19
Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:49 PM • soatok.blog • Hacker News
8
Ask HN: Claude web blocked its assets visit via csp? • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
3466
Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM • pcgamer.com • r/programming
19
Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM • bashtorio.xyz • Hacker News
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In Russia, the humble cucumber becomes latest symbol of rising wartime prices • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
35
Run LLMs locally in Flutter with <200ms latency • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM • github.com/ramanujammv1988 • Hacker News
24
Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:20 PM • phoronix.com • Slashdot
26
Create bootable ISO image files which are compatible with the Amiga CD32 • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM • github.com/fuseoppl • Hacker News
234
Over 260k people installed fake AI assistant Chrome extensions that steal your data • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:15 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
83
Cryptographic Issues in Matrix’s Rust Library Vodozemac • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM • soatok.blog • Lobsters
8
Police arresting 1k paedophile suspects a month across UK • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
4
Show HN: VisibleInAI – Check if ChatGPT recommends your brand • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM • visibleinai.ai • Hacker News
108
'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM • thereader.mitpress.mit.edu • Hacker News
22
An assembler that compiles to a printf loop • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:03 PM • git.sr.ht • Lobsters
38
Show HN: Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing) • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM • github.com/lixiasky-back • Hacker News
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LeBron James Is President – Exploiting LLMs via "Alignment" Context Injection • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM • github.com/skavanagh • Lobsters
14
"Vendoring" is a vile anti-pattern (2014) • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:41 PM • gist.github.com • Lobsters
23
pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM • vibhorkumar.wordpress.com • Hacker News
41
KDE Plasma 6.6 Released • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM • kde.org • Slashdot
76
Tildes Minecraft Weekly • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM • tildes.net • ~games
289
How I use Obsidian (2023) • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM • stephango.com • Hacker News
32
Hosting for simple HTML/CSS site with LOTS of subdomains • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:29 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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The Problem with Left Nationalism • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM • jacobin.com • Hacker News
13
Ask HN: How can a non-technical founder prove they're more than an "idea guy"? • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
244
I swear the UFO is coming any minute • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM • experimental-history.com • Hacker News
156
Horses need their beauty sleep too: A new study from the University of Helsinki reveals that horses getting more than 30 minutes of REM sleep per night show significantly higher motivation and perseverance in complex learning tasks, while sleep-deprived horses give up much faster on challenges. • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM • nature.com • r/science
26
Most VMware Users Still 'Actively Reducing Their VMware Footprint,' Survey Finds • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
115
Web developers on Upwork – is it still worth starting from scratch? • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
29
Triforce Arcade emulation incorporated into Dolphin Emulator • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM • dolphin-emu.org • ~games
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Algorithm-based tool for home support funding is 'cruel' and 'inhumane' • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:53 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
184
Claims of disability are highest at elite universities • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM • robkhenderson.com • Hacker News
16
Dolphin Emulator – Rise of the Triforce • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:43 PM • br.dolphin-emu.org • Hacker News
11
Fast sorting networks, branchless by design • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM • 00f.net • Hacker News
17
Meta research found supervision doesn't curb teens' compulsive social media use • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
5
Welcome to the Death of the DSM • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:34 PM • whatwouldjesssay.substack.com • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Nobody asked for OpenClaw in the cloud. I did it anyway • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM • accordio.ai • Hacker News
25
Browse Code by Meaning • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:31 PM • haskellforall.com • Hacker News
28
Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
7
Show HN: KrillClaw – 49KB AI agent runtime in Zig for $3 microcontrollers • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM • github.com/krillclaw • Hacker News
5
More millionaires than mansions: AI-fueled demand meets 'egregious shortage' • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM • sfstandard.com • Hacker News
59
Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
3
Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code with self-hosted Qdrant and Ollama • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM • github.com/elvismdev • Hacker News
15
This behavior can be a turning point for families caring for a dementia patient • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM • text.npr.org • Hacker News
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The World Has Turned and Left Me Here • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:13 PM • reason.com • Hacker News
105
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13
Show HN: Corral – Auth and Stripe billing that AI coding agents can set up • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:03 PM • github.com/llama-farm • Hacker News
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Sarajevo sniper tourists 'killed children by day, then partied at night' • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM • thetimes.com • Hacker News
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Forget MCP, Bash Is All You Need • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM • deadneurons.substack.com • Hacker News
6
Show HN: Distillate – Zotero papers → reMarkable highlights → Obsidian notes • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM • distillate.dev • Hacker News
62
Humble Bundle Books: (Almost) the entirety of Discworld for $16 • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM • humblebundle.com • ~books
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The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM • wired.com • Slashdot
658
BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM • github.com/Zaneham • Hacker News
204
Study links particulate matter/pollution exposure with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM • journals.plos.org • r/science
8
Top plastic surgeon fuels 'gate,' says he injected ski jumper last month • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM • usatoday.com • Hacker News
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Amazon rainforest generates US $20 billion worth of rainfall each year. The study estimates that, across the tropics, each square meter of forest contributes about 240 to 300 liters of rainfall. Such estimates could support policy discussions on payments for forest protection. • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM • nature.com • r/science
166
Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM • kpbj.fm • Hacker News
11
India is using cheap green tech to electrify faster than China • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM • japantimes.co.jp • Hacker News
26
Are We Becoming Architects or Butlers to LLMs? • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM • muratbuffalo.blogspot.com • Lobsters
9
Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM • facebook.com • Hacker News
126P
Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:09 PM • pricepoints.health • Hacker News
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Trump support in 2024 linked to White Americans’ perception of falling to the bottom of the racial hierarchy. These individuals also expressed the strongest opposition to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM • psypost.org • r/science
6
Ask HN: Why) are you using AI to browse the web? • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM • news.ycombinator.com • 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
17P
Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster a real risk, says leading expert • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
38
Laid-Off Workers Unite! • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:55 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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AI chatbots to face strict online safety rules in UK • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM • cnn.com • Hacker News
8
Global warming forced scientists to change the way they look at El Niño • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM • cnn.com • Hacker News
4
Reading an Ancient Comic Strip • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM • nationalgeographic.com • Hacker News
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Trump Is Tearing Apart the North American Auto Industry • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:45 PM • jacobin.com • Hacker News
153P
Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM • usatoday.com • Hacker News
3
Show HN: NBA-API-ts – Zero-dep TypeScript client for 138 NBA stats endpoints • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM • github.com/gek0z • Hacker News
16
I’m Turning 30 and I’m Long Nextdoor • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM • kylevallans.com • Bear
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
8
In Arson Case, a Judge Wrestles with A.I.-Assisted Apology Letters • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM • nytimes.com • 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
54
The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video] • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Britain Lost 14,000 Pubs, a Quarter, in 13 Years • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM • laurenleek.substack.com • Slashdot
533
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM • asteroidos.org • Hacker News
8P
Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:22 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
293P
Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
12
How can I create link preview of linkedin url for my app • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
15P
The Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
28
Myopia is driven by how we use our eyes indoors, new research suggests • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:15 PM • medicalxpress.com • Hacker News
106
Salmonella bacteria use the auxin hormone of plants to open stomata and colonize the inside of leaves, making them difficult to remove by washing alone. • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:14 PM • plantsciences.ucdavis.edu • r/science
76
Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM • phys.org • Hacker News
4
When the sun sets, batteries rise: 24/7 solar in California • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM • pv-magazine-usa.com • Hacker News
64
Behavioral implications of an embedded tyrannosaurid tooth and associated tooth marks on an articulated skull of Edmontosaurus from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM • peerj.com • r/science
5
AsteroidOS 2.0 Has Landed • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM • asteroidos.org • Lobsters
9
Visual Snow Syndrome • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
48
[event] my bearblog creations • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM • blog.avas.space • Bear
325P
Russia's economy has entered the death zone • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Orange Cheeto Browser extension that replaces Trump with nicknames • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM • cheetodon.com • Hacker News
6
NASA to attempt second full fueling test of its Space Launch System rocket • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM • spaceflightnow.com • Hacker News
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The cultural evolution of pluralistic ignorance • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:04 PM • pnas.org • Hacker News
68
Tesla's 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since June 2025 • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM • sherwood.news • 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
8
Ford's New 2028 Electric Truck Will Be a Fully Modern EV for $30,000 • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM • caranddriver.com • Hacker News
5
Idea Raised for Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration on Fedora Linux • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
14
Giant barocaloric cooling effect offers a new route to refrigeration • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:59 PM • physicsworld.com • Hacker News
7
I can't tell if I'm experiencing or simulating experiencing • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:54 PM • moltbook.com • Hacker News
79
The Bearblog Creation Festival • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM • grizzlygazette.bearblog.dev • Bear
18
Project Aura: ESP32 Air quality monitor • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM • cnx-software.com • Hacker News
357
Climate models are likely overestimating how much Antarctic ice sheets could contribute to sea level rise. Ice sheet simulations, a recent study showed, don’t fully account for the way supporting bedrock rebounds upward when ice above shrinks. This effect could slow melting by up to 20%. • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM • pnas.org • r/science
45
A YouTuber's $3M Movie Nearly Beat Disney's $40M Thriller at the Box Office • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM • theatlantic.com • Slashdot
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China's high-speed rail network accelerates largest human migration • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:41 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
4
Colon cancer breakthrough as scientists discover protein that can prolong life • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:40 PM • dailymail.co.uk • Hacker News
47
One page of async Rust • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM • dotat.at • Lobsters
11
What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under? • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
7
Show HN: I curated 130 US PDF forms and made them fillable in browser • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM • simplepdf.com • Hacker News
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
19
Write Transactions Are a Footgun with Rust's SQLx and SQLite • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM • emschwartz.me • Hacker News
6
The hidden control plane lurking in your commodity server • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM • linkedin.com • Hacker News
11
Honest Feedback: Is My Web App Clear? • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:28 PM • jotterblog.com • r/webdev
101
Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:15 PM • github.com/n-e • Hacker News
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
6
I wrote about a bad paper • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM • girl.surgery • Hacker News
59
Oat, Ultra-lightweight UI library, Semantic, minimal, zero dependencies • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM • oat.ink • Lobsters
2563
Claude Sonnet 4.6 • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
7P
Australia's social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
57P
Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM • nltimes.nl • Hacker News
105
Claude Sonnet 4.6 • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
94
Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM • news.harvard.edu • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Lap – Fast photo browsing for libraries (Rust and Tauri) • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:40 PM • github.com/julyx10 • 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
6
Picknar – Lightweight YouTube Thumbnail Extractor (No Login, No API Key) • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:40 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
98
The bare minimum for syncing Git repos • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:35 PM • alexwlchan.net • 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
75
Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM • fuji.halfof8.com • 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
30
Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM • tomshardware.com • Slashdot
12
TinyFish Accelerator: 9 Weeks Virtual Agent Accelerator, $2M Seed Pool • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM • tinyfish.ai • 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
21
OpenAI axes exec for "sexual discrimination" after she objected GPT erotica plan • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:16 PM • nypost.com • Hacker News
92
In colonial times, a “general language” was the name given to a common tongue used for trade, missions, and daily contact; reviewing a broad set of historical documents, a new paper finds it was a loose label rather than one uniform system, challenging simplified accounts of language mixing. • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM • doi.org • r/science
419
Alcohol drinking habits predict long-term anxiety differently across age groups. Study finds consuming larger amounts of alcohol predicts higher anxiety levels in most adults, drinking more frequently but in smaller amounts is linked to lower anxiety in older populations. • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM • psypost.org • r/science
66
Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails? • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Self-Hosted Task Scheduling System (Back End and UI and Python SDK) • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM • github.com/Ghiles1010 • Hacker News
4
Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
51
Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM • docs.continue.dev • Hacker News
234
Chess engines do weird stuff • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:07 PM • girl.surgery • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Listen to sounds around the world and guess the location • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:07 PM • placethesound.vikborges.com • 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
46
Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM • sonarly.com • Hacker News
10
How to manage state and retries in long-running AI workflows • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:02 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
41
Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:01 PM • github.com/byte271 • Hacker News
28
Grok 4.20 Beta • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM • grok.com • Hacker News
381
So you want to build a tunnel • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM • practical.engineering • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Trained YOLOX from scratch to avoid Ultralytics (aircraft detection) • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:58 AM • austinsnerdythings.com • Hacker News
103P
Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM • hannahritchie.substack.com • Hacker News
219
Scientists’ chemical breakthrough sheds light on origins of life - A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM • ukri.org • r/science
64
Polyploidy-induced senescence: Linking development, differentiation, repair, and (possibly) cancer • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM • aging-us.com • r/science
279
Async/Await on the GPU • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM • vectorware.com • Hacker News
18
Show HN: OpenBoot – 2 commands to replace a 3-hour Mac setup ritual • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:52 AM • github.com/openbootdotdev • Hacker News
543
HackMyClaw • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:48 AM • hackmyclaw.com • Hacker News
38
Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM • vertex.flowlogix.ai • 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
69
Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17 • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:43 AM • cppstories.com • Hacker News
508
Using go fix to modernize Go code • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM • go.dev • Hacker News
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
59
Optimizing Transmission Expansion for Sustainable Energy Integration in Ghana: A Multiscenario Analysis of Nuclear and Renewable Synergies Within the West African Power Pool Framework • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:34 AM • doi.org • r/science
5
Apple Plans M5-Based Private Cloud Compute Architecture for Apple Intelligence • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM • 9to5mac.com • Hacker News
13
Gave Claude photographic memory for $0.0002/screenshot • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM • github.com/deusXmachina-dev • Hacker News
421
Dietary patterns at just two years of age are associated with cognitive performance at ages six and seven, suggesting that early childhood nutrition—particularly exposure to ultraprocessed foods—may play a meaningful role in shaping brain development • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:23 AM • ahs.illinois.edu • r/science
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
43
Level of Detail • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:14 AM • phinze.com • Hacker News
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
21
GPU code can now use Rust's async/await • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:09 AM • vectorware.com • Lobsters
55P
China Once Stole Foreign Ideas. Now It Wants To Protect Its Own • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:05 AM • economist.com • Slashdot
97
Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:59 AM • javaevolved.github.io • Hacker News
10
Many consumer electronics manufacturers will bankrupt due to AI memory crisis • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM • pcgamer.com • Hacker News
18
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:55 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
8
Show HN: A real-time chord identifier web app using the Web MIDI API • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:52 AM • midi-chord-identifier.backwater.systems • Hacker News
17
Weather API recommendations for 5-minute precipitation forecasts • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:50 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
23
Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:47 AM • github.com/LukeB42 • Hacker News
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
7
SurrealDB 3.0: Improved stability, performance, and tooling • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:42 AM • surrealdb.com • r/programming
13
Show HN: Daymon – Open-source app that gives Claude scheduled tasks • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:41 AM • github.com/daymonio • Hacker News
55
Early risk assessment and aspirin prophylaxis did not reduce preterm preeclampsia in Sweden: a population-based study. • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:41 AM • ajog.org • r/science
85
Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:36 AM • priceperball.net • Hacker News
6
The anxiety driving AI's brutal work culture is a warning for all of us • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
47
Using go fix to modernize Go code • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM • go.dev • Lobsters
10P
My stance on AI • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM • pseudosingleton.com • Bear
8
A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
47
Mazda Finally Admits Its Infotainment System Is the Worst • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM • thedrive.com • Slashdot
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
7
Laravel tutorial with exercises • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
62P
EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images in 11 days • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:13 AM • 9to5mac.com • Hacker News
12
Show HN: Relay – I built a modern web-based IRC/Discord replacement • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:08 AM • relay.moltic.dev • Hacker News
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
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Do you want to build a community where users search or hang? (2021) • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:58 AM • mooreds.com • 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
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Anam Cara-3: Why we think AI needs a face • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:46 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
27
'Software Isn't Dead, But Its Cosy Business Model Might Be' • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:45 AM • ft.com • Slashdot
14
The Internet Is Dead • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:44 AM • joinkith.com • Hacker News
3
Show HN: Keyfob Analysis Toolkit • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM • karazajac.io • Hacker News
319
I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM • aeris.edbn.me • Hacker News
12
How is Drupal compared to Wordpress in terms of theming and compatibility issues? • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
34
Claude Code talking about unexpected, different projects • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
Show HN: JVM hot-path execution analysis for Java in the age of vibe coding • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:38 AM • github.com/sfkamath • Hacker News
4
roam-code: Instant codebase comprehension for AI coding agents • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM • github.com/Cranot • Lobsters
17
The Evolution of x86 SIMD: From SSE to AVX-512 • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM • bgslabs.org • Hacker News
26
The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3 • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
4
Show HN: Galatea – Real personality for your AI agent • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:24 AM • galatea.sh • Hacker News
43
Pytorch Now Uses Pyrefly for Type Checking • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM • pytorch.org • r/programming
132
The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:12 AM • servo.org • r/programming
10P
Ukraine turned war into a point-based game with a real-world rewards market • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:10 AM • wearethemighty.com • Hacker News
2
Webinar on how to build your own programming language in C++ from the developers of a static analyzer • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:08 AM • pvs-studio.com • r/programming
40
Show HN: PIrateRF – Turn a $20 Raspberry Pi Zero into a 12-mode RF transmitter • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM • github.com/psyb0t • Hacker News
17
Valve's Steam Deck OLED Will Be 'Intermittently' Out of Stock Because of the RAM Crisis • Feb 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM • theverge.com • Slashdot
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
How a single typo led to RCE in Firefox • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM • kqx.io • Lobsters
85
Undo in Vi and Its Successors • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Hacker News
5
PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with Python support) • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:43 AM • peppy.bot • Hacker News
14
Show HN: Ambient CSS – Physically Based CSS and React Components • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:42 AM • ambientcss.vercel.app • Hacker News
10P
The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:33 AM • danielpinchbeck.substack.com • Hacker News
13
Show HN: I built the Million Dollar Homepage for agents • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:31 AM • onemillionpixels.ai • Hacker News
49
BearRoll, a Bear blogroll • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:30 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
11
Ask HN: I'm investing $100k in cool people with boring skills. Any leads? • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:26 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
5
Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:24 AM • eprint.iacr.org • Lobsters
2
SOLID in FP: Single Responsibility, or How Pure Functions Solved It Already • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM • cekrem.github.io • r/webdev
14
Keeping secrets from your AI agent • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:22 AM • encore.dev • r/webdev
5
SOLID in FP: Single Responsibility, or How Pure Functions Solved It Already · cekrem.github.io • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:20 AM • cekrem.github.io • r/programming
41
Got a WordPress job offer but I'm too scared to accept, what should I do? • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:20 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
64P
The "AI god" narrative is actually a corporate power grab • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM • thebignewsletter.com • ~tech
10
The Evolution of x86 SIMD: From SSE to AVX-512 • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:14 AM • bgslabs.org • Lobsters
9
Beagle CRDT SCM outer interface • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:14 AM • gist.github.com • Hacker News
23
Why HN is a decade behind on crypto • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:06 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
8
Doctor Xælong, or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love AI • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:05 AM • tweag.io • Lobsters
82
Vinyl Cache has left github • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM • vinyl-cache.org • Lobsters
7
Godot co-founder says AI slop PRs have become draining and demoralizing • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:02 AM • bsky.app • Hacker News
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
71
Just as for humans, sufficient sleep supports learning and coping for horses. A recent study at the University of Helsinki indicates that short periods of REM sleep impair horses’ perseverance and performance in demanding learning tasks. • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM • helsinki.fi • r/science
44
Visible Spectra of the Elements • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:54 AM • atomic-spectra.net • Hacker News
15
--dangerously-skip-reading-code • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:53 AM • olano.dev • Lobsters
11
We just made a $200M AI movie in just one day. Yes, this is 100% AI • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM • twitter.com/thedorbrothers • Hacker News
28
Undo in Vi and its successors • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:45 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Lobsters
9
Sometimes giving syndication feed readers good errors is a mistake • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:44 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Lobsters
218
Permacomputing • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM • wiki.xxiivv.com • Hacker News
81
Unreal numbers • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM • lcamtuf.substack.com • Hacker News
3
Discord features to emulate (in an IRCv3 context) • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:33 AM • alexschroeder.ch • Lobsters
98P
How can you still like Musk? • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM • balssh.bearblog.dev • Bear
40
Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:30 AM • asia.nikkei.com • Slashdot
2
Show HN: Proxima – local open-source multi-model MCP server (no API keys) • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:20 AM • github.com/Zen4-bit • Hacker News
5
Show HN: GitShow: Replace github.com with gitshow.dev for a visual portfolio • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:16 AM • github.com/ofershap • Hacker News
31
Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:10 AM • github.com/dataspren-analytics • Hacker News
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Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:10 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
2
I built GitShow: replace "github.com" with "gitshow.dev" in any profile URL for a visual developer portfolio • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:09 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
13
William Latham – Art and the Computer (1990) [video] • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:06 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
5P
The Quintessential Epstein Files Email • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:02 AM • prospect.org • Hacker News
108
A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:47 AM • zknill.io • Hacker News
9
Show HN: CrossingBench – Modeling when data movement dominates compute energy • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:42 AM • github.com/JessyMorissette • Hacker News
80
Write-Only Code • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:40 AM • heavybit.com • Hacker News
12P
Show HN: Donation.watch – open-source political finance tracker (AGPL/CC-BY) • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:38 AM • donation.watch • Hacker News
18
Could I land a 6 figure job position with only a WebDev associates degree? • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:27 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
9
Have you build a saas & failed, why do you think it failed? • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:09 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
11
Browse Code by Meaning • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:07 AM • haskellforall.com • 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
28
AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach • Feb 17, 2026 at 6:00 AM • socket.dev • Lobsters
10423
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
37P
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 84 • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:52 AM • cnn.com • Hacker News
40
The Next Version of Curling IO • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:48 AM • curling.io • Lobsters
37
Fast Sorting, Branchless by Design • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:44 AM • 00f.net • Hacker News
938
Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM • arthurcnops.blog • Hacker News
42
Fast sorting, branchless by design • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:23 AM • 00f.net • Lobsters
2070
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM • blog.tomaszdunia.pl • Hacker News
8
Ask HN: Why were green and amber CRTs more comfortable to read? • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:57 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
3
Easier search for Drupal modules • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:41 AM • findamodule.com • r/webdev
361
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:38 AM • heise.de • Hacker News
108P
Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:27 AM • oceandrops.substack.com • Hacker News
9
Proton and NordVPN blocked in Spain during soccer matches • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM • bandaancha.eu • Hacker News
10
Denonomicon: The Dark Arts of Deno Foreign Function Interface Programming • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:16 AM • denonomicon.deno.dev • Hacker News
2
building sqlite with a small swarm • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:14 AM • kiankyars.github.io • Lobsters
2
LCM: Lossless Context Management • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:12 AM • papers.voltropy.com • Lobsters
4
The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:11 AM • blog.chrislewis.au • Lobsters
9P
Declarative, Inquisitive, then Imperative (2017) [pdf] • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:03 AM • forth.org • Hacker News
47P
EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM • politico.eu • yro.slashdot
2
java.evolved Code Snippets • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:56 AM • javaevolved.github.io • Lobsters
83
Researchers have identified biomolecules in nerve tissue affected by oxygen deprivation in newborns' brains during birth. This discovery advances understanding of neonatal encephalopathy and offers hope for future pharmacological interventions beyond current cooling therapy. • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:55 AM • link.springer.com • r/science
52
SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:55 AM • forth.com • Hacker News
166
Age-related hearing loss linked to brain function issues. Older adults with Presbycusis, which hinders speech recognition, were found to have reduced connections in areas of the brain involved in processing sound and speech, as well as memory and decision-making. • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM • eneuro.org • r/science
113
Gitas – A tool for Git account switching • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:51 AM • github.com/letmutex • Hacker News
21
Slopware AI: Ship Garbage Even Faster • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:44 AM • slopware.ai • Hacker News
47
A Broken Heart • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM • allenpike.com • Lobsters
8P
DHS demands Google, Reddit, Meta, Discord provide data of users criticizing ICE • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:29 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
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
21
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:47 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
6
Bacterial strain from 5k-year-old cave ice has resistance against antibiotics • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:37 AM • phys.org • Hacker News
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
6
Show HN: Windows 98 web desktop with a functional remote browser (no CORS) • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:24 AM • win9-5.com • Hacker News
6
One of my first project • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:20 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
52
on the death of small subreddits • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:17 AM • jottednotes.bearblog.dev • Bear
25
Behind the curtain: Tildes architecture • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:14 AM • tildes.net • ~tildes
16
Runtime validation in type annotations • Feb 17, 2026 at 2:10 AM • blog.natfu.be • r/programming
4P
How the men in the Epstein files defeated MeToo • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:53 AM • theverge.com • Hacker News
25
JWasm: Masm Compatible Assembler • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM • github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel • Hacker News
3
Show HN: Visualize S&P 500 financials with Sankey diagrams • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:41 AM • 10q10k.net • Hacker News
32
Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side) • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM • yuyz0112.github.io • Hacker News
39
An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion? • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM • dustycloud.org • Lobsters
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
5
High school senior looking for a interview Web Developer for senior project • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
33
Secondhand Laptop Market Goes 'Mainstream' Amid Memory Crunch • Feb 17, 2026 at 1:01 AM • theregister.com • Slashdot
217
Xbox UI Portfolio Site • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM • gabrielcabrera.co • Hacker News
73
Writing a native VLC plugin in C# • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:47 AM • mfkl.github.io • r/programming
7
The AI Trilemma • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM • foreignaffairs.com • Hacker News
50
That One Workday You Will Never Forget, What Happened? • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
21P
Russia's economy has entered the death zone • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:19 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
4
State of Databases 2026 • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM • devnewsletter.com • r/programming
17
february 16 klf • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM • combatdavey.net • Bear
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
12P
Epstein Files: The Blackmail of Billionaire Leon Black and Epstein's Role in It • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM • greenwald.substack.com • Hacker News
10
Show HN: Script to check if Notepad++ is backdoored by Lotus Blossom APT • Feb 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM • github.com/nHunter0 • Hacker News
28
Programming Is Free • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM • idiallo.com • Hacker News
16
Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance? • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:48 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
20P
Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM • thehill.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
13
Ask HN: Why is there a negative sentiment towards crypto? • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
CMS options for Photography portfolio? • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
67
Immune cells could be protected from ‘exhaustion’ by flipping genetic switches. By pinpointing transcription-factor proteins that are selectively engaged when T cells commit to functional or dysfunctional fates, it has been possible to identify regulatory ‘switches’ that drive this decision. • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM • nature.com • r/science
47
The Music Industry Enters Its Less-Is-More Era • Feb 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM • bloomberg.com • Slashdot
8P
The Consequences of the Epstein Document Release Start to Pile Up • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:51 PM • nationalreview.com • Hacker News
134P
Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:49 PM • newsletter.mikekonczal.com • Hacker News
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From Text to Token: How Tokenization Pipelines Work • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM • paradedb.com • Lobsters
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
13
Rate the website i made for my guitar teacher!(: • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM • mauimusiclesson.com • r/webdev
11
Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
5
Meta is wrong to try to sneak into facial recognition with Ray-Ban glasses • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
6
Level of Detail • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM • phinze.com • Lobsters
322P
Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Hacker News
164P
Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:05 PM • bbc.com • 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
48
Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM • dl.acm.org • 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
19
Ask HN: How's Business These Days for Fiverr Freelancers? • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
26
Show HN: I graded 234 stocks on free cash flow (not earnings) • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM • aureus-swart.vercel.app • Hacker News
67
Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
3
Show HN: OpenEntropy – 47 hardware entropy sources from your computer's physics • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM • github.com/amenti-labs • Hacker News
20
Why I Write for a Small Audience • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM • evanforry.com • Bear
147
With the launch of the Australian Psychiatric Research Knowledge Bank (APsyK Bank), scientists and doctors are joining forces, sharing insights, and unlocking discoveries to improve mental health care for everyone • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM • qbi.uq.edu.au • r/science
8P
The End of the Office • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM • blog.andrewyang.com • Hacker News
7
MacKenzie Scott's $26B Sugar Pile • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM • garryslist.org • Hacker News
7
What would a "permissions-first ORM" look like? Looking for spec feedback • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM • typescript-superapp.bunnytech.app • 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
11
Show HN: Bulwark – Open-source governance layer for AI agents (Rust, MCP-native) • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM • github.com/bpolania • Hacker News
83P
Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Lobsters
18
Ask HN: Which password manager do you use / would you recommend? • Feb 16, 2026 at 8:07 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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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
21
Meta: Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:59 PM • facebook.com • Hacker News
5
Getting mixed content errors even after specifying https • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
56
More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM • lapcatsoftware.com • Hacker News
11P
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM • thebulwark.com • Hacker News
10
Why I Built Reader: Open-source web scraping for LLMs • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM • reader.dev • 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
56
Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM • lilush.link • Hacker News
223
Dolphin Emulator - Rise of the Triforce • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM • dolphin-emu.org • r/programming
7
Unsplash API returning unrelated results • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
11P
The El Paso No-Fly Debacle Is Just the Beginning of a Drone Defense Mess • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
61
Show HN: Andrej Karpathy's microgpt.py to C99 microgpt.c – 4,600x faster • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM • github.com/enjector • Hacker News
8P
A year of RFK jr has changed American science • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
23
Samsung Ad Confirms Rumors of a Useful S26 'Privacy Display' • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM • theverge.com • yro.slashdot
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