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Archive: February 12th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Maxi C

Maxi C@mcsee

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AI Coding Tip 006 - Review Every Line Before Commit

Min Readan hour Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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BYDFi Joins Solana Accelerate APAC at Consensus Hong Kong, Expanding Solana Ecosystem Engagement

Min Read4 hours Ago

Startups Of The Week

Startups Of The Week@startupsoftheweek

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Build Your Empire 50 People At a Time

Min Read4 hours Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Flipster FZE Secures In-Principle Approval, Reinforcing Commitment to Regulated Crypto Access

Min Read4 hours Ago

Tokenwire

Tokenwire@tokenwire

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Next Crypto to Explode: Pepeto Builds Meme Trading Infrastructure as BNB, SOL Stall

Min Read4 hours Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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Top 3 Altcoins for 2026 Growth, One Is Still Under $1

Min Read6 hours Ago

AIOZ Network

AIOZ Network@aioznetwork

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AIOZ Storage Launches Peer-to-Peer S3-Compatible Cloud on DePIN

Min Read6 hours Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Keeping Up with the Upwork Civil War on Reddit (2/12/2026)

Min Read7 hours Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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How Buck Reached 10% Yield Without Compromising Stability in DeFi's Rate Wars

Min Read7 hours Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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WaaP Launches on Sui: How human.tech Is Transforming Access for 3 Million Crypto Users

Min Read9 hours Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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Why Ault Blockchain's Zero-Speculation Model Could Redefine How Layer 1 Networks Launch

Min Read9 hours Ago

150Sec

150Sec@150sec

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UK Tech Funding Falls 11% in 2025, but Remains Second Globally

Min Read10 hours Ago

Bitunix

Bitunix@bitunix

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Upbit Concludes Review, Removes Restrictions on Bitunix Exchange in South Korea

Min Read10 hours Ago

Stewart Rogers

Stewart Rogers@therealsjr

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Tech's Silent Epidemic: Why We Are Rebooting 2018’s Landmark Mental Health Research

Min Read11 hours Ago

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories@astoundingstories

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The Asteroid Escape You Can’t Miss

Min Read11 hours Ago

Confluent

Confluent@confluent

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How Python Devs Can Build AI Agents Using MCP, Kafka, and Flink

Min Read12 hours Ago

Dr. One

Dr. One@drone

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New Global Expansion Report Benchmarks the Hidden Costs and Risks of Scaling Across 19 Markets

Min Read12 hours Ago

Solvency Ratio Technology

Solvency Ratio Technology @solvency

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Mean-Field LIBOR Models Offer Reliable Bounds for Life Insurance Valuation, Study Finds

Min Read13 hours Ago

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic@nebojsaneshatodorovic

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Keeping Up with the Upwork Civil War on Reddit

Min Read13 hours Ago

Solvency Ratio Technology

Solvency Ratio Technology @solvency

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How Public Balance Sheet Data Can Be Used to Estimate Life Insurance Guarantee Costs

Min Read14 hours Ago

Solvency Ratio Technology

Solvency Ratio Technology @solvency

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Estimating Future Discretionary Benefits Without Monte Carlo Simulation

Min Read15 hours Ago

Solvency Ratio Technology

Solvency Ratio Technology @solvency

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Testing Actuarial Assumptions With Realistic Life Insurance Data

Min Read16 hours Ago

Techtoken

Techtoken@techtoken

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Film Once, Appear Everywhere: How AI Backgrounds Multiply Content Locations

Min Read16 hours Ago

Tosin Kolawole

Tosin Kolawole@teedon

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AI Apps Have a New Attack Surface: External Inputs

Min Read16 hours Ago

Deepankar Mathur

Deepankar Mathur@deepankarmathur

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Emotion Is Everywhere in AI—Except in the System That Runs It

Min Read17 hours Ago

JHart

JHart@jhart

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The Infrastructure Truth Behind Travel Data

Min Read17 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Software Isn’t Supposed to Be Missed — So Why Did Users Grieve GPT-4o?

Min Read17 hours Ago

Subasree Venkatsubhramaniyen

Subasree Venkatsubhramaniyen@hack0r6722e6c8131b2c14b0e51039

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Stop Optimizing for Clicks: The Case for Uplift Modeling in Notifications

Min Read17 hours Ago

Nikolay Beresnev

Nikolay Beresnev@nikolayberesnev

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Why Bank Risk Systems Never Truly Went “Real-Time”

Min Read17 hours Ago

Jurgis

Jurgis@jurgispocius

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Everyone Wants DeFi Yield. Almost Nobody Understands the Machine Making It

Min Read17 hours Ago

Felix

Felix@felix

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Float vs Int Confidence Scores: Why LLM Output Format Changes Model Behavior

Min Read17 hours Ago

Abdullah

Abdullah@navigatingnoise

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The “Lazy” App I Built to Fix Wedding Albums—And the AI Trick That Shipped It

Min Read17 hours Ago

NemoCat

NemoCat@nemocat

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Your Terminal Doesn’t Have to Be Boring: Add Random Emojis to Your Shell

Min Read17 hours Ago

Ishan Manjrekar

Ishan Manjrekar@gamedesignbites

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“Brainrot” and the Attention Economy Are Changing Time Gating in Free-to-Play Games

Min Read17 hours Ago

Incomplete Developer

Incomplete Developer@incompletedeveloper

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AI Code Review Is Great at Nitpicks, Terrible at Systems

Min Read17 hours Ago

Lelanthran

Lelanthran@lelanthran

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If You Fear C Buffer Overflows, Wait Until You Meet LLM Logic Overflows

Min Read18 hours Ago

Jon Brookes

Jon Brookes@hacker8790755

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Why I Started Building My Own Containers (and What I Wish Tutorials Told Me)

Min Read18 hours Ago

Nikita Vasilev

Nikita Vasilev@nsvasilev

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Meet Validator: Chainable Form Validation Rules for Swift Apps

Min Read18 hours Ago

Vladimir Kocjancic

Vladimir Kocjancic@vkocjancic

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Certificate Pinning in C#: 50 Lines to Kill MITM Attacks

Min Read18 hours Ago

MattLeads

MattLeads@mattleads

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Symfony AI Agents in Symfony 7.4: Best Practices for Clean Architecture, Tools, and Testing

Min Read18 hours Ago

Dan Layfield

Dan Layfield@dlayf

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“One More Feature” Is a Tax on Your Exit

Min Read18 hours Ago

Vladimiros Peilivanidis

Vladimiros Peilivanidis@rosspeili

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Perfect Recall Is a Trap: Why AI Needs Consequences, Not More Memory

Min Read18 hours Ago

Praise J.J.

Praise J.J.@praisejamesx

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How Builders Think in Multivariate Reality

Min Read18 hours Ago

Piyush Jajoo

Piyush Jajoo@pjajoo

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Secure Pod Identity Across Clouds: AKS Workload Identity, EKS IRSA, GKE Workload Identity

Min Read18 hours Ago

Scott D. Clary

Scott D. Clary@scottdclary

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The “Now What?” Feeling After You Win Has a Fix

Min Read18 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Can LLMs Actually Clean Your Data? The Tradeoffs Nobody Wants to Admit

Min Read20 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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The “Think in Pictures” Upgrade for Multimodal Models

Min Read20 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Design a Voice With Words: Inside fal-ai’s qwen-3-tts/voice-design/1.7b

Min Read21 hours Ago

Hyperbole

Hyperbole@hyperbole

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Spatial Rotation Learning for Robotic Arms: SO(3) vs. Bingham Distributions

Min Read21 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Meet Wan’s “Flash” Reference-to-Video Model: Fast Motion From a Single Frame

Min Read21 hours Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Lost Proofs, Found Proofs: How AI Unearthed Forgotten Solutions

Min Reada day Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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The Last Manual Step in AI Research? Making the Figures

Min Reada day Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Vision-DeepResearch Wants Multimodal AI to “Show Its Work”

Min Reada day Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Wallet in Telegram Launches Cross Chain Deposits in Self Custodial TON Wallet

Min Reada day Ago

CyberNewswire

CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

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GitGuardian Raises $50M Series C to Address Non-Human Identities Crisis And AI Agent Security Gap

Min Reada day Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Meet Youtu-VL-4B: Tencent’s Tiny Model That Does Segmentation, Depth, and VQA

Min Reada day Ago