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Issue #782 // 2026-02-13 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Optimize your website for AI answer engines with Webflow
//webflow.com sponsored

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
//campedersen.com comments

The Waymo World Model
//waymo.com comments

Vouch
//github.com comments

Why is the sky blue?
//explainers.blog comments

ai;dr
//0xsid.com comments

Art of Roads in Games
//sandboxspirit.com comments

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
//feynmanlectures.caltech.edu comments

Do not apologize for replying late to my email
//ploum.net comments

AI agents play SimCity through a REST API
//hallucinatingsplines.com comments

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It
//simonwillison.net comments

#Classifieds


MCP authentication in minutes //propelauth.com

Lust auf Lifestyle-Teilzeit? Werde ERP-Berater bei ALYF //alyf.de

Nango: Integrate your product & AI agents with 600+ APIs //nango.dev

More SQL Antipatterns //pragprog.com

End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes.app

👉 Buy a classified ad

#Ask HN


What are you working on?

Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?

#Show HN


Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code //github.com comments

LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory //github.com comments

Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS) //github.com comments

Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments //github.com comments

I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity //paperboat.website comments

#Code


I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed //jamesdrandall.com comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI //heidenstedt.org comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development //susam.net comments

Parse, Don't Validate //lexi-lambda.github.io comments

#Data


An AI agent published a hit piece on me //theshamblog.com comments

Visualize MySQL query execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs //github.com comments

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module //maxhalford.github.io comments

#Design


Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, photorealis //qwen.ai comments

I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use //vecti.com comments

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues //noheger.at comments

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio" //chainlift.io comments

Luce: First Electric Ferrari //ferrari.com comments

How to make a living as an artist //essays.fnnch.com comments

I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version //github.com comments

#Books


The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning //mitpress.mit.edu comments

Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord //odd-lots-books.netlify.app comments

Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders //printableclassics.com comments

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes //publicdomainreview.org comments

It's Yours //inventingthefuture.ghost.io comments

#Working


MIT Living Wage Calculator //livingwage.mit.edu comments

Game Theory Patterns at Work //daeus.blog comments

Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists //reuters.com comments

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work //vangemert.dev comments

#Learn


Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself //jesperordrup.github.io comments

Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth //alltheviews.world comments

The Falkirk Wheel //scottishcanals.co.uk comments

A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers //capnfabs.net comments

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks //loriemerson.net comments

#Watching


How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson //youtube.com comments

An articulated archer automaton //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month //theverge.com comments

TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe //nytimes.com comments

Oxide raises $200M Series C //oxide.computer comments

An Update on Heroku //heroku.com comments

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash //theverge.com comments

Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation //anthropic.com comments

#Fun


OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III //openciv3.org comments

Sandboxels //neal.fun comments

I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books //underhillgame.com comments

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you //skipthe.tips comments

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL //znah.net comments

Fun With Pinball //funwithpinball.com comments

Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass //geo-racers.com comments

Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM //ericmigi.github.io comments

Purple Word – A new word puzzle game //purpleword.com comments