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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. State Department orders nonprofit libraries stop passport applications

    18 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  2. Cubans Sent to U.S. Prison at Guantánamo Are Returned to Cuba

    18 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  3. Why your 40s can be the most exhausting decade of your life

    18 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  4. Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    18 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  5. Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts

    18 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  6. Selfish AI

    18 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  7. The Big List of Naughty Strings

    18 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  8. User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app

    18 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  9. I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes

    18 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  10. Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (1990) [pdf]

    18 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  11. Friendship maintenance

    18 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  12. “Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy

    18 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  13. 'It's an absolute bloodbath': Washington Post lays off workers

    18 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  14. Microsoft throws spox under the bus in ICC email flap

    18 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  15. We Used To Build Things. What Happened?

    18 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  16. Quitting .NET after 22 years

    18 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  17. Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

    18 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  18. AI found 12 OpenSSL zero-days

    18 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  19. Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore

    18 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  20. A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer

    18 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  21. 'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off

    18 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  22. Phison CEO: Consumer electronics firms may fail by 2026 over AI memory crisis

    18 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  23. Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?

    18 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  24. Snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over SSH

    18 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  25. Preserved hair reveals just how bad lead exposure was in the 20th century

    18 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  26. Show HN: Inverting Agent Model (App as Clients, Chat as Server and Reflection)

    18 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  27. $500K exit approved for Bay Area CEO days before harassment findings surface

    18 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  28. Assigning Open Problems in Class

    18 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  29. Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

    18 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  30. Show HN: Solving Sudoku reasoning via Energy Geometric models

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  31. Statement of Sen. Warner on Military Action in Iran

    17 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  32. Trump overstepped executive power by imposing tariffs, Supreme Court rules

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  33. Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  34. ICE is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  35. Researcher skeptical of 'Havana syndrome' tested secret weapon on himself

    17 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  36. Show HN: Axiom – A math-native OS where x² is valid syntax (built from scratch)

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  37. How AI skills are quietly automating my workday

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  38. Eigen: Building a Workspace

    17 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  39. China to ban hidden car door handles from 2027 in industry shift

    17 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  40. She Graduated with Honors but She Can't Read

    17 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  41. Is software engineering still a craft?

    17 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  42. US, UK, EU, Australia and more to meet to discuss critical minerals alliance

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  43. Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans after EPA

    17 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  44. Unfavorable Semicircle

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  45. Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source)

    17 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  46. More lessons from 14 years at Google

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  47. Show HN: Emergent – Artificial life simulation in a single HTML file

    17 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  48. Tesla announces Powerwall 3P with native three-phase inverter

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  49. SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  50. Show HN: OpenJuris – AI legal research with citations from primary sources

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  51. Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  52. Netflix drops bid for Warner Bros after Paramount offer

    17 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  53. Syd: Writing an application kernel in Rust [video]

    17 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  54. Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces new partnerships

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  55. US Customs destroys rare floppy disk

    17 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  56. With Apple: Fortify your app: Essential strategies to strengthen security

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  57. Trump raises tariffs to 15% day after Supreme Court ruling

    17 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  58. MySpace Founder Deletes Post Amid Backlash After Teasing Platform Return

    17 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  59. The world is more equal than you think

    17 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  60. Paul Brainerd, conservationist who pioneered desktop publishing, dies at 78

    17 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  61. Show HN: BVisor – An Embedded Bash Sandbox, 2ms Boot, Written in Zig

    17 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  62. Kids in ice detention publish letters

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  63. GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei chips

    17 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  64. Same SQL, Different Results: A Subtle Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Migration Bug

    17 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  65. Trump Orders US Agencies to Drop Anthropic After Pentagon Feud

    17 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  66. Kumo: Cloudflare's UI Component Library

    17 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  67. Applications where agents are first-class citizens

    17 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  68. Bondi Bragged About Forcing Facebook to Censor Speech. Now Fire Is Suing

    17 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  69. Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  70. Show HN: Open-Source SDK for AI Knowledge Work

    17 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  71. The Reasons Teens Say No to AI

    17 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  72. Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  73. The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers

    17 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  74. The Legendary 'Father of Sega Hardware' Hideki Sato Has Passed Away

    17 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  75. React just left meta. Here's what that means for developers

    17 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  76. Smart Homes Are Terrible

    17 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  77. Show HN: Ghist – Task management that lives in your repo

    16 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  78. JIT: A header-only, cross-platform JIT compiler library in C

    16 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  79. I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted

    16 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  80. Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack government agencies in Mexico

    16 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  81. Pancreatic cancer researchers' latest breakthrough could help tumors disappear

    16 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  82. Approximation Game

    16 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  83. Peter Thiel Is a Russian Asset

    16 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  84. The Cost of a Function Call

    16 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  85. C and Undefined Behaviour

    16 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  86. Sammy Jankins – An Autonomous AI Living on a Computer in Dover, New Hampshire

    16 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  87. Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy)

    16 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  88. Fighting games have a product design problem

    16 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  89. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Was Killed and His Body Found

    16 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  90. Gamma Function: Visualization for Complex Arguments

    16 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  91. Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac

    16 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  92. Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food

    16 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  93. Ask HN: Is AI the final nail in the coffin for solo developers?

    16 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  94. Supabase Is Down

    16 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  95. China Supreme Court rules drivers remain liable despite autonomous driving tech

    16 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  96. FDA reverses course on rejection of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine

    16 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  97. Nobody knows what programming will look like in two years

    16 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  98. Olympic judge who cost Chock/Bates gold has a history of questionable scores

    16 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  99. Texas is about to overtake California in battery storage

    16 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  100. Ask HN: How to measure how much data one can effectively process or understand?

    16 points • comment • feb 20, 2026