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Hacker News (Feb 2026)
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Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE
106 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]
106 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)
106 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix
106 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
105 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel
105 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
105 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Shut Up: Comment Blocker
105 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
105 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet
105 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
105 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research
105 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
105 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work
105 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]
105 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)
105 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents
105 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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The missing digit of Stela C
104 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
104 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work
104 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists
103 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor
103 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances
103 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial
103 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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The real cost of random I/O
103 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Contracts in Nix
103 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)
103 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)
103 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU
102 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Building SQLite with a small swarm
102 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia
102 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields
102 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life
102 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says
101 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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The Mongol Khans of Medieval France
101 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw
101 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative
100 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go
100 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up
100 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
100 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Redefining Go Functions
100 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
100 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife
100 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow
100 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime
99 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization
99 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World
99 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL
99 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
99 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
99 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
99 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
99 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle
98 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
98 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]
98 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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The Falkirk Wheel
98 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia
97 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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How to stop being boring
97 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?
97 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator
97 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components
97 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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AI made coding more enjoyable
97 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
97 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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What dating apps are optimizing
96 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory
96 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
96 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography
96 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety
96 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations
96 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty
96 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Kimi Claw
95 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions
95 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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More cows, more wives
95 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived
95 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
94 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles
94 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions
94 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data
94 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Enable CORS for Your Blog
94 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines
94 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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How not to answer the salary question
94 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth
94 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction
94 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents
94 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF
94 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI
94 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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SCM as a database for the code
93 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847)
93 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Something Big Is Happening
93 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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DBASE on the Kaypro II
93 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down
93 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server
93 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents
92 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down
92 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation
92 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)
92 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months
92 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals
91 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok
91 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025
91 points • comment • feb 06, 2026