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

260 colinprince 2026-02-17 01:52:00 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 125

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.

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

480 bookofjoe 2026-02-16 18:52:00 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 93

Miles Wu, a 14-year-old student, discovered a strong origami pattern called Miura-ori that can hold 10,000 times its own weight. He won a $25,000 prize for his innovation, which could be used to build deployable shelters for emergency situations.

Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless

301 mustaphah 2026-02-16 21:52:00 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 128

Researchers created SkillsBench, a benchmark to measure the effectiveness of agent skills in 11 domains. Curated skills raised the average pass rate by 16.2 percentage points, but self-generated skills provided no benefit.

Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems

41 NomNew 2026-02-17 02:52:00 UTC newsletter.mikekonczal.com Llama Share 37

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.

AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet

263 VorpalWay 2026-02-17 00:52:00 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 201

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.

Rise of the Triforce

147 max-m 2026-02-16 21:52:00 UTC dolphin-emu.org Llama Share 14

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.

What every compiler writer should know about programmers (Anton Ertl, 2015) [pdf]

29 tosh 2026-02-17 01:52:00 UTC complang.tuwien.ac.at Llama Share 2

C compiler maintainers are compiling production programs with undefined behavior, which can result in code that behaves differently than intended and is slower. This approach is based on the assumption that undefined behavior does not occur, but it can lead to worse code and is not effective for source-level optimizations.

Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

129 zachlatta 2026-02-16 21:52:00 UTC github.com/zachlatta Llama Share 63

User likes transcription apps but dislikes their monthly fees. They want a free alternative with context-aware features and no data storage.

What your Bluetooth devices reveal

340 ssgodderidge 2026-02-16 14:52:00 UTC blog.dmcc.io Llama Share 136

The author built Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner to track nearby devices and analyze their presence patterns, after learning about a critical Bluetooth vulnerability. The project highlights the importance of understanding what information is leaked by having Bluetooth enabled, even if users have nothing to hide.

Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary

68 dogline 2026-02-16 23:52:00 UTC forestrydiary.com Llama Share 9

Reuben P. Box's daily diaries document forest management and life in northern California from 1927 to 1945. The digitized diaries are hosted by DreamHost in partnership with the Stirling City Historical Society.

Visual Introduction to PyTorch

161 0bytematt 2026-02-16 19:52:00 UTC 0byte.io Llama Share 13

PyTorch is a popular deep learning framework that uses tensors to store numbers and offers various initialisation functions to fill tensors with starting values. A simple property price estimator model was built using PyTorch, which included data preparation, training, backpropagation, and evaluation, resulting in a Mean Absolute Error of £329,798 and a Mean Absolute Percentage Error of 18.6%.

Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers

75 lirbank 2026-02-16 20:52:00 UTC lirbank.com Llama Share 37

To test for concurrency issues, a barrier can be used to synchronize concurrent operations and force the exact interleaving of operations, making the test deterministic and not probabilistic. A barrier test should pass with a lock and fail without it to prove that the lock is doing the work, and should be used to catch regressions in the code.

State of Show HN: 2025

76 kianN 2026-02-16 20:52:00 UTC blog.sturdystatistics.com Llama Share 15

The user analyzed Show HN posts and found a significant drop in performance in 2025, possibly due to the software job market decline or AI-driven shallow content. The top performing topics in 2025 were DIY Hardware IoT Projects and Document Ingestion and Retrieval, while AI-related topics underperformed despite their increased frequency.

PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]

113 varjag 2026-02-16 18:52:00 UTC intertronics.co.uk Full Share 32

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

26 lorisdev 2026-02-17 00:52:00 UTC codemade.net Llama Share 8

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.

Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence

25 tesserato 2026-02-17 00:52:00 UTC openculture.com Llama Share 13

Andrea Amati is considered the father of modern violin-making, perfecting the design of violins in the 16th century. His "King" instrument, a bass violin, was altered and reduced in size over time, but still sounds stunning in its current form.

Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox

72 four_fifths 2026-02-16 23:52:00 UTC docker.com Llama Share 30

Docker Sandboxes provides a secure, isolated environment for running AI assistants like NanoClaw, which monitors WhatsApp messages. The shell sandbox type allows users to install and run custom agents, such as Claude Code, in a clean Ubuntu environment with Node.js and other dev tools.

Neurons outside the brain

72 yichab0d 2026-02-16 19:52:00 UTC essays.debugyourpain.com Llama Share 27

The author questions the brain-centric view of human nature and behavior, suggesting that human consciousness is distributed throughout the body, with organs like the gut and heart having their own intelligence and sensory systems. The author proposes that we should consider the entire body as a complex, interconnected system rather than focusing solely on the brain.

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

299 dvrp 2026-02-16 18:52:00 UTC jmail.world Full Share 57

You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – Founding GTM Sales Hacker

0 2026-02-16 21:52:00 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Turing Labs uses AI to optimize food flavor formulas, reducing trial time from months to days. They help big brands create better products, with high retention rates and contracts.

The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation

59 knackers 2026-02-16 19:52:00 UTC blog.chrislewis.au Llama Share 15

The user describes their experience with decompiling Nintendo 64 games using Claude, a coding agent, and how they evolved their workflow to improve progress. They discuss various tools and techniques used, including function similarity scoring, skills, hooks, and model routing, to overcome challenges and achieve significant decompilation progress.

LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf]

43 ClintEhrlich 2026-02-16 21:52:00 UTC papers.voltropy.com Llama Share 16

Lossless Context Management (LCM) outperforms Claude Code on long-context tasks by decomposing symbolic recursion into deterministic mechanisms. LCM is implemented in Volt, a production-level coding agent that handles user sessions and context control.

DBASE on the Kaypro II

17 TMWNN 2026-02-17 00:52:00 UTC stonetools.ghost.io Llama Share 5

Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system was chosen over MS-DOS for IBM's Personal Computer, potentially altering computing history.

Suicide Linux (2009)

90 icwtyjj 2026-02-16 20:52:00 UTC qntm.org Llama Share 55

User suggests "Suicide Linux" where incorrect commands trigger rm -rf /, and proposes alternatives like verbose flags or random file deletion to make it a game or educational tool. User clarifies autocorrect is optional in Linux and did not create the "Suicide Linux" package.

Ghidra by NSA

330 handfuloflight 2026-02-16 12:52:00 UTC github.com/nationalsecurityagency Llama Share 185

Ghidra is a software reverse engineering framework created by the NSA for analyzing compiled code on various platforms. It supports disassembly, assembly, decompilation, and scripting, with customizable extensions and automated modes.

A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format

14 MrFinch 2026-02-17 03:52:00 UTC dbg.re Llama Share 0

The .car file format is a compiled asset record used by Apple's CoreUI framework to store images, colors, and other resources, with a complex structure including BOM, B+ tree, and TLV metadata. A custom parser and compiler for .car files has been built and compiled to WebAssembly, allowing for interactive exploration of .car files in a browser and enabling security research and tool building ...

PascalABC.net

33 andsoitis 2026-02-16 22:52:00 UTC pascalabc.net Llama Share 9

PascalABC.NET is a modern Pascal language combining simplicity and .NET capabilities for educational and scientific use. It offers a free IDE with code completion and supports various programming styles for flexible learning pathways.

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

5 rustoo 2026-02-17 04:39:00 UTC cnbc.com Prefix Share 0

Tequila Turner collected her last regular paycheck in October 2024. Since then she's traded her steady career in corporate IT for freelance projects and gig work, like delivering for DoorDash. Her income plummeted from six figures to a fraction of that last year, she tells me over the phone between making deliveries. She moved in with friends to save money. And she's been hard at work ...

Privilege is bad grammar

253 surprisetalk 2026-02-16 18:52:00 UTC tadaima.bearblog.dev Llama Share 242

The author reflects on how power and privilege can lead to a lack of effort in writing professional emails, citing examples from Epstein document dumps and the 2014 Sony Pictures hack. They suggest that those in positions of power may not feel the need to maintain a professional tone.

Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium

64 HenryNdubuaku 2026-02-16 19:52:00 UTC github.com/henryndubuaku Llama Share 16

This open textbook covers maths, computing, and AI from the ground up, focusing on intuition and real-world context. It's available on GitHub as the Maths, CS & AI Compendium by Henry Ndubuaku.