Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 21, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Keep Android Open
https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091419

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0l9r67drg7t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089213

Facebook is cooked
https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091748

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086181

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088037

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
https://dixken.de/blog/i-found-a-vulnerability-they-found-a-lawyer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092578

Turn Dependabot off
https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094192

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
https://juno-labs.com/blogs/every-company-building-your-ai-assistant-is-an-ad-company
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092203

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
https://worldwideweb.cern.ch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095429

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Gemini 3.1 Pro
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074735

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
https://micasa.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072968

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
https://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-save
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074389

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
https://gist.github.com/interpiduser5/547d8a7baec436f24b7cce89dd4ae1ea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082496

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
https://www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-exoskeleton
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078324

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043345

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Sizing chaos
https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066552

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063005

Cosmologically Unique IDs
https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064490

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069299

27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1r8900z/macos_which_officially_supports_27_year_old/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066241

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062748

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064047

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/minecraft-java-is-switching-from-opengl-to-vulkan-for-the-vibrant-visuals-update/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068948

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-ai-affecting-productivity-and-jobs-europe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068320

The Perils of ISBN
https://rygoldstein.com/posts/perils-of-isbn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063663

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 18, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Sonnet 4.6
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049824

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057829

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-study-robert-solow-information-technology-age/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055979

Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056314

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852

Using go fix to modernize Go code
https://go.dev/blog/gofix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049479

Gentoo on Codeberg
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/16/codeberg.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050067

HackMyClaw
https://hackmyclaw.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049573

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052941

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546

What your Bluetooth devices reveal
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396

Ghidra by NSA
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
https://jmail.world/jemini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334

Rise of the Triforce
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524

Visual introduction to PyTorch
https://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002231

Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
https://github.com/zachlatta/freeflow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375

Four Column ASCII (2017)
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022270

"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038318

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

I’m joining OpenAI
https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025378

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580

Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
https://modern-css.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025851

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025399

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028227

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026071

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
https://gwern.net/gwtar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024506

Audio is the one area small labs are winning
https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999285

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
https://ooh.directory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
https://newpipe.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218

Descent, ported to the web
https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545

Breaking the spell of vibe coding
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006615

Instagram's URL Blackhole
https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004689

OpenAI should build Slack
https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
https://ios-countdown.win/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064

Monosketch
https://monosketch.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001871

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007656

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949

Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954696

Gradient.horse
https://gradient.horse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955311

Building a TUI is easy now
https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000505

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008163

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

An AI agent published a hit piece on me
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729

Gemini 3 Deep Think
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989217

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996999

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
https://skipthe.tips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
https://pol.is/home2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992815

Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 12, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Code is being dumbed down?
https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982421

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876866/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ad-online-backlash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978966

Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
https://fluorite.game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976911

GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974853

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985151

WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920315

Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
https://www.reuters.com/world/ireland-rolls-out-pioneering-basic-income-scheme-artists-2026-02-10/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977175

NetNewsWire Turns 23
https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978490

“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work
https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933529