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Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/microsofts-new-10000-year-data-storage-medium-glass/
23•vinhnx•1h ago

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userbinator•1h ago
it’s possible to store up to 4.84TB in a single slab of glass

At the rate things are going, that might just be enough to hold a Windows with Copilot installer. /s

c0wb0yc0d3r•1h ago
Is blu-ray best for hobbyists?
rustyhancock•55m ago
M-discs either DVD or Blu-ray works well[0]. It uses a mineral layer rather than the typical dyes and pigments to be more robust.

They are writable and readable by most modern standard drives.

The claims I generally see is 100 years for standard storage, 1000 years for archival storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

tombert•29m ago
If you need tons of storage, I actually do think you should check out LTO. You can buy LTO-6 tapes for about $10 if you get a bunch at a time, and each is about a 2.5TB. On a good day you can find external SAS LTO-6 drives for about $200. LTO tapes are generally rated for decades of use so they’re pretty durable.

Nowadays on Linux you can very easily mount LTO tapes like any other drive using LTFS, so you don’t have to become some hyper-expert with tar.

mikelitoris•7m ago
I think you forgot to mention that the readers cost $5k+ new and $1k from ebay (does it work? who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
tecoholic•32m ago
For a second, I thought it's the "5D crystal" from MI: Final Reckoning or something like that. But, this looks like drawing on slabs like the Egyptians. Lasers are still involved, but not going to have the cool glowing effect once data is in.

Sorry for the low-denominator comment.

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

https://gist.github.com/interpiduser5/547d8a7baec436f24b7cce89dd4ae1ea
158•interpidused•4h ago•69 comments

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

https://www.together.ai/blog/consistency-diffusion-language-models
26•zagwdt•1h ago•3 comments

Gemini 3.1 Pro

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/
642•MallocVoidstar•14h ago•749 comments

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
235•scottshambaugh•2h ago•176 comments

Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ew5jlqz87o
15•tartoran•1h ago•5 comments

Defer Available in GCC and Clang

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in-gcc-and-clang/
16•r4um•4d ago•4 comments

An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review

https://sour.coffee/2026/02/20/an-arm-homelab-server-or-a-minisforum-ms-r1-review/
43•neelc•4h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

https://micasa.dev
499•cpcloud•14h ago•158 comments

Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel, powered by Pi

https://github.com/tmustier/pi-for-excel
29•rahimnathwani•3h ago•4 comments

A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève

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

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

https://blog.zgp.org/micropayments-as-a-reality-check-for-news-sites/
143•speckx•10h ago•317 comments

Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia

https://cormullion.github.io/Lindenmayer.jl/stable/
35•WillMorr•3d ago•2 comments

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02...
238•c420•1d ago•319 comments

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

https://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-save
262•guardianbob•15h ago•388 comments

A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

https://github.com/Veirt/weathr
198•forinti•12h ago•33 comments

Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years

https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-inf...
134•Meetvelde•3d ago•63 comments

A beginner's guide to split keyboards

https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2026/02/beginners-guide-split-keyboards/
71•thehaikuza•4d ago•83 comments

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf
357•SteveHawk27•17h ago•56 comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-...
97•bryanrasmussen•11h ago•25 comments

Pebble Production: February Update

https://repebble.com/blog/february-pebble-production-and-software-updates
276•smig0•17h ago•128 comments

Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications

https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux
117•lawrencechen•8h ago•57 comments

Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99

https://github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c
25•lowsun•7h ago•6 comments

My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza

https://technologizer.com/home/2026/02/16/arctic-adventure-2026/
84•vontzy•3d ago•29 comments

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

https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-llm-evaluation-to-guardrails
193•benbreen•3d ago•79 comments

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy
93•jbredeche•15h ago•46 comments

Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)

https://borischerny.com/food/2022/01/17/Dinosaur-food.html
111•simonebrunozzi•14h ago•93 comments

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

https://makie.org/website/blogposts/raytracing/
176•simondanisch•18h ago•67 comments

Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)

https://planetscale.com/blog/zero-downtime-migrations-at-petabyte-scale
98•Ozzie_osman•3d ago•22 comments

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

https://github.com/fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
119•holyknight•18h ago•55 comments

We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-science-funding-cuts
400•mitchbob•8h ago•368 comments