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Gemini 3.1 Pro

(blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/)

240 points by MallocVoidstar 6 hours ago | loading comments

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

(micasa.dev)

303 points by cpcloud 6 hours ago | loading comments

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

(blog.zgp.org/micropayments-as-a-reality-check-for-news-sites/)

40 points by speckx 2 hours ago | loading comments

A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

(github.com/Veirt/weathr)

94 points by forinti 4 hours ago | loading comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

(www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/)

51 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | loading comments

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

(www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-exoskeleton)

15 points by benbeingbin 2 hours ago | loading comments

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

(www.hankgreen.com/crc)

55 points by ZeroGravitas an hour ago | loading comments

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

(pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf)

259 points by SteveHawk27 9 hours ago | loading comments

Pebble Production: February Update

(repebble.com/blog/february-pebble-production-and-software-updates)

235 points by smig0 9 hours ago | loading comments

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We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

(www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-science-funding-cuts)

31 points by mitchbob 35 minutes ago | loading comments

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Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails

(royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-llm-evaluation-to-guardrails)

163 points by benbreen 3 days ago | loading comments

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Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

(www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy)

59 points by jbredeche 7 hours ago | loading comments

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AI makes you boring

(www.marginalia.nu/log/a_132_ai_bores/)

398 points by speckx 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

(makie.org/website/blogposts/raytracing/)

149 points by simondanisch 11 hours ago | loading comments

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US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

(www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/)

50 points by c420 a day ago | loading comments

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California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves

(blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/californias-new-bill-requires-doj-approved-3d-printers-that-report-on-themselves/)

162 points by fortran77 2 hours ago | loading comments

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My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza

(technologizer.com/home/2026/02/16/arctic-adventure-2026/)

24 points by vontzy 3 days ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app

(github.com/fjrevoredo/mini-diarium)

98 points by holyknight 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves

(kodiak64.co.uk/blog/seawolves-technical-tricks)

100 points by atan2 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists

(aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/)

31 points by latexr 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Farewell, Rust for web

(yieldcode.blog/post/farewell-rust/)

75 points by skwee357 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial

(www.wsj.com/us-news/law/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-trial-0e9a7fa0)

110 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 5 hours ago | loading comments

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Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

(oban.pro/articles/bridging-with-oban)

106 points by sorentwo 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale

(planetscale.com/blog/zero-downtime-migrations-at-petabyte-scale)

59 points by Ozzie_osman 3 days ago | loading comments

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Level of Detail

(phinze.com/writing/level-of-detail)

7 points by zdw 2 days ago | loading comments

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Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation

(journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26339137261421577)

30 points by paraschopra 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Voith Schneider Propeller

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller)

103 points by Luc 4 days ago | loading comments

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Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)

(borischerny.com/food/2022/01/17/Dinosaur-food.html)

79 points by simonebrunozzi 6 hours ago | loading comments

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ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

(github.com/sstraust/shannonmax)

62 points by sammy0910 10 hours ago | loading comments

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IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

(www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/irs_job_cuts/)

172 points by freitasm 2 hours ago | loading comments