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Palo Alto has bet big on AI in recent months and launched an aggressive acquisition spree that included buying CyberArk for $25 billion.

The activist investor said Riot's 1.7 GW power capacity can drive premium AI hosting deals at Texas sites.

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I do fullstack dev for work and side projects and recently moved everything to a couple VPSs on hetzner. Great setup, low cost, but one thing kept bugging me, how do I know if something is down without manually sshing in all the time? I tried the grafana + prometheus stack but the configuration time and seeing it use more resources than my actual apps was rough. Tried some smaller solutions too but nothing felt right. So I said screw it and built exactly what I wanted. Tori is a single go binary

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Hello HN, I’m Dan (aadivar), one of the two people working on AttentionGuard. I built it because I was tired of social media websites pushing algorithmic content at me, while preventing content I actually subscribed to from being shown. e.g. My wife has an art channel on YouTube with over 200K followers, yet I never see her videos on my feed despite being subscribed. So, I created a browser extension that is an observability tool for algorithmic manipulation. It measures and gives visibility int

I built GridCalc, an RPN spreadsheet for iOS. It combines the efficiency of Reverse Polish Notation with the visible structure and reactivity of a spreadsheet. You enter numbers and operators step by step, and you can retroactively change any value. All dependent calculations update immediately. I love spreadsheets but I've never liked how cramped traditional spreadsheets feel on a phone. My goal was to make ad‑hoc, spreadsheet-like calculation on a phone feel direct and fluid. Here’s a short de

Hi HN, Deleting old accounts from websites is often more time-consuming than it should be. In many cases, you have to manually search for the privacy policy, locate the right contact email, and figure out how to submit a data-related request. I built exitlight, an open-source command-line tool that automates part of this process. Given a website, it attempts to locate the privacy policy and extract publicly available contact information that can be used for requests such as DSARs or account dele

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-18/us-economy-expansion-forecast-even-with-weak-jobs-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063263 Points: 28 # Comments: 21

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The Investing Club holds its "Morning Meeting" every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Leo Mindyuk of ML Tech writes that while crypto markets look liquid on paper, executable liquidity at scale is more fragmented and more fragile than most institutions assume.

The financial giant with $3.5 trillion in assets has teamed up with World Liberty Financial to test the USD1 stablecoin for fund flows and tokenized assets.

Maybe you've heard, but Elon Musk is apparently a Moon fan now. He has historically been the ultimate cheerleader for human missions to Mars, and as recently as last year, he said his aim was to go straight to the red planet and that the Moon was "a distraction." Now, he has apparently changed his mind, announcing that SpaceX has shifted focus to building a city on the Moon. Within the space science community, this news about the Moon has largely been met with eye rolls, primarily because so man

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Hi HN, creator of EmbedPDF here. I recently posted my open-source PDF viewer here, and one thing I really value is that it runs completely offline. I started wondering if we could push that further: could we do full ML layout analysis (detecting tables, headers, columns) directly in the browser? To my surprise, it actually works. The catch: It is far from production-ready. It crashes on most phones, and on older computers, it can be incredibly slow. The why: I believe the future of document proc

I wanted a quick way to evaluate repos before adding them as dependencies. ChatGPT can do this, but I needed consistent JSON output for automation, something API-callable for my agents, and deterministic results (no hallucinated star counts). So I built RepoCrunch. Point it at a GitHub URL and get structured analysis: tech stack, dependencies, architecture, health metrics, security indicators. What I found analyzing 8 popular frameworks: - Next.js is 13% Rust. Turbopack is a big chunk. GitHub ju

Although US President Donald Trump was not slated to appear at today's event, it will include two senators, the CFTC chair, and industry leaders.

I started learning to code last year and one of the things I always loved was downloading stuff from the internet. Figuring out how players serve their streams, messing with scrapers, all of that. During carnival I had a lot of free time and decided to build something I could share. Omniget is a desktop app (Tauri, Rust + Svelte) for downloading media from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Reddit, Twitch, Pinterest, Bluesky, Vimeo, Telegram, Hotmart, and now Udemy. Inspired by cobalt.tools bu

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Hey HN, I built Nom because I kept running into this problem: code moves way faster than we can update people about it. I'd ship features, merge PRs, close issues, and my users had no idea unless I sat down and wrote a changelog or posted about it on X. Nom turns your GitHub activity into a social feed. You install the GitHub App and every PR merge, issue, release, and comment gets auto-summarized by AI into something actually readable. Think of it like an X feed for your repo. You can customize

LockFS is a small open-source Java tool that encrypts files individually instead of bundling everything into a single container. Many vault systems rely on large encrypted blobs or container files. They can become complex to handle as they grow and complicate backups across mixed storage sizes. LockFS takes a file-level approach: - Each file is encrypted independently - No monolithic container growth - Files can be added, moved, or removed without rewriting a large archive Contributions and feed

Prediction market outcomes are being used as inputs for how players deal with traditional financial markets, NYSE President Lynn Martin said at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Audible launched a new "immersion reading" feature that could help readers concentrate on their audiobooks by allowing them to read along with the ebook version. While listening to an audiobook in the Audible app, users can tap the "Read & Listen" button above their book's cover art to see the text version of what they're listening to. As the audio plays, the text is highlighted in sync. The option to read and listen at the same time could help improve reading comprehension for re

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The payment software company has integrated stablecoin settlement into its existing payments stack, combining USDG, USDP and USDC with traditional rails.

Coinbase, Circle, Galaxy, IREN and Riot led the early morning rebound among crypto-related stocks as the battered software sector found some relief.

Much of my work right now involves complex, long-running, multi-agentic teams of agents. I kept running into the same problem: “How do I keep these guys in line?” Rules weren’t cutting it, and we needed a scalable, agentic-native STANDARD I could count on. There wasn’t one. So I built one. Here are two open-source protocols that extend A2A, granting AI agents behavioral contracts and runtime integrity monitoring: - Agent Alignment Protocol (AAP): What an agent can do / has done. - Agent Integ

The Microsoft president said American firms will have to compete with subsidies provided by Beijing to Chinese companies.