Dann hol ich mir meine Bauteile halt vom Radio Heitler in der Neubaugasse, Radiobastler, Technotronik oder vom Conrad im Meißelmarkt. Oh, wait ...

Ende der 150-Euro-Freigrenze: EU beschließt Zollpflicht für Billig-Pakete
https://www.heise.de/news/Ende-der-150-Euro-Freigrenze-EU-beschliesst-Zollpflicht-fuer-Billig-Pakete-11175060.html

same door, different season #pixelart #MastoArt #art

Trump will also rename it to EDA, the Environmental Destruction Agency.

Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/trump-epa-rollback-pollution-regulation-endangerment-finding?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Aveces la destrucción es la única respuesta

OH: „The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money“

She heard a car door slam in the distance mid grooming 😂

#cats

I love this! data nerds, pls enjoy

GitHub Innovation Graph

A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k

Link: https://log.jasongodfrey.info/questions/The-Most-Expensive-Party-Balloon-in-History
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993417

Thing I want to know: I'm in Rust and want to send/receive msgpack as a POST payload, or a stream of msgpacks over a websocket. Which crate should I use, msgpack, msgpack_simple, or serde::msgpack? Which of these will have the smallest size impact? Which of these decode in-place? Do any present long-term security risks?

My normal method of finding this out: Search google (Kagi)

Kagi is: Choked with blog posts that show signs of being AI slop

また変な時間に目が覚めてしまった…

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)

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 their slop out 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/

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.

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:
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$ 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 😆