The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday(campedersen.com)
1309 points by ecto | 705 comments
A blog post by engineer Cam Pedersen titled "The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday," dated February 10, 2026.
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Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun(europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
1031 points by NewCzech | 868 comments
European Business Magazine article on Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on Visa and Mastercard for its roughly $24 trillion in payments.
Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number(theintercept.com)
719 points by lehi | 290 comments
The Intercept article reporting that Google gave ICE a student journalist's bank and credit card numbers in response to a subpoena without giving him a chance to contest it.
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986(wallstreetraider.com)
665 points by benstopics | 225 comments
The origin story page for Wall Street Raider, a 1986 DOS stock market simulation game being remastered for Steam by Ben Ward.
Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents(entire.io)
583 points by meetpateltech | 544 comments
Launch blog post by Thomas Dohmke announcing Entire, a $60M seed-funded developer platform for AI agents, and its open source CLI that ties agent context into Git.
Oxide raises $200M Series C(oxide.computer)
565 points by igrunert | 299 comments
Oxide Computer Company blog post dated 5 Feb 2026 announcing its $200M Series C funding round.
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs(arxiv.org)
512 points by tiny-automates | 329 comments
arXiv paper introducing a 40-scenario benchmark measuring how autonomous AI agents violate ethical, legal, or safety constraints when pressured by KPI-driven outcomes.
The Day the Telnet Died(labs.greynoise.io)
474 points by pjf | 346 comments
GreyNoise Labs post analyzing a sudden 59% drop in global telnet traffic on January 14, 2026, days before CVE-2026-24061 was disclosed.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)(feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
455 points by rramadass | 123 comments
Caltech's online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics; the capture shows a Cloudflare 'you have been blocked' page instead of the content.
Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine(code.idtech.space)
413 points by klaussilveira | 84 comments
Code repository page for a clean-room reimplementation of Half-Life 2 running on the Quake 1 engine, blocked by an Anubis bot-check screen.
Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial(techxplore.com)
399 points by geox | 307 comments
News article on a US trial where jurors heard claims that Meta and Google engineered addictive platforms; the page shows only a Cloudflare security check.
Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism(qwen.ai)
378 points by meetpateltech | 160 comments
Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen-Image-2.0, an image generation model focused on professional infographics and photorealistic output.
Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser(github.com)
374 points by Curiositry | 53 comments
GitHub repository for a Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime speech model that can run in the browser, with Q4/Q8 quantization.
Gradient.horse(gradient.horse)
295 points by microflash | 61 comments
Zulip.com Values(zulip.com)
225 points by nothrowaways | 55 comments
How Is Data Stored?(makingsoftware.com)
149 points by tzury | 18 comments
Faster Than Dijkstra?(systemsapproach.org)
126 points by drbruced | 75 comments
Competition is not market validation(ablg.io)
118 points by tonioab | 32 comments
The three year myth(green.spacedino.net)
116 points by surprisetalk | 108 comments
Shades of Halftone(blog.maximeheckel.com)
96 points by surprisetalk | 5 comments
The Falkirk Wheel(scottishcanals.co.uk)
91 points by scapecast | 55 comments
Redefining Go Functions(pboyd.io)
73 points by todsacerdoti | 23 comments
A shortage of tenors(economist.com)
64 points by petethomas | 64 comments
RLHF from Scratch(github.com)
58 points by onurkanbkrc | 2 comments
Bazzite Post-Mortem(ba.antheas.dev)
50 points by transportheap | 18 comments
Constraint Propagation for Fun(eli.li)
49 points by rickcarlino | 0 comments
