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Saturday, 07 February 2026

• We have broken SHA-1 in practice
  shattered.io · Discuss

• Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?
  windowscentral.com · Discuss

• Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions
  hpcwire.com · Discuss

• We Mourn Our Craft
  nolanlawson.com · Discuss

• Speed up responses with fast mode
  code.claude.com · Discuss

• I Write Games in C (yes, C)
  jonathanwhiting.com · Discuss

• SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
  xorvoid.com · Discuss

• U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession
  forbes.com · Discuss

• What Is Stoicism?
  stoacentral.com · Discuss

• British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney
  spillhistorie.no · Discuss

• StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
  simonwillison.net · Discuss

• First Proof
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Software factories and the agentic moment
  factory.strongdm.ai · Discuss

• Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop
  cloudbot-ai.com · Discuss

• Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
  susam.net · Discuss

• Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
  blog.alaindichiappari.dev · Discuss

• Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts
  shkspr.mobi · Discuss

• Omarchy First Impressions
  brianlovin.com · Discuss

• Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
  rlhfbook.com · Discuss

• Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
  spritely.institute · Discuss

• The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
  washingtonpost.com · Discuss

• Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary
  api-production-caa8.up.railway.app · Discuss

Friday, 06 February 2026

• Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo
  si.edu · Discuss

• Why I Joined OpenAI
  brendangregg.com · Discuss

• WebView performance significantly slower than PWA
  issues.chromium.org · Discuss

• Installing Ollama and Gemma 3B on Linux
  byandrev.dev · Discuss

• Early Christian Writings
  earlychristianwritings.com · Discuss

• OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
  openciv3.org · Discuss

• Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
  educationnext.org · Discuss

• Masked namespace vulnerability in Temporal
  depthfirst.com · Discuss

• Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
  vecti.com · Discuss

• Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested. He says it was AI
  latimes.com · Discuss

• How to effectively write quality code with AI
  heidenstedt.org · Discuss

• Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes
  bitsaboutmoney.com · Discuss

• Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements
  biotradingarena.com · Discuss

• I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing
  infisical.com · Discuss

• The Waymo World Model
  waymo.com · Discuss

• Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
  sheldonbrown.com · Discuss

• NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
  inpractice.yimbyaction.org · Discuss

• An Update on Heroku
  heroku.com · Discuss

• How virtual textures work
  shlom.dev · Discuss

• FORTH? Really!?
  rescrv.net · Discuss

• Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
  hackers-1995.vercel.app · Discuss

• LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
  alperenkeles.com · Discuss

• I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
  kirkville.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is
  wiz.jock.pl · Discuss

• US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
  pluralistic.net · Discuss

• Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
  caltech.edu · Discuss

• A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
  niemanlab.org · Discuss

Thursday, 05 February 2026

• Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
  rcrowley.org · Discuss

• Generative Pen-Trained Transformer
  theodore.net · Discuss

• I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded
  vespalec.com · Discuss

• What's at the Other End of 8.8.8.8?
  blog.nono.io · Discuss

• Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique
  kizu.dev · Discuss

• GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
  iankduncan.com · Discuss

• C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)
  faultlore.com · Discuss

• The RCE that AMD won't fix
  mrbruh.com · Discuss

• Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate
  apnews.com · Discuss

• India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)
  blog.janestreet.com · Discuss

• Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
  newworker.org · Discuss

• It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
  tigerdata.com · Discuss