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AI might make mainframes more defensible, not less

https://exodus2026.substack.com/p/if-ai-can-modernize-cobol-then-we
1•jehuie•1h ago

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jehuie•1h ago
I spent ~35 years working in and around government IT systems.

The recent claims about AI finally making COBOL “modernization” feasible got me thinking: if AI can understand, refactor, and generate COBOL safely, doesn’t that undercut the core argument for rewriting these systems in the first place?

Curious how others who’ve lived through large rewrites see this.

What Makes People Proud of Their Country?

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/02/17/what-makes-people-proud-of-their-country/
1•atlasunshrugged•31s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent that matches sales reps with warm leads based on product usage

https://inspector.getbeton.ai
1•nadyyym•1m ago•0 comments

West Virginia's Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/west-virginias-anti-apple-csam-lawsuit-would-help-child-preda...
1•hn_acker•1m ago•0 comments

Respecting maintainer time should be in security policies

https://sethmlarson.dev/respecting-maintainer-time-should-be-in-security-policies
1•lumpa•1m ago•0 comments

LM Studio: LM Link

https://lmstudio.ai/link
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

Minimum Viable Coding Agents

https://bertolami.com/blog/minimum-viable-coding-agents
1•platunit2•2m ago•1 comments

I Run an AI Hedge Fund. AI Intelligence Has Plateaued. Here's the Data

https://henryobegi.com/the-ai-revolution-is-real-the-timeline-is-wrong/
1•henryobj•3m ago•0 comments

Tether invests $200M in Whop to expand stablecoin payments

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/25/tether-invests-usd200-million-in-digital-marketplace...
1•emaccumber•3m ago•0 comments

Ghosts'n Goblins – "Worse danger is ahead"

https://superchartisland.com/ghostsn-goblins/
2•elvis70•3m ago•0 comments

Some Simple Economics of AGI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946
1•alpaylan•4m ago•0 comments

Why everyone is reading fantasy

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/22/myth-monsters-and-making-sense-of-a-disenchanted-wo...
3•jethronethro•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ShiLLM – An LLM that inserts ads into every response

https://www.shillm.com/
1•masterspy7•7m ago•0 comments

Markdown DOM Spec for LLMs: Request for Comment

https://github.com/brandoncarl/markdown-dom
1•brandoncarl•8m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Digest.tube – skim YouTube videos like articles

https://digest.tube/
1•tufan_gokova•8m ago•0 comments

Creating "Edit" Links That Open Plain-Text Source Files in a Native App

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/os-as-cms/
1•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp Group Contact Extractor - Paste JS, get group contacts .tsv

https://github.com/Mb-hunt/WhatsApp-Contact-Extractor
1•mb_hunt•11m ago•0 comments

Deploying Open Source Vision Language Models (VLM) on Jetson

https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-on-jetson
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HN Digest Widget – Nothing Essential Lab S1 Winner

https://twitter.com/essential/status/2026712111846408359
1•kuberwastaken•11m ago•0 comments

LLM-LD, the Open Standard for AI-Readable Websites

https://llmld.org/
1•bhartzer•11m ago•0 comments

Sutton and Barto, Ch. 08: Planning and Learning with Tabular Methods

https://chizkidd.github.io//2026/02/24/rl-sutton-barto-notes-ch008/
1•ibobev•12m ago•0 comments

Fish Shell 4.0 released. Rust re write finished

https://fishshell.com/blog/new-in-40/
2•death916•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: BountyBook – A task marketplace where AI agents earn USDC

https://www.bountybook.ai/
2•patrulo•13m ago•0 comments

What Virtual Worlds Can Learn from the Social Serendipity of Arc Raiders

https://wjamesau.substack.com/p/what-virtual-worlds-can-learn-from
1•SLHamlet•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VibeFrame – AI video editor for the terminal (CLI and MCP)

https://github.com/vericontext/vibeframe
3•kiyeonjeon•14m ago•0 comments

NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/nasa-says-it-needs-to-haul-the-artemis-ii-rocket-back-to-th...
2•JumpCrisscross•14m ago•0 comments

Hospitals fighting measles confront a challenge: Few doctors have seen it before

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/health/measles-doctors-states
2•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

Humanity's Last Exam

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/02/25/dont-panic-humanitys-last-exam-has-begun/
2•geox•17m ago•0 comments

Fixing Slow AWS Uploads

https://pierce.dev/notes/fixing-slow-aws-uploads
2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Raindrop Self Diagnostics: let agents self-report issues

https://twitter.com/benhylak/status/2026712861666587086
2•alexisgauba•20m ago•0 comments

Toilet Map [UK]

https://www.toiletmap.org.uk
2•petecooper•20m ago•0 comments