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Obsidian Sync Now Has a Headless Client
NewsFeb 28, 2026

Obsidian Sync Now Has a Headless Client

Obsidian has released a headless client for its Sync service, allowing vaults to be synchronized via a command‑line interface instead of the desktop app. The tool supports one‑time and continuous sync, can be driven by an authentication token for non‑interactive...

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How Do I Cancel My ChatGPT Subscription?
NewsFeb 28, 2026

How Do I Cancel My ChatGPT Subscription?

The guide details step‑by‑step procedures for canceling ChatGPT personal, mobile, and Business subscriptions, highlighting where to locate the cancellation controls in the web app, iOS App Store, and Google Play. It explains that cancellations take effect the day after the...

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Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic Video Editor
NewsFeb 26, 2026

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic Video Editor

Cardboard, a Y Combinator W26 startup, offers an AI‑powered video editor that transforms raw footage into polished, publish‑ready content in minutes. The platform automates framing, captioning, montage creation, podcast clipping, and more, while allowing users to issue natural‑language edit commands....

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Loops Is a Federated, Open-Source TikTok
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Loops Is a Federated, Open-Source TikTok

Loops launches as an open‑source, federated short‑video platform positioning itself as an ethical alternative to TikTok. The service emphasizes privacy, community governance, and the absence of invasive tracking or ad‑driven revenue models. By making its code publicly available, Loops promises...

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Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2
NewsFeb 20, 2026

Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2

Stripe’s minions are unattended LLM‑driven coding agents that now generate over 1,300 pull requests each week, all created without human‑written code. The system runs on Stripe’s pre‑warmed devboxes—standardized EC2 instances that spin up in about ten seconds—providing isolated, parallel environments...

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I Tried Building My Startup Entirely on European Infrastructure
NewsFeb 20, 2026

I Tried Building My Startup Entirely on European Infrastructure

A founder rebuilt his startup using only European cloud and SaaS providers, swapping AWS for Hetzner, Scaleway, Bunny.net, Nebius, and Hanko while self‑hosting core services on Rancher‑managed Kubernetes. The migration revealed lower infrastructure costs and clear data‑residency benefits, but also...

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What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal
NewsFeb 16, 2026

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal

A developer released Bluehood, an open‑source Bluetooth scanner that passively logs nearby devices and visualises their appearance patterns. The tool runs on a Raspberry Pi or laptop and can identify phones, wearables, vehicles and IoT gadgets without ever connecting. Its release...

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Arm Wants a Bigger Slice of the Chip Business
NewsFeb 16, 2026

Arm Wants a Bigger Slice of the Chip Business

Arm, the British‑American‑Japanese semiconductor IP giant, now powers more than 300 billion chips, including 30 billion shipped in 2025 alone. While it never manufactures silicon, the firm earns upfront licensing fees and per‑chip royalties from a vast ecosystem of device makers. In...

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Show HN: Clawe – Open-Source Trello for Agent Teams
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Show HN: Clawe – Open-Source Trello for Agent Teams

Clawe is an open‑source, multi‑agent coordination platform that mimics Trello for AI squads. Built on the OpenClaw gateway, it lets developers run several agents with unique personalities, each waking on cron schedules to handle tasks. A Kanban‑style web dashboard powered...

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Show HN: Stripe-No-Webhooks – Sync Your Stripe Data to Your Postgres DB
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Show HN: Stripe-No-Webhooks – Sync Your Stripe Data to Your Postgres DB

The open‑source "stripe-no-webhooks" library lets developers integrate Stripe payments without writing webhook code. It syncs product plans, subscriptions, credits, wallets and usage data directly into a PostgreSQL schema, handling all webhook processing automatically. The package includes a CLI for initializing...

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Show HN: HN Companion – Web App that Enhances the Experience of Reading HN
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Show HN: HN Companion – Web App that Enhances the Experience of Reading HN

HN Companion is a free, open‑source web extension that adds AI‑generated summaries directly to Hacker News comment threads. It understands thread hierarchy, highlights key debates, and lets users jump to specific comments via a summary panel. Users can choose from...

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Show HN: Rowboat – AI Coworker that Turns Your Work Into a Knowledge Graph (OSS)
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Show HN: Rowboat – AI Coworker that Turns Your Work Into a Knowledge Graph (OSS)

Rowboat is an open‑source, local‑first AI coworker that continuously harvests email, calendar and meeting‑note data to build a persistent knowledge graph stored as plain‑text Markdown. The system uses that graph to generate context‑aware artifacts such as slide decks, meeting briefs,...

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Competition Is Not Market Validation
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Competition Is Not Market Validation

The article argues that a crowded competitive landscape does not prove a large or attractive market. It explains that excess venture capital, low barriers to entry, and an oversupply of founders can create a swarm of startups even in modest...

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Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents

Former GitHub CEO launches Entire, a developer platform built for AI agents, backed by a $60 million seed round led by Felicis. The company’s first offering is an open‑source CLI that records agent context as versioned "Checkpoints" alongside Git commits. Entire...

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Disruption with Some GitHub Services
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

On February 10, 2026, GitHub reported a service incident that degraded Pull Requests performance. The platform experienced intermittent timeouts on several pages beginning at 15:07 UTC, with updates confirming degraded service at 15:08 UTC. The outage primarily affected developers’ ability to create,...

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Oxide Raises $200M Series C
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Oxide Raises $200M Series C

Oxide announced a $200 million Series C round, doubling the size of its recent Series B. The capital was raised exclusively from existing investors, reflecting strong backer confidence despite the company already achieving product‑market fit with its hardware offering. Oxide argues the infusion...

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Show HN: Pipelock – All-in-One Security Harness for AI Coding Agents
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Show HN: Pipelock – All-in-One Security Harness for AI Coding Agents

Pipelock is a single‑binary, zero‑dependency security harness designed for AI coding agents that need shell access and API keys. It isolates the agent process from unrestricted internet by routing all web traffic through a fetch‑proxy that applies a seven‑layer scanning...

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Zulip.com Values
NewsFeb 10, 2026

Zulip.com Values

Zulip positions itself as the world’s most organized team‑chat platform, built to endure for years with uninterrupted service since 2013. The company keeps the entire product 100% open source, offering self‑hosted installations that match cloud features at no cost. It...

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Everyone’s Building “Async Agents,” But Almost No One Can Define Them
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Everyone’s Building “Async Agents,” But Almost No One Can Define Them

The article highlights the vague usage of “async agents” across blogs, product announcements, and developer discussions, noting that existing definitions—long‑running tasks, cloud‑based execution, or event‑driven triggers—are inconsistent. It clarifies that an agent is an LLM loop with contextual continuity, while...

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Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-Compliant Auth Implementation for Cloudflare Workers
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-Compliant Auth Implementation for Cloudflare Workers

A new open‑source repository provides a minimal, standards‑driven authentication stack for Cloudflare Workers, featuring PBKDF2‑SHA384 password hashing, a dual‑token JWT scheme, and strict TypeScript typing. The implementation follows NIST SP 800‑63B, NIST SP 800‑132, OWASP ASVS, and RFC 8725, and includes over 250...

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Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers
NewsFeb 8, 2026

Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers

Toma, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 startup, raised a $17 million Series A round led by a16z to build an AI platform for underserved sectors such as automotive and healthcare. The company is hiring founding engineers—full‑stack developers familiar with Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript...

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Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage Bypasses Image Blocking to Track Email Opens
NewsFeb 8, 2026

Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage Bypasses Image Blocking to Track Email Opens

Roundcube Webmail’s HTML sanitizer failed to treat the SVG element’s href attribute as an image source, allowing external URLs to load even when the “Block remote images” setting is enabled. This oversight lets attackers embed an invisible 1×1 SVG...

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Bun v1.3.9
NewsFeb 8, 2026

Bun v1.3.9

Bun v1.3.9 introduces powerful script orchestration with --parallel and --sequential flags, adding Foreman‑style prefixed output and full workspace integration. The release also adds Symbol.dispose support for mock() and spyOn(), enabling automatic restoration of test doubles via the using keyword. Performance gains span SIMD‑accelerated...

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Billing Can Be Bypassed Using a Combo of Subagents with an Agent Definition
NewsFeb 8, 2026

Billing Can Be Bypassed Using a Combo of Subagents with an Agent Definition

Security researchers uncovered a billing bypass in Microsoft Copilot that exploits subagents and agent definitions to run premium models without charging the user. By initiating a chat with a free model such as GPT‑5 Mini and spawning a subagent configured for a...

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GitHub Agentic Workflows
NewsFeb 8, 2026

GitHub Agentic Workflows

GitHub Agentic Workflows let developers describe repository automation in plain‑language markdown, which the `gh aw` CLI compiles into secure GitHub Actions workflows. The system runs AI agents—such as Copilot or Claude—in isolated containers to perform tasks like issue triage, documentation...

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Vouch
NewsFeb 8, 2026

Vouch

Vouch introduces an explicit trust‑management layer for open‑source projects, letting maintainers vouch for or denounce contributors through GitHub issues, discussions, or a CLI. Unvouched users are blocked from contributing, while denounced users can be globally excluded. The system stores trust...

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Software Engineering Is Back
NewsFeb 7, 2026

Software Engineering Is Back

Since December 2025, AI‑driven coding agents have enabled end‑to‑end automated programming, allowing developers to generate production‑ready code without manual typing. The author argues this shift eliminates the need for heavyweight frameworks and boilerplate, returning engineers to pure architectural work. By...

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Show HN: I Spent 4 Years Building a UI Design Tool with only the Features I Use
NewsFeb 6, 2026

Show HN: I Spent 4 Years Building a UI Design Tool with only the Features I Use

Vecti, a browser‑based UI design platform, launched after four years of development, offering real‑time collaborative editing and a high‑performance rendering engine. The tool provides a free tier with no credit‑card requirement, student discounts, and plans priced up to 20% cheaper...

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I Spent 5 Years in DevOps – Solutions Engineering Gave Me What I Was Missing
NewsFeb 6, 2026

I Spent 5 Years in DevOps – Solutions Engineering Gave Me What I Was Missing

After five years as a DevSecOps engineer at large financial firms, the author left the repetitive, isolated role for a Solutions Engineer position at Infisical. The new role replaces daily ticket queues with varied customer engagements across fintech, aerospace, healthcare,...

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An Update on Heroku
NewsFeb 6, 2026

An Update on Heroku

Heroku announced a shift to a sustaining engineering model that emphasizes stability, security, and reliability over new feature development. Existing customers will see no changes to pricing, billing, or core platform functionality, and can continue using Heroku for production workloads....

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GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Engineering Teams
NewsFeb 6, 2026

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Engineering Teams

GitHub Actions, now the default CI for many repositories, suffers from a clunky log viewer, fragile YAML configuration, and limited control over compute resources, leading to prolonged debugging cycles. The platform’s marketplace introduces security risks by allowing opaque third‑party actions...

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Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents
NewsFeb 5, 2026

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

An open‑source Slack CLI built with TypeScript and Bun enables AI agents to interact with Slack data through a token‑efficient, JSON‑only interface. The tool offers zero‑config authentication by reading Slack Desktop credentials on macOS, with Chrome fallback, and provides commands...

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Claude Opus 4.6 Extra Usage Promo
NewsFeb 5, 2026

Claude Opus 4.6 Extra Usage Promo

Anthropic is rolling out a limited‑time promotion that grants Pro and Max subscribers a $50 credit for extra usage of Claude Opus 4.6. The credit applies automatically for users who already have extra usage enabled, or can be claimed by enabling...

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European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
NewsFeb 5, 2026

European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

The European Commission has begun a trial of the open‑source Matrix protocol as a sovereign backup for its internal communications, complementing Microsoft Teams rather than replacing it. Matrix, already deployed by the French government, German healthcare providers, and European armed...

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Freshpaint (YC S19) Is Hiring a Senior SWE, Data
NewsFeb 5, 2026

Freshpaint (YC S19) Is Hiring a Senior SWE, Data

Freshpaint, a Y Combinator S19 startup, is hiring a senior software engineer focused on data to expand its HIPAA‑compliant infrastructure for healthcare marketers. The company enables 100s of healthcare businesses to collect, protect, and activate customer data while staying privacy‑first....

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How We Made Geo Joins 400× Faster with H3 Indexes
NewsFeb 5, 2026

How We Made Geo Joins 400× Faster with H3 Indexes

Floe’s query planner now rewrites spatial joins by generating H3 cell coverages for each geometry and joining on the resulting integer keys. This pre‑filter reduces the candidate pairs dramatically, turning a quadratic ST_Intersects join into a hash‑join followed by a...

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Battle-Testing Lynx at Allegro
NewsFeb 5, 2026

Battle-Testing Lynx at Allegro

Allegro’s mobile team, after six years with the in‑house MBox server‑driven UI, sought a solution that could deliver native performance while retaining cross‑platform flexibility. They evaluated Lynx, an open‑source framework that renders natively on iOS, Android, and Web from a...

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ICE Seeks Industry Input on Ad Tech Location Data for Investigative Use
NewsFeb 5, 2026

ICE Seeks Industry Input on Ad Tech Location Data for Investigative Use

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a Request for Information seeking commercial ad‑tech tools that provide location data and large‑scale analytics for investigative use. The RFI, framed as market research, asks vendors to demonstrate platforms that can ingest, correlate,...

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Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI Testing Your PR, Embedded in GitHub
NewsFeb 4, 2026

Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI Testing Your PR, Embedded in GitHub

Glance is an AI‑powered testing tool that reads a pull‑request diff and automatically determines which UI interactions to exercise. It runs the tests in managed or developer‑provided browsers and captures video recordings, screenshots, console errors, and network logs. All artifacts...

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Turn Any Website Into a Live, Structured Data Feed
NewsFeb 4, 2026

Turn Any Website Into a Live, Structured Data Feed

Meter launches a no‑code web‑scraping and change‑detection platform that lets users describe data extraction in plain English. The service runs scrapes every 15 minutes, bypasses major anti‑bot defenses, and rotates residential and datacenter proxies. Detected content changes trigger webhooks, delivering...

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I Made an Open-Source Juypter Alternative
NewsFeb 4, 2026

I Made an Open-Source Juypter Alternative

more-compute is an open‑source, locally‑run Python notebook environment that mimics Jupyter, Marimo, and Google Colab. It stores notebooks as .py files with # %% cell markers and includes a built‑in converter to and from the traditional .ipynb format. Installation is supported...

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Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring Product Engineers (NYC, In-Person)
NewsFeb 4, 2026

Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring Product Engineers (NYC, In-Person)

Converge, a YC S23 startup, is hiring senior product engineers in New York to bolster its vertically integrated marketing data platform. Backed by $5.7 million in funding, the company already exceeds $1 M ARR with over 180 customers while operating a six‑person core...

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Microsoft's Copilot Chatbot Is Running Into Problems
NewsFeb 4, 2026

Microsoft's Copilot Chatbot Is Running Into Problems

Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, the centerpiece of its AI‑first strategy, is encountering significant hurdles. Users and former staff cite confusing branding and poor interoperability with other Microsoft tools. Adoption among enterprise customers remains modest and is slipping relative to rivals like...

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Voxtral Transcribe 2
NewsFeb 4, 2026

Voxtral Transcribe 2

Mistral AI today launched Voxtral Transcribe 2, a pair of next‑generation speech‑to‑text models: Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch processing and Voxtral Realtime for live transcription. The realtime model delivers sub‑200 ms latency with a 4 B‑parameter footprint and is released as open‑weights under...

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Deno Sandbox
NewsFeb 3, 2026

Deno Sandbox

Over the past year Deno Deploy customers have increasingly generated code with large language models that runs instantly, exposing API keys and network access. Deno now offers Sandbox, lightweight Linux microVMs that isolate untrusted code, enforce network‑egress policies, and keep...

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Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
NewsFeb 3, 2026

Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework

Modelence, a Y Combinator S25 startup, released an open‑source full‑stack framework built on TypeScript and MongoDB to streamline AI‑driven app development. The platform bundles authentication, database, cron jobs and observability, letting both AI agents and human developers focus on product logic....

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Bunny Database
NewsFeb 3, 2026

Bunny Database

Bunny Database launches a public preview as a managed, SQLite‑compatible service that automatically spins down when idle. It offers one‑click deployment, SDKs for multiple languages, and multi‑region replication across 41 locations, promising up to 99% latency reduction for distant users....

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Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Product Designer
NewsFeb 3, 2026

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Product Designer

Emerge Career, a Y Combinator S22 startup, is hiring its first product designer‑engineer in New York to accelerate a tech‑powered workforce‑development platform for justice‑impacted individuals. The company’s pilot program boasts an 89% graduation rate and 92% job placement, with graduates earning an...

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DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved
NewsFeb 3, 2026

DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved

The article demystifies DNS by walking through a real‑world domain migration that stalled due to TTL caching. It explains the hierarchical structure—from root servers to TLDs, domains, and subdomains—and details the core record types (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT). The...

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