- AI agents and governance: Claude Opus 4.6, OpenAI Frontier, and the push for agent-based AI governance/standards (LlamaAgents, ACP registry). - Open source and self-hosted ecosystems: Indiekit, Zulip, Home Manager, Incus/LXD, LibreOffice 26.2 and OSS governance efforts. - Data privacy breaches and security best practices: Substack data breach, 1Password malware, MFA and ongoing security hardening. - European digital sovereignty and lobbying: Digital Fairness Act (DFA), EU Open Digital Ecosystem, Bundestag “Operation Souveränität.” - AI data-center energy/climate debate: AI demand driving energy use, data-center power (natural gas) and policy tensions. - Starlink/space geopolitics: Ukraine restrictions on Starlink, SpaceX whitelisting of terminals vs. sanctioned usage.
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#MakersHour As usual - missed it but here is my latest #3DPrinting thing - it lets me re-fill the water tank on my daughters coffee machine without having to pull it forward to the edge of the worktop
3D printing tech description
NASA Will Let Its Astronauts Bring iPhones to the Moon
https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906498
posted on 2026.02.05 at 17:45:57 (c=0, p=3)
Why Replacing Developers with AI is Going Horribly Wrong
#AI #technology
Okej, więc się okazało, że nic się nie zmieniło; skrypt generujący kanały RSS, które można obserwować w celu otrzymywania informacji o zmianach technicznych w Biuletynach Informacji Publicznej, rozesłał informację o rzekomej „zmianie”, która polegała tylko na usuniętych ukośnikach na samym końcu adresów.
Z dużym prawdopodobieństwem można stwierdzić, że nie doszło do żadnej, znaczącej zmiany.
Problem jest jednak taki, że gdy próbowałem skasować zduplikowane dane, zrobiłem sobie jeszcze większy burdel w bazie i teraz na nowo trzeba generować dane. Brawo ja.
Technical discussion about RSS script update
Going online in the early 90s was wild.
Retro computing discussion
»Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?« https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/amazon-and-google-are-winning-the-ai-capex-race-but-whats-the-prize/?AIagent.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
Humain leverages abundant Saudi power infrastructure for AI advantage. My latest on Fierce Network. https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/humain-plugs-utterly-remarkable-plentiful-power-ai-advantage-0
Tech AI article about power infrastructure
Das #Elektroauto verursacht mehr Emissionen als der Verbrenner.
Emission claim about electric cars
Use unique passwords, enable 2FA, and keep AI software updated to prevent cyber breaches.
you can watch her version of the demo at the #wasmcloud community hours: https://www.youtube.com/live/F0adyCd2RMs?t=1039s
Wasmcloud technology demo
In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money! https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/amazon-and-google-are-winning-the-ai-capex-race-but-whats-the-prize/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
"Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios."
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-claude-opus-46-software-hunting
Elizabeth Gilbert did an amazing #webassemblycomponent composition demo using v0.3.0 code now out demonstrating the ability to create middleware to pass http requests in a pipeline with no actual network calls involved: https://github.com/ejrgilbert/component-interposition coming soon to a toolset near you!
WebAssembly component demo
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616
C compiler development
کسی #اینترنت #فیبر_نوری را تجربه کرده؟ با چه ارائهدهندهای چه تجربهای دارید؟
با توجه به اینکه سرعت اینترنت از حداکثر سرعت DSL خیلی پایینتر است اصلا استفاده از فیبر نوری تفاوتی ایجاد میکند؟
asks about internet speed
Company as Code: https://blog.42futures.com/p/company-as-code
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899132
tech blog content
Now I have to open an app to turn on the fucking light.
Great work, geniuses.
Smart light app frustration
How Industrial Robot Safety Was Written In Blood
L: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/how-industrial-robot-safety-was-written-in-blood/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904973
posted on 2026.02.05 at 15:42:54 (c=0, p=8)
I see Spotify's continuing identify crisis is going well..
https://lifehacker.com/tech/spotify-wants-to-be-your-bookstore