Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
A Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | 한국어 | Deutsch | Español | Français | Italiano | Dansk | 日本語 | Polski | Русский | Bosanski | العربية | Norsk | Português (Brasil) | ไทย | Türkçe Notification rings Panes get a blue […]
We’re no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics. These drug-resistant germs, the CDC warned, are responsible for more than 3m infections in the […]
Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution
February 19, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect By Cody Cottier edited by Allison Parshall HUIZENG HU/Getty Images (photography); Jeffery DelViscio (illustrations) Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties […]
AI is not a coworker, it’s an exoskeleton
We’re thinking about AI wrong. I keep noticing the same pattern: companies that treat AI as an autonomous agent that should ”just figure it out” tend to be disappointed. Meanwhile, companies that treat AI as an extension of their existing workforce, an amplifier of human capability rather than a replacement, are seeing genuinely transformative results. […]
Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
In Digital Media Lost the Newsstand. Micropayments Are the Obvious Way Back, Rick Bruner makes the case for giving micropayments another try. The internet has dramatically diversified reading patterns. In the print era, readers subscribed to a small, fixed set of publications constrained by geography, distribution, and cost. Today, thanks to search, aggregators, and social […]
0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Release 28: “Boiorix”, the twenty-eighth version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The release is named after the king of the Cimbri Germanic tribe Boiorix. Easy download and install Download and installation instructions are available […]
Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty
Feb 14, 2026 Something truly monumental happened in the world of software development in 2025. Safari shipped a reasonable implementation of text-wrap: pretty: https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/. We are getting closer and closer to the cutting-edge XV-century technology. Beautiful paragraphs! We are not quite there yet, hence the present bug report. A naive way to break text into […]
A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data. Features real-time weather from Open-Meteo with animated rain, snow, thunderstorms, flying airplanes, day/night cycles, and auto-location detection. Thunderstorm Night Snow Installation cargo install weathr Build from Source You need Rust installed. git clone https://github.com/veirt/weathr.git cd weathr cargo install –path . Arch Linux Available […]
Choosing a Language Based on Its Syntax?
A programming language is not merely its syntax. Semantics actually exist, be that denotation semantics I’ve always found that focusing on the denotational semantics of a language is more important than focusing on the operational semantics because (for me at least) the operational semantics are “obvious” once the denotational semantics are decided upon., operational semantics, […]
Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
14 Feb 2026 5 min read Willie Jones covers transportation for IEEE Spectrum and the history of technology for The Institute. MicroVision hopes to produce a lidar unit costing under US $200—half of typical prices today. MicroVision MicroVision, a solid-state sensor technology company located in Redmond, Wash., says it has designed a solid-state automotive lidar […]