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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
https://campedersen.com/singularity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962996

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958231

The Day the Telnet Died
https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967772

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958345

Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959418

My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933444

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971516

Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
https://www.netviews.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955712

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663

Why is the sky blue?
https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946401

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947096

Another GitHub outage in the same day
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949452

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920

Sandboxels
https://neal.fun/sandboxels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946308

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947777

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696

Discord Alternatives, Ranked
https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949564

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954136

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 9, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Vouch
https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961

Art of Roads in Games
https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938511

AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939593

Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941603

GitHub Agentic Workflows
https://github.github.io/gh-aw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934107

Dave Farber has died
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933401

Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
https://underhillgame.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936237

More Mac malware from Google search
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/30/more-malware-from-google-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938398

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938903

A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
https://gtaforums.com/topic/986492-grand-theft-auto-ready2play-full-game-windows-version/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938241

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 8, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890814

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself
https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922049

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)
https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925741

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox
https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918429

Software factories and the agentic moment
https://factory.strongdm.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924426

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930391

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924264

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923254

Speed up responses with fast mode
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926043

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 7, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901

The Waymo World Model
https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914785

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
https://openciv3.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918612

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912800

An Update on Heroku
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913903

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914159

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913793

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
https://vecti.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917033

Understanding Neural Network, Visually
https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871654

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916609