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151. Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
152. Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway submitted its latest 13-F filing on February 17, revealing some interesting changes in the portfolio. 
153. Blue Owl Capital stopping withdrawals has El-Erian making Bear Stearns parallels
154. The Only Moat Left Is Money
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
155. Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access
Contribute to petertodd/breccia development by creating an account on GitHub.
156. Kumo: Cloudflare's UI Component Library
Kumo – a modern component library
157. Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down
158. Measurement of a lithium plume from the uncontrolled re-entry of Falcon 9 rocket
A 10-fold enhancement of lithium atoms was detected at 96 km altitude by a resonance lidar at Kühlungsborn, Germany, approximately 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 upper stage. The upper-atmospheric extension of the ICON general circulation model, nudged to ECMWF, was used to calculate winds. Backwards trajectories, including wind variability as measured by radar, traced air masses to the Falcon 9 re-entry path at 100 km altitude, west of Ireland. This study presents the first measurement of upper-atmospheric pollution resulting from space debris re-entry and the first observational evidence that the ablation of space debris can be detected by ground-based lidar. The analysis of geomagnetic conditions, atmospheric dynamics, and ionospheric measurements supports the claim that the enhancement was not of natural origin. Our findings demonstrate that identifying pollutants and tracing them to their sources is achievable, with significant implications for monitoring and mitigating space emissions in the atmosphere. A plume of pollutants in the upper atmosphere above Germany is identified using lidar observations of lithium concentrations and can be traced back to the uncontrolled re-entry of a specific rocket launch through atmospheric modelling
159. HackMyClaw
Can you hack an AI assistant via email? HackMyClaw is a prompt injection challenge. Extract secrets.env from Fiu (an OpenClaw AI) and win $300.
160. Without America to rely on, EU gearing up to be a global power in its own right
Without America to rely on, the EU is gearing up to be a global power in its own right.
161. I swear the UFO is coming any minute
Links 'n' updates
162. 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia
163. Neurons outside the brain
The three brains in our body
164. Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund
(Cancelled) ~FLOSS/fund sponsorship~ and UI rewrite
165. So You Want to Build a Tunnel
166. 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.
167. Google Public CA is down
168. What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices.
169. Rise of the Triforce
During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX chip giving players a taste of 3D, hype was at an all-time high. But the games released for home consoles were nothing compared to what arcade developers were capable of doing. By employing gigantic budgets and cutting-edge hardware, the arcade gave players a chance to see the future, today. But the future eventually arrived with the launch of the 5th generation of consoles. All of a sudden, the revolutionary 3D hardware features that were once exclusive to arcades were now available in home consoles. Without next-generation hype pushing players into the arcade, powerful but expensive arcade machines were no longer sustainable to develop. The industry adjusted by moving toward more cost effective solutions, with many turning to the inexpensive, already proven 3D-capable hardware available in 5th gen home consoles. Rather than turning around the decline of the arcade, the cheaper hardware may have helped accelerate it. There were fewer unique experiences to pull players into the arcade, and previous hit exclusives were now seeing high quality home console ports that allowed them to be enjoyed without munching quarters. When the 6th generation arrived with the Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2, many arcade stalwarts waved the white flag and started to shift their arcade divisions to home console projects, with mixed success. Sega was among those hit hardest by this era. They produced some of the greatest arcade thrills of the 1990s and enjoyed massive success in the home console market with the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. But a string of mistakes and miscalculations combined with the slumping arcade industry sent them to the brink of bankruptcy. By 2002, the Dreamcast had been soundly defeated by the launch of the PlayStation 2, and Sega began porting some of their hits to their former rivals' hardware just to stay afloat. The home market was lost, but the languishing arcade scene presented Sega with an opportunity. They still had legendary arcade development teams, and if Sega could leverage them to produce a wave of arcade hits, they would be in a position to dominate a new era of arcades when most others were changing gears. There was just one problem: Sega didn't have the resources that they once did. If they were going to do this, they needed some help. And so they did something that would have been considered unthinkable just five years prior. Sega teamed up with Nintendo to develop a GameCube-based arcade platform. Bolstering their ranks was Namco, another coin-op stalwart with tons of arcade veterans. Three companies, one mission: Triforce.
170. Canada If Day, WW2, when "German" troops invaded Winnipeg
On Feb. 19, 1942, German soldiers marched through Winnipeg. The mayor, premier and Lt. Governor were arrested, and the city was renamed Himmlerstadt. Books were burned, and the German flag flew across the city. This is the story of Winnipeg's If Day. 🧵 1/12
171. Dishonest People Self-Select into Public Service (In China) [pdf]
172. Trump orders agencies to identify and release government files on aliens
173. State of Show HN: 2025
174. Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI
My Plasma task switcher was a second too slow, so I built - and shipped - my own in Zig, without actually knowing Zig, using AI tools.
175. Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway
176. FDA reverses course and will review Moderna's mRNA flu shot, company says
The US Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and will review a new mRNA flu vaccine from Moderna, the pharmaceutical company said Wednesday,
177. Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site
DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023.
178. Async/Await on the GPU
GPU code can now use Rust's async/await. We share the reasons why and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
179. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
180. Helicobacter Pylori: A Nobel Pursuit?