Blue light filters don’t work
Everybody wants better sleep, but getting better sleep is hard. I was trading New Year’s resolutions with a circle of friends a few weeks ago, and someone mentioned a big one: sleeping better. I’m a visual neuroscientist by training, so whenever the topic pops up it inevitably leads to talking about the dreaded blue light […]
Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
Claude Code Security, a new capability built into Claude Code on the web, is now available in a limited research preview. It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix security issues that traditional methods often miss. Security teams face a common challenge: too […]
F-Droid: ”Keep Android Open”
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During out talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most were relieved that Google has canceled their plans to lock-down Android. Why baffled? Because no such thing actually happened, the plans announced last August are still […]
Lil’ Fun Langs
LOC Host HM ADTs Match Cl. Target Hirrolot’s CoC src ~70 OCaml ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ Interpreter Harrop MiniML src ~100 OCaml ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ LLVM → native Algorithm W src ~300 Haskell ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ Type checker only tomprimozic/type-systems src ~300 OCaml ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ Type checker only THIH src ~429 […]
Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health
Founding Engineer | 👨🏻💻 AI-Native Mental Health Care (backed by Y Combinator, $3.3M+ ARR, $7M+ raised) @ Legion Health You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
No Skill. No Taste
Ironic image generated with nano banana to showcase my point. I was reading a thread on HN and I started writing this super long comment and rewriting and editing and thought, hey, if I’m doing this I clearly care enough about the state of Show HN and HN in general to write a post on […]
Trump’s global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Daniel BushWashington Correspondent The Supreme Court’s tariff ruling today dealt Donald Trump a major setback on one of his signature economic issues. But it doesn’t mean Trump’s trade agenda will suddenly disappear overnight. The Court ruled that the US president does not have the authority to levy sweeping global tariffs on any country, for any […]
Child’s Play: Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
[Letter from San Francisco] Child’s Play Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking by Sam Kriss, Illustration by Max Guther The first sign that something in San Francisco had gone very badly wrong was the signs. In New York, all the advertising on the streets and on the subway assumes that you, the person […]
“Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy
Books The Race to Give Every Child a Toy For most of history, parents couldn’t buy their kids dolls, action figures, or the like. Then playtime became big business. By Alexandra Schwartz February 9, 2026 “Playmakers” studies the Jewish Americans who helped remake what childhood looks like.Illustration by Joost Swarte Save this storySave this story […]
I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
20 Feb 2026 In 2017, WikiLeaks published Vault7 – a large cache of CIA hacking tools and internal documents. Buried among the exploits and surveillance tools was something far more mundane: a page of internal developer documentation with git tips and tricks. Most of it is fairly standard stuff, amending commits, stashing changes, using bisect. […]