hacker news

Thursday, Feb 19, 2026

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Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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167 points

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4 hours ago

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59 comments

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Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

smithsonianmag.com

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18 points

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an hour ago

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4 comments

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Gemini 3.1 Pro

deepmind.google

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497 points

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3 hours ago

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340 comments

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A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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39 points

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2 hours ago

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9 comments

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Pebble Production: February Update

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212 points

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7 hours ago

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95 comments

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Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

pagedout.institute

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207 points

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7 hours ago

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40 comments

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Choosing a Language Based on Its Syntax?

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20 points

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3 hours ago

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29 comments

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Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails

royapakzad.substack.com

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154 points

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3 days ago

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64 comments

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Farewell Rust

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6 points

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an hour ago

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1 comment

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Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

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41 points

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5 hours ago

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14 comments

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Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

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130 points

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9 hours ago

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46 comments

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South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

theguardian.com

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137 points

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an hour ago

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59 comments

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Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app

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91 points

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8 hours ago

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44 comments

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IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

theregister.com

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15 points

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23 minutes ago

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3 comments

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Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

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99 points

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9 hours ago

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46 comments

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AI makes you boring

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282 points

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an hour ago

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189 comments

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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

console.cloud.google.com

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158 points

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4 hours ago

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84 comments

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Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves

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84 points

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7 hours ago

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7 comments

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Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale

planetscale.com

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43 points

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3 days ago

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9 comments

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Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial

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64 points

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4 hours ago

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32 comments

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Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation

journals.sagepub.com

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25 points

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5 hours ago

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20 comments

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CTO Says 93% of Developers Use AI, but Productivity Is Still 10%

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10 points

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36 minutes ago

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4 comments

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Voith Schneider Propeller

en.wikipedia.org

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88 points

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4 days ago

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24 comments

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Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)

borischerny.com

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71 points

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4 hours ago

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59 comments

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America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks

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154 points

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5 hours ago

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188 comments

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DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

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55 points

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2 hours ago

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16 comments

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Show HN: Provisioner per-board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up

4 points

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3 days ago

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1 comment

28.

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

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54 points

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8 hours ago

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10 comments

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15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

nicolasdickenmann.com

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189 points

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18 hours ago

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68 comments

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Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

static.stepfun.com

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186 points

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17 hours ago

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85 comments