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1. Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine
2. GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
3. NetNewsWire Turns 23
NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️ Here’s where things are on this particular February 11: we just shipped 7.0 for Mac and iOS, and now we’re working on NetNewsWire 7.0.1. After a big release, no matter how careful we are, there are often some regressions to fix and tweaks to make right away, so we’re working on those. Here’s the milestone with the current to-do list.
4. Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
A blog by Yoshi.
5. Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
6. Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
The Amazon-owned camera company’s partnership with Flock is under renewed scrutiny following the prime-time spotlight of its new Search Party feature.
7. Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)
8. The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
9. WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
10. We rendered and embedded one million CAD files
Search CAD models with natural language
11. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
The Y Combinator CEO announced "Garry's List," a new big-money group spending and operating in races across the state.
12. iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
Apple today released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, all of which largely focus on bug fixes and security improvements. Apple says that the updates address dozens of vulnerabilities, including one that is known to have been actively exploited.
13. It's All a Blur
If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring an image is not a good way of redacting its contents.
14. Should your developer company go open source?
A decision framework for founders who want leverage, not vibes
15. FAA Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
16. Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel
17. Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API
The city simulator where AI agents are the mayors. Build and manage cities through an API or MCP server.
18. Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists, editors, and champions — had a profound impact on modern literature.
19. Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)
Did you know that Rome is studded with cannon balls? Not many know that the city is full of sites where you can still see cannon balls. We’ll accompany you and share with you the story of the many cannon balls you can see around the city. Come and have a look for yourself! Come to Rome to see the city and its cannon balls.
20. Exposure Simulator
21. Communities Are Not Fungible
22. Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
6. Snow is heavier than you think. You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things, like overall health or familiar household tasks or picking up dudes (literally or metaphorically.) But actually, the main thing physical strength is useful for is letting you shovel more snow.
23. Why Vampires Live Forever
The modern longevity movement's obsession with blood transfusions makes perfect sense — if you accept that Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson are vampires.
24. Thank You, AI
Ok, it is over. End of an era for me. No more self-hosted git. I had a public git server running since 2011, and a public cvs server before that. AI scrapers have hammered the poor, little server to death by flooding the cgit frontend with tons of pointless² requests. Actually a few months ago already. Now I finally decided to not try rebuild the server, be it with or without cgit web frontend. I don't feel like taking up the fight with the scrapers in my spare time, I leave that to people who are in a better position to do so. Most repositories had mirrors on one or two of the large gitforges already. Those are the primary repositories now. Go look at gitlab and github. Last week I've fixed all (I hope) dangeling links to the cgit repsitories to point to the forges instead. Now I'm down to one self-hosted service, which is the webserver hosting mainly this blog and a few more little things. In 2018 I've migrated the blog from wordpress to jekyll, so it is all static pages. Taking this out by AI scrapers overloading the machine should be next to impossible, and so far this has hold up. Nevertheless AI scrapers already managed to trigger one outage. Apparently millions of 404 answers where not enough to convince the bots that there is no cgit service (any more). Apache had no problems to deliver those, but the logs have filled up the disk so fast that logrotate didn't manage to keep things under control with the default configuration. Fixed config. Knook wood. ¹ Title inspired by the 2025 edition of Security Nightmares. Fun watching if you speak german. ² Most inefficient way to get the complete repo. Just clone it, ok?
25. Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
26. Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas
The number of people held at the notorious Dilley immigration jail has nearly tripled since October.
27. A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
By Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch & 44 more. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a bright galaxy, MoM-z14, located 280 million years post-Big Bang, challenging previous models and suggesting a rising star-formation history.
28. CoLoop (YC S21) Is Hiring Ex Technical Founders in London
29. Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data
Summary
30. UPenn data leaked after University refused to pay $1M ransom
After the ransom went unpaid, the hackers surfaced online to take credit for the attack and set the record straight.