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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. Data Poems

    45 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  2. Why Elixir is the best language for AI – Dashbit Blog

    45 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  3. When etcd crashes, check your disks first

    45 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  4. Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX

    45 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  5. Why High FOV Sucks – Fixing It with Panini Projection

    44 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  6. In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks

    44 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  7. SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support

    44 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  8. Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  9. Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)

    44 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  10. Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback

    44 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  11. No Coding Before 10am

    44 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  12. Show HN: Rev-dep – 20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go

    44 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  13. Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI

    44 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  14. What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

    44 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  15. The true history of the Minotaur: what archaeology reveals

    44 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  16. Monkey Patching in VBA

    44 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  17. Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake

    44 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  18. Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases

    44 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  19. Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL

    44 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  20. Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript

    44 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  21. I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably

    44 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  22. Databases should contain their own Metadata – Use SQL Everywhere

    44 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  23. Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists

    43 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  24. Over 65? Congratulations, You Own the Economy

    43 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  25. DHS is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics

    43 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  26. Sony Jumbotron Image Control System (1998) [pdf]

    43 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  27. Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files

    43 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  28. How to sew a Hyperbolic Blanket (2021)

    43 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  29. "Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Dept. of War to deploy our models"

    43 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  30. Selection rather than prediction

    43 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  31. Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?

    43 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  32. 'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers

    43 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  33. Lords of the Ring

    43 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  34. What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted

    43 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  35. Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

    43 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  36. The Epstein Network Visualizer

    42 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  37. Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words

    42 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  38. Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'

    42 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  39. Anthropic digs in heels in dispute with Pentagon

    42 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  40. Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations

    42 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  41. Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents

    42 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  42. The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like an Economic Boom

    42 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  43. Ed's Stratego Site

    42 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  44. The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979

    42 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  45. An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

    42 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  46. In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests

    42 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  47. My lobster lost $450k this weekend

    42 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  48. Visible Spectra of the Elements

    42 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  49. Judge scolds Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

    42 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  50. Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17

    42 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  51. Gzpeek: Tool to Parse Gzip Metadata

    42 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  52. Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?

    42 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  53. Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

    42 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  54. SanDisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes

    41 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  55. Anthropic gives Opus 3 exit interview, "retirement" blog

    41 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  56. LibreOffice Online: A Fresh Start

    41 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  57. Real engineering failures instead of success stories

    41 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  58. Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)

    41 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  59. Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document

    41 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  60. To Build a Fire:Inside Russia's Campaign of Sabotage in Europe

    41 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  61. Amazon, Meta, Alphabet report plunging tax bills thanks to AI and tax changes

    41 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  62. What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  63. Those who can, teach history

    41 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  64. The Gay Tech Mafia

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  65. We asked 15,000 European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]

    41 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  66. Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV

    41 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  67. Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova

    41 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  68. Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way

    41 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  69. Build your own Command Line with ANSI escape codes (2016)

    41 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  70. Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up

    41 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  71. Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way

    41 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  72. DHS pausing TSA PreCheck, Global Entry programs amid funding lapse

    41 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  73. Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning

    41 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  74. From 'buy America' to 'bye America', Wall Street exodus gathers pace

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  75. Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf]

    40 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  76. I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video]

    40 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  77. Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

    40 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  78. Inspecting the Source of Go Modules

    40 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  79. Large Language Model Reasoning Failures

    40 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  80. Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs

    40 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  81. Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI)

    40 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  82. Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech

    40 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  83. Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique

    40 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  84. Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible

    40 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  85. What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)

    40 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  86. Epstein's Ugly World of Science

    40 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  87. More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness

    40 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  88. Tesla is having a hard time turning over its FSD traffic violation data

    40 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  89. Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California

    40 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  90. Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the Constitution

    40 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  91. The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI

    40 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  92. What color are your bits? (2004)

    40 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  93. YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users

    40 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  94. The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad

    40 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  95. Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?

    40 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  96. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator

    39 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  97. Palantir Built the Data Layer That Right to Erasure Can't Touch

    39 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  98. Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology

    39 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  99. Dow drops 600 points as confusion grows after U.S. tariffs

    39 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  100. EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images in 11 days

    39 points • comment • feb 17, 2026