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How asbestos poisoned almost the entire planet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMx139eTxoc
3•dataflow•1h ago

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dataflow•1h ago
For those who haven't watched the video yet because you already know we found out asbestos was dangerous and that it was banned or otherwise solved or mitigated: it is not. This video talks about how asbestos is still around us and how (alleged) cover-ups have been hiding that fact as recently as the past decade. It's not your average asbestos reporting.

Ask HN: How are indie AI app builders monetizing in 2026 without killing UX?

1•axrisi•49s ago•0 comments

China's dancing robots: how worried should we be?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/18/china-dancing-humanoid-robots-festival-show
1•prmph•1m ago•0 comments

Ineffable Intelligence (Founder David Silver, ex Deepmind) Raises $1B Seed

https://www.ft.com/content/dffe72d0-4064-4412-8ebc-50198a30d40e
1•aanet•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Limpio – New Crypto Market Data Engine in Go (Redis and Timescale)

https://docs.limpioterminal.pro
1•arturstankevicz•3m ago•0 comments

arXivisual – Transform research papers into 3blue1brown style Manim animations

https://github.com/rajshah6/arXivisual
1•helloplanets•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SentryRF – A private, local-first Android app to detect hidden trackers

https://sentryrf.com/
1•vidoluc•8m ago•0 comments

Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/17/shigeru-ban-architect-cathedrals-quake-shelt...
1•seanhunter•8m ago•0 comments

Apple developer account takes up to weeks to enroll

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/815713
2•throwaway423342•8m ago•1 comments

Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimers

https://theconversation.com/air-pollution-may-directly-contribute-to-alzheimers-disease-new-study...
1•lonelyasacloud•9m ago•1 comments

Index, Count, Offset, Size

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-02-16-index-count-offset-size/
1•ingve•10m ago•0 comments

After a fierce competition OpenAI hired Peter Steineberger

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/this-viral-ai-project-went-from-side-hustle-to-coveted-prize-in-three...
1•pretext•12m ago•0 comments

Chunyun – the largest annual human migration [video]

https://aeon.co/videos/chinese-new-year-is-a-stunning-spectacle-of-human-migration-in-3-billion-j...
1•hunglee2•18m ago•0 comments

Climber on trial for leaving girlfriend to die on Austria's highest mountain

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv9plyjgpo
1•Stevvo•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SideDisplay – Turn Tesla screen into a wireless second monitor for Mac

https://sidedisplay.co/
1•maccraft•20m ago•0 comments

MineBench: LLM benchmark using voxel art

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r7lphz/difference_between_sonnet_45_and_sonnet_46_on_a/
1•odie5533•24m ago•2 comments

Supply Chain Necromancy: Reborn Namespaces in JitPack Coordinates

https://labs.itresit.es/2026/02/18/supply-chain-necromancy-reborn-namespaces-in-jitpack-coordinates/
1•Yippee-Ki-Yay•25m ago•0 comments

Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/17/making-music-with-midi-just-got-a-real-boo...
1•ingve•26m ago•0 comments

A single typo led to RCE in Firefox

https://kqx.io/post/firefox0day/
1•birdculture•28m ago•0 comments

Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac

https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/
2•u1hcw9nx•29m ago•0 comments

Carl Sassenrath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sassenrath
2•doener•35m ago•0 comments

Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/18/hazardous-substances-headphones
3•doener•36m ago•1 comments

Your Agent Framework Is Just a Bad Clone of Elixir

https://georgeguimaraes.com/your-agent-orchestrator-is-just-a-bad-clone-of-elixir/
1•ahmaman•40m ago•0 comments

Parents are opting kids out of school laptops, returning them to pen and paper

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/parents-opt-kids-school-laptops-ask-pen-paper-rcna257158
1•apparent•41m ago•0 comments

RocksDB development finds a CPU bug

https://rocksdb.org/blog/2026/02/17/cpu-bug.html
1•botusaurus•42m ago•0 comments

Connectix RAM Doubler (2022)

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/connectix-ram-doubler
2•andruby•45m ago•0 comments

Portugal: The First Global Empire

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-global-empire
1•Thevet•45m ago•0 comments

Microsoft .NET on Linux Patches Use IO_uring for Performance Benefits

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-dotNET-IO-uring
1•dcgudeman•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sovereign – Multi-agent OS with GraphRAG memory and HITL checkpoints

https://github.com/borhen68/SOVEREIGN
1•borhensaidi•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I analyzed 120 films to help screenwriters test narrative structure

https://arc.quanten.co
1•phaedrus044•48m ago•0 comments

A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève

https://clereviewofbooks.com/isabel-jacobs-boris-groys-marco-filoni/
1•Caiero•48m ago•0 comments