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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE

    106 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  2. Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]

    106 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

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

    106 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  4. Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix

    106 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  5. ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face

    105 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  6. Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

    105 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  7. A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST

    105 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  8. Shut Up: Comment Blocker

    105 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  9. Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water

    105 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  10. Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet

    105 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  11. Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

    105 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  12. Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

    105 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  13. How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?

    105 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  14. Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work

    105 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  15. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]

    105 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  16. A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)

    105 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  17. Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

    105 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  18. The missing digit of Stela C

    104 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  19. Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality

    104 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  20. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

    104 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  21. 1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists

    103 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  22. GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

    103 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  23. Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances

    103 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  24. Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial

    103 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  25. The real cost of random I/O

    103 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  26. Contracts in Nix

    103 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  27. If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)

    103 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  28. Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)

    103 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  29. Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU

    102 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  30. Building SQLite with a small swarm

    102 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  31. Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia

    102 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  32. Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields

    102 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  33. iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

    102 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  34. Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

    101 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  35. The Mongol Khans of Medieval France

    101 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  36. Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw

    101 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  37. Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative

    100 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  38. Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go

    100 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  39. OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up

    100 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  40. An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

    100 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  41. Redefining Go Functions

    100 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  42. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam

    100 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  43. Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife

    100 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  44. "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow

    100 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  45. Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

    99 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  46. What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization

    99 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  47. Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World

    99 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  48. IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL

    99 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  49. Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

    99 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  50. The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

    99 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  51. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers

    99 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  52. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

    99 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  53. Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle

    98 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  54. Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

    98 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  55. Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]

    98 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  56. The Falkirk Wheel

    98 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  57. An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia

    97 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  58. How to stop being boring

    97 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  59. Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?

    97 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  60. Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator

    97 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  61. Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components

    97 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  62. AI made coding more enjoyable

    97 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  63. From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media

    97 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  64. What dating apps are optimizing

    96 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  65. Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory

    96 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  66. Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments

    96 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  67. Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography

    96 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  68. Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety

    96 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  69. Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations

    96 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  70. Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty

    96 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  71. Kimi Claw

    95 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  72. Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions

    95 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  73. More cows, more wives

    95 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  74. Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

    95 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  75. AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human

    94 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  76. Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

    94 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  77. Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

    94 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  78. Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data

    94 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  79. Enable CORS for Your Blog

    94 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  80. The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines

    94 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  81. How not to answer the salary question

    94 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  82. R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth

    94 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  83. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction

    94 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  84. Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

    94 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  85. Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

    94 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  86. Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI

    94 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  87. SCM as a database for the code

    93 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  88. An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847)

    93 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  89. Something Big Is Happening

    93 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  90. DBASE on the Kaypro II

    93 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  91. A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down

    93 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  92. Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

    93 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  93. Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents

    92 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  94. Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down

    92 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  95. Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation

    92 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  96. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)

    92 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  97. Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months

    92 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  98. Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals

    91 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  99. PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

    91 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  100. Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025

    91 points • comment • feb 06, 2026