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421. Chris Lattner on what the Claude C compiler reveals about the future of software
Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.
422. Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026
Will HDDs follow RAM and SSDs when it comes to price increases?
423. Mark Zuckerberg overruled 18 wellbeing experts to keep beauty filters on Insta
424. Trump overstepped executive power by imposing tariffs, Supreme Court rules
US president vows to enact 10% global baseline tariff after calling the supreme court justices ‘a disgrace to the nation’
425. An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs
426. Viral Child Soldiers on TikTok
427. Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs
President Donald Trump says he's imposing a temporary global tariff of 10% after his far-reaching tariff regimen was struck down by the Supreme Court.
428. Solving Systems of Equations Faster
429. CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said CBS did not air his Monday interview with Texas state Rep.
430. Supreme Court rules that Trump's emergency tariffs are illegal
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that has been central to the president’s foreign policy and economic agenda.
431. Mark Zuckerberg testifies at landmark social media addiction trial
In his first time testifying about child safety in front of a jury, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company does not seek to make Instagram addictive to younger users.
432. The Most Chess-Obsessed Country in the World
Local clubs in India are providing education and helping communities turn the humble 'game of kings' into a route out of poverty.
433. Show HN: Script to check if Notepad++ is backdoored by Lotus Blossom APT
Contribute to nHunter0/Notepad-vulnerability-checker development by creating an account on GitHub.
434. The Final Bottleneck
AI speeds up writing code, but accountability and review capacity still impose hard limits.
435. A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2601.06980: A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization
436. CTO Says 93% of Developers Use AI, but Productivity Is Still 10%
AI adoption is skyrocketing among developers, but productivity improvements remain low. Discover the real impact of AI coding assistants.
437. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging its AI slop code. It's likely the bot was running through someone's local 'agentic AI' instance (likely using OpenClaw). The guy who built OpenClaw was just hired by OpenAI to "work on bringing agents to everyone." You'll have to forgive me if I'm not enthusastic about that.
438. EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images in 11 days
439. The US imported more from Taiwan than China for the first time in decades
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
440. Linux Kernel 7.0 Speeds Up File Cache Memory Reclaim by Up to 75%
441. Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?
442. How LLM agents endanger open-source projects
Veit Schiele 20 February 2026 11–14 minutes At the beginning of the year, the threat posed to an open source project by LLM agents became known in a discussion on GitHub about Tailwind CSS. Open so...
443. Pentagon-Anthropic battle pushes other AI labs into major dilemma
444. Show HN: A Unix environment in a single HTML file (420 KB)
Shell, filesystem, git, npm, vi, and 200+ commands. ~420 KB gzipped. No server. Runs in your browser right now.