Hacker News on Thursday, 19 February 2026

Gemini 3.1 Pro(blog.google)

907 points by MallocVoidstar 8 months ago | 873 comments

Google Keyword blog post announcing Gemini 3.1 Pro, a new AI model designed for complex reasoning tasks.

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal(micasa.dev)

612 points by cpcloud 8 months ago | 193 comments

Landing page for micasa, an open-source Go terminal UI for tracking home maintenance, projects, and documents in a single SQLite file.

Gemini 3.1 Pro(deepmind.google)

590 points by PunchTornado 8 months ago | 396 comments

Google DeepMind's model card for Gemini 3.1 Pro, published February 2026, covering model information, data, implementation, distribution, and safety.

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use(code.claude.com)

566 points by theahura 8 months ago | 690 comments

Claude Code documentation page listing legal agreements, compliance certifications, and security information, including terms governing subscription authentication use.

AI makes you boring(marginalia.nu)

548 points by speckx 8 months ago | 306 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that vibe-coded, AI-aided Show HN projects tend to be boring because their authors have spent little time thinking about the problem.

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton(kasava.dev)

485 points by benbeingbin 8 months ago | 509 comments

Kasava blog post arguing AI should be treated as an exoskeleton that amplifies human capability rather than as an autonomous coworker.

We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science(theguardian.com)

456 points by mitchbob 8 months ago | 422 comments

Guardian article on how Trump administration science funding cuts are driving young researchers abroad and threatening US biomedical research leadership.

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf](pagedout.institute)

407 points by SteveHawk27 8 months ago | 61 comments

PDF of Paged Out! issue #8 (February 2026), a free zine of one-page articles on programming, hacking, security, and electronics.

Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics(spectrum.ieee.org)

385 points by mhb 8 months ago | 515 comments

IEEE Spectrum news article on MicroVision's solid-state lidar priced under $200, possibly below $100, and its effect on automotive sensor economics.

0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix(play0ad.com)

326 points by jonbaer 8 months ago | 114 comments

Wildfire Games announces 0 A.D. Release 28 "Boiorix", the latest version of its free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare.

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks(governance.fyi)

297 points by guardianbob 8 months ago | 434 comments

Pebble Production: February Update(repebble.com)

294 points by smig0 8 months ago | 146 comments

DOGE Track(dogetrack.info)

243 points by donohoe 8 months ago | 119 comments

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan(gamingonlinux.com)

235 points by tuananh 8 months ago | 110 comments

California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves(blog.adafruit.com)

233 points by fortran77 8 months ago | 281 comments

A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data(github.com)

231 points by forinti 8 months ago | 40 comments

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed(static.stepfun.com)

201 points by kristianp 8 months ago | 86 comments

South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection(theguardian.com)

200 points by Geekette 8 months ago | 95 comments

15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern(nicolasdickenmann.com)

194 points by fp64enjoyer 8 months ago | 70 comments

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites(blog.zgp.org)

181 points by speckx 8 months ago | 356 comments

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia(makie.org)

177 points by simondanisch 8 months ago | 69 comments

Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial(wsj.com)

175 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 96 comments

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup(theregister.com)

171 points by freitasm 8 months ago | 103 comments

European Tech Alternatives(eutechmap.com)

161 points by puppion 8 months ago | 110 comments

Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications(github.com)

147 points by lawrencechen 8 months ago | 66 comments

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe(cepr.org)

135 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 100 comments

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus(bbc.com)

135 points by dabinat 8 months ago | 92 comments

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging(hankgreen.com)

133 points by ZeroGravitas 8 months ago | 129 comments

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)(kodiak64.co.uk)

129 points by atan2 8 months ago | 21 comments

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban(oban.pro)

125 points by sorentwo 8 months ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app(github.com)

120 points by holyknight 8 months ago | 55 comments

Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript(blackboard.sh)

118 points by merlindru 8 months ago | 40 comments

Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)(borischerny.com)

118 points by simonebrunozzi 8 months ago | 94 comments

Farewell, Rust for web(yieldcode.blog)

118 points by skwee357 8 months ago | 116 comments

DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'(techdirt.com)

109 points by hn_acker 8 months ago | 35 comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants(smithsonianmag.com)

107 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 32 comments

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice(anthropic.com)

101 points by jbredeche 8 months ago | 48 comments

Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty(matklad.github.io)

95 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 40 comments

Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial(ft.com)

93 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 63 comments

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)(singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)

90 points by exvi 8 months ago | 15 comments

Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution(scientificamerican.com)

84 points by beardyw 8 months ago | 21 comments

US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'(theguardian.com)

62 points by xyzal 8 months ago | 34 comments

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory(github.com)

62 points by sammy0910 8 months ago | 14 comments

The Popper Principle(theamericanscholar.org)

60 points by lermontov 8 months ago | 31 comments

Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container(github.com)

59 points by a11ce 8 months ago | 18 comments

A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression(economist.com)

59 points by vinni2 8 months ago | 48 comments

Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down(old.reddit.com)

52 points by switz 8 months ago | 5 comments

What Is a Centipawn Advantage?(win-vector.com)

51 points by jmount 8 months ago | 20 comments

CTO Says 93% of Developers Use AI, but Productivity Is Still 10%(shiftmag.dev)

50 points by taubek 8 months ago | 41 comments

Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations(terezi.pyrope.net)

47 points by usually 8 months ago | 16 comments

Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt(cnn.com)

46 points by rawgabbit 8 months ago | 1 comments

AI made coding more enjoyable(weberdominik.com)

43 points by domysee 8 months ago | 43 comments

Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99(github.com)

41 points by lowsun 8 months ago | 12 comments

C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime(sandordargo.com)

39 points by ibobev 8 months ago | 48 comments

How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)(arstechnica.com)

39 points by zepearl 8 months ago | 17 comments

I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion(bsky.app)

37 points by doener 8 months ago | 16 comments

Famous Signatures Through History(signatory.app)

35 points by elliotbnvl 8 months ago | 28 comments

UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours(theregister.com)

33 points by beardyw 8 months ago | 37 comments

ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds(mutsuntsai.github.io)

33 points by icwtyjj 8 months ago | 4 comments

Can random experimental choice lead to better theories?(journals.sagepub.com)

31 points by paraschopra 8 months ago | 24 comments