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, […]
Fixing retail with land value capture
A lot of what we find interesting about cities is the retail within them. We lean on retail – shops, cafes, restaurants and so on – to make cities what they are. Urban economist Ed Glaeser called this the rise of the consumer city, showing how consumption agglomeration was becoming increasingly important, as well as […]
What’s the difference between a ”disc” and a ”disk”?
This article has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple. A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do […]
Connes Embedding Problem
Connes’ embedding problem, formulated by Alain Connes in the 1970s, is a major problem in von Neumann algebra theory. During that time, the problem was reformulated in several different areas of mathematics. Dan Voiculescu developing his free entropy theory found that Connes’ embedding problem is related to the existence of microstates. Some results of von […]
Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills
Moltis: Your Personal AI Assistant Fly command copied Your personal AI assistant ~ quickstart Install Homebrew Cargo Docker Source Others $ curl -fsSL https://www.moltis.org/install.sh | sh $ brew install moltis-org/tap/moltis # Pre-built binary via cargo-binstall (no compilation) $ cargo binstall moltis # Multi-arch: amd64/arm64 $ docker run -d –name moltis -p 13131:13131 -v moltis-config:/home/moltis/.config/moltis -v […]
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
A party balloon mistaken for a cartel drone shut down El Paso for hours. Here’s what it cost. On February 10, 2026, the FAA shut down all flights over El Paso for what was supposed to be 10 days because the U.S. military had shot down what it thought was a drone. It turned out […]
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
We have raised $30 billion in Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, valuing Anthropic at $380 billion post-money. The round was co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. The investment will fuel the frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansions that have made Anthropic the market leader in […]