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Pebble Production: February Update

https://repebble.com/blog/february-pebble-production-and-software-updates
80•smig0•2h ago•23 comments

C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/02/18/cpp26-std_is_within_lifetime
25•ibobev•1h ago•12 comments

Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails

https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-llm-evaluation-to-guardrails
111•benbreen•2d ago•32 comments

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf
67•SteveHawk27•2h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app

https://github.com/fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
64•holyknight•2h ago•38 comments

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

https://oban.pro/articles/bridging-with-oban
51•sorentwo•3h ago•7 comments

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

https://makie.org/website/blogposts/raytracing/
60•simondanisch•3h ago•24 comments

The Mongol Khans of Medieval France

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mongol-khans-medieval-france
56•Thevet•2d ago•15 comments

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves

https://kodiak64.co.uk/blog/seawolves-technical-tricks
27•atan2•2h ago•3 comments

Famous Signatures Through History

https://signatory.app/#famous-signatures
12•elliotbnvl•1h ago•8 comments

-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
23•thefilmore•3d ago•12 comments

Sizing chaos

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
693•zdw•17h ago•375 comments

27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1r8900z/macos_which_officially_supports_27_year_old/
392•surprisetalk•17h ago•222 comments

Voith Schneider Propeller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
41•Luc•3d ago•11 comments

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

http://singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/old-school-effects-cloud-tank.html
55•exvi•8h ago•7 comments

15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

https://nicolasdickenmann.com/blog/the-great-fp64-divide.html
153•fp64enjoyer•13h ago•53 comments

Cosmologically Unique IDs

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
432•jfantl•20h ago•129 comments

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

https://static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/
146•kristianp•12h ago•56 comments

Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?

21•jensmtg•46m ago•16 comments

DOGE Track

https://dogetrack.info/
133•donohoe•2h ago•48 comments

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga
437•sz4kerto•22h ago•214 comments

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance
496•theahura•11h ago•592 comments

Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell

https://lilush.link/
33•ksymph•2d ago•7 comments

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
355•idoxer•22h ago•201 comments

How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing

https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/how-to-choose-between-hm-and-bidir/
121•thunderseethe•3d ago•39 comments

Virgins, Unicorns and Medieval Literature (2017)

https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/11/virgins-unicorns-and-medieval-literature.html
7•mooreds•2d ago•4 comments

Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/6-arm64/
57•userbinator•3d ago•11 comments

A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts

https://tempus-word.de/en/index
76•muzzy19•2d ago•38 comments

ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

https://github.com/sstraust/shannonmax
21•sammy0910•3h ago•4 comments

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html
294•todsacerdoti•20h ago•133 comments
Open in hackernews

Pebble Production: February Update

https://repebble.com/blog/february-pebble-production-and-software-updates
75•smig0•2h ago

Comments

Larrikin•1h ago
I was hoping to have my watch well before the forced migration of my FitBit account to Google. Now it seems to be up in the air if I will get it in time.
bronlund•1h ago
When the first Pebble was released, and I got a couple of those, it was unique and cool as hell. This time around, you can get a programmable smartwatch from China for a fraction of the price looking way cooler.
mrbn100ful•1h ago
Mind to share one of those models ?

Far has I know, pebble user have spent the last 10 years searching for another pebble without luck.

rozenmd•1h ago
You can't get a hackable watch for a fraction of the price, though.

I'd pay more for being able to fumble about in the codebase and add exactly what I want.

forkerenok•43m ago
I wouldn't put in the same league as pebble, but it definitely ticks the boxes:

https://banglejs.com/

Battery life is real.

elaus•1h ago
For me it's the eink display that makes them interesting. Being programmable or looking cool is nice, but for that I could also buy an Apple/Google/Samsung watch - that's not unique.
jsheard•17m ago
The Pebble display isn't e-ink, or unique amongst watches, it's an off-the-shelf MIP LCD from Sharp.

You can get the same thing in watches from Garmin, Coros, Polar, Suunto or Casio.

wlesieutre•36m ago
Size is the main differentiator for me. I had a pebble, then an Apple Watch, and I've always hated how chunky the Apple Watch and other competitors are.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1qr1npj/pebble_roun...

qwertox•31m ago
"programmable smartwatch from China" can you share some examples?
micromacrofoot•11m ago
ok buy one of those then
beratbozkurt0•43m ago
I'm curious, what sets it apart from other watches? The design look nice
qwertox•32m ago
Privacy, it does not push data to the cloud. And also the ease of access to the data.
lopis•31m ago
Focus on longevity and extensibility. Lots of people still use their original Pebbles from 10 years ago and the community continued to release content for the platform. Also, the batteries last a really long time.
me_online•29m ago
Longtime pebble user here. The main things are the always-on ePaper display, long battery life (they claim this new gen's battery will last a month!), and the hackability. I personally love the user interface and charming animations!
akagr•28m ago
Pebble was my first smartwatch, all the way back in 2015. It was fun and quirky back when it was first released. Then it stopped production for many years while smartwatch category grew. Now they're coming back with same/similar models as before.

For me, its value lies more in nostalgia than anything else. I don't expect it to ever compete with the likes of my Apple watch for smart features, or a Garmin for activity tracking.

That said, it's an e-paper display so battery life is pretty good. Plus it had (and probably will have) an active community of small apps and watchfaces, which kept (and probably will keep) it from becoming stale quickly.

drum55•21m ago
It's a very minor distinction, but they aren't a epaper display (low refresh rate, zero power to maintain an image), rather the technology is a sharp memory LCD (ludicrously low power, but high refresh rate). They're extremely neat and don't suffer from the washed out color and ghosting that epaper does, at the cost of needing ever so slightly above no power to keep an image displayed. I much, much prefer them even though Sharp doesn't really advertise them anymore.

https://sharpdevices.com/memory-lcd/

akagr•15m ago
Isn’t e-paper the general category of low power displays? I understand that “e-ink” are a trademarked subset of the broader e-paper category, which also includes memory-in-pixel LCD displays which other watches like Garmin (and probably pebble) have. E-ink displays are only manufactured by eink corp, and are popularly found on e-readers, shelf price tags in some stores etc.

I may be mixing terms in my brain, though. Happy to be corrected.

drum55•12m ago
I haven't really heard it being used like that, always heard e-paper being used as the specific e-ink displays and never anything else. The only time I've seen the (in my mind) confused messaging is on Pebble's own website, I still have my original Pebble Time somewhere, and that's a good part just down to how much I love those displays. I don't think I'd have used one for years if they were epaper.
jsheard•7m ago
> The only time I've seen the (in my mind) confused messaging is on Pebble's own website

Yeah, other wearable manufacturers who use the same display technology usually call it MIP instead. Pebble are pretty much the only ones who call it e-paper, which has led some to think it's a distinct thing, when it's just MIP.

neobrain•20m ago
Besides what others already mentioned, it's the only smart watch with an open source OS supported by the vendor themselves (that I know of anyway).
lopis•22m ago
> Many old Pebble apps/faces use weather APIs that no longer work (Yahoo, OpenWeather). The Pebble mobile app now catches these network requests and returns data from Open-Meteo - keeping old watchfaces working!

That's some sweet quality of life fixes!

open-meteo•14m ago
And we are very determined to keep the Open-Meteo weather API open-access indefinitely and don’t share the same fate as many closed-source APIs like Yahoo or OpenWeatherMap.