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Hacker News (Feb 2026)
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1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai
134 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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A Pokémon of a Different Color
134 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents
134 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version
134 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Exposure Simulator
134 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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OpenAI Frontier
134 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
133 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Turing Completeness of GNU find
133 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
133 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail
133 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system
133 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
133 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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YouTube Is Down
133 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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LineageOS 23.2
132 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users
132 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Farewell, Rust for web
132 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
132 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
132 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
131 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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We rendered and embedded one million CAD files
131 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
131 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
131 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
131 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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The F Word
131 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)
131 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena
131 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
131 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser
131 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
131 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
130 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
130 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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A brief history of oral peptides
130 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
130 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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State of Show HN: 2025
130 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
130 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth
129 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Dark Alley Mathematics
129 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Bazzite Post-Mortem
129 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
129 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics
129 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
128 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah
128 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives
128 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Shades of Halftone
128 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
127 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2
127 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
127 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA
127 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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How the Little Guy Moved
127 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Learning Lean: Part 1
127 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Quartz crystals
127 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
127 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Rari – Rust-powered React framework
127 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments
126 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp
126 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database
126 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
126 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock
126 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)
126 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File
126 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
126 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored
126 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs
125 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Why I don't think AGI is imminent
125 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
125 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
125 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Story of XZ Backdoor [video]
125 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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AI-First Company Memos
125 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool
125 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"
124 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. DoW classified network
124 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps
124 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
124 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game
124 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
124 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Postgres Postmaster does not scale
124 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)
124 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Child prodigies rarely become elite performers
124 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
124 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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A few CPU hardware bugs
124 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor
124 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
124 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
124 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
123 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon
123 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives
123 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'
122 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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80386 Protection
122 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
122 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney
122 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund
122 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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How I've run major projects (2025)
122 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
121 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review
121 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Reading English from 1000 AD
121 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Rathbun's Operator
121 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Just-bash: Bash for Agents
121 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal
121 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
121 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice
121 points • comment • feb 26, 2026