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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use

    251 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  2. OpenAI should build Slack

    250 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  3. CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)

    250 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  4. IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

    250 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  5. Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer

    250 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  6. Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

    250 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  7. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

    249 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  8. Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

    247 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  9. Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

    246 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  10. Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers

    246 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  11. A Programmer's Loss of Identity

    246 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  12. Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust

    246 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  13. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

    244 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  14. The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler

    243 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  15. Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court

    243 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  16. Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

    242 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  17. The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic

    242 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  18. Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

    242 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  19. Acme Weather

    241 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  20. Testing Ads in ChatGPT

    241 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  21. Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

    241 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  22. Communities are not fungible

    240 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  23. What is a database transaction?

    240 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  24. Learning from context is harder than we thought

    239 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  25. Sandwich Bill of Materials

    239 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  26. Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight

    239 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  27. Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews

    239 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  28. Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw

    238 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  29. Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)

    238 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  30. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

    238 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  31. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

    237 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  32. Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

    237 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  33. AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

    237 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  34. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs

    236 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  35. Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

    235 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  36. TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

    234 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  37. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models

    234 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  38. We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

    234 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  39. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

    234 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  40. AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

    233 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  41. Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

    230 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  42. European Tech Alternatives

    230 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  43. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

    229 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  44. Running My Own XMPP Server

    229 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  45. OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

    229 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  46. We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

    226 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  47. Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL

    226 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  48. The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting

    225 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  49. Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet

    225 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  50. Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB

    225 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  51. A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck

    224 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  52. The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself

    223 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  53. Async/Await on the GPU

    223 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  54. Where did all the starships go?

    222 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  55. You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer

    222 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  56. Open source is not about you (2018)

    222 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  57. Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

    221 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  58. Eight more months of agents

    221 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  59. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

    221 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  60. Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

    221 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  61. Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

    219 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  62. OpenScan

    219 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  63. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails

    219 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  64. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could

    219 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  65. BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything

    219 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  66. Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

    219 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  67. Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

    219 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  68. Speed up responses with fast mode

    218 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  69. An interactive intro to quadtrees

    218 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  70. Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database

    217 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  71. Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

    217 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  72. The Book of PF, 4th edition

    217 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  73. Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024)

    217 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  74. What Is OAuth?

    217 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  75. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support

    217 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  76. Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

    217 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  77. You can't trust the internet anymore

    217 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  78. IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight

    216 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  79. Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

    216 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  80. Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

    216 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  81. Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees

    215 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  82. Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

    215 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  83. Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

    215 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  84. macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)

    214 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  85. OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

    214 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  86. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics

    213 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  87. Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

    213 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  88. Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

    213 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  89. Do not apologize for replying late to my email

    213 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  90. D Programming Language

    212 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  91. $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents

    212 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  92. Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation

    212 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  93. Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

    212 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  94. Why I Joined OpenAI

    211 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  95. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

    211 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  96. Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)

    211 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  97. Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API

    210 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  98. Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial

    210 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  99. Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons

    210 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  100. Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

    208 points • comment • feb 08, 2026