Skip the Tips: A game to select ”No Tip” but dark patterns try to stop you
A free browser game that challenges you to press ”No Tip” while dark patterns try to trick you into tipping. From tiny buttons and guilt-trip modals to fake loading screens and rigged sliders — can you escape the tip screen? Skip the Tips is a satirical take on modern tipping culture. Every checkout screen has […]
Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing
Rethinking Vim as a tool for writers The pencil plugin aspires to make Vim as powerful a tool for writers as it is for coders by focusing narrowly on the handful of tweaks needed to smooth the path to writing prose. For editing prose-oriented file types such as text, markdown, mail, rst, tex, textile, and […]
AWS Adds support for nested virtualization
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ require ( 5 5 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.32.7 6 6 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager v1.22.0 7 7 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/dynamodb v1.55.0 8 – github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2 v1.287.0 8 + github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2 v1.288.0 9 9 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/lambda v1.88.0 10 10 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 v1.96.0 11 11 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3control v1.68.0
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
macOS 26.3, Release Candidate In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved. I was happy to read that, but also curious about what had actually changed. So I wrote a little test app. It performs a pixel-by-pixel scan in […]
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial law-enforcement technology company. Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial law-enforcement technology company. by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Feb 12, 2026, […]
Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions
When you need to make an anxiety-inducing decision, ask yourself: What is the worst realistic outcome? Will you be able to recover from it? Let’s say you want to make a product and sell it, and you need to invest in inventory. The manufacturer needs you to order $1,000 worth to meet their minimum. The […]
Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
It’s with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC. Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead […]
Discord Just Killed Anonymity
Discord Exodus Begins ← Back to Home February 12, 2026 It finally happened. After months of speculation, Discord dropped the hammer: mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month. The era of anonymous gaming chats is officially over. Naturally, the internet is panicking. A massive exodus is underway, with thousands of users […]
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Hi all, We’ve seen a huge spike of signups on the matrix.org homeserver over the last few days due to Discord announcing its plans to age-verify all users as of next month. We’d like to give a warm welcome to the massive influx of users currently trying Matrix as an open decentralised alternative to centralised […]
Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
For the first time, the official guidance from the United States government is to avoid highly processed food. We are not making a legal definition or attacking an industry – we are stating a public health truth that Americans already feel in their bodies and see in their families. These foods include: Packaged, prepared, ready-to-eat, […]