Weekly news | 2026-02-18
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- The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
- Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- It's all a blur
- Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
- The Falkirk Wheel
- Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data
- Communities are not fungible
- Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
- Fun With Pinball
- Exposure Simulator
- WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
- Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
- Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API
- Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]
- Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)
- A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
- Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
- The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
- FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
- How to make a living as an artist
- Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
- GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
- HeyWhatsThat
- Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
- Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
- A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)
- The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
- Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
- US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
- The missing digit of Stela C
- Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)
- Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
- Lena by qntm (2021)
- Monosketch
- Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
- Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
- Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
- Ring owners are returning their cameras
- Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple
- Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions
- Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth
- Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue
- Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles
- Faster Than Dijkstra?
- CSS-Doodle
- Sandwich Bill of Materials
- CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'
- Cache Monet
- Ruby Newbie is joining the Ruby Users forum
- The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
- OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
- Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600
- Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
- Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
- Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
- Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action
- NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry
- Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story
- Gradient.horse
- Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
- Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker
- Vim 9.2
- The wonder of modern drywall
- News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
- How the Little Guy Moved
- Adventures in Neural Rendering
- The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth
- The three year myth
- Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?
- The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power
- A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)
- The mathematics of compression in database systems
- I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
- Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
- Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
- I gave Claude access to my pen plotter
- Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
- JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
- Error payloads in Zig
- 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
- 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai
- UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
- Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
- Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI
- Building SQLite with a small swarm
- Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
- Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found
- Use protocols, not services
- The Sideprocalypse
- Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless
- How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
- WebMCP Proposal
- Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
- Four Column ASCII (2017)
- A deep dive into Apple's .car file format
- DBASE on the Kaypro II
- Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence
- Rendering the Visible Spectrum
- Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser
- I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D
- Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
- Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
- HackMyClaw
- Gentoo on Codeberg
- Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
- Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
- Xbox UI Portfolio Site
- Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
- Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
- CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC
- Chess engines do weird stuff
- Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps
AI: - GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark - Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation - Covering electricity price increases from our data centers - GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics - Claude Sonnet 4.6
- AWS:
- Amazon Aurora DSQL identity columns and sequence objects
- Athena 1-minute reservations and 4 DPU minimum capacity
- Aurora Global Database managed minor version upgrades
- Backup cross-Region database snapshot copy to logically air-gapped vaults
- Batch Job Queue and Share Utilization Visibility
- Bedrock
-AgentCore Browser now supports proxy configuration
-+6 fully-managed open weights models
-expands support for AWS PrivateLink - CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue
- Connect
-after contact work timeout configuration for tasks, chats, and emails
-audio enhancements for noisy environments
-auto-accept for tasks, chats, and emails
-granular access controls for analytics dashboards
-in-app notifications to surface critical operational alerts to business users
-real time AI-powered overviews and recommended next actions for Tasks - DynamoDB Resource Control Policies
- ECR additional metrics for monitoring repositories
- EKS Auto Mode Enhanced Logging
- Elastic Beanstalk GitHub Actions
- HealthOmics Kiro Power and Kiro IDE extension for bioinformatics workflow development
- Lake Formation enhances cross-account sharing
- MSK
-broker logs on Express Brokers
-new APIs and console integration - OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups
- Outposts EC2 C8i, M8i, and R8i instances
- Payment Cryptography Achieves Cartes Bancaires Approval
- RDS
-backup configuration when restoring snapshots
-latest Cumulative Update (CU23) for Microsoft SQL Server - Redshift allocating extra compute for automatic optimizations
- S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API
- SageMaker HyperPod node actions from the console
- Support Center Console now supports 7 additional languages
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor
- GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding
- Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components
- Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
- AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
- Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents
- AWS Adds support for nested virtualization
- MinIO repository is no longer maintained
- Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
- Open source is not about you (2018)
- Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
- Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
- uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
- Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
- YouTube as Storage
- Amsterdam Compiler Kit
- Ghidra by NSA
- Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
- MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
- Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing
blogs
- Claude Code is being dumbed down?
- Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
- Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck
- End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
- GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
- Why vampires live forever
- NetNewsWire Turns 23
- An AI agent published a hit piece on me
- “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work
- Using an engineering notebook
- Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
- Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
- Gemini 3 Deep Think
- ai;dr
- Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated
- The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024)
- Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative
- Apache Arrow is 10 years old
- Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
- Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
- My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood
- We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust
- Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case
- An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
- My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
- Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
- How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
- Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
- What your Bluetooth devices reveal
- Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
- Running My Own XMPP Server
- Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
- Privilege is bad grammar
- GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
- Rise of the Triforce
- Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
- Poor Deming never stood a chance
- Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI
- Using go fix to modernize Go code
- AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
- So you want to build a tunnel
- Async/Await on the GPU