Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules

https://framerusercontent.com/images/oFLh01kYhwzmLTqmgBAgUlN94.png
Google's API keys, initially intended for public services like Maps, can now access sensitive Gemini endpoints without warning. This allows attackers to access private data and charge LLM-usage to affected accounts.

Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-electric-guitar-connected-to-a-number-of-effects-pedals-connect-to-an-amplifier-and-loudspeaker-stack.png?id=64983431&width=1200&height=1021
Jimi Hendrix created groundbreaking sound using a modular analog signal chain with pedals and a Marshall amplifier. He used a systematic approach to manipulate the nonlinear complexities of the system for maximum expression.

First Website (1992)

http://info.cern.ch - home of the first website

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GettyImages-2252687789-640x427.jpg
HP's CFO said RAM costs have risen 100 percent and now account for 35 percent of PC bill of materials due to a memory shortage. HP is raising PC prices and offering lower RAM specs to meet demand without depleting its limited memory supply.

Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), one of the greatest mathematicians in history, devised a compact formula to determine the weekday of January 1st for any given year. Found in a handwritten note among his papers, it was first published posthumously in 1927. The formula is valid from 1583 onward — the first full year of the Gregorian calendar. Enter a year above to see it in action.

How will OpenAI compete?

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/5a2d4a08-2d6f-4654-9027-33ac9c15f6ad/Frontier%2BLanguage%2BModel%2BIntelligence%2C%2BOver%2BTime%2B%2824%2BJan%2B%2726%29%2B-2.png.webp
OpenAI faces challenges in maintaining a competitive lead in AI due to the rapid development of similar models by other companies. The company's user base is large but has limited engagement and is fragile.

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68484e264756030bdfc083dc/a9c8bacf-3583-47fc-b582-f6d019f3bc6a/LogoSB-Schrift.png?format=1500w
Simon Berger uses a hammer to crack and strike glass, creating unique sculptures that explore material depth and transparency. His artistic journey began with painting and carpentry, leading to glasswork inspired by car windshields and human faces.

Making MCP cheaper via CLI

https://kanyilmaz.me/assets/posts/cli_vs_mcp.png
MCP overcharges by dumping entire tool catalogs upfront, while CLI and Anthropic's Tool Search use lazy loading to reduce costs. CLI is cheaper and works with any model, while Tool Search is Anthropic-only and more expensive.

Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts

https://opengraph.githubassets.com/48e48895f8608bd97f5b2e741e71bbcb7ffd9b4bf25f4686c103f705ed0f0dea/Zyora-Dev/zse
ZSE is a tool for running large language models with minimal memory footprint, providing smart recommendations based on available memory. It supports various formats including HuggingFace, safetensors, and .zse, with fast cold starts and efficient memory usage.

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

https://winblogs.thesourcemediaassets.com/sites/44/2026/01/1-Notepad-Strikethrough_Nested-list.png
Windows Insiders receive Notepad and Paint updates with new features including Markdown support, a Notepad welcome experience, and AI-powered coloring book in Paint. Users can provide feedback in the Feedback Hub under Apps > Notepad or Apps > Paint.

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

https://worksinprogress.co/wip-image/uploads/2026/01/bus-stop-spacingv-926x1024.png
Buses in the US have close stop spacing, slowing them down and reducing ridership. Optimizing stop spacing can speed up buses, increase ridership, and save resources.

Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

https://respectify.org/_astro/respectify-handshake.DHYPsRie.svg
Respectify is a tool that teaches users why their comments are wrong and lets them edit before posting. It promotes a respectful community by filtering out negative comments and highlighting positive ones.

PA bench: Evaluating web agents on real world personal assistant workflows

https://framerusercontent.com/images/RqTC2jno8dI9k4tpkW7dqYdiwM8.png
PA Bench is a benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of computer-use agents to complete realistic, long-horizon personal assistant workflows involving multiple web applications. It focuses on tasks that require agents to interact, reason, and act across applications under deterministic and verifiable conditions.

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mY8j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccd07a25-d443-4b48-ac20-b10a1e52285a_2002x1292.png
Researchers used LLMs to identify individuals from anonymous online posts with high precision, posing significant privacy concerns. To mitigate this, platforms should restrict data access and LLM providers should implement stronger safety guardrails.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance

https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/ai-soldiers-3b.png
The US government is pressuring Anthropic to allow their AI technology to be used in surveillance and autonomous weapons, despite the company's public stance against these uses. Anthropic should stand firm and refuse to compromise their principles, as public and corporate expectations are for them to uphold their stated values.

Self-improving software won't produce Skynet

In the traditional software development lifecycle, there is often a widening gap between the code we write and the documentation that describes it. We build features, fix bugs, and refactor architectures, but the READMEs, design documents, and internal wikis frequently lag behind. This "documentation debt" becomes a significant hurdle for both human developers and the AI agents we ...

The First Fully General Computer Action Model

https://si.inc/fdm1/recipe_overview.webp
We designed FDM-1, a computer use model that can learn unsupervised from the internet and train on 11 million hours of video data. FDM-1 is the first model to scale computer action models with long-context training and can perform tasks like CAD and driving a car.

What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/YwZWEiB71ivBkP7GcMkt3dFdiYg=/0x0:2000x1125/960x540/media/img/mt/2026/02/2026_02_19_MalininShiffrin_mpg/original.jpg
Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without understanding what we even mean by the term. The first thing to know about pressure is that it has actual physical properties. Feeling it is not a sign of a too-thin veneer of character. Pressure might as well be a snakebite, given its very real qualities in the bloodstream and ...

The Om Programming Language

https://www.om-language.com/operator.png
The Om language is a proof of concept at an early stage, requiring additional operations and optimizations before it can be useful. It is a concatenative language with prefix notation, using a unique panmorphic type system where all data values are represented as operands.

An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop

https://aircada.com/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2Fai-made-grip-sticker-zoom.aaa5ce6b.png&w=3840&q=75
AI-generated 3D models are flawed with wobbly silhouettes, illegible text, and poor UV maps. They lack structure and require manual editing, making them impractical for e-commerce product configurators.

Quasi-Zenith Satellite System

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/QZSS_logo.png
The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is a Japanese regional navigation satellite system developed to enhance GPS in Asia-Oceania, with a focus on Japan. It provides highly precise and stable positioning services, compatible with GPS.

Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments

https://www.linum.ai/vae-reconstruction-vs-generation/high_quality_reconstructions/images/042_original_resized.jpg
Researchers built an Image-Video VAE to compress images and videos into a compact latent space for diffusion models, but found that better compression doesn't always track with VAE stability or downstream generation quality. They discovered that over-optimizing reconstruction quality can hurt the model's chance to disentangle data into a semantically meaningful space, and that aligning the ...

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

Our AI engine creates customized venue lists in seconds, vetting properties for reliability and quality. Venue partners respond to requests within 24 hours with our smart quote system.

Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)

https://norlinder.nu/assets/img/stopwatch.png
The traditional pause time metric for measuring garbage collection (GC) performance is no longer sufficient due to the increasing complexity of modern GC algorithms and the decoupling of pause time from machine resources. A new Java API and unified logging mechanism in OpenJDK 26 provide a precise and internal accounting of the collector's work, enabling developers to understand the ...

GNU Texmacs

https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/images/collage-reduced.png
GNU TeXmacs is a free editing platform for technical documents with a wysiwyg interface. It offers a user-friendly framework for editing text, math, graphics, and more, with export options to PDF and Postscript.

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

https://opengraph.githubassets.com/f45b3f9fe6c9283144afe3b5dfb3426d70ddbd99d73c5ccf1d2be70915bc21bd/odvcencio/gotreesitter
gotreesitter is a Go implementation of tree-sitter that outperforms the CGo binding, supporting incremental parsing and query execution. It includes 205 grammars and supports language detection, highlighting, and tagging.

Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access

https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f9cc80521b4e48dc602aef29ce4fb7d4c0f5dda1.png
Trellis builds AI agents to automate healthcare operations, providing patients with life-saving medicine access. The company is backed by top investors and seeks a detail-oriented professional for a client-facing role.

Show HN: OpenSwarm – Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub

https://opengraph.githubassets.com/83e69d9bf190ff4d371daa8633fa7dc97af9ea79a96a475c7c2cb5d01ea85817/Intrect-io/OpenSwarm
OpenSwarm orchestrates Claude Code instances as autonomous agents, managing Linear issues and reporting progress to Discord. It uses a Knowledge Graph for smarter task execution and retains memory via LanceDB vector embeddings.

Access to a Shared Unix Computer

Members have crafted quirky personal pages, shared knowledge through the wiki, and supported each other in countless projects. we don't rank people by the amount they give, only by fact that they gave. if you want to help out, just ask - we'd love to hear from you! a big thank you to all who have helped out over the years... and we hope to see you again soon :) i'm