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What I'm listening to today: "1920263 Meditative Ambient Guitar and Synth Soundscape Behringer Wasp Deluxe Microcosm", CJT
This dude seems to do basically daily jams on his pile of midrange synths and post them all to YouTube. I liked this one out of the pile where a wasp provides a quiet heartbeat and he improvises a guitar solo over it. 1980s dark cinematic feel, empty streets and echoes and vague menace in the form of a young Willem Dafoe, waiting for you somewhere
What I listened to today: "Zero", Lamb
Whatever "Trip-Hop" was. Was a tension between pulling ideas out of lounge-y jazz-y genres from the 30s-60s to jam them into electronica, vs pulling ideas out of electronica and jamming them into lounge-y jazz. Which was the real thing? The answer seems to come in tracks like these where the musicians just say screw it and make a song with no electronics. This track's pure voice and violin and the vibes are enormous, it's wonderful
Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
Link: https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050376
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
Link: https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852
So you want to build a tunnel
Link: https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/2/17/so-you-want-to-build-a-tunnel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049718
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Als je niet onder de rivieren woont of geboren bent, zou je toegangsbewijs tot het carnaval toch op z’n minst een door Robèrt van Beckhoven hoogstpersoonlijk goedgekeurd zelfgebakken worstenbroodje (bij voorkeur vega(n)) moeten zijn.
Wat een schaamteloos volk zijn we.
Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
Link: https://berksoft.ca/gol/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048733
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
3D Printed Jack Mixes Two Filaments For Great Performance
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/3d-printed-jack-mixes-two-filaments-for-great-performance/
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Multiple people have requested an easy way to install #offpunk under Windows 🪟
My last Widows experience was XP, I cannot help. But maybe you can help by creating an Offpunk package for Scoop:
Packagers are also requested for:
- Homebrew 🍏
- OpenBSD 
- Fedora 
Don’t hesitate to join the mailing-list:
https://lists.sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk-packagers
You know what time it is.
NEW MOON TONIGHT!
Be careful, cyber-sibs!
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Need efficient spinlocks in your multi-threaded code? 🔄
Atomics.pause() provides a micro-wait primitive that hints to the CPU you're spinning while waiting on shared resources. It reduces power consumption without yielding the thread.
Learn more here 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Atomics/pause
i haven't read hacker news yet this year and it feels great
i guess spending time in spaces where people are speaking in a normal human way to each other is good actually
youtu.be/A8fpmGql8n0?...
그나저나 여러분,
가성비 컴퓨터 맞추는데 130만원
vs
35만원으로 완성되는 저사양 리눅스 스팀머신 bc-250
어떤걸 선택하시겠습니까?
이제, 선택할 시간 시간입니다.
#발광
2024년말 70만원이었던 초 가성비 컴퓨터를 지금 만...
??: 잔소리는 돈 내고 하세요!
유튜브 괴물들: 그래서 단가가 얼마요?
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
We used to say “yolo merge” when merging with inadequate review, but perhaps “morge” is an even better term.
you certainly will not regret morging continvoucly
This is something that probably sounds obvious to some folks and unhinged to others, but I think it’s worth saying anyway: “workers who don’t adopt AI will get left behind” is right-wing propaganda. It’s more than just a surface-level advertising message. It makes the unstated assumption that workers are all in a state of conflict, racing against one another in competition for acceptable employment. This is the literal opposite of class consciousness! All workers should be aiming for a world where we don’t have to fight each other to earn a chance at a decent life.
This is to collect research for HTML input pickers such as date, time, datetime and colour. "Please send us examples of good (or bad) ones. Even if they have extra functionality that doesn't exist yet (e.g. date ranges, perhaps we can add that in)." https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1371
다시 돌아왔습니다.
2026년 3월 비건모임 수요조사입니다!
참여 희망하시는 분은 해당 폼 작성해주세요!
2026년 3월 비건모임 수요조사
다들 마음 한 구석에 알고는 있는거지 자본주의 체제는 대중 대부분의 삶을 책임지지 않는다는 사실을
Ein AfD-Verbot wird immer realistischer. Wir haben mit interaktiven Grafiken ausgearbeitet, wie Mehrheiten im Bundesrat möglich sind. Und ein Szenario ist jetzt bereits möglich – und würde garantiert zum Untergang der rechtsextremen Partei führen. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/afd-verbot-mehrheit-bundesrat/?utm_source=mstdn
This is to collect research for HTML input pickers such as date, time, datetime and colour. "Please send us examples of good (or bad) ones. Even if they have extra functionality that doesn't exist yet (e.g. date ranges, perhaps we can add that in)." https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1371
how's the "tech is full of wokescolds" bit looking now that anyone critical of the numerous socialised harms caused by genAI is increasingly framed as an anti-progress killjoy even by their own peers
So I finally (what, a decade behind popular trends??) am having reason to experiment with actual use of Docker in production, and…I’m surprised at how disappointing it is.
The configuration is clumsy, a dangerous mix of boilerplate and footgun customization points. The dockerfile / compose division of labor is nonsensical; it apparently grew by accretion instead of design. There are lots of loose ends left for hosting services to tie up, and the product thus fails in what would seem to be a primary goal of avoiding hosting vendor lock-in.
Am I simply Not Getting It Yet™, or is the state of the art actually like this?
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell Me, hearing about docker: Cool, yeah, a structured declaration of runtime dependencies does seem like a useful development.
Me, looking into docker: ...
apkitとかのリリース周りをいじってたら朝になってて 
She spends a lot of time on YouTube, watching bird videos
It can't be good for her critical thinking skills...
1/4
I even bought her the two-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary to help…
3/4
Trying to somewhat wake up before my 7am media interview about fucking stupid orbital "AI datacenters" and I am GRUMPY. This will go well, I'm sure.
And yes, the orbital AI datacenter thing is real, and 2 companies that I know of have already filed with the FCC for over a million satellites for this completely untested, fucking stupid idea. Fuck you, SpaceX, for one million satellites and using pseudo-religious language in your filing.
Instructions on how you can submit a comment to the FCC telling them that you also think this is stupid are here! https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/
90 Prozent meiner Karriere habe ich eher nur technische Lösungen konzipiert, so langsam verstehe ich, dass das Entscheidende nicht die technische Lösung ist, sondern die Folgen der Nutzung. Das heißt nicht, dass ich jetzt alle Probleme nur soziologisch lösen werde, es heißt eher, dass die Technik die soziolgischen Folgen mit antizipieren sollte.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488
Chess engines do weird stuff
Link: https://girl.surgery/chess
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049845
OK, I bought fedi.blue because I can, and I have no plans to use it for anything specific. Well, at least, I want to build an app that is compatible with both the fediverse (AP Protocol) and Bluesky (AT Protocol) ecosystem at the same time. So... if you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to let me know! Sincerely, I want to waste money no more for domains that I won't use, so if you have any good ideas, please, please, PLEASE share them with me. You can find me at @chomu.dev초무 on Bluesky and
Noam Chomsky is one of those people that some people will defend reflexively without even thinking.
Try not to have powerful people that you defend reflexively without even thinking.
That's abuse culture.
pronouncing RSS as Arse
90 Prozent meiner Karriere habe ich eher nur technische Lösungen konzipiert, so langsam verstehe ich, dass das Entscheidende nicht die technische Lösung ist, sondern die Folgen der Nutzung. Das heißt nicht, dass ich jetzt alle Probleme nur soziologisch lösen werde, es heißt eher, dass die Technik die soziolgischen Folgen mit antizipieren sollte.
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
when you have a stable relationship with your bed
Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
Link: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
Link: https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852
OK, I bought fedi.blue because I can, and I have no plans to use it for anything specific. Well, at least, I want to build an app that is compatible with both the fediverse (AP Protocol) and Bluesky (AT Protocol) ecosystem at the same time. So... if you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to let me know! Sincerely, I want to waste money no more for domains that I won't use, so if you have any good ideas, please, please, PLEASE share them with me. You can find me at @chomu.dev초무 on Bluesky and
새해 복 많이 받으세요 오는길에 세뱃돈도 가져와주세요 감사합니다
The Hybrid3D can 3D print batteries that can fill irregular shapes, like the wing of a drone or the arm of smart glasses. https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printed-batteries?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
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