1951
EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,244 posts.
1952
AI is going to kill app subscriptions
Curated niche app opportunities from Reddit, scored by difficulty and demand.
1953
Vim 9.2
Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements including experimental Wayland support.
1954
7zip.com Is Serving Malware
A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
1955
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
Backblaze's 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.
1956
Breaking the spell of vibe coding
Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
1957
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
1958
Building a TUI is easy now
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
1959
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
1960
Audio is the one area small labs are winning
The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
1961
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
1962
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Anthropic raised $30 billion, led by GIC and Coatue, with run-rate revenue of $14 billion and 500+ customers spending over $1 million annually.
1963
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
1964
Gemini 3 Deep Think
We’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode.
1965
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity.
1966
Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
Waymo will begin fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver —an important step in bringing our technology to more riders in more cities. This latest system serves as the primary engine for our next era of expansion, with a streamlined configuration that drives down costs while maintaining our…
1967
Apache Arrow is 10 years old
The Apache Arrow project was officially established and had its first git commit on February 5th 2016, and we are therefore enthusiastic to announce its 10-year anniversary! Looking back over these 10 years, the project has developed in many unforeseen ways and we believe to have delivered on our objective of…
1968
America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out
CISA lost a third of its staff and its acting leader uploaded sensitive docs to public ChatGPT, while China sits inside U.S. critical infrastructure.
1969
Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative
Hologram v0.7.0: 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions, pushing runtime coverage from 34% to 96%. Plus enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure work.
1970
Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Anthropic commits to covering consumer electricity price increases caused by its data centers, including grid upgrades and new power generation.
1971
Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated
Terrace runs sensors attackers cannot tell from real targets. We see new attack sources first, record what they do, and ship the block rules while the attack is still running.
1972
NetNewsWire Turns 23
NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️ Here’s where things are on this particular February 11: we just shipped 7.0 for Mac and iOS, and now we’re working on NetNewsWire 7.0.1. After a big release, no matter how careful we are, there are often some regressions to fix and tweaks to make right away, so…
1973
1974
5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools
A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested.
1975
Fun With Pinball
Fun With Pinball small board assembly instructions explanations flipper solenoid stepper video
1976
The Day the Telnet Died
On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.
1977
Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)
One of the hottest commodities in the military, or even for civilian contractors, is having a vehicle down range when you are deployed in the Middle East. Anyone who is someone has their own Ford
1978
How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.
1979
Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.
1980
Oxide raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing