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Hacker News (23 Feb 2026)

  1. The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

    1637 points • 1273 comments • feb 23, 2026

  2. Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

    1248 points • 690 comments • feb 23, 2026

  3. Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

    679 points • 456 comments • feb 23, 2026

  4. Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

    564 points • 439 comments • feb 23, 2026

  5. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

    551 points • 105 comments • feb 23, 2026

  6. Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran

    537 points • 248 comments • feb 23, 2026

  7. Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

    465 points • 593 comments • feb 23, 2026

  8. Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]

    464 points • 285 comments • feb 23, 2026

  9. Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%

    434 points • 386 comments • feb 23, 2026

  10. FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

    420 points • 345 comments • feb 23, 2026