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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours

    70 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  2. Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon

    70 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  3. Partial 8-Piece Tablebase

    70 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  4. LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.

    70 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  5. Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table

    70 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  6. Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked

    70 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  7. Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching

    70 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  8. A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers

    70 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  9. Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework

    70 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  10. Lily Programming Language

    70 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  11. EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline

    70 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  12. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

    70 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  13. Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

    70 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  14. Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition

    70 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  15. Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022)

    69 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  16. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code

    69 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  17. Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux

    69 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  18. YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push

    69 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  19. Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents

    69 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  20. The Popper Principle

    69 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  21. DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit

    69 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  22. A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight

    69 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  23. Trunk Based Development

    69 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  24. The political effects of X's feed algorithm

    69 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  25. Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original

    69 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  26. Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government

    69 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  27. A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

    69 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  28. How close are we to a vision for 2010?

    69 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  29. Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information

    69 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  30. Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

    69 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  31. Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas

    69 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  32. C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm

    69 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  33. Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says

    69 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  34. Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?

    68 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  35. Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024)

    68 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  36. Gitas – A tool for Git account switching

    68 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  37. Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer)

    68 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  38. Product and design are the new bottlenecks

    68 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  39. Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index

    68 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  40. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is

    68 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  41. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary

    68 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  42. Deterministic Programming with LLMs

    68 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  43. RISC-V Vector Primer

    68 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  44. Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript

    67 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  45. Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser

    67 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  46. Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

    67 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  47. Good Riddance, 4o

    67 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  48. How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model

    67 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  49. GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2

    67 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  50. Sovereignty in a System Prompt

    67 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  51. The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)

    67 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  52. Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach

    67 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  53. LFortran compiles fpm

    67 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  54. SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

    67 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  55. Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer

    66 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  56. Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search

    66 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  57. Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web

    66 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  58. Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models

    66 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  59. ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives

    65 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  60. Stop Using Face ID

    65 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  61. Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

    65 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  62. Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?

    65 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  63. Unicorn Jelly

    65 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  64. Show HN: Total Recall – write-gated memory for Claude Code

    65 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  65. Building a model that visualizes strategic golf

    65 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  66. What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

    65 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  67. What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  68. The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025)

    65 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  69. Flying Around the World in under 80 Days

    65 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  70. PCB Tracer

    65 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  71. In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback

    65 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  72. Dune II written in HTML5/JS

    65 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  73. Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage

    64 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  74. The bare minimum for syncing Git repos

    64 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  75. The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones

    64 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  76. US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'

    64 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  77. Launching Interop 2026

    64 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  78. The Monad Called Free

    64 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  79. Formally Verifying PBS Kids with Lean4

    64 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  80. Code Storage by the Pierre Computer Company

    64 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  81. 11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for

    64 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  82. Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models

    63 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  83. Signy: Signed URLs for Small Devices

    63 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  84. Compact disc story (1998)

    63 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  85. 56% of CEOs report zero financial return from AI in 2026 (PwC survey, n=4,454)

    63 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  86. Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt

    63 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  87. Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"

    63 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  88. .Beat Swatch Internet Time

    63 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  89. Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007)

    63 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  90. Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)

    63 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  91. Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python

    63 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  92. Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function

    63 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  93. Agentic Software Engineering Book

    63 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  94. Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975

    62 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  95. Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped

    62 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  96. RynnBrain

    62 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  97. Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)

    62 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  98. Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  99. Show HN: Stripe-no-webhooks – Sync your Stripe data to your Postgres DB

    62 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  100. Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)

    62 points • comment • feb 03, 2026