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Hacker News (Feb 2026)

  1. First Proof

    178 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  2. Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate

    177 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  3. A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

    177 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  4. 7zip.com Is Serving Malware

    177 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  5. Samsung Upcycle Promise

    176 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  6. LLMs as the new high level language

    176 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  7. Git's Magic Files

    176 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  8. What functional programmers get wrong about systems

    175 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  9. ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)

    175 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  10. Vouch

    174 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  11. Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler

    174 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  12. Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

    174 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  13. H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

    174 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  14. Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

    173 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  15. Permacomputing

    173 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  16. 747s and coding agents

    172 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  17. Why software stocks are getting pummelled

    172 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  18. Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

    172 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  19. America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital

    172 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  20. Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp

    172 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  21. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys

    172 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  22. Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair

    171 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  23. Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

    171 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  24. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

    171 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  25. Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

    171 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  26. Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail

    170 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  27. Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens

    169 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  28. U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025

    169 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  29. In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%

    169 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  30. Let's discuss sandbox isolation

    168 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  31. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

    168 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  32. Julia

    168 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  33. Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game

    168 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  34. Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser

    168 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  35. How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe

    168 points • comment • feb 19, 2026

  36. Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation

    167 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  37. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

    167 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  38. The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster

    167 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  39. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

    167 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  40. LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant

    166 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  41. DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved

    166 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  42. A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage

    166 points • comment • feb 21, 2026

  43. Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid

    166 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  44. Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker

    166 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  45. He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network

    165 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  46. Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout

    165 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  47. RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)

    165 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  48. Rust is just a tool

    165 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  49. λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic

    165 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  50. Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990

    164 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  51. Japanese Death Poems

    164 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  52. Xbox UI Portfolio Site

    164 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  53. 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

    164 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  54. PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]

    163 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  55. F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

    163 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  56. Allocating on the Stack

    163 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  57. NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

    162 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  58. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective

    162 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  59. Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated

    162 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  60. The Misuses of the University

    162 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  61. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox

    162 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  62. Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit

    162 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  63. The three year myth

    162 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  64. Discord just killed anonymity

    161 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  65. Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation

    161 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  66. Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse

    161 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  67. Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust

    161 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  68. Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

    161 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  69. A deep dive into Apple's .car file format

    161 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  70. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings

    161 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  71. Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

    160 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  72. Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures

    160 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  73. A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)

    160 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  74. Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser

    159 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  75. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

    159 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  76. Margin Call

    159 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  77. I Don't Like Magic

    159 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  78. The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

    159 points • comment • feb 25, 2026

  79. Amsterdam Compiler Kit

    158 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  80. Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

    158 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  81. Fun With Pinball

    158 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  82. Tiny C Compiler

    157 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  83. Global Intelligence Crisis

    157 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  84. How did the Maya survive?

    157 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  85. EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push

    157 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  86. Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV

    157 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  87. Index, Count, Offset, Size

    157 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  88. How Is Data Stored?

    157 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  89. Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock

    156 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  90. Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins

    156 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  91. Parking lots as economic drains

    156 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  92. Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]

    155 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  93. Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes

    155 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  94. gRPC: From service definition to wire format

    155 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  95. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml

    154 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  96. How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?

    154 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  97. Stop generating, start thinking

    154 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  98. A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

    154 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  99. Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

    154 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  100. Museum of Plugs and Sockets

    153 points • comment • feb 23, 2026