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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance'

    56 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  2. Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

    56 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  3. Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python

    56 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  4. Go-Native Durable Execution

    56 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  5. Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm

    56 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  6. How a cat debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)

    56 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  7. Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence

    56 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  8. 4chan for Clankers

    56 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  9. The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign

    56 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  10. What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body

    55 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  11. Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

    55 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  12. Unreal numbers

    55 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  13. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99

    55 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  14. Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference

    55 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  15. Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy

    55 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  16. I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

    55 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  17. I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  18. Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems

    55 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  19. The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck

    55 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  20. Tessellation Kit (2016)

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  21. macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs

    55 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  22. I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  23. The Missing Layer

    55 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  24. Seeing Theory

    55 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  25. 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates'

    55 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  26. AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed

    55 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  27. An AI doomsday report shook US markets

    54 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  28. Who Smeared Feynman

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  29. Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure

    54 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  30. Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

    54 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  31. Intel will start making GPUs

    54 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  32. Hard problems in social media archiving

    54 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  33. Constraint Propagation for Fun

    54 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  34. Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study

    54 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  35. Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash

    54 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  36. Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  37. "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]

    54 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  38. Heroku is not dead

    54 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  39. Show HN: Triclock – A Triangular Clock

    54 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  40. Move tests to closed source repo

    54 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  41. Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling

    54 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  42. An articulated archer automaton [video]

    54 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  43. The Problem with LLMs

    54 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  44. FDA reverses course and will review Moderna's mRNA flu shot, company says

    54 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  45. Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function

    54 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  46. Claude Sonnet 4.6

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  47. Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again

    53 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  48. The Slow Death of the Power User

    53 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  49. Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs

    53 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  50. Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  51. Frankensqlite a Rust reimplementation of SQLite with concurrent writers

    53 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  52. Excessive token usage in Claude Code

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  53. Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot

    53 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  54. Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending

    53 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  55. Typed Assembly Language (2000)

    53 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  56. Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare

    53 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  57. Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications

    53 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  58. Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  59. Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI

    53 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  60. Show HN: Andrej Karpathy's microgpt.py to C99 microgpt.c – 4,600x faster

    53 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  61. I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology

    53 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  62. Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

    53 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  63. WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

    53 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  64. Meta problem with URPF our bundle in Boca raton

    52 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  65. Evolution of car door handles over the decades

    52 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  66. We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands

    52 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  67. Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic AI tech 'immediately'

    52 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  68. Particle Lenia

    52 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  69. Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements

    52 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  70. The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt

    52 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  71. Password managers less secure than promised

    52 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  72. KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge

    52 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  73. Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

    52 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  74. Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems

    52 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  75. Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

    52 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  76. Deobfuscation and Analysis of Ring-1.io

    52 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  77. Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions

    52 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  78. The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead

    52 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  79. PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library

    52 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  80. Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism

    52 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  81. US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables

    52 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  82. The other Markov's inequality

    51 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  83. Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?

    51 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  84. Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)

    51 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  85. Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation

    51 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  86. The history of knocking on wood

    51 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  87. Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

    51 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  88. Package Managers à la Carte: a formal model of dependency resolution

    51 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  89. I built a search engine to index the un-indexable parts of Telegram

    51 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  90. 'A Big Fuck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center

    51 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  91. Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage

    50 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  92. A real-world benchmark for AI code review

    50 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  93. Sam Altman: We raised a $110B round from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank

    50 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  94. How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE

    50 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  95. Customer Update on Simplenote

    50 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  96. What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile

    50 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  97. Show HN: Elysia JIT "Compiler", why it's one of the fastest JavaScript framework

    50 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  98. Tesla's 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since June 2025

    50 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  99. Show HN: CodeMic

    50 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  100. Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

    50 points • comment • feb 25, 2026