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31. Zig Libc
32. Ian's Shoelace Site
33. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
34. Ratchets in Software Development
35. Best Gas Masks
Trump’s DHS is waging war on American cities, tear gassing civilians. This is how and why they are buying their gas masks.
36. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
37. Common bacteria (Chlamydia) discovered in the eye linked to cognitive decline
38. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)
About Clearspace Clearspace is building the intentionality layer of the internet. Our mission is to build technology as effective at protecting human attention as social media is at exploiting it (infinite scrolling, short-form feeds, manipulative notifications, etc). Our category defining mobile app has been featured on Huberman Lab, New York Times Wirecutter, NPR Marketplace, Forbes, TBPN. People that want a better relationship with their devices have nowhere to turn except for willpower. We are building an agent that achieves this on all devices by processing and filtering network traffic based on natural language rules. About The Role We are looking for an ML-focused engineer that will be responsible for training and improving a model for classifying network traffic. You are great for this role if you are not only excited about the latest in AI and ML but are also a problem-solver in the data domain. You don’t just think about the model but “how can we get more data volume”; “how can we featurize the data intelligently”; “what are our data needs based on our task and desired model size”, and like building backwards from inference requirements. Responsibilities Own implementation of production model that classifies network traffic Create tooling for data gathering Work directly with the founders to define research direction Move fast and autonomously Qualifications Bachelor or higher Computer Science or related engineering degree Experience in training production-grade sequential models, particularly on time-series data Willing to work onsite in San Francisco Nice to Have Specific experience with network traffic Graduate research experience
39. Apple: Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free (1976)
Here is some Apple1 computer pictures
40. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library
API prototyping/mocking server & rust unit tests library to mimic external 3rd party API endpoints with Rhai scripting capabilities - rustrum/apate
41. Police facial recognition is now highly accurate, but public awareness lags
It’s a common misconception that facial recognition technology captures and stores an image of your face.
42. Contracts in Nix
43. They lied to you. Building software is hard
Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.
44. TikTok's popular influencer sold company for $975M to company doing $6M revenue
45. The Dangerous Drift to Redefine Protest as Terrorism
The line between civil disobedience and terrorism is collapsing. History warns us what comes next.
46. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf]
47. Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece
Board games are often used as a plot motif in modern genre fiction, especially in detective and adventure...
48. Rev Up the Viral Factories
49. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
A practical walk-through of a fixed-width uint128 implementation in modern C++.
50. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
51. Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
52. Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st
53. Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
54. Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.
55. AI controls is coming to Firefox
AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from
56. Apple's Q4 2025 margin on Services was 76.5%
Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.
57. Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)
WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity
58. EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push
EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push
59. Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video]
Swift is found in many places - from tiny devices to large server applications - where it delivers modern ergonomics, strong safety guarantees, and excellent...
60. 13 Year old boy swims for hours to save his family at sea in Western Australia
A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after swimming four hours through rough seas to get help for his mother and two siblings, who were swept out to sea on an inflatable paddleboard in WA's South West.