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Hacker News (Feb 2026)
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Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow
6 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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Flycast WASM – Sega Dreamcast Emulation in the Browser via WebAssembly
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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The AI Trilemma
6 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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We have broken SHA-1 in practice
6 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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LLatte: Scalable Transformers for Ads at Meta
6 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Show HN: Kannada Nudi Editor Web Version
6 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Safe Drinking Water Is a Basic Human Right That Texas Prisons Fail to Respect
6 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Show HN: I scraped 5,700 YC companies to find what niches are now getting funded
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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How to Close a Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories
6 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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Microsoft Uses Plagiarized AI Slop Flowchart to Explain How Git Works
6 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
6 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Long-Distance Trail Running Induces Inflammatory Oxidation in Red Blood Cells
5 points • comment • feb 23, 2026
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AI Mistakes Are Infuriating Gamers as Developers Seek Savings
5 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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Show HN: Kekkai – Interactive security triage in the terminal
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Show HN: AI writes code – humans fix it
5 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Deaths in Ice Custody Texas
5 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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74% of European firms would fail without access to U.S. technology
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Axiom: Hi-perf. C++ tensor lib. NumPy/PyTorch-like API, SIMD,BLAS,Metal support
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Ford shows off the tech going into its $30k electric pickup truck
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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Apple's Push to Build an All-American Chip
5 points • comment • feb 24, 2026
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A Framework for Time-Updating Probabilistic Forecasts
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Epstein Backed Coinbase in Crypto Exchange's Early Years
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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How I Built the Star Trek control panel of my dreams
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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SpaceX shifts priorities to Moon city instead of Mars colony
5 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Aligning brains into a shared space improves their alignment with LLMs
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Warren warns Fed, Treasury against crypto bailout
5 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Chatjimmy.ai – Taalas' chatbot demo for its instantaneous AI approach
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Crazy German Tax Law: Fünftelregelung (or how to pay 116% in income tax)
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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SBA cuts off non-US citizens from primary loan program
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Show HN: A portfolio that re-architects its React DOM based on LLM intent
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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NASA Enables Construction Technology for Moon and Mars Exploration
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Document.designMode Property
5 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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What the U.S. Government's UFO Deep Dive Might Reveal to Americans
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Forget MCP, Bash Is All You Need
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Vibe Coding is the new RAD
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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Pangaea Proxima
5 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Computronium
5 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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The Essential Economics of Nigeria's Okrika Industry (2023)
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
5 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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AI coding gap: Why senior devs are getting faster and juniors spin their wheels
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI's work culture is a warning
5 points • comment • feb 18, 2026
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Godot co-founder says AI slop PRs have become draining and demoralizing
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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ICE agents could be banned from getting public jobs in N.J. for life
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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UK has not given US permission to use RAF bases for Iran strikes
5 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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Only What Is Alive Can Be Conscious
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for 'Tactical Targeting'
5 points • comment • feb 11, 2026
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Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Democracy in 2025: on rising authoritarianism in the United States
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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Jurassic Park Super Bowl commercial de-ages actors beyond belief [video]
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Kansas invalidates drivers licenses of trans people
5 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days
5 points • comment • feb 19, 2026
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AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Gentoo Linux moves away from GitHub due to AI
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Half of Jury Pool in Musk Trial Tossed After 'So Many' Said They 'Hate' Him
5 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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Giant Virus Discovered in Japanese Pond May Hint at Multicellular Life's Origins
5 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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PepsiCo, Walmart hit with class action over alleged price-fixing (2025)
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Three Engineers Charged with Stealing Trade Secrets from Leading Tech Companies
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Betteridge's Law of Headlines
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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CURL's Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Google secures EU antitrust approval for $32B Wiz acquisition
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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I coded a game to turn the Epstein Files into Mad Libs. It's hilarious
5 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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AI Agents Enable Human Communication at Unprecedented Scale
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing
5 points • comment • feb 25, 2026
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US Justice Department hangs Trump banner at headquarters
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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The 17% Risk
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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Just in time software
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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My (terrible) experience as a British Asian at University
5 points • comment • feb 28, 2026
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I hate my company's AI initiatives
5 points • comment • feb 26, 2026
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SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1M satellite constellation to power it
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Turning books to courses using AI
5 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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California (and the Rest of America) Can't Build Like USA's Corps of Engineers
5 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Ask HN: What makes an AI agent framework production-ready vs. a toy?
5 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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We estimate that Claude Opus 4.6 has a 50%-time-horizon of around 14.5 hours
5 points • comment • feb 21, 2026
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OpenAI resets spending expectations, target is around $600B by 2030
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Idea Raised for Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration on Fedora Linux
5 points • comment • feb 17, 2026
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NASA's Juno Mission redefines the size and shape of Jupiter
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Show HN: Buquet – Durable queues and workflows using only S3
5 points • comment • feb 05, 2026
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Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Dan Pelzer's List of 3,599 Books He Read from 1962-2025
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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The Desperate Race to Escape AI's Permanent Underclass
5 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship
5 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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"Our programs are fun to use."
5 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Things the Simpsons Got Wrong About Nuclear (2025)
5 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem
5 points • comment • feb 27, 2026
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Pardoned Binance Founder Hobnobs with Trump Sons, at Mar-a-Lago Crypto Fest
5 points • comment • feb 20, 2026
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Show HN: GEDB – A pure-Go embedded database
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Rules to Be a Better Thinker in 2026
5 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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New satellite view of Tibet's tectonic clash
5 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Personal Side Project: Open-Sourcing My VPS Security Toolkit
5 points • comment • feb 22, 2026
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VX7 – Open-source Yamaha DX7 emulator written in Python
5 points • comment • feb 16, 2026
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Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone–For Contradictory Reasons
5 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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Claude Code Is the Inflection Point
5 points • comment • feb 06, 2026
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The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch [video]
5 points • comment • feb 04, 2026
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People are buying old iPods again
5 points • comment • feb 21, 2026