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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

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

    121 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  2. Rathbun's Operator

    121 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

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

    121 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  4. Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal

    121 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  5. Claude Composer

    121 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  6. Lil' Fun Langs

    120 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  7. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts

    120 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  8. US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases

    120 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  9. Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities

    120 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  10. Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home

    120 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  11. Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe

    119 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  12. UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

    119 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  13. How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users

    119 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  14. Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

    119 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  15. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)

    119 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  16. Stop using icons in data tables

    119 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  17. Treasures found on HS2 route

    118 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  18. Information Is Beautiful

    118 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  19. Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++

    118 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  20. The silent death of good code

    118 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  21. A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment

    118 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  22. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

    118 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  23. LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation

    118 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  24. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself

    117 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  25. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

    117 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  26. Thought-Terminating Cliché

    117 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  27. 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

    117 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  28. The largest number representable in 64 bits

    117 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  29. Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM

    116 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  30. Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

    116 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  31. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS

    116 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  32. Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment

    116 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  33. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal

    116 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  34. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger

    115 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  35. AI optimism is a class privilege

    115 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  36. All Look Same?

    115 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  37. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

    115 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  38. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

    115 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  39. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary

    115 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  40. Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)

    115 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  41. Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

    115 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  42. Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux

    114 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  43. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

    114 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  44. Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025)

    114 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  45. Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999)

    114 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  46. Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)

    114 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  47. Cash issuing terminals

    114 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  48. Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other

    114 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  49. How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]

    113 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  50. Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)

    113 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  51. Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue

    113 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  52. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2

    113 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  53. iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information

    112 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  54. F# 10

    112 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  55. A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

    112 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  56. FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention

    112 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  57. AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation

    112 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  58. Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15

    112 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  59. Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone

    112 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  60. Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

    112 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  61. 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

    111 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  62. Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

    111 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  63. Suicide Linux (2009)

    111 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  64. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

    111 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  65. Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?

    111 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  66. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)

    111 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  67. I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye

    111 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  68. The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong

    110 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  69. Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming

    110 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  70. AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was

    110 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  71. Assistant to the Regional Manager

    110 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  72. Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)

    110 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  73. Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

    110 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  74. Fixing retail with land value capture

    110 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  75. Aesthetics of single threading

    110 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  76. VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]

    109 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  77. The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement

    109 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  78. Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)

    109 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  79. Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

    108 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  80. Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll

    108 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  81. What's the best way to learn a new language?

    108 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  82. Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993

    108 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  83. I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded

    108 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  84. Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

    108 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  85. Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI

    108 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  86. DOS Memory Management

    108 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  87. Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court

    108 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  88. Sprites on the Web

    108 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  89. The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power

    107 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  90. What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)

    107 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  91. Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station

    107 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  92. Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws

    107 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  93. We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

    107 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  94. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure

    107 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  95. Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

    107 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  96. -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C

    106 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  97. You can use newline characters in URLs

    106 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  98. Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE

    106 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  99. C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  100. The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey

    106 points • comment • feb 10, 2026