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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. Dental Disease May Undermine Elite Athletic Performance

    32 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  2. What China is up to in the Arctic

    32 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  3. Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight

    32 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  4. Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention

    32 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  5. Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers

    32 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  6. Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M

    32 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  7. Run LLMs locally in Flutter with <200ms latency

    31 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  8. Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity

    31 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  9. Attention Media ≠ Social Media

    31 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  10. U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high

    31 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  11. Online Pebble Development

    31 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  12. MDST Engine: run GGUF models in the browser with WebGPU/WASM

    31 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  13. US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses

    31 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  14. The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)

    31 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  15. Camera that captures photos to cassette tape

    31 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  16. HUD proposes rule that would force noncitizens from public housing

    31 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  17. The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

    31 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  18. China confirms visa-free travel for UK and Canadian nationals

    31 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  19. President Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic

    31 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  20. Is AI the Paperclip?

    31 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  21. MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatib

    31 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  22. Tech Independence

    31 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  23. Making Nintendo DS ROMs with Rust

    31 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  24. NPM install is stealing your passwords – I built a tool to catch it

    31 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  25. AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'

    31 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  26. Masked namespace vulnerability in Temporal

    31 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  27. Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)

    31 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  28. Write-only code

    31 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  29. AI-powered reverse-engineering of Rosetta 2 (for Linux VM)

    31 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  30. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library

    31 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  31. Epstein Financed German AI Researcher Joscha Bach

    31 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  32. 10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?

    31 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  33. How long do job postings stay open?

    31 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  34. Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax

    31 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  35. Big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood– they pay for proprietary groupware

    31 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  36. Scent, in Silico

    31 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  37. Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software dev (GOAL.md → working code)

    31 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  38. Anthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute

    31 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  39. Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet

    31 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  40. The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs

    31 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  41. Iran agreed zero enriched uranium, and israel immediately bombs Tehran

    30 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  42. OpenAI president becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift

    30 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  43. History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) Of WIMP Design

    30 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  44. OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift

    30 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  45. International box-sizing Awareness Day (2014)

    30 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  46. The Big TDD Misunderstanding

    30 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  47. We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?

    30 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  48. Kim Dotcom says Palantir allegedly hacked

    30 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  49. Metacritic statement pledges to ban outlets that use AI-generated reviews

    30 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  50. Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed

    30 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  51. Gawk 5.4.0 is released, with replaced MinRX matcher

    30 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  52. Stop Putting Secrets in .env Files

    30 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  53. 'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year

    30 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  54. First, They Came for the Journalists

    30 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  55. Show HN: PIrateRF – Turn a $20 Raspberry Pi Zero into a 12-mode RF transmitter

    30 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  56. Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

    30 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  57. A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left

    30 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  58. Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount

    30 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  59. NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

    30 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  60. Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial

    30 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  61. This is What It's Like to Spend Your Life in Prison (2023) [video]

    30 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  62. SwiftUI Agent Skill: Build Better Views with AI

    30 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  63. Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh

    30 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  64. Data exfil from agents in messaging apps

    30 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  65. Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia – By Elon Musk

    30 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  66. Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers

    30 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  67. Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition

    30 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  68. FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes

    30 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  69. Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

    30 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  70. Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh

    30 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  71. Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS

    30 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  72. MRFF says US Military members were 'pressured' by commanders to see 'Melania'

    30 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  73. No Bookmarks

    30 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  74. Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner

    30 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  75. What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory [pdf] (2007)

    30 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  76. Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts

    29 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  77. NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft

    29 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  78. Choosing a Language Based on Its Syntax?

    29 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  79. Corruption Perceptions Index 2025

    29 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  80. Who's liable when your AI agent burns down production?

    29 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  81. Private Credit Fears Deepen with UBS Warning of 15% Defaults

    29 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  82. Happy Zelda's 40th first LLM running on N64 hardware (4MB RAM, 93MHz)

    29 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  83. Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?

    29 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  84. A Visual Source for Shakespeare's 'Tempest'

    29 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  85. StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

    29 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  86. The U.S. spent $30B to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets

    29 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  87. Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts

    29 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  88. The Wonder of Modern Drywall

    29 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  89. Show HN: Deadlog – almost drop-in mutex for debugging Go deadlocks

    29 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  90. Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?

    29 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  91. US Customs destroy a rare floppy disk containing demo version of Tsukihime

    29 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  92. I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab)

    29 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  93. Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes

    29 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  94. Show HN: HN Companion – web app that enhances the experience of reading HN

    29 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  95. Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st

    29 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  96. AI Will Never Be Conscious

    29 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  97. Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass

    29 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  98. Instant AI Response

    28 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  99. Fast Sorting, Branchless by Design

    28 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  100. Claude Code's compaction discards data that's still on disk

    28 points • comment • feb 21, 2026