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  1. Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.93 2 | 310 points by tiny-automates 8 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)
    ×7.10 2 | 1722 points by x01 20 hours ago | 1674 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.99 2 | 113 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser (github.com/TrevorS)
    ×2.06 2 | 252 points by Curiositry 10 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. .Beat Swatch Internet Time (beats.wiki)
    ×1.57 4 | 24 points by Deprogrammer9 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model (github.com/antirez)
    ×2.16 4 | 169 points by Curiositry 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
    ×4.62 11 | 294 points by pseudalopex 16 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
    ×2.90 3 | 617 points by udit99 19 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
    ×2.22 3 | 525 points by tokyobreakfast 19 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism (qwen.ai)
    ×2.42 9 | 93 points by meetpateltech 2 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
    ×1.65 13 | 296 points by aleyan 18 hours ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)
    ×1.83 17 | 200 points by kaizenb 16 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.42 9 | 132 points by mellosouls 12 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio" (chainlift.io)
    ×2.04 5 | 194 points by peter_d_sherman 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Sandboxels (neal.fun)
    ×2.47 15 | 305 points by 2sf5 20 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: Total Recall – write-gated memory for Claude Code (github.com/davegoldblatt)
    ×1.00 17 | 15 points by davegoldblatt 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Zulip.com Values (zulip.com)
    ×2.83 14 | 89 points by nothrowaways 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
    ×1.81 33 | 147 points by arrowsmith 17 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)
    ×1.42 21 | 128 points by zaik 15 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.85 6 | 110 points by helloplanets 8 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org)
    ×1.12 26 | 230 points by ananas-dev 21 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
    ×1.29 5 | 177 points by noleary 14 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016) (daeus.blog)
    ×1.08 22 | 93 points by kurinikku 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
    ×1.20 25 | 228 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. The Epstein Network Visualizer (epsteinvisualizer.com)
    ×4.83 23 | 33 points by felineflock 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Generative Pen-Trained Transformer (theodore.net)
    ×0.57 36 | 48 points by Twarner 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.28 61 | 283 points by david927 1 day ago | 963 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Abstraction Rises (cyber-omelette.com)
    ×0.81 29 | 56 points by birdculture 11 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.72 39 | 98 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.11 13 | 347 points by Nezteb 16 hours ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.09 25 | 89 points by sohkamyung 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app (thepinknews.com)
    ×1.32 24 | 16 points by mraniki 1 hour ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Stop using icons in data tables (medium.com)
    ×1.27 4 | 113 points by ctward 13 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 (transparency.org)
    ×2.73 27 | 12 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
    ×0.74 32 | 137 points by waihtis 20 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
    ×1.44 34 | 191 points by znah 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×2.43 29 | 318 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers (bbc.com)
    ×1.38 12 | 127 points by 1659447091 12 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function (jamanetwork.com)
    ×2.58 44 | 33 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
    ×0.90 35 | 109 points by IgorPartola 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them (omnara.com)
    ×0.75 31 | 53 points by kmansm27 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Data exfil from agents in messaging apps (promptarmor.com)
    ×0.45 65 | 24 points by sarelta 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Spec driven development doesn't work if you're too confused to write the spec (obsidian.md)
    ×1.69 51 | 8 points by habitue 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Indo-European Explorer: A 6k-Year Journey (indo-european-explorer.com)
    ×1.78 17 | 4 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Linux USB iPhone Tethering (archlinux.org)
    ×1.64 7 | 16 points by walterbell 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: VillageSQL = MySQL and Extensions (github.com/villagesql)
    ×0.56 57 | 22 points by metzby 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×4.12 1 | 1055 points by chwtutha 1 day ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Mesa 26.0's RADV RT improvements (pixelcluster.github.io)
    ×1.14 68 | 16 points by forbiddenlake 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Why "just prompt better" doesn't work (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×1.47 14 | 45 points by jinkuan 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL (github.com/jnidzwetzki)
    ×0.46 62 | 33 points by mariuz 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why is Singapore no longer "cool"? (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×2.47 2 | 79 points by paulpauper 13 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The Markets of Old London (2024) (spitalfieldslife.com)
    ×0.62 37 | 54 points by zeristor 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. History of UHF Television: TV Above Channel 13 (2024) (uhfhistory.com)
    ×0.54 28 | 19 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.43 15 | 107 points by MysticOracle 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×2.61 3 | 586 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
    ×1.95 20 | 391 points by tombh 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. An articulated archer automaton [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 44 | 37 points by Teever 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
    ×2.52 24 | 291 points by redman25 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Importance of Tuning Checkpoint in PostgreSQL (percona.com)
    ×0.46 38 | 11 points by jeltz 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. What's the Entropy of a Random Integer? (wordpress.com)
    ×0.49 47 | 41 points by sebg 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear (durham.ac.uk)
    ×0.74 51 | 78 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.60 35 | 69 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    ×0.82 41 | 75 points by bookman10 23 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.75 50 | 497 points by MattIPv4 19 hours ago | 394 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
    ×5.28 29 | 800 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 855 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020) (sneak.berlin)
    ×5.12 12 | 108 points by sneak 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (svgames.pl)
    ×0.86 62 | 140 points by pocksuppet 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.79 5 | 158 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
    ×0.99 53 | 167 points by nullcathedral 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)
    ×1.75 2 | 183 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 (wallstreetraider.com)
    ×2.21 18 | 15 points by benstopics 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
    ×0.77 56 | 112 points by mattst88 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)
    ×1.72 62 | 274 points by valyala 2 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Stack Overflow for AI Coding Agents (shareful.ai)
    ×0.66 75 | 10 points by mblode 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)
    ×0.93 55 | 161 points by ipnon 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.88 1 | 79 points by mgh2 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
    ×4.36 15 | 515 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
    ×0.98 55 | 137 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network (truthout.org)
    ×3.91 55 | 185 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Fluorite, Toyota's Upcoming New Game Engine in Flutter [video] (fosdem.org)
    ×2.00 7 | 6 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (wirewiki.com)
    ×0.92 4 | 106 points by pul 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)
    ×1.99 26 | 231 points by aaronng91 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. EU finds the AI assistant in WhatsApp violating anti trust (europa.eu)
    ×2.69 7 | 22 points by miohtama 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)
    ×2.33 27 | 220 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)
    ×2.18 7 | 332 points by adunk 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. MIT Living Wage Calculator (mit.edu)
    ×2.92 59 | 196 points by bear_with_me 15 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media (thejournal.ie)
    ×1.89 19 | 97 points by DyslexicAtheist 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.69 10 | 300 points by ariaalam 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×0.77 45 | 94 points by nwparker 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???