Show HN: SNKV – SQLite’s B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)
What is SNKV? SNKV is a lightweight, ACID-compliant embedded key-value store built directly on SQLite’s B-Tree storage engine — without SQL. The idea: bypass the SQL layer entirely and talk directly to SQLite’s storage engine. No SQL parser. No query planner. No virtual machine. Just a clean KV API on top of a proven, battle-tested […]
Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
The latest update of Firefox, version 148, introduces a much-anticipated ”AI kill switch” feature, allowing users to disable AI functionalities such as chatbot prompts and AI-generated link summaries. Mozilla emphasizes that once AI features are turned off, future updates will not override this choice. This decision reflects the company’s new revenue-focused strategy regarding AI integrations. […]
Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes
Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes. AI coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, and others can read files in your project directory, which means a plaintext .env file is an accidental secret dump waiting to happen. This isn’t theoretical. It is a known issue that has happened to me several times (even after explicitly […]
Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
About x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS. No JavaScript required. What you’re seeing above is a C program that was compiled using GCC into native 8086 machine code being executed fully within CSS. GitHub ⧸ Fedi, Bluesky, Twitter Frequently Asked Questions Is CSS a programming language? Do you […]
Reading English from 1000 Ad
24 Feb 2026 ”How far back in time can you understand English?”, a post that tells a story starting with the English of 2000 AD and ending with the English of 1000 AD has gone viral, and gotten a lot of people interested in older forms of English. A common sentiment expressed by readers is […]
Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates
Author: Guide Labs Team Published: February 23, 2026 We are releasing Steerling-8B, the first interpretable model that can trace any token it generates to its input context, concepts a human can understand, and its training data. Trained on 1.35 trillion tokens, the model achieves downstream performance within range of models trained on 2–7× more data. […]
Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
You might know him as Captain James T. Kirk, the cavalier captain of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, but believe it or not, William Shatner is a true heavy metal warrior – and he has just announced an all-star metal album to prove it. Given all that he has been through – all those […]
Meta problem with URPF our bundle in Boca raton
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I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
Posted on: 2026-02-20T17:39Z Tags: Table of Contents In my post from 2026-02-18, I committed myself towards helping work on coreboot + libreboot with the goal of porting it to the X270. It’s less than a week later and I have done it. My X270 is a 20HM model and this means that it is a […]
AI Added ’Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Meta, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and other tech companies spent billions last year investing in AI. They’re expected to spend even more, roughly $700 billion, this year on dozens of new data centers to train and run their advanced models. This spending frenzy has kept Wall Street buzzing and fueled a narrative that all this investment […]