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  1. Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs (arxiv.org)
    ×2.32 | 95 points by tiny-automates 2 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)
    ×6.60 | 1429 points by x01 14 hours ago | 1417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser (github.com/TrevorS)
    ×1.78 1 | 78 points by Curiositry 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
    ×2.01 4 | 444 points by tokyobreakfast 12 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
    ×2.46 4 | 463 points by udit99 13 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.25 15 | 57 points by mellosouls 5 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. What functional programmers get wrong about systems (iankduncan.com)
    ×2.26 4 | 146 points by subset 5 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
    ×1.58 10 | 240 points by aleyan 12 hours ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio" (chainlift.io)
    ×1.93 8 | 104 points by peter_d_sherman 7 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
    ×1.33 6 | 144 points by noleary 8 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)
    ×1.73 14 | 124 points by kaizenb 10 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Sandboxels (neal.fun)
    ×2.36 15 | 215 points by 2sf5 13 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)
    ×1.56 16 | 87 points by zaik 8 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model (github.com/antirez)
    ×1.81 30 | 18 points by Curiositry 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Stop using icons in data tables (medium.com)
    ×1.42 7 | 88 points by ctward 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
    ×1.65 45 | 73 points by arrowsmith 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016) (daeus.blog)
    ×1.00 19 | 55 points by kurinikku 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org)
    ×1.08 20 | 208 points by ananas-dev 15 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them (omnara.com)
    ×0.82 29 | 40 points by kmansm27 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding (cyber-omelette.com)
    ×0.96 20 | 33 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. History of UHF Television: TV Above Channel 13 (2024) (uhfhistory.com)
    ×0.76 47 | 6 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Why "just prompt better" doesn't work (bicameral-ai.com)
    ×1.89 16 | 28 points by jinkuan 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
    ×3.37 16 | 295 points by Nezteb 10 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers (bbc.com)
    ×1.39 14 | 104 points by 1659447091 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
    ×1.20 14 | 210 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
    ×4.74 30 | 59 points by pseudalopex 10 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
    ×0.69 28 | 80 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Importance of Tuning Checkpoint in PostgreSQL (percona.com)
    ×0.39 67 | 3 points by jeltz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.03 12 | 63 points by sohkamyung 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why is Singapore no longer "cool"? (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×2.72 | 59 points by paulpauper 7 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
    ×1.29 57 | 267 points by david927 1 day ago | 905 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
    ×0.75 18 | 133 points by waihtis 14 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Data exfil from agents in messaging apps (promptarmor.com)
    ×0.47 44 | 20 points by sarelta 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
    ×1.46 29 | 181 points by znah 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
    ×0.89 30 | 101 points by IgorPartola 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    ×2.45 26 | 302 points by azhenley 23 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: VillageSQL = MySQL and Extensions (github.com/villagesql)
    ×0.58 39 | 16 points by metzby 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL (github.com/jnidzwetzki)
    ×0.51 51 | 32 points by mariuz 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Markets of Old London (2024) (spitalfieldslife.com)
    ×0.67 30 | 53 points by zeristor 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.74 14 | 71 points by MysticOracle 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. What's the Entropy of a Random Integer? (wordpress.com)
    ×0.52 43 | 40 points by sebg 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. An articulated archer automaton [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.64 40 | 32 points by Teever 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
    ×1.96 12 | 385 points by tombh 19 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
    ×2.56 20 | 280 points by redman25 15 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Tokyo high schools abolish rules forcing students to dye non-black hair (2022) (soranews24.com)
    ×2.73 12 | 14 points by rawgabbit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.63 35 | 69 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)
    ×4.12 1 | 1052 points by chwtutha 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Mesa 26.0's RADV RT improvements (pixelcluster.github.io)
    ×1.99 66 | 7 points by forbiddenlake 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
    ×4.94 44 | 488 points by MattIPv4 13 hours ago | 385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear (durham.ac.uk)
    ×0.72 61 | 72 points by andsoitis 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Zulip.com Values (zulip.com)
    ×2.22 49 | 7 points by nothrowaways 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
    ×2.59 3 | 577 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    ×0.78 45 | 67 points by bookman10 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020) (sneak.berlin)
    ×5.53 12 | 80 points by sneak 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE (newrepublic.com)
    ×5.98 44 | 44 points by c420 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (sciencedirect.com)
    ×1.75 4 | 147 points by Brajeshwar 15 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network (truthout.org)
    ×3.98 46 | 172 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function (jamanetwork.com)
    ×2.25 68 | 6 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.83 2 | 70 points by mgh2 11 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)
    ×1.75 3 | 178 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Stack Overflow for AI Coding Agents (shareful.ai)
    ×0.69 83 | 8 points by mblode 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. EU finds the AI assistant in WhatsApp violating anti trust (europa.eu)
    ×1.35 17 | 5 points by miohtama 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)
    ×5.31 41 | 794 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 849 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (svgames.pl)
    ×0.86 68 | 138 points by pocksuppet 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. MIT Living Wage Calculator (mit.edu)
    ×2.87 51 | 184 points by bear_with_me 9 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Google AI Tools Start Blocking Disney-Related Prompts (deadline.com)
    ×1.90 4 | 16 points by geox 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. AsmBB is a fast and lightweight web forum engine written in Assembly (asmbb.org)
    ×1.63 68 | 6 points by starkparker 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)
    ×1.00 55 | 166 points by nullcathedral 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. California (and the Rest of America) Can't Build Like USA's Corps of Engineers (governance.fyi)
    ×0.45 81 | 4 points by RetiredRichard 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure (wirewiki.com)
    ×0.94 3 | 106 points by pul 16 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media (thejournal.ie)
    ×1.80 18 | 88 points by DyslexicAtheist 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why Section 230 Is a Good Law and Why Messing with It Would Be Bad (techdirt.com)
    ×1.66 10 | 26 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)
    ×0.78 57 | 112 points by mattst88 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Age of Marketing Speak (gilpignol.substack.com)
    ×1.04 12 | 4 points by light_triad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
    ×4.37 16 | 504 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)
    ×2.36 32 | 217 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)
    ×1.00 61 | 137 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)
    ×0.93 55 | 160 points by ipnon 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)
    ×1.72 63 | 272 points by valyala 2 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Testing Ads in ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×4.54 68 | 225 points by davidbarker 10 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you (theregister.com)
    ×3.60 16 | 72 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)
    ×2.02 26 | 230 points by aaronng91 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)
    ×2.18 13 | 329 points by adunk 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges (insidehighered.com)
    ×5.01 10 | 16 points by bikenaga 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)
    ×0.77 54 | 94 points by nwparker 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)
    ×1.70 15 | 299 points by ariaalam 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Italy's Secretive Food Confraternities (bbc.com)
    ×1.20 68 | 8 points by Geekette 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)
    ×1.84 18 | 221 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
    ×1.35 13 | 184 points by muggermuch 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???