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Hacker News (23 Feb 2026)
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The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
1654 points • 1294 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
1268 points • 697 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
679 points • 456 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
564 points • 439 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
551 points • 105 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
543 points • 622 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
537 points • 248 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
474 points • 304 comments • feb 23, 2026
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
434 points • 126 comments • feb 23, 2026
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Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
434 points • 386 comments • feb 23, 2026