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 Hot Mess of AI

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AI failures may look more like industrial accidents due to incoherent behavior rather than systematically pursuing misaligned goals. As AI becomes more capable, its failures tend to become increasingly dominated by variance rather than bias, making it a hot mess rather than a coherent optimizer of the wrong goal.

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.

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.

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

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Subscribe to incident updates via email and/or text message for Incident with Actions and Incident with Codespaces. Check GitHub Enterprise Cloud status by region at specific URLs.

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

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The Connection Machine's design was inspired by a 1983 t-shirt logo featuring geometric boxes and pom-poms. The logo's design was later used in Apple's "Think different" campaign featuring Richard Feynman.

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.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

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

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.

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.

Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

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.

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

User had slow rsync transfers from network share to local drive, maxing out at 350 MB/sec. Rclone with parallel transfers was 4x faster, maxing out at 1 GB/sec.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed

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Researchers at SINTEF and COWA Thermal Solutions have developed a thermal battery that stores heat from heat pumps, allowing for smarter and more efficient heating systems. The battery uses salt hydrates and can store up to four times more heat than a traditional hot water tank, reducing energy consumption and costs.

Training a trillion parameter model to be funny

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The user trained a model on a qualitative reward by decomposing "funny" into verifiable properties like recent, relevant, and deep understanding of its subject. They used a rubric-based approach with specific comedy bits and data curation to fine-tune the model's style and humor.

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.

IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

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Build the ultimate theme park with thrilling roller coasters, exciting rides, and happy guests!

Why software stocks are getting pummelled

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.

General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer

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Researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the online game Command & Conquer: Generals, including memory corruption and remote code execution. They developed a worm to demonstrate the impact and reported the issues to EA Games, which declined to issue CVEs due to the game being a legacy title.

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.

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

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