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Hacker News (Feb 2026)
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AI and Trust (2023)
91 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries
91 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600
91 points • comment • feb 08, 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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Code has always been the easy part
91 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025
91 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs
90 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
90 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions
89 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction
89 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
89 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet
89 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant
89 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview
89 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Error payloads in Zig
89 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Technical Excellence Is Not Enough
89 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+
89 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)
89 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM
89 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Italy Railways Sabotaged
89 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Next-gen spacecraft are overwhelming communication networks
88 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)
88 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it
88 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp
88 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants
88 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
88 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
88 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing
87 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis
87 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Plasma Effect (2016)
87 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026
87 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox
87 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
87 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Technocracy 2.0
87 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds
87 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar
87 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Neocaml – Rubocop Creator's New OCaml Mode for Emacs
87 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)
87 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Writers and Their Day Jobs
87 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
87 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB
86 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas
86 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
86 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss
86 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?
86 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case
86 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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A header-only C vector database library
86 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Cistercian Numbers
86 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran
85 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Block spent $68M on a single party in September 2025
85 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Optophone
85 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
85 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Railway (PaaS) global outage
85 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School
85 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution
85 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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How to Review an AUR Package
85 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS
85 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Programmable Cryptography (2024)
85 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
84 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
84 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor
84 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease
84 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium
84 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era
84 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
84 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]
84 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock
83 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression
83 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth
83 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones
83 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window
83 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)
83 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Do Metaprojects
83 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
83 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Adobe Animate will be discontinued
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
82 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence
82 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
82 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Build Your Own Forth Interpreter
82 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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We are changing our developer productivity experiment design
82 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Animated Engines
82 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust
82 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy
82 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
82 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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80386 Barrel Shifter
82 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
82 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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xAI Joins SpaceX
82 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Text-Based Google Directions
81 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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1Password Raising Prices ~33%
81 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects
81 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
81 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last
81 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]
81 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival
81 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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History of AT&T Long Lines
81 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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In Tehran
80 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs
80 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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The Abstraction Rises
80 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container
80 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Access to a Shared Unix Computer
80 points • comment • feb 22, 2026