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Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-trial-0e9a7fa0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075245 Points: 134 # Comments: 74

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

Article URL: https://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-save Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074389 Points: 175 # Comments: 240

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Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)

Article URL: https://kodiak64.co.uk/blog/seawolves-technical-tricks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073044 Points: 110 # Comments: 12

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The boys’ club no one was supposed to write about

Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful

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SpaceX’s Starbase city is getting its own court

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.

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As browser wars heat up, Chrome adds new productivity features

Split View, PDF annotations and 'Save to Chrome' features come to the Chrome browser.

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SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge US gas power plant

If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.

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For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier, but maintaining them is just as hard.

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F1: Preseason tests shows how different 2026 will be

Everyone's trying to get mileage as F1 undergoes huge technical changes.

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Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

Article URL: https://blog.zgp.org/micropayments-as-a-reality-check-for-news-sites/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078167 Points: 13 # Comments: 1

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IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/irs_job_cuts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077849 Points: 104 # Comments: 57

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California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report Themselves

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/californias-new-bill-requires-doj-approved-3d-printers-that-report-on-themselves/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077844 Points: 70 # Comments: 44

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CTO Says 93% of Developers Use AI, but Productivity Is Still 10%

Article URL: https://shiftmag.dev/this-cto-says-93-of-developers-use-ai-but-productivity-is-still-10-8013/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077676 Points: 40 # Comments: 37

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Farewell Rust

Article URL: https://yieldcode.blog/post/farewell-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077383 Points: 35 # Comments: 13

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

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470