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241. Code is cheap. Show me the talk
Linus Torvalds once said, 'Talk is cheap. Show me the code'. That is no longer the case.
242. Sometimes Your Job Is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way
I wrote a piece a long time ago about The Wolf. It's my personal take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren't a myth. They exist. I've seen them.
243. Reeeeeeally Long Covid (2022)
How long can COVID-19 go on? If you answered less than $O(10^4)$ years until everyone with susceptible genes is dead… well, think again.
244. Show HN: You Are an Agent
245. Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M
Sold for $2,750,000 | Unique, pre-production Apple-1 pre-NTI board, representing the earliest known fiberglass Apple-1 prototype assembled before the first
246. Solvingn the Santa Claus concurrency puzzle with a model checker
Welcome to Waqas' blog
247. The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die
Epic Aerospace's record-setting tug has traveled millions of kilometers, and there's a chance we can bring it back
248. Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci
Cittolin, Sergio
249. Pre-Steal This Book
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
250. Parametric CAD in Rust
import Image from 'next/image'; import plate from './plate.png'; import bracket from './bracket.png'; import mascot from './mascot.png'; import hub from './hub.
251. Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations
A practical, production-focused guide to PostgreSQL memory tuning, with a deep dive into shared_buffers and work_mem, how they work, how they scale under concurrency, and how to tune them safely using real metrics.
252. Ask HN: Who is firing? (February 2026)
253. Kash Patel says FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE
On Monday, the FBI director said, “We’re not going after people and infringing on their freedom of speech.” There’s fresh evidence to the contrary.
254. 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.
255. Ashcan Comic
256. The WiFi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
257. Backseat Software
258. Beautiful Mermaid
Contribute to lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid development by creating an account on GitHub.
259. Show HN: My Open Source Deep Research tools beats Google and I can Prove it
This is Veritas Research. Contribute to IamLumae/Project-Lutum-Veritas development by creating an account on GitHub.
260. Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications
261. China bans hidden car door handles over safety concerns
It makes China the first country to stop the use of designs first made popular by Elon Musk's Tesla.
262. Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit
263. L4Ka: Pistachio Microkernel
264. How to explain Generative AI in the classroom
265. Ask HN: Has anybody moved their local community off of Facebook groups?
266. The Gnome Village: Treads fight, gnomes cooperate (2025)
Deep-dive articles on building robust fintech back-ends.
267. Prism
268. SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned
In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users. The impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user’s country. The attackers later attempted to extort SoundCloud before publicly releasing the data the following month.
269. Stop using low DNS TTLs
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?
270. A lot of population numbers are fake
Do we have any idea how many people there are in the world?