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US economy unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs in February

Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon

City Detect, which uses AI to help cities stay safe and clean, raises $13M Series A

Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments

Elite Overproduction

If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?

Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders

Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page

Ambiguity in C

Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue last year, calling it “the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online”

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025

NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data

Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like

System76 on Age Verification Laws

We might all be AI engineers now

Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

The Brand Age

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

Good software knows when to stop

A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests

Stardex (YC S21) is hiring customer success engineers

Apply Within – Bringing applicative desugaring to Scala for-notation (2018)

Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details

A ternary plot of citrus geneology

AI and the Ship of Theseus

Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

Data does not speak to you

Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape

Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling

Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces

Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for the leaked memo

The US DOD says it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately”

Sam Altman takes swipes at Anthropic, saying it's “bad for society” if companies abandon their commitment to the democratic process based on who is President

Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”

The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass

Anthropic launches an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs, says it shows “limited evidence” of AI-led job loss so far

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M

An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement, what Play Store changes mean for developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more

Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024

A look at SpaceX's IPO, reportedly aiming to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than seven times higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video

Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over its 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; a Tron-affiliated company will pay the $10M fine

The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service

App Spotlight: HostMyText Pro for Zoho CRM

The central nervous system of your business

GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

telemetry helps. you still get to turn it off

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite

Announcing Rust 1.94.0

New major release of devenv

Just Use Postgres

You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop

Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State

A new chapter for the Nix language, courtesy of WebAssembly

Ladybird browser update (February 2026)

Play the New York Times Connections puzzle with DuckDB

Introducing wgsl-rs

jj v0.39.0 released

OpenWrt 25.12.0 Released

MICROSLOP — Microsoft's AI Slop Manifesto

rustc-php: A Rust compiler with ownership checking, written in PHP

How to Install and Start Using LineageOS on your Phone

your ai slop bores me

Building a Database on S3

Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)

Fixing a major evaluation order footgun in Rye 0.2

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

MS exec: Microsoft's next console will play "Xbox and PC games"

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge

Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season

Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores

Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply-chain label in court

BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute ‘flash charging’ — but there’s a catch

Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage

Rivian is betting its future on one of the fastest EV launches in US history

FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: Report

Amazon is rolling out a redesigned Fire TV app

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says

MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens

The trap Anthropic built for itself

Hardware testing startup Nominal hits $1B valuation, raises $155M in 10 months

Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes

FYI: Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

Google says half of all zero-days it tracked in 2025 targeted buggy enterprise tech

How much wildfire prevention is too much?

Online harassment is entering its AI era

Bridging the operational AI gap

The Download: Earth’s rumblings, and AI for strikes on Iran

MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel

The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal

This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared

The Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space

SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills

ECG-MoE: Mixture-of-Expert Electrocardiogram Foundation Model

From Offline to Periodic Adaptation for Pose-Based Shoplifting Detection in Real-world Retail Security

Solving an Open Problem in Theoretical Physics using AI-Assisted Discovery

Evaluating the Search Agent in a Parallel World

Breaking Contextual Inertia: Reinforcement Learning with Single-Turn Anchors for Stable Multi-Turn Interaction

Timer-S1: A Billion-Scale Time Series Foundation Model with Serial Scaling

On Multi-Step Theorem Prediction via Non-Parametric Structural Priors

Causally Robust Reward Learning from Reason-Augmented Preference Feedback

K-Gen: A Multimodal Language-Conditioned Approach for Interpretable Keypoint-Guided Trajectory Generation

The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

Netflix is buying Ben Affleck’s AI startup

Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya

Apple Music adds optional labels for AI songs and visuals

AI tools can unmask anonymous accounts

Anthropic makes last-ditch effort to salvage deal with Pentagon after blowup

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Startups

US economy unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs in February

Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon

City Detect, which uses AI to help cities stay safe and clean, raises $13M Series A

Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs

Payphone Go

AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé

Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments

Elite Overproduction

If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?

Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders

Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page

Ambiguity in C

Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue last year, calling it “the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online”

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025

NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data

Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like

System76 on Age Verification Laws

We might all be AI engineers now

Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

The Brand Age

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

Good software knows when to stop

A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests

Stardex (YC S21) is hiring customer success engineers

Apply Within – Bringing applicative desugaring to Scala for-notation (2018)

Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details

A ternary plot of citrus geneology

AI and the Ship of Theseus

Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

Data does not speak to you

Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape

Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling

Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces

Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for the leaked memo

The US DOD says it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately”

Sam Altman takes swipes at Anthropic, saying it's “bad for society” if companies abandon their commitment to the democratic process based on who is President

Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”

The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass

Anthropic launches an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs, says it shows “limited evidence” of AI-led job loss so far

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M

An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement, what Play Store changes mean for developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more

Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024

A look at SpaceX's IPO, reportedly aiming to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than seven times higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video

Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over its 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; a Tron-affiliated company will pay the $10M fine

The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service

App Spotlight: HostMyText Pro for Zoho CRM

The central nervous system of your business

GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

telemetry helps. you still get to turn it off

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite

Announcing Rust 1.94.0

New major release of devenv

Just Use Postgres

You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop

Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State

A new chapter for the Nix language, courtesy of WebAssembly

Ladybird browser update (February 2026)

Play the New York Times Connections puzzle with DuckDB

Introducing wgsl-rs

jj v0.39.0 released

OpenWrt 25.12.0 Released

MICROSLOP — Microsoft's AI Slop Manifesto

rustc-php: A Rust compiler with ownership checking, written in PHP

How to Install and Start Using LineageOS on your Phone

your ai slop bores me

Building a Database on S3

Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)

Fixing a major evaluation order footgun in Rye 0.2

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

MS exec: Microsoft's next console will play "Xbox and PC games"

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge

The Download: Earth’s rumblings, and AI for strikes on Iran

The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared

The Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space