Weekly news | 2026-02-11
news
- 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
AI: - Voxtral Transcribe 2 - Claude is a space to think - Claude Opus 4.6 - GPT-5.3-Codex - Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions - We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
- AWS:
- Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates
- Amazon MQ JMS specification for RabbitMQ brokers
- AWS additional policy details to access denied error messages
- AWS Security Agent now supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud
- Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions
- Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5
- Clean Rooms join and partition hints in SQL
- Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides
- Connect automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation
- Deadline Cloud machine learning training using Foundry Nuke CopyCat
- EC2 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized
- EC2 Auto Scaling New Mechanisms for Group Deletion Protection
- EC2 M4 Max Mac instances |
GA - ECR cross-repository layer sharing
- EMR Serverless KMS customer managed keys for encrypting local disks
- EVS multiple VMware NSX Edge Gateways
- EVS VCF and VMware ESX software version selection
- Instance Scheduler enhanced scaling, reliability, and event-driven automation
- Quick Sight dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables
- Quick Suite expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type for SPICE datasets
- RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds
- RDS for Oracle bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2
- RDS for Oracle now supports replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration
- RDS for SQL Server enhances differential and transaction log restores support
- Resource Control Policies support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs
- Route 53 Domains support for .ai, and other top-level domains
- SageMaker HyperPod enhanced lifecycle scripts debugging
- SageMaker Unified Studio cross-Region and IAM role-based subscriptions
- Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps
- WorkSpaces Microsoft Office, Visio and Project 2024 Apps
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
- Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering
- RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code
- Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
- Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
- Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
- Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust
- France's homegrown open source online office suite
- Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
- Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev
- Vouch
- Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
- Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600
- Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version
- Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox
- Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
- Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
- LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation
- Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
- Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model
- Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
- Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)
blogs
- Data centers in space makes no sense
- Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy
- Tractor
- AI is killing B2B SaaS
- Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
- Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web
- Don't rent the cloud, own instead
- Wirth's Revenge
- Company as Code
- Postgres Postmaster does not scale
- Listen to Understand
- Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
- The Waymo World Model
- Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
- Systems Thinking
- Stay Away from My Trash
- It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
- The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
- Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data
- Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations
- What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)
- DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved
- I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded
- Plasma Effect (2016)
- Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production
- Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes
- Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
- Dark Alley Mathematics
- PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok
- Why I Joined OpenAI
- Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server
- Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads
- Where did all the starships go?
- 72M Points of Interest
- I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)
- OpenClaw is changing my life
- Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing
- I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
- Bun v1.3.9
- Art of Roads in Games
- Nobody knows how the whole system works
- Why is the sky blue?
- Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
- Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
- Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
- Oxide raises $200M Series C
- Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
- Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
- Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them
- Parse, Don't Validate (2019)