Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions
When you need to make an anxiety-inducing decision, ask yourself: What is the worst realistic outcome? Will you be able to recover from it? Let’s say you want to make a product and sell it, and you need to invest in inventory. The manufacturer needs you to order $1,000 worth to meet their minimum. The […]
Discord Just Killed Anonymity
Discord Exodus Begins ← Back to Home February 12, 2026 It finally happened. After months of speculation, Discord dropped the hammer: mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month. The era of anonymous gaming chats is officially over. Naturally, the internet is panicking. A massive exodus is underway, with thousands of users […]
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Hi all, We’ve seen a huge spike of signups on the matrix.org homeserver over the last few days due to Discord announcing its plans to age-verify all users as of next month. We’d like to give a warm welcome to the massive influx of users currently trying Matrix as an open decentralised alternative to centralised […]
Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
For the first time, the official guidance from the United States government is to avoid highly processed food. We are not making a legal definition or attacking an industry – we are stating a public health truth that Americans already feel in their bodies and see in their families. These foods include: Packaged, prepared, ready-to-eat, […]
Fixing retail with land value capture
A lot of what we find interesting about cities is the retail within them. We lean on retail – shops, cafes, restaurants and so on – to make cities what they are. Urban economist Ed Glaeser called this the rise of the consumer city, showing how consumption agglomeration was becoming increasingly important, as well as […]
What’s the difference between a ”disc” and a ”disk”?
This article has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple. A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do […]
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
A party balloon mistaken for a cartel drone shut down El Paso for hours. Here’s what it cost. On February 10, 2026, the FAA shut down all flights over El Paso for what was supposed to be 10 days because the U.S. military had shot down what it thought was a drone. It turned out […]
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
We have raised $30 billion in Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, valuing Anthropic at $380 billion post-money. The round was co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. The investment will fuel the frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansions that have made Anthropic the market leader in […]
Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
Hey y’all, Kartik, Ishaan, and Christian from Omnara (https://www.omnara.com/) here. We’re building a web and mobile agentic IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets you run and interact with coding agents from anywhere. Omnara lets you run Claude Code and Codex sessions on your own machine, and exposes those sessions through a web and […]
Shut Up: Comment Blocker
Huh? Comments are awful. Shut Up hides them by default, sparing your sanity and preventing you from getting sucked into a world of hurt. ”Comments Section”, a Chainsawsuit comic by Kris Straub For the sites where discussions can be more constructive – like GitHub, Dropbox, or Stack Overflow – you can show comments by default. […]