166
Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM • kpbj.fm • Hacker News
141
Microsoft's AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM • fortune.com • Slashdot
38
Laid-Off Workers Unite! • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:55 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM • usatoday.com • Hacker News
202
Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026 • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM • dzrh.com.ph • Hacker News
198
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM • theshamblog.com • Hacker News
533
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM • asteroidos.org • Hacker News
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Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
76
Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM • phys.org • Hacker News
325P
Russia's economy has entered the death zone • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
725
Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
79
The Bearblog Creation Festival • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM • grizzlygazette.bearblog.dev • Bear
26
A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM • arstechnica.com • ~science
101
Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:05 PM • tomshardware.com • Slashdot
2563
Claude Sonnet 4.6 • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
105
Claude Sonnet 4.6 • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
405
Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:40 PM • kotaku.com • Hacker News
223P
A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+ • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:34 PM • twitter.com/MeshnetCapital • Hacker News
164
Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
198
Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM • semiengineering.com • Hacker News
109
Terminals should generate the 256-color palette • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:21 PM • gist.github.com • Lobsters
575
Gentoo on Codeberg • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:21 PM • gentoo.org • Hacker News
234
Chess engines do weird stuff • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:07 PM • girl.surgery • Hacker News
30
Private, URL-powered calendar • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1255
Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
381
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279
Async/Await on the GPU • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM • vectorware.com • Hacker News
543
HackMyClaw • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:48 AM • hackmyclaw.com • Hacker News
45
99% of Adults Over 40 Have Shoulder 'Abnormalities' on an MRI, Study Finds • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM • arstechnica.com • science.slashdot
508
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782P
CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM • nbcnews.com • Hacker News
198
Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM • mage-bench.com • Hacker News
11
Norway is a Winter Olympic giant. Why isn't it better at ice hockey? • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM • nytimes.com • ~sports.hockey
497
Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
186
Plasma 6.6 released • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:10 AM • kde.org • Lobsters
127
Gentoo on Codeberg • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:09 AM • gentoo.org • Lobsters
343
Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:43 AM • berksoft.ca • Hacker News
166
Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:43 AM • github.com/christopherkarani • Hacker News
7535
China Planted So Many Trees Around the Taklamakan Desert It Turned It Into a Carbon Sink. Study suggests the increased vegetation leads to more “evapotranspiration” — basically, the plants sweat, which can lead to localized cooling and even more rainfall. • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM • zmescience.com • r/science
100
why i love my low-traffic blog • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:20 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
524P
America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:04 AM • governance.fyi • Hacker News
632
Can we get a filter or stricter moderation for AI-generated "slop" posts? • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
700
Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:47 AM • cleantechnica.com • Hacker News
319
I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM • aeris.edbn.me • Hacker News
52
Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM • blog.michielborkent.nl • Lobsters
203P
Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM • lesswrong.com • Hacker News
64
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64P
The "AI god" narrative is actually a corporate power grab • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM • thebignewsletter.com • ~tech
82
Vinyl Cache has left github • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM • vinyl-cache.org • Lobsters
204
Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM • venturebeat.com • Hacker News
218
Permacomputing • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM • wiki.xxiivv.com • Hacker News
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How can you still like Musk? • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM • balssh.bearblog.dev • Bear
108
A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:47 AM • zknill.io • Hacker News
209
Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:01 AM • floedb.ai • Hacker News
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Researchers found a strain of bacteria buried under 5000 years of cave ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. The bacterium also has over 100 genes that are known to be resistance-related. Psychrobacter is known to infect humans and animals, though rarely as it prefers cold environments. • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:55 AM • frontiersin.org • r/science
938
Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM • arthurcnops.blog • Hacker News
2070
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM • blog.tomaszdunia.pl • Hacker News
361
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:38 AM • heise.de • Hacker News
47P
EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM • politico.eu • yro.slashdot
466
Peer-reviewed study: AI-generated changes fail more often in unhealthy code (30%+ higher defect risk) • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM • codescene.com • r/programming
1031
AI Isn't Intelligent, It's PREDICTION (and Why My Panic Has Passed) • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:05 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
85
The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM • servo.org • Lobsters
107
How to Review an AUR Package • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:34 AM • bertptrs.nl • Hacker News
25
Behind the curtain: Tildes architecture • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:14 AM • tildes.net • ~tildes
35
Messy 2026 F1 cars leave a deeply disturbing impression • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM • the-race.com • ~sports.motorsports
88
SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM • svardos.org • Hacker News
217
Xbox UI Portfolio Site • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM • gabrielcabrera.co • Hacker News
50
That One Workday You Will Never Forget, What Happened? • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1169
The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM • newatlas.com • r/science
166
Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
759
Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:23 PM • cep.dev • Hacker News
1700
Deer prevent forests from regrowing on abandoned farmland by consuming saplings and depleting the "seedbank" in the soil, an 18-year Cornell study finds. But while high deer density halts reforestation, it unexpectedly boosts overall plant diversity by preventing dominant weeds from taking over. • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM • journals.plos.org • r/science
322P
Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Hacker News
208
Built a video downloader with drag & drop and zero ads • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
106
An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
329
Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM • vo2maxpro.com • Hacker News
116
Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Lobsters
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Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
29
Zero Garbage Collection in the Browser. Here's me porting my custom Rust wGPU game engine to WebAssembly. (Live Demo + Source) • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
750
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
529
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM • youtube.com • r/programming
223
Dolphin Emulator - Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM • dolphin-emu.org • r/programming
177
Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM • codemade.net • Hacker News
148
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM • forestrydiary.com • Hacker News
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H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM • h1bexposed.tech • Hacker News
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Single dose of potent psychedelic drug could help treat depression, trial shows. Researchers find DMT – used in shamanic rituals – in tandem with psychotherapy has significant effect • Feb 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM • nature.com • r/science
244
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM • docker.com • Hacker News
455
A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM • arstechnica.com • r/science
174
My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM • technologizer.com • Hacker News
169
The Mongol Khans of Medieval France • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM • historytoday.com • Hacker News
91
Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM • dolphin-emu.org • Lobsters
95
Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026 • Feb 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM • wccftech.com • Slashdot
68
Modern CSS Code Snippets • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM • modern-css.com • Lobsters
75
The Point of My Low Traffic Blog • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM • sebastianmalloy.bearblog.dev • Bear
519
Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM • dolphin-emu.org • Hacker News
520
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
175
Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM • apps.apple.com • Hacker News
397
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM • github.com/zachlatta • Hacker News
135
Anthropic's CEO Says AI and Software Engineers Are in 'Centaur Phase' - But It Won't Last Long • Feb 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM • businessinsider.com • Slashdot
284
The maintenance burden of AI-assisted codebases is different from traditional tech debt • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
181
Suicide Linux (2009) • Feb 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM • qntm.org • Hacker News