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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. The Abstraction Rises

    80 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  2. Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders

    80 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  3. Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom (2019)

    80 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  4. PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI

    80 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  5. As Rocks May Think

    80 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  6. How to train your program verifier

    80 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  7. AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

    80 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  8. Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off

    80 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  9. The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation

    80 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  10. The Life Cycle of Money

    80 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  11. A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh

    80 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  12. How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

    79 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  13. The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015)

    79 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  14. You Just Need Postgres

    79 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  15. Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel

    79 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  16. Show HN: CEL by Example

    79 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  17. Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear

    79 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  18. Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents

    79 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  19. Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back

    79 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  20. Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy

    79 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  21. ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds

    79 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  22. FORTH? Really!?

    79 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  23. What Is Ruliology?

    79 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  24. Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations

    79 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  25. Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”

    79 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  26. The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs

    79 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  27. What I learned designing a barebones UI engine

    79 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  28. Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

    78 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  29. Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas

    78 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  30. Evolving Git for the Next Decade

    78 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  31. Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM

    78 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  32. AI-generated replies are a scourge these days

    78 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  33. Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

    78 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  34. Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop

    78 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  35. Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

    78 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  36. SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

    77 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  37. What Happened to Fry's Electronics

    77 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  38. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders

    77 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  39. Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market

    77 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  40. Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings

    77 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  41. Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations

    77 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  42. Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years

    77 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  43. Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

    77 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  44. AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

    77 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  45. A shortage of tenors

    77 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  46. London's most controversial cyclist

    77 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  47. Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio

    77 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  48. The browser catches homograph attacks, the terminal doesn't

    77 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  49. ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you

    76 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  50. Claims of disability are highest at elite universities

    76 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  51. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]

    76 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  52. LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf]

    76 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  53. ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

    76 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  54. FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance

    76 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  55. Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra

    76 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  56. Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications

    76 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  57. Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

    76 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  58. Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

    76 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  59. Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure

    76 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  60. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults

    75 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  61. Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly

    75 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  62. The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (2015)

    75 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  63. Ruby Newbie is joining the Ruby Users forum

    75 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  64. I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall

    75 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  65. Five disciplines discovered the same math independently

    75 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  66. Discord: A case study in performance optimization

    74 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  67. You Are Here

    74 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  68. Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite

    74 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  69. Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music

    74 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  70. RLHF from Scratch

    73 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  71. Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw

    73 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  72. How vibe coding is killing open source

    73 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  73. Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style

    73 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  74. Should your developer company go open source?

    73 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  75. Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections

    73 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  76. Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)

    73 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  77. Topological Naming Problem

    73 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  78. Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity

    73 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  79. Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents

    73 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  80. Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

    72 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  81. Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office

    72 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  82. Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety

    72 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  83. PL/0

    72 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  84. Julia: Performance Tips

    72 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  85. US Immigration on the Easiest Setting

    72 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  86. Extending C with Prolog (1994)

    72 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  87. Notes on Clarifying Man Pages

    72 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  88. How to Allocate Memory

    72 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  89. Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code

    72 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  90. RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

    71 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  91. Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf]

    71 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  92. The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes

    71 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  93. A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs

    71 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  94. Both GCC and Clang generate strange/inefficient code

    71 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  95. The complete Manic Miner disassembly

    71 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  96. The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today

    71 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  97. Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia

    71 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  98. An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop

    71 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  99. Disruption with Some GitHub Services

    71 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  100. Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box

    71 points • comment • feb 12, 2026