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My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza

https://technologizer.com/home/2026/02/16/arctic-adventure-2026/
1•vontzy•58s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deep Research for Flights

https://flightdeepresearch.com/
1•aiddun•1m ago•0 comments

The watchers: exposing OpenAI, the US government, and persona

https://vmfunc.gg/blog/persona/
1•vmfunc•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SIMD-accelerated, zero allocation CSV library in Zig

https://github.com/peymanmortazavi/csv-zero
1•peymo•2m ago•0 comments

MacOS26.4 displays warnings for apps that won't run after Rosetta 2 support Ends

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/macos-tahoe-26-4-rosetta-2-warnings/
1•sinnsro•3m ago•0 comments

MinIO went from open source darling to cautionary tale

https://news.reading.sh/2026/02/14/how-minio-went-from-open-source-darling-to-cautionary-tale/
1•articsputnik•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kubernetes notes from the official docs using NotebookLM and vitepress

https://randomwrites.com/
1•mutahirs•5m ago•0 comments

Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/
1•CharlesW•7m ago•0 comments

I built a coding agent two months before ChatGPT existed

https://solmaz.io/log/2026/02/13/coding-agent-before-chatgpt/
1•hosolmaz•8m ago•0 comments

Apple security bounties slashed as Mac malware grows

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/02/apple-security-bounties-slashed-as-mac-malware-grows/
1•akyuu•8m ago•0 comments

The Mongol Khans of Medieval France

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mongol-khans-medieval-france
1•Thevet•9m ago•0 comments

You're Probably Pronouncing "Ubuntu" Wrong

https://www.rly0nheart.com/posts/youre-probably-pronouncing-ubuntu-wrong/
1•rly0nheart•9m ago•0 comments

Bun will support HTML bundling and inlining

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2023314405518352507
1•dvrp•10m ago•0 comments

What we lose when we extract and optimize thinking

https://kamilas.substack.com/p/eat-a-carrot
1•kamselig•10m ago•0 comments

2026 will not be the 'Year of Linux on the Desktop', and I'm glad

https://kevinboone.me/not_desktop.html
1•lr0•12m ago•0 comments

Frederick Wiseman, a master of immersive documentaries, dies at 96

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/02/16/frederick-wiseman-dead-filmmaker-documentaries/
2•bookofjoe•12m ago•1 comments

I Built a Tool to Help You Find Short Domains

https://timleland.com/i-built-a-tool-to-help-you-find-short-domains/
1•TimLeland•15m ago•0 comments

C-17 Airlifts a Micro Nuclear Reactor for the First Time

https://www.twz.com/uncategorized/this-is-a-nuclear-reactor-packed-into-a-c-17-globemaster-iii
3•Gaishan•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: (Why) are you using AI to browse the web?

1•ATechGuy•16m ago•1 comments

The Caloric Execution: The Death of the Cheap Calorie

https://ramakanth-d.medium.com/the-march-cliff-why-the-2026-economic-collapse-is-different-e1c619...
1•playhard•16m ago•1 comments

Words Are a Leaky Abstraction

https://brianschrader.com/archive/words-are-a-leaky-abstraction/
1•sonicrocketman•18m ago•0 comments

Six Signs That Postgres Tuning Won't Fix Your Performance Problem

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/six-signs-postgres-tuning-wont-fix-performance-problems
1•articsputnik•19m ago•0 comments

Ireland announces new scheme providing basic income for artists

https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/ireland-basic-income-for-the-arts
1•Gaishan•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: You Shouldn't Need a Security Degree to Pick an AI Agent Host

https://www.bestclawhosting.com/blog/v2-security-methodology
1•wadim_grasza•22m ago•0 comments

Make your codebase agent ready

https://gitar.ai/blog/make-your-codebase-agent-ready
1•kageiit•26m ago•1 comments

Soft Contamination Means Benchmarks Test Shallow Generalization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12413
1•cjbarber•27m ago•1 comments

The end of the curl bug-bounty

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/
1•doener•28m ago•0 comments

Unitree demonstration during Chinese New Year Gala [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40IDdAkRZM
1•throw310822•29m ago•0 comments

AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7A1QoUEI
1•doener•29m ago•0 comments

How Many Wolves Is Enough?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/02/gray-wolves-quotas/686015/
1•JumpCrisscross•30m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wildex-identify-plants-animals/id6748092158
33•AnujNayyar•1h ago
Dear HN,

My wife and I both love nature and have always wanted a Pokémon go style app, to collect and learn about different species we find.

All the usual species identifying apps were didn’t feel fun enough, so we designed and built one together!

Would love for you guys to give it a try and share any thoughts you have.

Comments

kylenessen•45m ago
Why not iNaturalist?
AnujNayyar•34m ago
iNaturalist is great for identification and information, but it lacked the fun and soul we were looking for.

It doesn’t feel like you’re playing when you use it, it feels like you’re in biology class (no hate to them).

Wildex gives you cute fun facts and lets you build up points for rare species finds. It feels like a completely different experience.

jacquesm•20m ago
> It doesn’t feel like you’re playing when you use it

That's a feature, not a bug. Gamifying nature is a bad idea. It's tourism, but with the worst kind of tourists.

dylan604•11m ago
At the same time, learning doesn't have to be boring. Most people don't care about the family/class/genus lineage. They just want to know a) what it is, b) some other interesting facts. Sure, have a link to the drudgery, but having something fun/interesting that gets/keeps people excited about going outside and enjoying nature is not a bad idea. Just because gamifying has been used for bad by others doesn't mean it's bad for everything. Nose, despite face; baby/bathwater types of things come to mind here.
AnujNayyar•8m ago
Fully agree here.
AnujNayyar•9m ago
Respectfully disagree here, the more people you could get outside appreciating and learning about nature, the better it can be preserved for future generations. Whether it’s gamified or not.
bix6•36m ago
Can we get a paid version with no linking? Your 3rd party ad / tracking isn’t compatible with my desires.

Otherwise looks fun!

AnujNayyar•32m ago
Definitely soon, we just wanted to build a version that everyone can use regardless of income.

Unfortunately inference costs means we needed something (ads) to keep the servers online.

Out of curiosity what would you say is a fair price for this?

bix6•30m ago
I would not pay monthly but I would pay lifetime like 10 or 20 bucks.

Seek is free and good so if I’m paying for the fun aspect I would probably cap out around $20

Edit: might even be able to pull off like $10/yr but I’m increasingly tired of those as well

AnujNayyar•23m ago
Nice thank you so much!
GNOMES•31m ago
Thinking back to 2016 when Pogo launched there were news stories about trespassing, people getting hurt etc for virtual creatures...

I could easily see someone be foolish enough to go up to predators

AnujNayyar•24m ago
We thought about this and specifically decided not to award xp based on an animals danger rating.

Even though we warn users in the onboarding to take care in the wild, TikTok and similar platforms have shown people acting foolishly is not something you can fully control

dylan604•15m ago
Do you put up anything when ID'ing a dangerous situation like "RUUUUUN!!!" or similar? Maybe a more serious idea would be to give some sort of visual indication of danger vs loading some text to read that says it's dangerous.
AnujNayyar•6m ago
Yeah the first thing that comes up is a full page splash screen saying ‘DANGEROUS SPECIES Be careful’

So hopefully people will get the memo immediately!

echoangle•29m ago
How does it identify the animals/plants? Is there a specialized model for that?
herpdyderp•26m ago
No go with all the tracking.
AnujNayyar•17m ago
As people are requesting we will make a paid version pronto with no ads.

As per apple guidelines you can request us not to track and the app of course respects that.

The location data is used only for helping us narrow down the collection species!

anotherpaul•25m ago
Someone asked for the model you use but I am also curious how you handle ambiguous IDs. Not everything is clear cut especially when it comes to fungi and bugs.

Inaturalist uses second opinions what's your solution?

Edit: cool idea for the app btw, I always call inaturalist my Pokémon deck already so I think it's a nice new angle :)