundane tasks, making software engineering more enjoyable.

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

100 exvi 2026-02-19 06:43:53 UTC singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com Llama Share 16

The Cloud Tank is an old visual effect technique using a large water tank with salt and fresh water layers to create organic shapes, like clouds, by injecting paint into the tank. This technique was used in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Independence Day, but has since become obsolete with computer-generated effects.

Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down

98 switz 2026-02-19 03:56:29 UTC old.reddit.com Llama Share 10

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'

90 xyzal 2026-02-19 06:41:14 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 60

The US Internet Freedom programme, which funded technologies to evade internet controls, has been severely cut due to the Trump administration's budget reductions. This threatens internet freedoms worldwide, particularly in countries like Iran, China, and Myanmar, where censorship is becoming increasingly prevalent.

A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression

88 vinni2 2026-02-19 21:21:27 UTC economist.com Llama Share 66

Compass Pathways' psilocybin treatment showed strong results in late-stage trials for treatment-resistant depression. FDA approval could make it the first licensed psychedelic medicine.

Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution

87 beardyw 2026-02-19 20:55:12 UTC scientificamerican.com Llama Share 30

Baby chickens make the same sound-shape connections as humans, suggesting the link to human language may not be unique. The study challenges a long-standing theory about the bouba-kiki effect, which may be an innate perceptual bias rather than a learned behavior.

The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era

84 zdw 2026-02-19 16:42:04 UTC hannahilea.com Llama Share 24

The author created a physical music catalog called the Musidex, a Rolodex of albums with QR codes linking to streaming services. It helps the author remember favorite albums and discover new music.

Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

84 surprisetalk 2026-02-19 14:45:55 UTC keybeekeyboard.com Full Share 99

Keybee is the new keyboard layout designed for touchscreen. Discover the new way of typing on touchscreen. For free. Forever.

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

83 sammy0910 2026-02-19 11:15:38 UTC github.com/sstraust Llama Share 21

Shannonmax is a tool that helps optimize Emacs keybindings by analyzing logged data to determine the most efficient key sequences. It compares actual keybinding lengths to theoretical lengths based on usage frequency and keyboard size.

Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container

82 a11ce 2026-02-19 04:19:20 UTC github.com/a11ce Full Share 28

A Docker image is a piece of executable code that produces some output given some input. FROM docker-lisp/eval CMD ["(define fact (lambda (n) (if (number-equals n 0) 1 (multiply n (fact (subtract n 1))))))", "(fact 3)"]

ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds

80 icwtyjj 2026-02-19 04:27:23 UTC mutsuntsai.github.io Full Share 13

Find reference points and lines in crease patterns.

How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

79 zepearl 2026-02-19 15:14:18 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 31

The author, a 18-year-old keyholder at Babbage's, recounts the chaos of the Nintendo 64 launch in 1996, where Super Mario 64 sold out despite limited launch titles. The author also shares memories of working at Babbage's during the 1990s console wars, including the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation launches.

Hitler's Greenland Obsession

77 speckx 2026-02-19 17:22:15 UTC theatlantic.com Llama Share 19

Hitler's interest in Greenland transitioned from personal to strategic in 1933, driven by a desire for economic self-sufficiency and access to cryolite, a mineral essential to aluminum production. The US responded by establishing a military presence in Greenland, signing an agreement with Denmark to defend the island against German aggression, and using it as a vital transit point in the war effort.

The Popper Principle

76 lermontov 2026-02-19 11:52:49 UTC theamericanscholar.org Llama Share 36

Karl Popper's theory of fallibilism revolutionized science by focusing on disproving theories rather than proving them. Popper's critique of Plato's totalitarian ideology in "The Open Society and Its Enemies" exposed the dangers of a closed society that arrests all change.

University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"

74 bhouston 2026-02-19 20:39:59 UTC texastribune.org Llama Share 22

The University of Texas System's Board of Regents approved a rule requiring universities to ensure students can graduate without studying "unnecessary controversial subjects." The rule does not define what qualifies as "controversial" or "broad and balanced approach."

Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey

74 taubek 2026-02-19 19:03:32 UTC shiftmag.dev Llama Share 96

Laura Tacho presented research on AI's impact on developer productivity, showing 92.6% of developers use AI coding assistants and saving 4 hours a week. AI-authored code now makes up 26.9% of production code, with daily users merging nearly a third of code written by AI.

Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt

72 rawgabbit 2026-02-19 22:07:29 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 6

A federal judge in Minnesota held a Trump administration attorney in civil contempt for disobeying court orders in an immigration case. The judge ordered the attorney to pay $500 daily until the immigrant's identification documents are returned.

What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

67 jmount 2026-02-19 18:40:35 UTC win-vector.com Llama Share 32

A centipawn advantage is a measure of a chess engine's evaluation of a position, with 100 centipawns corresponding to a 50% chance of winning, and can be converted to Elo difference using a graph. The centipawn system models draws separate from wins and losses, unlike the Elo system, and is used to estimate probabilities of each outcome in a chess game.

I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

65 doener 2026-02-19 10:56:25 UTC bsky.app Full Share 41

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations

57 usually 2026-02-19 17:58:27 UTC terezi.pyrope.net Llama Share 23

Dijkstra criticized the GO TO statement for inviting program messes, but Scheme programmers can emulate its style using the call/cc procedure. A Scheme macro, goto, can be implemented using call/cc to provide a limited context for jumping around in a program.

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

56 lowsun 2026-02-19 22:54:28 UTC github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon Llama Share 18

The user discusses Gustav Mahler, a composer who combines Wagner's emotions and Stravinsky's ideas with modernism. To compile Mahler's music, use cmake with the src and inc folders included.

Famous Signatures Through History

52 elliotbnvl 2026-02-19 13:49:49 UTC signatory.app Llama Share 32

Create a professional handwritten signature in seconds using a velocity-sensitive pen that responds to your speed and produces natural thick-and-thin strokes. Download your signature as a transparent PNG or scalable SVG for documents, emails, and print, with no account or watermark required.

Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?

51 jensmtg 2026-02-19 14:04:44 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 65

The user found that Claude is great for most fullstack web development tasks except interface development and UX, where it struggles with layout and composition. To overcome this, the user uses specific instructions, baseline screenshots, and visual diff analysis to guide Claude's UI development, and also employs tools like Figma, Chrome Devtools, and Agentation for fine-tuning and testing.

Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists

49 latexr 2026-02-19 19:07:40 UTC aftermath.site Llama Share 72

A left-wing commentator on Bluesky discussed the idea that "the left hates technology" due to AI hype, but this is confusing as leftists often support high-speed rail and mRNA vaccines.

C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime

49 ibobev 2026-02-19 13:47:30 UTC sandordargo.com Llama Share 73

The C++26 feature std::is_within_lifetime checks if a pointer points to an object within its lifetime during constant evaluation, primarily used to check which union member is active. This function is consteval-only, taking a pointer instead of a reference, and has a general name to solve problems in constant evaluation, not just unions.

YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users

45 ripe 2026-02-19 19:31:06 UTC pcmag.com Llama Share 43

Google has blocked YouTube background listening on mobile web browsers for non-Premium users. Users can still access background listening by downloading videos or using third-party tools, but be cautious of malware.

UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours

44 beardyw 2026-02-19 12:06:30 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 67

The UK government is requiring online platforms to remove non-consensual intimate images within 48 hours or face fines. The move aims to protect victims from further harm and follows outrage over Elon Musk's chatbot Grok generating explicit images.

Choosing a language based on its syntax?

40 todsacerdoti 2026-02-19 16:56:52 UTC gingerbill.org Llama Share 107

The user argues that people often judge programming languages based on their syntax rather than their semantics, which is a misguided approach as semantics are the foundation of a language. Experienced programmers tend to focus on the actual language semantics rather than syntax, and language designers should ignore opinions on minor syntactic decisions from inexperienced programmers.

Can random experimental choice lead to better theories?

38 paraschopra 2026-02-19 14:26:20 UTC journals.sagepub.com Full Share 29

HUD proposes rule that would force noncitizens from public housing

35 geox 2026-02-19 22:38:27 UTC washingtonpost.com Full Share 11

Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools

35 andsoitis 2026-02-19 13:02:07 UTC economist.com Llama Share 102

Democratic states initially led in education, but Republican states have since caught up, particularly in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. This shift coincides with a broader trend of rollback in climate regulation, revealing deeper issues in American governance.

Scent, in Silico

32 surprisetalk 2026-02-19 16:12:21 UTC asimov.press Llama Share 1

Researchers are using AI to digitize smell, creating a shared vocabulary and technology to understand and manipulate scent. This could lead to practical applications, such as detecting threats and creating new fragrances, and may help us better understand the mysteries of olfaction.

Freedom.gov

29 barbazoo 2026-02-19 21:47:25 UTC freedom.gov Full Share 11

Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression.Get ready.

Microspeak: Escrow

28 ibobev 2026-02-19 16:23:19 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 9

The escrow build is a stable product version that undergoes testing and self-host usage to ensure quality and reliability. If significant issues are found, the release team assesses them against a bug bar and may reset the escrow period for a new build.

/Deslop

28 yayitswei 2026-02-19 09:45:47 UTC tahigichigi.substack.com Llama Share 45

The user identifies 12 red flags that indicate AI-generated content, including overuse of dramatic pauses and repetitive phrases, and proposes a prompt to detect such writing. The prompt can be used to "deslop" AI-generated content, making it more readable and engaging.

Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast

27 murat3ok 2026-02-19 06:09:58 UTC stoolap.io Llama Share 23

The user created a native Node.js driver for Stoolap, an embedded SQL database written in Rust, allowing direct access to the database engine without HTTP server or serialization overhead. The driver outperforms SQLite in complex queries, with Stoolap achieving 10x to 100x faster results in analytical and multi-row operations.

Forward propagation of errors through time

26 iNic 2026-02-19 09:23:53 UTC nicolaszucchet.github.io Llama Share 1

We investigate a fundamental question in recurrent neural network training: why is backpropagation through time always ran backwards? We derive an exact gradient-based algorithm that propagates error forward in time, showing that this does not necessarily need to be the case. However, the algorithm suffers from critical numerical stability issues as the network forgets information faster.

Cursor’s debug mode is arguably its best feature

23 davidgomes 2026-02-19 14:23:40 UTC davidgomes.com Llama Share 5

Cursor's Debug Mode allows users to reproduce bugs locally or via Remote SSH, providing HTTP-based logs to understand code paths and variable values. This feature is genius because it works for any programming language and environment, making it a native and valuable feature in the product.

Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass

20 rbanffy 2026-02-19 18:13:34 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 6

Microsoft's Project Silica uses glass to store data, achieving a density of over 1 Gigabit per cubic millimeter. The system uses lasers to write and read data, with the potential to store up to 4.84TB in a single glass slab.

The Gay Tech Mafia

20 A1vis 2026-02-19 13:54:08 UTC wired.com Llama Share 4

Gay men are overrepresented in Silicon Valley's tech industry, with many achieving success and forming influential networks, but some rumors suggest a "gay tech mafia" where power and intimacy are intertwined. While some of these rumors are exaggerated or unfounded, others hint at a complex web of relationships and social dynamics that can provide advantages to those who are part of the network.

Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source)

20 prabal97 2026-02-19 12:06:05 UTC latentscore.com Full Share 21

Why applicant tracking systems are broken by design

18 dajas 2026-02-19 17:00:47 UTC saj.ad Llama Share 14

The applicant tracking system (ATS) market is broken due to decades of misaligned incentives, lazy buyers, and a lack of competition on product quality, leading to poor user experiences and ineffective tools. Building a better ATS requires a deep understanding of the recruiting process, careful data modeling, and a focus on simplicity and usability, as well as a willingness to challenge the ...

Gemini 3.1 Pro

16 meetpateltech 2026-02-19 16:03:50 UTC blog.google Llama Share 3

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.

Yes there is a right way to stack the dishwasher. Here are the 5 rules

11 colinprince 2026-02-19 14:21:52 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 48

Experts say don't rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, as it reduces efficiency. Proper stacking involves facing dirty surfaces towards the jets and not overcrowding the dishwasher.