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Ever wonder why your favorite ketchup always tastes the same? It doesn’t. The formula is constantly tweaked due to shifting crops and costs, forcing food scient...

You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway? Such as when changing directory, or opening a f...

Hamiltonian Each dot represents an electron experiencing pairwise Coulomb repulsion with every other electron while being confined by an external potential Q....

People have been using Wero to send and receive money between family and friends in Belgium, France, and Germany for a while, and now you can pay instantly onli...

Video Watch on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fXrPMGM5E Discussion Hacker News commentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038665 – 10 points, 4 c...

The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy‑preserving by design. Unless an administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built‑in identity layer. Wha...

The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy‑preserving by design. Unless an administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in identity layer. Wha...

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to...

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Privilege is bad grammar When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple‑check the gramm...

Shutaro Ida, the longtime Castlevania and Bloodstained developer, has died at the age of 52 after battling cancer. Tribute from Koji Igarashi Writing in a state...

1. Introduction {intro} WebMCP API is a new JavaScript interface that allows web developers to expose their web‑application functionality as tools—JavaScript f...

Video How to take a photo with scotch tape lensless imaging videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97f0nfU5Px0 Discussion Hacker News discussionhttps://news.ycom...

AT&T Long Lines – Long Distance Made Possible For The Masses Source: Garrett Fuller, “AT&T Long Lines, A Forgotten Talehttp://personal.garrettfuller.org/blog/20...

Org Web Adapter A lightweight local web app for browsing and editing Org files. The app is implemented as a single Python server main.py plus one HTML template...

Overview A review of 22 studies involving nearly 2,000 adults examined whether short‑term intermittent fasting up to 12 months leads to greater weight loss tha...

Hey HN, I don’t know who else has the same issue, but: Textbooks often bury good ideas in dense notation, skip the intuition, assume you already know half the m...

!A screengrab of a prompt to verify your age on Discord.https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Discordageverification2.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp...

The Current Landscape You can't open a feed today without AI boosters flinging word salad like “agentic engineering” or “openclaw” into your face. Predicting t...

!https://www.legalcheek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AdobeStock_110501092-2.jpeg A digital archive that helped journalists track criminal court cases is being...

Western Digital’s HDD Capacity Sold Out for 2026 Western Digital, one of the world’s biggest hard‑drive manufacturers, announced that it has already sold out o...

PlanckForth: Bootstrapping an Interpreter from Handwritten 1KB Binary How to build Only xxd is needed to build PlanckForth. bash git clone https://github.com/n...

Anthropic has updated Claude Code, its AI coding assistant, to collapse file‑access information in the progress output. In version 2.1.20 the tool now prints a...

MessageFormat Working Group Welcome to the home page for the MessageFormat Working Group, a subgroup of the Unicode CLDR‑TChttps://cldr.unicode.org/. Charter T...

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032876 Points: 12 Comments: 6...

Picol is a Tcl‑alike interpreter written in about 500 lines of C the parser alone is roughly 250 lines. It was first released on 15 March 2007 and has been arch...

Article https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295 Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

tl;dr I tasked Claude, Codex, and Gemini to build a SQLite-like enginehttps://github.com/kiankyars/sqlite in Rust. - ~19k~ lines of code. - Parser, planner, vo...

Western Digital Announces HDD Capacity Sellout for 2026 Western Digital, one of the world’s largest hard‑drive manufacturers, says it has already sold out of i...

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703...

Article URL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/pink-noise-reduces-rem-sleep-and-may-harm-sleep-quality Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470293...

Article URL: https://dlants.me/agi-not-imminent.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028923 Points: 63 Comments: 140...

Error payloads in Zig Feb 13 2026 – I do error payloads in Zig by making a unionenum‑based Diagnostics type for each function. These types have special methods...

TL;DR I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClawhttps://openclaw.ai/ will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. Recent d...

Summary tl;dr: I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClawhttps://openclaw.ai/ will move to a foundation and stay open and independent....

Overview Hi HN! I've been building Lightwave solo for about three and a half years. I kept trying every new project/notes tool Notion, Asana, Trello, etc. and...

The name Pies pronounced 'p-yes' stands for Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor. This utility starts and controls execution of external programs, called...

Article URL: https://videocardz.com/newz/acer-and-asus-are-now-banned-from-selling-pcs-and-laptops-in-germany-following-nokia-hevc-patent-ruling Comments URL: h...

Background A bloc of 40 state and territorial attorneys general is urging Congress to adopt the Senate’s version of the controversial Kids Online Safety Act KO...

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. !warninghttps://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/26a0.svg Some privacy related extensions may cau...

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-scientists-million-year-brain-rhythm.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026289 Points: 5 Comme...

Very much inspired by Karpathy's microgpt of the same name. It's by default a 4000‑parameter GPT/LLM/NN that learns to generate names. This is sort of an educat...

Authors: Tony Feng, Trieu H. Trinh, Garrett Bingham, Dawsen Hwang, Yuri Chervonyi, Junehyuk Jung, Joonkyung Lee, Carlo Pagano, Sang‑hyun Kim, Federico Pasqualot...

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations g...

Retraction On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an articlehttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-...

I’m unable to retrieve the content from the provided URL, so I can’t generate the cleaned‑up Markdown version of the article. If you can paste the article text...

Palantir’s Contract with New York City’s Public Hospital System New York City’s public hospital system is paying millions to Palantir, the controversial ICE an...

Overview Set up an unprotected server on the net, and the bots start swarming! This site shows bots attempting unsuccessfully to break into an ordinary interne...