Some things I found interesting from 2026-02-08 to 2026-02-15

Internet Discoveries between 8 and 15 February

GitHub - pydantic/monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
Vouch
I put Claude Code inside Obsidian, and it was awesome
AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks
Zulip.com Values
Fun With Pinball
Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
The Day the Telnet Died
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal’s war elephants
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
Using an engineering notebook
The Missing GitHub Status Page
Gemini 3 Deep Think
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
An AI agent published a hit piece on me
GitHub - s2-streamstore/claude-batch-toolkit: Send non-urgent work to the Anthropic Batch API at 50% cost — directly from Claude Code
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Sandwich Bill of Materials
Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
Genuine RAAF WWII bunker for sale an hour from Brisbane - realestate.com.au
YouTube as Storage
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
Hasbro Celebrates ‘Transformers: The Movie’ by Apologizing for It
The Israeli Spyware Firm That Accidentally Just Exposed Itself
IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
Descent, ported to the web
Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment
Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

Interesting details

GitHub - pydantic/monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - pydantic/monty

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory - Contribute to localgpt-app/localgpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Little Bool of Doom (2025) - A short story about debugging and how sometimes what’s true is false. Starring everyone’s favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.

Vouch - A contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate. - mitchellh/vouch

I put Claude Code inside Obsidian, and it was awesome - No I don’t know what I’m doing, but that’s what Claude is for

AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks - In the race for AI, tech firms are asking for their staff to work long hours. But there are risks, experts say

Zulip.com Values - Learn about the values that are behind everything we do as we work to build the world’s best organized team chat software.

Fun With Pinball - Fun With Pinball small board assembly instructions explanations flipper solenoid stepper video

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents - Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.

The Day the Telnet Died - On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964) -

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability -

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass -

Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal’s war elephants - Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been found from the Punic War period and region. But, in 2020, archaeologists found a single bone at the Colina de los Quemados site in Córdoba, Spain that may finally provide some more direct evidence for the existence of these beasts of war. The finding is described in the team’s newly published study, in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code - Warcraft III Peon voice notifications for Claude Code. Stop babysitting your terminal. - tonyyont/peon-ping

Using an engineering notebook -

The Missing GitHub Status Page -

Gemini 3 Deep Think - We’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode.

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark -

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. …

An AI agent published a hit piece on me - Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

GitHub - s2-streamstore/claude-batch-toolkit: Send non-urgent work to the Anthropic Batch API at 50% cost — directly from Claude Code - Send non-urgent work to the Anthropic Batch API at 50% cost — directly from Claude Code - s2-streamstore/claude-batch-toolkit

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened - Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Sandwich Bill of Materials - SBOM 1.0: A specification for sandwich supply chain transparency.

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL - Watch SQL traffic in real-time with a TUI. Contribute to mickamy/sql-tap development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide - data engineering book. Contribute to datascale-ai/data_engineering_book development by creating an account on GitHub.

Genuine RAAF WWII bunker for sale an hour from Brisbane - realestate.com.au - A genuine RAAF-built World War II bunker – once used by US forces – has hit the market near Brisbane, boasting 30cm-thick concrete walls and the ultimate weird home bragging rights.

YouTube as Storage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03Os5uwWmk. Contribute to PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage development by creating an account on GitHub.

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 - Backblaze’s 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.

Hasbro Celebrates ‘Transformers: The Movie’ by Apologizing for It - If you’re still upset over ‘Transformers: The Movie’ whacking Optimus Prime, you’ve got a whole year to accept Hasbro’s ‘we’re sorry.’

The Israeli Spyware Firm That Accidentally Just Exposed Itself - Israeli surveillance company Paragon Solutions briefly exposed its own spyware dashboard on LinkedIn, revealing the hidden architecture of a billion-dollar surveillance empire built on the backs of journalists, activists, and ordinary people.

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption - Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.

Descent, ported to the web -

Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database - A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec

A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment - A practical stargazing guide with curated observing targets, planning help, and tools for binoculars, telescopes, and astrophotography.

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library -

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed -

All this was saved to my Link Ace over the week