got you some chocolates. don’t worry about the title

The Dig

I've got Nifty (the Markdown engine powering Atlas and Fox's notes section)’s actual parsing and text storage transformation pipeline down to 4ms per keystroke, with an occasional max of 9ms in some more complicated cases, on M1 iPad Pro in docs >10k characters and a mix of MD use.

But I am running into something that is causing the overall text system layout to chug to an absolute crawl on iOS in very specific documents when typing about 90+wpm and it is driving me insane.

#iosdev

Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass

Link: https://geo-racers.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987038

The Dig

Exploring Homebrew for the Pokémon Mini

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/exploring-homebrew-for-the-pokemon-mini/

피코4 대여 해봣음 설날연휴 동안 이거 끼고 놀아야징

운동권 미피

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tagir_valeev/116057271527521893

a really troubling example of where "statistically most likely continuation of text" does not align with truthfulness

Beginning autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo Driver

Link: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/ro-on-6th-gen-waymo-driver
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990578

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We are BEYOND excited about this! Come say hi tomorrow!

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

More than a bit late, but Amazon Machine Images for Tribblix m38 are now available in the London (eu-west-2) region.

http://www.tribblix.org/aws.html

Kärnten ist ein Wahnsinn:

... hat der Hausbesitzer einen Heizlüfter in den Motorraum seines Autos gestellt und dadurch den Brand ausgelöst.
https://kaernten.orf.at/stories/3341765/

@andrewnezAndrew Nesbitt I'm curious what else could be done to show organizational contributions to open source projects.

I've got a simple (and somewhat buggy) example up here:

https://mgifford.github.io/gh-open-dash/

How do we make it easier for folks to see contributions (even comments).

Everybody (including me) is mad about the Discord Discourse and we (again: including me) all have been doing some imprudent posting. So I will ask you to follow these rules in the coming days and do my best to follow them going forward as well: https://gist.github.com/glyph/a7504c3c2ab28e5218ec1881b875828d

Two things can be true at the same time:
1. copyright is a bit broken and needs reforms
2. the way "AI" can only be trained by complete disregarding copyright is unacceptable

"But you used to criticise copyright" is not the gotcha you might think it is.

EDIT: "a bit broken" is tongue in cheek. Of course we massively need to rethink what the purpose of copyright is and how we can ensure that society and the people in it have access to culture to built upon while ensuring people can have good lives while creating and contributing. (The answer is communism of course, but that's a bigger conversation)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116059315194327096

"'This decision wouldn’t have happened without several weeks of protest and collective action by low-wage workers with Missouri Workers Center and over 20 local immigrant and racial justice, faith, school, environmental, and civil rights groups,' Terrence Wise said in the statement. 'We will continue fighting to keep masked, unaccountable federal agents out of our communities and for the dignity, respect, and pathway to better citizenship that we all deserve.'"

Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.

I can't stop thinking about the LLM-generated compiler that passes all the unit tests but emits inner loops that benchmark over 150,000x slower than a gcc debug build. I couldn't possibly have intentionally come up with such a funny demonstration of the point of genuine expertise https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/

"Platform Ventures, the development company that owns a south Kansas City warehouse that federal agents toured last month to consider for an immigrant detention center, announced today that it is not moving forward with the sale."

https://www.kcur.org/news/2026-02-12/kansas-city-developers-halt-sale-of-warehouse-for-ice-detention-center-as-public-pressure-mounts

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991591

WSL stands for Windows as a second language

RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296

The future is here.

Announcing Python Unplugged at PyTV - a free online conference

You may see some familar faces in our speaker lineup. 😆

Please feel free to spread the word. It would be nice if you share the link to the landing page (as we really want to get registrations): https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-unplugged/

Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/qKkyBhXIJJU
Trailer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KblH4leUVA

Our social posts (please feel free to reshare):
X: https://twitter.com/pycharm/status/2021585352075489786
FB: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1410743597395997/
BS: https://bsky.app/profile/pycharm.dev/post/3melncbzv3z27
YT: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxoG6EffeFwEWa5OD9hGEmaUOYdusSH2cO

Gopherちゃんが落ちないように手をつないであげている

when was this hotel built? the answer is,

One other feature I like is that by default, SNAC does NOT download all external media. That means the only media you’ll be storing is the media YOU post. This is unlike most fediverse platforms which require a ton of local storage or an S3 bucket

So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink

Link: https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-around-the-taklamakan-desert-that-its-turned-this-biological-void-into-a-carbon-sink
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990855

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

@retech @inthehandsPaul Cantrell
With respect, if "standing in the streets did nothing to hurt them;" they wouldn't be killing people for doing that.

well, it's working! seems like the palette isn't quite right yet though >_>

Somebody would appreciate it if you wouldn't take photos while he's trying to nap.

#CatsOfMastodon

Podman v5.8.0 has just been released! It's on its way to Fedora and other distros shortly. Features include changes to Quadlet, changes to the artifact and update commands, and more! Check out the release notes! https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v5.8.0 #podman #OpenSource

ちっちゃいぞうさんお尻もかわいいのを発見したよ！

🚨Attention Discord users, there's about to be a big change that will affect your privacy on the platform! 🧵

#privacy #discord #ageverification

What are some good resources for getting my head around MacOS internals?

#MacOS #macos

Today I learned that you can use remind(1) in your shebang line:
⸻
$ cat test.rem # set the path to remind(1) accordingly
#!/usr/local/bin/remind
REM Feb 12 2026 MSG Today I learned you can use remind shebangs

$ chmod +x test.rem

$ ./test.rem
Reminders for Thursday, 12th February, 2026 (today):

Today I learned you can use remind shebangs
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This seems ripe for (ab)use in the most wonderful of ways 😆

PyPI does not exist to be your personal or commercial software distribution platform, especially if you intentionally obfuscate your code.

The @osiOpen Source Initiative definition includes:

> Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed.

More: https://opensource.org/osd

Is there anything more cuter than this baby 😘?
#cats

개인정보가 돈이 참 되긴 되는구만 디스코드 연령 확인 절차 우회 스크립트 완성 → 디스코드가 막음 → 스크립트 업데이트 이게 지금 무한반복 되고 있는 중인데 참 재밌군요 ㅋㅋㅋ 스크립트 올라오자마자 초고속 패치 되고 그렇나 봄 age-verifier.kibty.town

discord/twitch/kick/snapchat a...

When you think about it, isn't everybody a skeleton pilot

An den Baustellenampeln hier hängt ein Schild mit der Aufschrift "Fußgänger bitte drücken"

Ich bin noch nicht ein einziges Mal gedrückt worden. Und wenn man versucht andere Menschen zu drücken, sind die ganz pikiert. Die meinen das Schild bezieht sich auf den Bettelknopf. Völlig verrückte Ansicht!1elf!!