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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai

    134 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  2. A Pokémon of a Different Color

    134 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  3. What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents

    134 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  4. Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

    134 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  5. Exposure Simulator

    134 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  6. OpenAI Frontier

    134 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  7. Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

    133 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  8. Turing Completeness of GNU find

    133 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  9. Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders

    133 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  10. Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail

    133 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  11. Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system

    133 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  12. The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph

    133 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  13. YouTube Is Down

    133 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  14. LineageOS 23.2

    132 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  15. Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users

    132 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  16. Farewell, Rust for web

    132 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  17. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]

    132 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  18. Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly

    132 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  19. Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags

    131 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  20. We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

    131 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  21. Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS

    131 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  22. Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

    131 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  23. I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

    131 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  24. The F Word

    131 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  25. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)

    131 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  26. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena

    131 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  27. Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app

    131 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  28. Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser

    131 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  29. Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

    131 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  30. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

    130 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  31. I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

    130 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  32. A brief history of oral peptides

    130 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  33. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

    130 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  34. State of Show HN: 2025

    130 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  35. Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin

    130 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  36. Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

    129 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  37. Dark Alley Mathematics

    129 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  38. Bazzite Post-Mortem

    129 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  39. Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

    129 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  40. Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics

    129 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  41. India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

    128 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  42. Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah

    128 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  43. A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives

    128 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  44. Shades of Halftone

    128 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  45. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza

    127 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  46. Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2

    127 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  47. What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI

    127 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  48. The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA

    127 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  49. How the Little Guy Moved

    127 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  50. Learning Lean: Part 1

    127 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  51. Quartz crystals

    127 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  52. TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)

    127 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  53. Rari – Rust-powered React framework

    127 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  54. Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments

    126 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  55. Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp

    126 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  56. Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database

    126 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  57. Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

    126 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  58. Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock

    126 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  59. Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)

    126 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  60. Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File

    126 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  61. Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve

    126 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  62. I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored

    126 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  63. Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

    125 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  64. Why I don't think AGI is imminent

    125 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  65. The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming

    125 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  66. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code

    125 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  67. Story of XZ Backdoor [video]

    125 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  68. AI-First Company Memos

    125 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  69. Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool

    125 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  70. "Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"

    124 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  71. OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. DoW classified network

    124 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  72. Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps

    124 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  73. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage

    124 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  74. The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game

    124 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  75. Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

    124 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  76. Postgres Postmaster does not scale

    124 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  77. Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

    124 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  78. Child prodigies rarely become elite performers

    124 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  79. LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

    124 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  80. A few CPU hardware bugs

    124 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  81. Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor

    124 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  82. Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

    124 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  83. LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers

    124 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  84. I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent

    123 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  85. High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon

    123 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  86. Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives

    123 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  87. DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

    122 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  88. 80386 Protection

    122 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  89. GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

    122 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  90. Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

    122 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  91. Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

    122 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  92. How I've run major projects (2025)

    122 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  93. FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot

    121 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  94. An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review

    121 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  95. Reading English from 1000 AD

    121 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  96. Rathbun's Operator

    121 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  97. Just-bash: Bash for Agents

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  98. Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal

    121 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  99. 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds

    121 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  100. America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2026