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1. Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust
Applying the type-driven mindset to rust via the "Parse, don't Validate" pattern
2. Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
3. I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.
4. How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model
How we cryptographically guarantee that we are serving specific, untampered model weights that clients can verify on each request.
5. What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form
6. I Don't Like Magic
Knock, knock! Who’s there? Control freak (now you say “control freak who?”)
7. Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++
A tiny, single-header -like 2D rasterizer for C++ - a-e-k/canvas_ity
8. Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
9. Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects
Loon is a modern LISP with invisible types, algebraic effects, and ownership without annotations.
10. How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
11. zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
Your personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32. GPIO, cron, memory, and more. - tnm/zclaw
12. Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
13. Acme Weather
14. Permacomputing
15. Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI
16. AI uBlock Blacklist
Websites I personally found that are completely generated by AI. Pull requests welcome. - alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist
17. Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts millennia
Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs. Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.
18. Be Wary of Bluesky
Bluesky promises decentralization, but nearly every user's data sits on Bluesky's servers, and every new ATProto app reinforces that centralization. T
19. Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring in San Francisco and Singapore
The official Padlet job portal. Create delightful products of real impact with good people in beautiful offices.
20. A16Z partner says that the theory that we'll vibe code everything is ' wrong'
Vibe coding everything is just not worth it, says A16z partner Anish Acharya.
21. F-Droid: "Keep Android Open"
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most w...
22. Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead
Git only tracks files, not directories. It will only create a directory if it contains a tracked file. But sometimes you need to “track” a directory, to ensure it exists for fresh clones of a repository. For example, you might need an output directory called build.
23. macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool
24. CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989
2019 rebuilding of the original NeXT web browser
25. Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents
AI agents are good at doing one thing at a time. Give Claude a focused task and it performs. But real work isn’t one task. It’s a tree of tasks with dependen...
26. Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI
27. Coccinelle: The Linux kernel's source-to-source transformation tool
Source code of the Coccinelle project (mirror of the main Coccinelle repository located at Inria) - coccinelle/coccinelle
28. The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.
29. Denonomicon: The Dark Arts of Deno Foreign Function Interface Programming
30. Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
Every company building an AI assistant is funded by advertising. They are also building hardware that listens and watches 24/7. Local on-device inference is the only way out.