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1. Maple Mono
2. mitchellh/vouch: A contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate. — https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349 ;;; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961 ;;; https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020628046009831542 ;;;
3. We mourn our craft | Read the Tea Leaves — A poignant reflection on the evolving landscape of creative work, offering insights into the challenges and potential futures of artistic professions. Return for a thoughtful perspective on preserving passion and skill in a changing world.
4. Stop generating, start thinking — Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
5. Nobody knows how the whole system works — No one person truly understands every layer of complex systems. We build on imperfect mental models and use tools that hide details. That gap grows with new technologies like AI, but it has always existed.
6. AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare — "Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining. There's research on this - the psychological difference between generative tasks and evaluative tasks. Generative work gives you flow states. Evaluative work gives you decision fatigue."
7. Vocal Guide - by Jesper Ordrup
8. How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
9. ReMemory - Split a recovery key among friends — This is a tool that encrypts files and splits the decryption key among trusted friends using Shamir's Secret Sharing. For example, you can give pieces to 5 friends and require any 3 of them to cooperate to recover the key. No single friend can access your data alone. Each fr…
10. Art of Roads in Games
11. https://odd-lots-books.netlify.app/ — All the books reccomended on Odd Lots!
12. Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding
13. Moltbook was peak AI theater | MIT Technology Review — The viral social network for agents reveals more about our own current mania for all things AI than what's really coming next.
14. Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes Anthropic — We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler, and then (mostly) walked away. Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development.
15. How I've run major projects | benkuhn.net
16. Offpunk 3.0
17. KeygraphHQ/shannon: Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps. Shannon has achieved a 96.15% success rate on the hint-free, source-aware XBOW Benchmark.
18. New network architecture — Designing a fast and future-proof network for my home
19. Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing | Larvitz Blog — Running your own Autonomous System on the public internet sounds like something reserved for ISPs and large enterprises. It’s not. With sponsoring LIRs making AS numbers and IPv6 prefixes accessible to individuals, and FreeBSD prov…
20. It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | Tiger Data — Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB, and time-series in one database.
21. Sheldon Brown-Bicycle Technical Information
22. Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters | Substack | The Guardian
23. My AI adoption journey
24. GitHub Agentic Workflows | GitHub Agentic Workflows
25. AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It — One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broade…
26. Why is the sky blue?
27. open source reimagining of civ iii
28. La Suite numérique
29. Bluesky Map
30. (500) https://animatedengines.com/ — RT @newsycombinator: Animated Engines
31. Last Week on My Mac: Why E cores make Apple silicon fast – The Eclectic Light Company — Apple silicon architecture is designed to get background processes out of the way of our apps running in the foreground, by using the E cores.
32. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/jzT7hnt
33. Understanding Neural Network, Visually
34. localgpt-app/localgpt — A local device focused AI assistant built in Rust — persistent memory, autonomous tasks, ~27MB binary. Inspired by and compatible with OpenClaw.
35. The Agent Skills Directory — Discover and install skills for AI agents.
36. Eight more months of agents
37. I 3D-print whistles now, and you can too | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/jzT7hnt
38. GitHub - openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed
39. GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan
40. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Basics
41. Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case — “Extremely difficult to believe”https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-from-losing-case-over-ai-errors/
42. Blood omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (incidence drops from 0.19% to 0.11%)
43. Kirkville - I Now Assume that All Ads on Apple News Are Scams — Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
44. Global Temperature Dashboard
45. Start all of your commands with a comma — This page looks good
46. OpenClaw Is Changing My Life | Reorx’s Forge — I want to share some thoughts on my recent experience with OpenClaw. Over the past year, I’ve been actively using Claude Code for development. Many people believed AI could already assist with programming—seemingly replacing programmers—but I never felt it brought any revolution…
47. (500) https://minikanren.org/ — RT @jeanqasaur: 🔮 What can you do with logic programming? 🧪 What was it like to create miniKanren? 👀 What does logic programming have in common with #Starcraft? Ask @webyrd about all this and more at #PLTalk this Friday 3pm PT!! 🔖: 📺:
48. A Language For Agents | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
49. The Toughest Sell: A Founder's Guide to Startup Exits | Derek Yan
50. Intertapes — Intertapes https://intertapes.net/ cassettes, art, found.art, location, narrative, audio
51. CCC vs GCC - Harshanu — Anthropic recently published a blog post about building a C compiler entirely with Claude . They called it CCC (Claude’s C Compiler) and claimed it could compile the Linux kernel. 100% of the code was written by Claude Opus 4.6, a human only guided the process by writing test cases. That sounded inter…
52. Documenti svelati: Big Tech ha puntato sull'addiction degli adolescenti — Documenti giudiziari parzialmente dischiusi nel processo del 2026 mostrano che Meta, Google, Snap e TikTok hanno progettato prodotti per creare dipendenza tra bambini e adolescenti, ignorando i danni noti. E‑mail interne, slide, deposizioni e report di…
53. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models. (Latent Space) [Another article critical of AI written by AI - she last pasted excerpt] — Most expert work isn’t “produce a probable artifact”; it's "choose a good move considering other agents, guessing hidden state". LLMs default to single-shot artifacts and need World Mode…
54. NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump | US national security | The Guardian — NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
55. Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
56. Etymology of "Foo"
57. Where did all the starships go? | Datawrapper Blog
58. The Anthropic Hive Mind. As you’ve probably noticed, something… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium
59. dimartarmizi/web-flight-simulator: A browser-based arcade flight simulator using Three.js and CesiumJS, focused on fast-paced flight experience over real-world terrain. — web cesium tile flight sim with code
60. It's FOSS: I Ditched Claude Code and Now Using Open Source Qwen AI for Real Sysadmin Work
61. six thoughts on generating c — wingolog
62. Phantom Obligation | Terry Godier — Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.
63. Resist and Unsubscribe — Resist and Unsubscribe Resist and Unsubscribe via Pinboard https://ift.tt/wAyitPk January 31, 2026 at 06:43AM
64. The marionette theater of AI
65. The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation
66. An Update on Heroku — "Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support."
67. Self-driving cars, drones hijacked by custom road signs • The Register
68. Nice Select · February 3, 2026
69. Just a moment... — via AppleInsider News https://appleinsider.com/rss/news
70. So whats the next word, then? · Blog
71. Context Engineering for Coding Agents — Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
72. Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code! — "Things Unix can do atomically" #Unix #atomicity #atomic #concurrency
73. Welcome to the Room | Jeffrey Snover's blog — A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
74. Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way. - The New York Times
75. originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.
76. afterglow by christinegrrl (Adult, 7,902 words) — The Raiders beat the Sharks 6-1 and Rozanov gets three points and the first star of the game and there's no text waiting for Shane about how Shane should be planning the way he's gonna reward Rozanov the next time they see each other. It's fine. It's only been a we…
77. LLMs as the new high level language — Following this hypothesis, what C did to assembler, what Java did to C, what Javascript/Python/Perl did to Java, now LLM agents are doing to all programming languages. What do I mean by LLM agents? I mean that the main development stack of a human will soon be: Multiple: a number of agen…
78. La Suite numérique
79. Times New Resistance — Abby Haddican
80. Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
81. GitHub - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock: Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock. — This project uses an WEMOS D1 Mini ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to connect to a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server to automatically retrieve and display the lo…
82. DNS Explained - How Domain Names Get Resolved — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868803
83. How the same content always has multiple different versions – a11yblog — The same content can create clarity for one person and confusion, stress, or exclusion for another, without changing a single word.
84. Pike and Boiziau, Amateur Detectives by gurlsrool (PG-13, 6,475 words) — Usually, Hayden can accept that Shane's private life is none of his business. When he’s at home waiting on four kids hand and foot, it’s not like he's filling his days making deranged cork boards connecting Shane to every gay man in North America. Bu…
85. I'm addicted to being useful
86. Matchlock: Linux-based sandboxing for AI agents | Hacker News
87. Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? | Hacker News
88. The Shawshank Redemption movie review (1994) | Roger Ebert
89. unknowingly knowing - Chapter 1 - birdy1171 - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — - Marlow Has Added Jane to the Conversation - Marlow: Please don't tell Roz Jane: O.O   - Hayden Has Added Lily to the Conversation - Lily: What the fuck is this? Hayden: Oh-
90. How I Built the Star Trek LCARS control panel of my dreams | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/XJ421Cb
91. AirgiodSLV - in the wings - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — “So,” McDermott says nervously, “I think I just saw something I wasn’t supposed to see.” Benji’s imagination plays through a series of increasingly alarming scenarios. Fistfights. Cocaine. Indecent exposure. Honestly, with hockey players…
92. ‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu to be a demon’: how Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit
93. Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change - The New York Times
94. mattst88's blog - Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
95. Raspberry and Cream Éclairs Recipe
96. Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002) | Anders Jensen-Urstad — Awesome desktop screenshots from Unix devs & gurus include Dennis Ritchie/Brian Kernighan /RMS/Rasmus Lerdorf & more
97. Art of Roads in Games | Hacker News
98. B.C. Greens announce end of co-operation agreement with B.C. NDP | Vancouver Sun
99. The World’s First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is A Winter Range Monster
100. Don't Get Distracted