Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
Enjoy this small sampling of our designs and patterns. All are customizable: change into your brand colors — some even shrink, spin, or shift. Each background is unique to SVGBackgrounds.com, so enjoy exploring before you easily export into your project.
Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web
Hello! You are currently on a Wander console! A Wander console lets you browse random websites and pages from the Wander community. The Wander community consists of individuals who develop and maintain their own personal websites. To set up your own Wander console, download this ZIP file, extract index.html and wander.js, and place them in […]
25 Years of Eggs
Published: February 23, 2026 Everyone needs a rewarding hobby. I’ve been scanning all of my receipts since 2001. I never typed in a single price – just kept the images. I figured someday the technology to read them would catch up, and the data would be interesting. This year I tested it. Two AI coding […]
Nvidia NemoClaw
NVIDIA NemoClaw is an open source stack that simplifies running OpenClaw always-on assistants safely. It installs the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, part of NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, a secure environment for running autonomous agents, with inference routed through NVIDIA cloud. Alpha software NemoClaw is early-stage. Expect rough edges. We are building toward production-ready sandbox orchestration, but the […]
Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
Context The Snowflake Cortex Code CLI is a command-line coding agent that operates similarly to Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, with an additional built-in integration to run SQL in Snowflake. Two days after release, a vulnerability was identified in Cortex Code’s command validation system that allowed specially constructed malicious commands to: Execute arbitrary commands without […]
Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
AI is evolving from question-and-answer chatbots to autonomous agents that can make comprehensive plans, execute actions, and evaluate outcomes. We believe agents will become an integral part of the internet economy, and they need the ability to transact with businesses and one another. However, the tools of the current financial system were built for humans, […]
Death to Scroll Fade
Friday 9 Jan 2026 This post purposefully ignores the reduced motion preference to give everyone the same truly terrible experience. I am sorry. Please use your browser’s reader mode. Scroll fade is that oh so wonderful web design experience where elements fade in as they scroll into view. Often with a bit of transform on […]
Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft’s Cloud ”A Pile of Shit”, yet Approved It
Reporting Highlights “Cloud First”: To move federal agencies to the cloud, the government created a program known as FedRAMP, whose job was to ensure the security of new technology. Security Breakdown: ProPublica found that FedRAMP authorized a Microsoft product called GCC High to handle sensitive government data, despite years of concerns about its security. Potential […]
LLMs Predict My Coffee
Coding, math, whatever. Can LLMs predict the outcomes of physical experiments? Suppose I pour 8 oz (226.8 g) of boiling water into a ceramic coffee mug that weighs 1.25 lb (0.57 kg). The ambient air is still and 20 degrees Celsius. The cup starts at room temperature. Give me an equation for the temperature of […]
Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts
The democratization and subsequent ubiquity of 3D printers have enabled almost any home enthusiast to produce utilities and products previously only attainable to large factories with big equipment. ”You can 3D print those nowadays” has become a common utterance. Even still, it’s safe to say that our bingo cards did not predict a techie making […]