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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
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
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
289
How I use Obsidian (2023) • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM • stephango.com • Hacker News
244
I swear the UFO is coming any minute • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM • experimental-history.com • Hacker News
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
184
Claims of disability are highest at elite universities • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM • robkhenderson.com • Hacker News
105
Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM • alexanderbjoy.com • Hacker News
62
Humble Bundle Books: (Almost) the entirety of Discworld for $16 • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM • humblebundle.com • ~books
658
BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM • github.com/Zaneham • Hacker News
166
Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM • kpbj.fm • 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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives • Feb 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
381
So you want to build a tunnel • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM • practical.engineering • Hacker News
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Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM • hannahritchie.substack.com • Hacker News
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
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Using go fix to modernize Go code • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM • go.dev • Hacker News
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CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM • nbcnews.com • Hacker News
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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
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
55P
China Once Stole Foreign Ideas. Now It Wants To Protect Its Own • Feb 17, 2026 at 11:05 AM • economist.com • Slashdot
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
47
Using go fix to modernize Go code • Feb 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM • go.dev • Lobsters
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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
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Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM • blog.michielborkent.nl • Lobsters
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Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM • lesswrong.com • Hacker News
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How a single typo led to RCE in Firefox • Feb 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM • kqx.io • Lobsters
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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
98P
How can you still like Musk? • Feb 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM • balssh.bearblog.dev • Bear
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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
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Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM • arthurcnops.blog • Hacker News
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GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple • Feb 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM • blog.tomaszdunia.pl • Hacker News
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WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:38 AM • heise.de • Hacker News
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EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears • Feb 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM • politico.eu • yro.slashdot
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Gitas – A tool for Git account switching • Feb 17, 2026 at 3:51 AM • github.com/letmutex • 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
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
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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
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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
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Poor Deming never stood a chance • Feb 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI • Feb 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM • codemade.net • Hacker News