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Hacker News (Feb 2026)
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"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours
70 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon
70 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Partial 8-Piece Tablebase
70 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.
70 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table
70 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked
70 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching
70 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers
70 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
70 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Lily Programming Language
70 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline
70 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations
70 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
70 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition
70 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022)
69 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code
69 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux
69 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push
69 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents
69 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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The Popper Principle
69 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
69 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight
69 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Trunk Based Development
69 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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The political effects of X's feed algorithm
69 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original
69 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government
69 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System
69 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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How close are we to a vision for 2010?
69 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information
69 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
69 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas
69 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
69 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says
69 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
68 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024)
68 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Gitas – A tool for Git account switching
68 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer)
68 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Product and design are the new bottlenecks
68 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index
68 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is
68 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
68 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Deterministic Programming with LLMs
68 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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RISC-V Vector Primer
68 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript
67 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser
67 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
67 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Good Riddance, 4o
67 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model
67 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2
67 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Sovereignty in a System Prompt
67 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)
67 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
67 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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LFortran compiles fpm
67 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution
67 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer
66 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search
66 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web
66 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
66 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives
65 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Stop Using Face ID
65 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
65 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
65 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Unicorn Jelly
65 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Show HN: Total Recall – write-gated memory for Claude Code
65 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Building a model that visualizes strategic golf
65 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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What Is a Centipawn Advantage?
65 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]
65 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025)
65 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Flying Around the World in under 80 Days
65 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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PCB Tracer
65 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback
65 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Dune II written in HTML5/JS
65 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage
64 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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The bare minimum for syncing Git repos
64 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones
64 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'
64 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Launching Interop 2026
64 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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The Monad Called Free
64 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Formally Verifying PBS Kids with Lean4
64 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Code Storage by the Pierre Computer Company
64 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
64 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models
63 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Signy: Signed URLs for Small Devices
63 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Compact disc story (1998)
63 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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56% of CEOs report zero financial return from AI in 2026 (PwC survey, n=4,454)
63 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt
63 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"
63 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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.Beat Swatch Internet Time
63 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007)
63 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)
63 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python
63 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
63 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Agentic Software Engineering Book
63 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975
62 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
62 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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RynnBrain
62 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)
62 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing
62 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Show HN: Stripe-no-webhooks – Sync your Stripe data to your Postgres DB
62 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
62 points • comment • feb 03, 2026