Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed

This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. February 13, 2026 Author: Andrew Kelley As we approach the end of the 0.16.0 release cycle, Jacob has been hard at work, bringing std.Io.Evented up […]

OpenAI should build Slack

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AI News for 2/12/2026-2/13/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and 24 Discords (256 channels, and 7993 messages) for you. Estimated reading time saved (at 200wpm): 675 minutes. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space. You can opt in/out of email frequencies! It’s […]

Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders

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Location: RemoteTimezone: within CET ±3 hours About Us Cogram is an AI platform for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. We automate project admin: RFIs & submittals, email filing, field notes, meeting minutes, reporting. World-leading architecture and engineering firms use Cogram at scale. Backed by YC and Initialized. AEC is a $13T industry that still […]

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL

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Real-time SQL traffic viewer — proxy daemon + TUI client. sql-tap sits between your application and your database (PostgreSQL or MySQL), capturing every query and displaying it in an interactive terminal UI. Inspect queries, view transactions, and run EXPLAIN — all without changing your application code. Installation brew install –cask mickamy/tap/sql-tap go install github.com/mickamy/sql-tap@latest go […]

Discord: A case study in performance optimization

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Justifiable complexity (?) Discord is a permanent, invite-only space where people can hop between voice, video, and text. On the surface, it seems like “just another chat app.” Take a closer look, and you’ll see that it’s really a finely-tuned system that delivers speed, scale, and reliability — the consumer app hat-trick. Every time you […]

Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview

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Today we launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. When you download today’s Halide update in the App Store, you’ll find a new ”③” button to switch to Mark III. Mark III is still a work in progress, and we’ll share more details about that at […]

The evolution of OpenAI’s mission statement

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13th February 2026 As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly describe the organization’s mission or most significant activities”—this has actual legal weight to it as the IRS can use it to evaluate […]

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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The job market has been a sore subject for Gen Z. The unemployment rate among young college grads sits at 5.6%, hovering near its highest level in more than a decade outside the pandemic. Meanwhile, prominent executives—from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to Ford’s Jim Farley—have warned that artificial intelligence will slash corporate entry-level jobs.  But some […]

AI bot crabby-rathbun is still polluting open source

I’ve returned to the HackerNews article and the blog post written by Scott Shambaugh a few times now. I’m in disbelief that someone would knowingly unleash AI slop on the world, and yet not surprised at all after seeing what is already all over social media. Sleuthing the GitHub repo’s blog posts, I noticed the […]

How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?

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Show Caption Hide Caption Understanding cancer clusters: What you need to know Explore the concept of cancer clusters, which are unusual concentrations of cancer cases in a specific area over a certain period. Picture this: At your annual physical with your primary care provider, you also receive a full-body scan and a more extensive panel […]