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Hacker News (Feb 2026)
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The Abstraction Rises
80 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders
80 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom (2019)
80 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI
80 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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As Rocks May Think
80 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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How to train your program verifier
80 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
80 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off
80 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation
80 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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The Life Cycle of Money
80 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh
80 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)
79 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015)
79 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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You Just Need Postgres
79 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
79 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Show HN: CEL by Example
79 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
79 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents
79 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back
79 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy
79 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds
79 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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FORTH? Really!?
79 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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What Is Ruliology?
79 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations
79 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”
79 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs
79 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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What I learned designing a barebones UI engine
79 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)
78 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas
78 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Evolving Git for the Next Decade
78 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM
78 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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AI-generated replies are a scourge these days
78 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
78 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop
78 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo
78 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI
77 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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What Happened to Fry's Electronics
77 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders
77 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market
77 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
77 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations
77 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
77 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate
77 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
77 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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A shortage of tenors
77 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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London's most controversial cyclist
77 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio
77 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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The browser catches homograph attacks, the terminal doesn't
77 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you
76 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Claims of disability are highest at elite universities
76 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
76 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf]
76 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
76 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
76 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra
76 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications
76 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse
76 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users
76 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure
76 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults
75 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
75 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (2015)
75 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Ruby Newbie is joining the Ruby Users forum
75 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall
75 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Five disciplines discovered the same math independently
75 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Discord: A case study in performance optimization
74 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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You Are Here
74 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite
74 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music
74 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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RLHF from Scratch
73 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
73 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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How vibe coding is killing open source
73 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style
73 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Should your developer company go open source?
73 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections
73 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)
73 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Topological Naming Problem
73 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
73 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents
73 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip
72 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office
72 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety
72 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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PL/0
72 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Julia: Performance Tips
72 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
72 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Extending C with Prolog (1994)
72 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages
72 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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How to Allocate Memory
72 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code
72 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel
71 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf]
71 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes
71 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
71 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Both GCC and Clang generate strange/inefficient code
71 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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The complete Manic Miner disassembly
71 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today
71 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia
71 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop
71 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Disruption with Some GitHub Services
71 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box
71 points • comment • feb 12, 2026