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Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases

1•edwinarbus•13s ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A

1•stmw•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext

1•tchoa91•1m ago•0 comments

FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

https://sluongng.substack.com/p/fosdem-26-my-hallway-track-takeaways

1•birdculture•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

https://env-shelf.vercel.app/

1•ivanglpz•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/

1•PetrBrzyBrzek•6m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit

1•radeeyate•7m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/

1•matt_d•7m ago•0 comments

Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/

1•blenderob•9m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html

1•CommonGuy•9m ago•0 comments

Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125083427.htm

1•fanf2•10m ago•0 comments

Fantasy football that celebrates great games

https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/ultigamemate/

1•blenderob•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animalese

https://animalese.barcoloudly.com/

1•noreplica•10m ago•0 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/

2•simonw•11m ago•0 comments

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

https://blog.plover.com/tech/gpt/micro-worlds.html

1•blenderob•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Velocity - Free/Cheaper Linear Clone but with MCP for agents

https://velocity.quest

2•kevinelliott•12m ago•2 comments

Corning Invented a New Fiber-Optic Cable for AI and Landed a $6B Meta Deal [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KLbc5DlRs

1•ksec•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: XAPIs.dev – Twitter API Alternative at 90% Lower Cost

https://xapis.dev

2•nmfccodes•14m ago•1 comments

Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst

2•eatitraw•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

https://github.com/Anipaleja/nginx-defender

2•anipaleja•20m ago•0 comments

The Super Sharp Blade

https://netzhansa.com/the-super-sharp-blade/

1•robin_reala•22m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/

1•tusslewake•23m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out

1•stevekrouse•24m ago•0 comments

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/02/06/kpmg-pressed-its-auditor-to-pass-on-ai-cost-savings/

1•cainxinth•24m ago•0 comments

Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666

3•birdmania•24m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

8•samasblack•26m ago•3 comments

I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/trendscope-market-scanner

1•mohammede•28m ago•0 comments

Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com

2•microflash•28m ago•0 comments

Building Interactive C/C++ workflows in Jupyter through Clang-REPL [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QX3RPH-building_interactive_cc_workflows_in_jupyter_throug...

1•stabbles•29m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/

2•facundo_olano•31m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

Signal to Windows Recall: Drop Dead

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3994265/signal-to-windows-recall-drop-dead.html

21•CrankyBear•8mo ago

Comments

LorenDB•8mo ago

Previous discussion of same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053364

yupyupyups•8mo ago

In short: Signal uses DRM to prevent Windows Recall (spyware) from capturing what's inside the app. It's similar to how Netflix prevents piracy.

That's an interesting use-case of web DRM.

There are other details in the article, for example about Recall forces users to use biometrics to then permit them to authenticate using a PIN code. That's an interesting observation.

mmozeiko•8mo ago

I don't know why Signal calls it "DRM" because the do not use DRM for this. Typically DRM means encryption & keys are involved (which is what Netflix & others are doing with Widevine or PlayReady).

All Signal does is just a simple Windows API call to exclude window from screen capture. SetWindowDisplayAffinity function with WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE argument: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/...

yupyupyups•8mo ago

Thanks for the insight, I thought they took advantage of the whole DRM stack (including HDCP in monitors) to encrypt the UI and let the monitor decrypt it.

k_roy•8mo ago

And Microsoft, literally call it the DRM flag. DRM doesn't insist on being encrypted.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/...

And that "simple Windows API" call is pretty much absolute, since it's across the stack.

compsciphd•8mo ago

and as plenty of people have noted, virtue signaling. As signal already saves one's entire chat history by default in an easily digestible db.

any security hole on windows that enables an attacker to get to the recall db, would just as easily enable them to get to the signal db.