"It's Unsustainable": People Are Revealing The Things They Officially Stopped Buying In 2026 Because The Price Has Become Genuinely Insulting
"I remember right before COVID, $200 was average for this."
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Civil society groups give seven-day ultimatum to AEDC, NEDC over persistent blackouts in Niger
Civil society groups in Niger State have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and the Niger Electricity ...
Civil society marches to Parliament ahead of Budget 2026
Civil society groups from across the country will on Wednesday march to Parliament ahead of Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2026 Budget Speech.
Civil society accuses CoCT of 'siding with investors over the poor' in land auction
With over 400,000 people on Cape Town's housing waiting list, civil society groups protest the City's controversial land ...
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected
As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk ...
The great Indian local governance challenge
The third tier of governance still remains the weakest tier. Most state governments have been reluctant to devolve powers to ...
The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives
The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.
Show HN: Crustdata (YC F24) – Web Search API for Token-Efficient AI Agents
Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here https://youtu.be/IouWW97hBN8If you run agents at scale, tokens become a line item. The web data is the worst input: long pages, repeated content, mixed entities, stale claims. The us
Show HN: The gap between tracking time and getting paid is frustratingly manual
I've freelanced for 15 years. Every month it's the same routine: check my time tracker, open Xero, manually create an invoice, try to remember what "Client X - 2.5hrs" actually meant, type up line items, double-check rates, hope I didn't miss anything.The time tracker knows what I did. The accounting software knows how to invoice. Why am I the glue between them?I built Hour Cap to close that gap. Track time with invoice-ready descriptions, then push to Xero as a draft in
Show HN: AGX v2 – Multi-agent chat → task graph → execution (local-first)
Hey HN,I’m Mendrika. I posted AGX v1 a few weeks ago. Honest take: it technically worked, but it didn't click. Something was missing, didn't end up using it as much as I thought.v2 is an iteration focused on what I actually wanted day-to-day:1) Runs that pause where it matters (approvals) AGX treats “side effects” as opt-in. When a run is about to edit files, commit, push, or open a PR, it stops and asks you. You can inspect what it intends to do, tweak the approach, or reject it. The
Show HN: Corteza – Capture team decisions and makes them searchable with AI
Hey HN, I'm Cristian, founder of Corteza (https://corteza.app).The problem: product teams lose decisions in Slack threads, Miro boards, Confluence pages, meetings, etc. Three months later nobody remembers why something was built a certain way, and the team re-litigates the same calls over and over.What Corteza does: you type /decision [what] [why] [alternatives considered] in any Slack channel, or via our Chrome Extension. The bot stores it with full context. Later, anyone ca
What breaks when AI agent frameworks are forced into <1MB RAM and sub-ms startup
Most AI agent frameworks today assume environments with: - dynamic runtimes - long-lived processes - large dependency trees - forgiving memory behaviorThat works fine in the cloud, but breaks quickly when you push into embedded, edge, or latency-sensitive systems.When memory budgets drop into the single-digit MB range and startup time matters more than throughput, very different problems dominate: - cold start time can exceed useful execution - memory fragmentation becomes a hard failure mode -
Nano Banana 2 is real！Gemini 3.1 Flash Image just appeared in Vertex AI Catalog
A new entry in the Vertex AI model catalog was spotted: model:gemini-3.1-flash-image. It looks like the rumors were true—this is the official identity of Nano Banana 2. While everyone was waiting for a Pro update, Google seems to be doubling down on the "Flash" tier for high-volume production. Here’s the breakdown of what this means for production: The Pro vs. Flash: Based on early internal samples, the quality is surprisingly close to Nano Banana Pro. In some dense compositions, the F
Tell HN: Planning to end my life today
Tell HN: Going to end my life todayI'm 35 and I am going to end my life today. About year one ago I quit my job to work on my own startup (alone). Since then I made good progress in making the product, but very little in selling it. And there's competition in that space with newly-funded VC startups out-executing me. Shit I was so scared to contact my ICP to prospect and to sell -- I am ashamed at myself for messing this opportunity. I WASTED 10 MONTHS!!!! Also realized: it is an uphil
Show HN: Codified decades of domain expertise into open source agent skills
Hey HN! I'm Urav, the founder of Evos (https://getevos.ai)Evos started out as doing some AI consulting, while deploying these systems, I kept hitting the same problem: AI agents are terrible at real operational work in core industries. Agents could code the entire system, but asking it to handle a freight exception, or claims deadline issue and it fell apart - it just didn't have the domain knowledge.So I started translating and codifying what operations experts actually know
KSA keen to modernize Pakistan’s communications sector
Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan says Pakistan is keen to foster public-private partnerships with Saudi Arabia to modernize its transport sector. He was speaking to Saudi Minister ...
Pakistan records 600+ reforms as drive acceleratesPublished on: February 9, 2026 9:17 PM
Pakistan, Feb. 9 -- Pakistan carried out more than 600 governance and institutional reforms during 2025, making it the country's most reform-intensive year. The Pakistan Reforms Report 2026 documents ...
Pakistan Reportedly Shuts Down Social Media Firewall: Rs. 40 Billion Wasted
Pakistan reportedly shuts down its social media firewall. A massive Rs. 40 billion was wasted to save the upcoming 5G spectrum auction.
Keiko Nowacka on Advancing Gender Equality and Supporting Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific
Keiko Nowacka, Director of ADB's Gender Equality Division, highlights the role of women and girls as leaders and changemakers, uniquely positioned to help address complex development challenges in Asia and the Pacific.
Dev jobs up 10% YoY while other jobs down 5.8%. What do you see on the ground?
According to data from FRED, US software development job listings are up 10% YoY from Feb 2025 to Feb 2026.In the same period, overall job postings are down 5.8%.I find this striking as these two graphs have directionally mirrored each other since 2020. It's only the last year they seem to be diverging. (Software jobs both rose and crashed harder as a consequence of the ZIRP/covid era, but if you squint the two graphs are quite similar).This is quite the narrative violation, as softwa