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Stop generating, start thinking by Sophie Koonin 8 February 2026 Tags: ai/tags/ai/, engineering/tags/engineering/ Throughout my career, I feel like I’ve done a...

Abstract Using nationally representative data from the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies ANES, this paper traces how the U.S. social media lands...

Abstract Using nationally representative data from the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies ANES, this paper traces how the U.S. social media lands...

Everything Locate files and folders by name instantly. !Everything screenshot/sssmall3.png - Small installation file - Clean and simple user interface - Quick...

Everything Locate files and folders by name instantly. !https://www.voidtools.com/sssmall3.pnghttps://www.voidtools.com/support/everything - Small installation...

markdown Art of Roads in Games Homehttps://sandboxspirit.com/ • Bloghttps://sandboxspirit.com/blog January 29, 2026 • 7 min read !Roads Coverhttps://sandboxspir...

Background Little more than a month after I reported that Google’s AI was offering links to malicious scriptshttps://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/11/how-online-sea...

- AI CODE CREATION GitHub CopilotWrite better code with AI https://github.com/features/copilot - GitHub SparkBuild and deploy intelligent apps https://github.co...

Nice one, right, beauty! What a way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of GTA, even though I am a day late to the celebration, having all three games remastered...

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-red-dots-webb-collapse-black.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938217 Points: 41 Comments: 1...

Article URL: https://www.expressnews.com/news/texas/article/amazon-delivery-drone-crash-richardson-texas-21341387.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

TL;DR: Roundcube’s rcube_washtml sanitizer blocked external resources on , , and , but not on . Its href went through the wrong code path and got allowed throug...

Overview Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker Changan Automobile are preparing to put the world’s first passenger car powered by sodium‑ion batteries on pu...

Feb 5 2026 Let’s compile Quake like it’s 1997! The first batches of Quake executables – quake.exe and vquake.exe – were programmed on an HP 712‑60 running NeXT...

Underhill A Mars colony game about surviving and building on the Red Planet. Inspired by Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. Created by Aria Alamalhodaei....

Summary In Copilot it is possible to bypass billing / “premium request” usage by exploiting: - Subagents and tool calls that do not consume any “requests”. - R...

Blood omega‑3 is inversely related to risk of early‑onset dementia Aleix Sala‑Vila et al. Clin Nutr. 2026 Feb. PMID: 41506004 – DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2025.106559h...

WHAT IS THIS MATH? It predicts tipping points — moments when small changes cause huge effects. A match starting a forest fire. A traffic jam forming out of not...

FREE THE MATH The same mathematics predicts market crashes, power grid blackouts, cardiac failures, and ecosystem collapse. At least six scientific fields disc...

Note: Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has become the source of controversy. After suffering a severe stroke in June 2023, Chomsky is unable to co...

Introduction I felt the familiar wave of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted between Claude‑code and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?”...

Article URL: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

February 5, 2026 · 12:24 PM UTC Updated on February 6, 2026 · 12:38 AM UTC Bitcoin price decline Bitcoinhttps://www.bloomberg.com/quote/XBTUSD:BGN tumbled below...

What are GitHub Agentic Workflows? Imagine a world where improvements to your repositories are delivered automatically each morning. Issues are automatically t...

Overview Hi HN, I'm a computer systems engineering student in Mexico who switched from film school. I built CineGraphs because my filmmaker friends and I kept...

Announcement We are heartbroken to report that our colleague—our mentor, friend, and conscience—David J. Farber passed away suddenly at his home in Roppongi, T...

Announcement We are heartbroken to report that our colleague—our mentor, friend, and conscience—David J. Farber passed away suddenly at his home in Roppongi, T...

If you use an Apple silicon Mac you’ve probably noticed its impressive performance across image, audio, video, and software‑development tasks. While the Perform...

🦔 🦔 🦔 !https://ezhik.jp/assets/thumbnails/bro-you-had-chatgpt-write-the-get-well-card-for-your-grandma.jpg What if this is as good as software is ever going...

🦔 🦔 🦔 !https://ezhik.jp/assets/thumbnails/bro-you-had-chatgpt-write-the-get-well-card-for-your-grandma.jpg What if this is as good as software is ever going...

markdown Tyres stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warr...

Matchlock //: matchlock Matchlock is a CLI tool for running AI agents in ephemeral microVMs. It provides: - Network allow‑listing – only explicitly permitted c...

DoNotNotify is Now Open Source We're excited to announce that DoNotNotify has been open sourced. The full source code for the app is now publicly available for...

Background with Claude Code Over the past year I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already replace programmers,...

Original Review Great Movie Review: The Shawshank Redemption 1994 – Roger Eberthttps://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994 Dis...

Breach details Substack confirmed that an “unauthorized third party” accessed user data in October. The compromised information includes email addresses, phone...

Overview Newsletter platform Substack confirmed a data breach in an email to users. In October, an “unauthorized third party” accessed user data, including ema...

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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...

LocalGPT A local device‑focused AI assistant built in Rust — persistent memory, autonomous tasks, ~27 MB binary. Inspired by and compatible with OpenClaw. bash...

I’ve been passionate about writing “Good Code™” since before I started my career, beginning way back when I was still a kid in middle school. What is “Good Code...

What is “Good Code™”? Good Code is code that is easy to read and understand. It is pleasing to develop with and maintain. It exists for a specific reason—and n...

Introduction Black is in everything. The light in your room. The call in your pocket. The beat of the machine. Selected Repositories You just haven't seen the...

For Immediate Release – February 6, 2026 Statement From: Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H. Commissioner of Food and Drugs – Food and Drug Administration Today, th...

You Are Here Where to next? The cost of turning written business logic into code has dropped to zero. Or, at best, near‑zero. The cost of integrating services...

!https://bellard.org/tcc/tcc-logo.png Tiny C Compiler News I am no longer working on TCC. Check the mailing list for up‑to‑date information. Features - SMALL! C...

Incidents - Police said a track switch was set alight near Pesaro, on the Adriatic coast. - Several hours later, police discovered severed electric cables near...

Article URL: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collisions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...