Weekly news | 2026-02-11
· 20 min read
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- I miss thinking hard
- FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
- Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game
- Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
- High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon
- A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
- Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
- A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
- X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
- The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75
- Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
- Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix
- Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map
- Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile
- Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch
- Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps
- The Mathematics of Tuning Systems
- Claude Code for Infrastructure
- The Great Unwind
- When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
- OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
- Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
- Remarkable Pro Colors
- Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
- A few CPU hardware bugs
- Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
- A Broken Heart
- An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847)
- The New Collabora Office for Desktop
- Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
- Lily Programming Language
- CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
- My AI Adoption Journey
- ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use
- CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
- 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
- European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
- I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
- A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
- TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
- Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
- Animated Knots
- The RCE that AMD won't fix
- Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
- GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
- Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
- Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
- Understanding Neural Network, Visually
- Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents
- Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]
- OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
- Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
- Learning from context is harder than we thought
- Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
- Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself
- Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
- The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
- What Is Ruliology?
- Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo
- A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System
- Software factories and the agentic moment
- We mourn our craft
- Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney
- SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
- A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
- First Proof
- U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession
- Beyond agentic coding
- Why E cores make Apple silicon fast
- DoNotNotify is now Open Source
- Dave Farber has died
- Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Slop Terrifies Me
- Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it
- Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
- GitHub Agentic Workflows
- The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB
- RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)
- Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
- Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot
- Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser
- I am happier writing code by hand
- Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)
- The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster
- Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books
- Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
- Kolakoski Sequence
- Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
- AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
- More Mac malware from Google search
- Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
- Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
- Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures
- Quartz crystals
- GitHub is down again
- UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
- Thoughts on Generating C
- AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports
- Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
- Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing
- Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
- Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
- Offpunk 3.0
- Another GitHub outage in the same day
- TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
- Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
- The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá
- Information Is Beautiful
- Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
- Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
- Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
- Google handed ICE student journalist's bank and credit card numbers
- The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
- Discord Alternatives, Ranked
- Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
- Sandboxels
- LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
- Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
- I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
- Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
- MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake
- Zulip.com Values
- Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
- Stop using icons in data tables
- The Abstraction Rises
- Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
- Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
- The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
- Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'
- What functional programmers get wrong about systems