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Build a Low-Cost DIY USB Volume Knob with Digispark ATtiny85

http://albert-david.blogspot.com/2026/02/build-low-cost-diy-usb-volume-knob-with.html
1•albert007_d•55s ago•0 comments

Zxingorg

https://www.zxingorg.com/
1•sartaj22•1m ago•0 comments

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1•sartaj22•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I replaced Grafana+Prometheus with a Go binary and SSH for my VPSs

https://github.com/thobiasn/tori-cli
1•thobiasn•3m ago•0 comments

Finding Comfort in the Uncertainty

https://annievella.com/posts/finding-comfort-in-the-uncertainty/
1•rawgabbit•4m ago•0 comments

Dexie.js: Offline-First DB with Cloud Sync, Collaboration and Real-Time Updates

https://dexie.org
1•thunderbong•4m ago•0 comments

Can justice happen on a laptop? Study says yes

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-justice-laptop.html
1•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: See how algorithms manipulate your social/media feeds in real-time

https://github.com/agentkites/attentionguard-extension
1•aadivar•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GridCalc, an RPN Spreadsheet for iOS

1•wooby•5m ago•0 comments

A researcher wouldn't release his app. I recreated it in less than a week

https://tannermarino.com/2026/researcher-wouldnt-release-app-recreated-week/
1•samename•5m ago•0 comments

In Argentina, locals are taking loans to buy food

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/2/16/in-argentina-locals-are-taking-loans-to-buy-food
1•koolhead17•5m ago•0 comments

TaskPilot – AI agent framework that blocks dangerous commands before execution

https://github.com/NexTryApp/TaskPilot
1•Nextry•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Exitlight – Find privacy contacts for data deletion requests

https://github.com/riccardoruspoli/exitlight
1•riccardoruspoli•7m ago•0 comments

Leetcompass.io - visual pattern-based catalog for LeetCode problems

https://leetcompass.io/
1•dr-o-ne•7m ago•1 comments

Despite being AWS-hosted, German Train Operator bahn.de gets hits by DDoS attack

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/deutsche_bahn_ddos/
2•thomas_witt•8m ago•0 comments

Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-18/us-economy-expansion-forecast-even-with-weak-j...
2•toomuchtodo•9m ago•1 comments

Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and 'AI'

https://www.theverge.com/report/879819/laurie-spiegel-is-celebrating-40-of-music-mouse-with-a-mod...
1•aanet•9m ago•0 comments

Isometric Minecraft in Three.js

https://isocraft.vercel.app/
2•gdss•10m ago•1 comments

OpenAI's 5-month experiment: building a product with no human-written code

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
2•mustaphah•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Irondiff-Visual Config Diff for Cisco/Juniper/PfSense with Slack Alerts

https://irondiff.com/
1•MattRos•10m ago•1 comments

AI Isn't Stalling – The Platforms Are Missing

https://productics.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-ai-growth-why-platforms
1•iggori•13m ago•2 comments

Where Does Gold Come From? A 5B-Year Story

https://connordempsey.substack.com/p/where-does-gold-actually-come-from
1•cdempsey44•13m ago•0 comments

America Is Eating Less – and McDonald's Is Rewriting the Menu

https://ariatatrezvalthazar.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-is-eating-less-and-mcdonalds-is.html
2•Traumen•13m ago•1 comments

Hitem3D: AI Image-to-Model Tested

https://all3dp.com/4/new-ai-image-to-model-generator-promises-perfect-stl-files-we-put-it-to-the-...
1•davoneus•13m ago•1 comments

Mistral AI to Buy Infrastructure Startup Koyeb

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mistral-ai-to-buy-software-infrastructure-startup-koyeb-e2de76ee
2•riadsila•14m ago•0 comments

How to Draw an Orange [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2dFXDMwe4
1•napolux•15m ago•0 comments

"Nicotine Is Not Addictive"

https://senate.ucsf.edu/tobacco-ceo-statement-to-congress
1•GlibMonkeyDeath•15m ago•3 comments

How AI reflects the hidden truths of your software pipeline

https://thenewstack.io/ai-velocity-debt-accelerator/
1•rsyring•16m ago•0 comments

SEL Deploy – Cryptographically chained deployment timeline

1•chokriabouzid•16m ago•1 comments

Astro: Web framework for content-driven websites

https://astro.build/
1•eustoria•16m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Stephen Colbert going down swinging

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/arts/television/stephen-colbert-cbs-statement.html
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Comments

rapnie•1h ago
https://archive.ph/uiF6V
poszlem•1h ago
Not a fan of Colbert. With that out of the way, what this administration has been doing is disgusting and as un-American as it can be.
NickC25•1h ago
Not a huge fan of Colbert but respect and agree with what he did.

Ellison and his ilk (Weiss included) are greedy, power hungry, anti-American, Israel-first leeches. Tax the hell out of them, already.

coredog64•1h ago
Oh no! The Federal government is enforcing long-standing statutes.

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2023-title47/USCO...

mapontosevenths•1h ago
> The Federal government is enforcing long-standing statutes.

You forgot the very important word "selectively". They are selectively enforcing long-standing statutes, which is probably illegal and is 100% obvious corruption.

AustinDev•42m ago
For my entire life I've never seen the feds do anything other than selective enforcement. See the latest disclosures RE: Zorro ranch and little saint James as recent examples.
mapontosevenths•10m ago
One day someone from the opposite side of the aisle from you will hold power, and when they wield it against your side I hope you remember how your biggest objection to these abuses of power was "other people also did bad things once."

I hope everyone excusing this behavior remembers how they feel about it today. The pendulum is not finished swinging and the other side will wield these stolen powers soon enough. I hope they wield them with the same, or worse, brutality and we all learn not to tolerate it.

bryanlarsen•1h ago
Statutes which are widely believed to be unconstitutional.
juggert2•48m ago
"muh constitution" lmao
embedding-shape•56m ago
Convenient that since January 21, 2026 late night talk shows are no longer part of the "bona fide news interview exemption", thanks to the FCC who now has a new role as the censor of political speech. Enjoy your earned freedom of speech :)
poszlem•47m ago
Are we at a point where "show me the man and I'll show you the crime" is now considered a good thing?
JohnTHaller•44m ago
To MAGA it has been for a while
josefritzishere•47m ago
This is just not accurate. Privious to this censorship-push since 1983 there had been a carve out for talks shows and it correspondly has not been enforced since the Regan administration. If it was, Fox News would be in violation 24/7.
bobomonkey•24m ago
Fox News doesn't use public airwaves as I understand it.
pupppet•39m ago
Have you ever turned on an AM radio? Good luck finding the equal opportunities provision enforced there.
542354234235•37m ago
Oh no! The Federal government is targeting their political opponents with selective enforcement of long-standing statutes.
piva00•32m ago
Selective enforcement is a well-known tactic on the dive to authoritarianism.

Sorry you aren't aware of that but I suggest you look into how it works.

jmclnx•1h ago
> I wish we could have put it on the show, where no one would’ve watched it

So true, the Streisand effect in full view. I think it got 95 million views on youtube. If just on the show with no comment from the US admin, probably would not break 5 million.

This admin is doing more harm to itself trying to censor people than if they ignored Colbert.

fwipsy•57m ago
Does the Streisand effect keep working if censorship continues? Or do people lose interest?
stop50•11m ago
It increases. In Germany an ministry wanted to hide an document about glyphosat, this caused many people to request access to it that an judge ordered to make it public.
ChrisArchitect•1h ago
Related:

CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049426

bunderbunder•1h ago
Kind of fascinating that the first couple comments to be posted both start with a declaration of the author’s opinion of Colbert.

I read it as a pretty straightforward acknowledgment that we’ve reached a point in public discourse where people pay at least as much attention to who is making a point as we do to the actual point being made.

I wonder if finding common ground is even possible as long as that kind of tacit ad hominem remains baked into the way we think about public discourse.

KittenInABox•1h ago
I think this is an interesting conundrum, because I feel it is also important to critically consider the people who are making points because it can also inform you about why these points are being made. I don't consider this a tacit ad hominem per se, because we must acknowledge the open internet is full to the brim of bad actors and bots and we cannot equally engage with all comments. It is fine and appropriate to identify comments one doesn't want to engage with, not even with the brainpower of reading. This has increasingly forced people to make concessions to avoid misunderstandings due to other people's need to filter comments.
ddtaylor•55m ago
I was actually thinking the opposite. I sent my wife this text message:

    Nonsense world when a comedian doing a late night show is the person willing to say something
    
    It's not his job I'm glad he's doing it, but this is like watching the McDonald's workers Narcan people as part of their daily tasks
For reference she worked in Oregon as a manager at McDonald's and would regularly have to deal with people ODing in the drive through and there was a "serious" discussion between managers, corporate, etc. about it they should be doing this or if they should be instructing everyone to stay indoors and let them die.

Corporate had to say that they must stay inside and eventually it became grounds for suspending employees that didn't want to sit and watch people die.

Contact me if you want her information for journalism purposes we have the receipts.

AnimalMuppet•19m ago
Corporate doesn't realize that forcing people to do nothing and watch others die might be bad for morale? Corporate doesn't realize that people regularly dying in their drive through without assistance is going to be an enormously negative PR hit if it ever comes out? Corporate doesn't even realize that people dying in the drive through is going to leave their drive through plugged for a long period of time?

I am appalled. Even ignoring the cold-hearted lack of empathy, I have a hard time imagining that this is even in their best interest.

AustinDev•55m ago
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.
PorterBHall•7m ago
“Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.”
poszlem•49m ago
What's so fascinating about it? I made one of those comments. It’s not about judging the person but about emphasizing the point. I’m saying the situation is so egregious that it overrides my usual dislike for the host. If anything, it validates the point being made, regardless of who is making it.
josefritzishere•48m ago
Flagged? This is only Voldemort-adjacent.
JohnTHaller•44m ago
MAGA doesn't like facts
-0•35m ago
sus, indeed
embedding-shape•31m ago
Lots of people making money during this era of oligarchs, and the more open censorship keeps happening and being discussed, the faster it all might fall down. Hence, people try to suppress it.
Sohcahtoa82•13m ago
Yeah, I feel like this is a case where we should be able to flag the flaggers.