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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

    668 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  2. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

    667 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  3. Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

    666 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  4. Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

    664 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  5. AI makes you boring

    664 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  6. Discord Alternatives, Ranked

    657 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  7. TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe

    656 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  8. Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

    649 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  9. Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

    645 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  10. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

    645 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  11. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

    644 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  12. OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

    644 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  13. The happiest I've ever been

    638 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  14. Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

    638 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  15. Turn Dependabot off

    634 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  16. Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

    634 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  17. Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices

    626 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  18. Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

    623 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  19. Banned in California

    617 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  20. My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

    608 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  21. Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

    606 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  22. Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

    602 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  23. Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

    601 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  24. Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

    601 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  25. Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users

    601 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  26. Oxide raises $200M Series C

    599 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  27. Art of Roads in Games

    599 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  28. The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

    598 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  29. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock

    598 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  30. What Claude Code chooses

    597 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  31. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

    593 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  32. Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

    593 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  33. Gemini 3.1 Pro

    592 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  34. X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

    591 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  35. Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

    585 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  36. Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

    581 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  37. FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

    579 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  38. Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

    576 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  39. OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

    573 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  40. A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

    572 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  41. GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

    571 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  42. Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

    567 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  43. Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

    566 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  44. News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

    564 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  45. Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

    564 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  46. Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

    561 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  47. I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

    558 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  48. OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

    558 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  49. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

    556 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  50. Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

    553 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  51. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

    551 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  52. Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

    543 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  53. Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

    541 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  54. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

    540 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  55. Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran

    537 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  56. MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%

    536 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  57. Anthropic ditches its core safety promise

    535 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  58. Agent Skills

    533 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  59. Claude Code Remote Control

    530 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  60. Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

    530 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  61. What your Bluetooth devices reveal

    529 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  62. Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

    529 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  63. US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

    528 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  64. Deno Sandbox

    525 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  65. Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story

    521 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  66. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

    519 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  67. AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder

    516 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  68. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

    515 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  69. Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

    515 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  70. Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

    513 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  71. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

    512 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  72. Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning

    509 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  73. AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

    507 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  74. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

    507 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  75. LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

    506 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  76. Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

    506 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  77. GitHub is down again

    502 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  78. How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

    500 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  79. An Update on Heroku

    500 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  80. What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)

    499 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  81. OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been

    498 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  82. AI is killing B2B SaaS

    497 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  83. Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists

    496 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  84. Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance

    495 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  85. MinIO repository is no longer maintained

    494 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  86. The Day the Telnet Died

    491 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  87. We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

    490 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  88. Terminals should generate the 256-color palette

    488 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  89. Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

    485 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  90. Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

    484 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  91. Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

    484 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  92. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

    482 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  93. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)

    481 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  94. Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

    480 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  95. Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

    478 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  96. Claude is a space to think

    477 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  97. CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

    477 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  98. Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]

    474 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  99. GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

    474 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  100. Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

    474 points • comment • feb 16, 2026