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1. MIT Living Wage Calculator
2. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Starting in March, all Discord users will have a “teen” experience by default unless they complete age verification using a video selfie or ID.
3. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock. - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
4. Why Is the Sky Blue?
5. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
6. Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
This post describes an audio enhancement that a Game Boy Advance emulator can implement to reduce audio aliasing and noise, at a fairly high level. To start with, here’s a comparison from Metroid: Zero Mission as an example of what this can do:
7. Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom
8. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
promethee - UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)
9. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the tradecraft.
10. The Markets of Old London
11. Information Is Beautiful
12. Thoughts on Generating C
wingolog: article: six thoughts on generating c
13. Another GitHub outage in the same day
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Issues, Actions and Git Operations.
14. Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth
15. What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?
Surely people have thought about this but I couldn't find anything on a short search. The question: let n be a random integer, say in [N,2N]. It factors as the product of p_i^a_i. So you can think of the proportion of n that is "made of" the prime p_i to be (a_i log p_i /…
16. Sandboxels
17. Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL
Visual Studio Code - Development Container - PostgreSQL - jnidzwetzki/pg-dev-container
18. How I've run major projects (2025)
19. An articulated archer automaton [video]
This is the most complex automaton I’ve ever attempted: a fully articulated archer designed to draw arrows from a back quiver, load them, and shoot with beli...
20. Testing Ads in ChatGPT
21. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
22. Art of Roads in Games
How games implement roads
23. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
24. It's not you; GitHub is down again
GitHub's Status Page - Notifications are delayed.
25. AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports
26. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations
Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues.
27. Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon Wardley on building things without understanding how they work: Here's Adam Jacob in response: And here's Bruce Perens,…
28. From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.
29. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
30. Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear