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Poll: Code with AI or Not?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201826 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent made rust replacement for libxml2

Recently several AI labs have published experiments where they tried to get AI coding agents to complete large software...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

The war against PDFs is heating up

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/24/the-war-against-pdfs-is-heating-up Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran

WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Technology Feb 28, 2026

The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/1123499337/iran-israel-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killed Comments URL: https://...

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Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition

Article URL: https://alexlitzenberger.com/blog/post.html?post=/building_a_minimal_transformer_for_10_digit_addition Com...

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Why did Netflix back down from its deal to acquire Warner Bros.?

Netflix's co-CEO reportedly told Trump, "I took your advice."

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What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale

Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

"We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2027846016423321831 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO

Article URL: https://blog.vonng.com/en/db/minio-resurrect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200342 ...

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Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with...

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Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next. Obviously, now that it's actually happ...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Micr...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Our Agreement with the Department of War

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/alibabas-new-open-source-qwen3-5-medium-models-offer-sonnet-4-5-perform...

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Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government

The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by th...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Khamenei Dead

Article URL: https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/2027830773328302396 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

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The Rubin Observatory’s alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look ...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts

Article URL: https://robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/ Comments URL: ht...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/cancel-chatgpt-movement-goes-mainstream-after-opena...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State

Article URL: https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2026/02/16/americas-oligarchic-techno-feudal-elite-are-attemp...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.

Technology Feb 28, 2026

CSP for Pentesters: Understanding the Fundamentals

Article URL: https://www.kayssel.com/newsletter/issue-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198099 P...

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Show HN: Tomoshibi – A writing app where your words fade by firelight

I spent ten years trying to write a novel. Every time I sat down, I'd write a sentence, decide it wasn't good enough, a...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/dollspace-gay/d8d3bc3ecf4188df049d7a4726bb2a00 Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

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The whole thing was a scam

Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Article URL: https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197267 Points:...

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’

OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint fo...

Technology Feb 28, 2026

Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document

Hey HN! We posted Rivet Actors here previously [1] as an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects.Today we...