77
What are your architectural hot takes? • Feb 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM • tildes.net • ~humanities
255
Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency • Feb 20, 2026 at 11:29 PM • mojodojo.io • Hacker News
105
Topological Naming Problem • Feb 20, 2026 at 11:16 PM • wiki.freecad.org • Hacker News
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AI is coming for culture • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM • newyorker.com • ~life
683
"It's just text": client earned $15k+ on my code, now threatens to leave for Wix over a renewal fee • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:52 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
82
Excessive token usage in Claude Code • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:40 PM • github.com/anthropics • Hacker News
130
Reason I can't crack system design rounds (jk) • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
61P
Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
302
What Is OAuth? • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:33 PM • leaflet.pub • Hacker News
228
Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:27 PM • june.kim • Hacker News
1332
Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents • Feb 20, 2026 at 7:56 PM • twitter.com/karpathy • Hacker News
388
Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games • Feb 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM • gamedate.org • Hacker News
190
We let anyone merge code to a live site. Here's what 7 weeks of chaos looked like. • Feb 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
105
ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives • Feb 20, 2026 at 7:18 PM • github.com/redruM0381 • Hacker News
38
Ponderings on unicode support on the site, re: punycode, tags, etc • Feb 20, 2026 at 6:46 PM • tildes.net • ~tildes
136
Turn Dependabot Off • Feb 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM • words.filippo.io • r/programming
618P
Be wary of Bluesky • Feb 20, 2026 at 6:35 PM • kevinak.se • Hacker News
344
CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019) • Feb 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM • worldwideweb.cern.ch • Hacker News
203
λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic • Feb 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM • lix.polytechnique.fr • Hacker News
734
Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM • bloodinthemachine.com • Hacker News
451
A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM • aol.com • Hacker News
22
Godot beginners: Here's how to fade in a 3D mesh • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:37 PM • tildes.net • ~comp
143
Snake game but every frame is a C program compiled into a snake game where each frame is a C program... • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM • youtu.be • r/programming
291
Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023) • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:27 PM • adamj.eu • Hacker News
564
Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM • withdiode.com • Hacker News
195
I hate AI side projects • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM • dylancastillo.co • Hacker News
291P
FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
95
Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM • theverge.com • ~games
140
Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:45 PM • loonlang.com • Hacker News
85
Wikipedia blacklists archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:41 PM • arstechnica.com • ~misc
827
Turn Dependabot off • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:25 PM • words.filippo.io • Hacker News
154
Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM • mines.fyi • Hacker News
181
Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:05 PM • neowin.net • Hacker News
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When given the option between marriage and domestic partnership, same-sex couples in the US overwhelmingly choose marriage. Findings indicate that marriage retains a distinct and powerful status due to its legal benefits, social clarity, and perceived level of commitment. • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM • psypost.org • r/science
400
Mobile dev here — well, not for long it seems • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:57 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
52
OpenAI Has No Moat, No Tech Edge, No Lock-in and No Real Plan, Analyst Warns • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:44 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
1032
Adolescent cannabis use linked to doubling risk of psychotic and bipolar disorders: study of 463,396 adolescents found that past-year cannabis use during adolescence was associated with a significantly higher risk of incident psychotic (doubled), bipolar (doubled), depressive and anxiety disorders. • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM • phi.org • r/science
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I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:40 PM • dixken.de • Lobsters
168
Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:37 PM • wsetglobal.com • Hacker News
115
Turn Dependabot Off • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:31 PM • words.filippo.io • Lobsters
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I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:19 PM • dixken.de • Hacker News
479
Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:55 PM • juno-labs.com • Hacker News
68
A Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM • justinmklam.com • Lobsters
75
Hold on to your hardware • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM • xn--gckvb8fzb.com • ~tech
977
Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
108
KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:26 PM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
2328
Facebook is cooked • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:25 PM • pilk.website • Hacker News
123
Lobsters Interview with steveklabnik • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:18 PM • alexalejandre.com • Lobsters
464
Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM • neuroai.science • Hacker News
316
Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:11 PM • twitter.com/peterjliu • Hacker News
198
Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:03 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
2979
Keep Android Open • Feb 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM • f-droid.org • Hacker News
145
Lil' Fun Langs • Feb 20, 2026 at 12:34 PM • taylor.town • Hacker News
52
HSBC To Investors: If India Couldn't Build an Enterprise Software Challenger, Neither Can AI • Feb 20, 2026 at 12:20 PM • x.com/refsrc • Slashdot
19
i made beaded bag charms! • Feb 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM • blahg.online • Bear
280
Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says • Feb 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
400P
No Skill. No Taste • Feb 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM • blog.kinglycrow.com • Hacker News
80
Death to Scroll Fade • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:58 AM • dbushell.com • Lobsters
51
Brat, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:57 AM • codeberg.org • Lobsters
104P
The Gay Tech Mafia • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:44 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
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How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:37 AM • youtube.com • ~hobbies
227P
US Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Global Tariffs • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM • reuters.com • yro.slashdot
2799P
Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:27 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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What did you do this week (and weekend)? • Feb 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
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AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:51 AM • tomsguide.com • r/programming
690
Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:48 AM • harpers.org • Hacker News
138
Best Monitor for Programming in 2026? (Price, Setup, Size) • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:42 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
38
Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:40 AM • it.slashdot.org • Slashdot
468P
1°C warming reduces world GDP by over 20% in the long run. Business-as-usual warming implies a present welfare loss of more than 30%, and a Social Cost of Carbon in excess of $1,200 per ton. Unilateral decarbonization policy is cost-effective for large countries such as the United States. • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:34 AM • academic.oup.com • r/science
8
Special preschools are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:32 AM • bbc.com • ~humanities.languages
956
I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:03 AM • spencer.wtf • Hacker News
447
Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM • github.com/IronsideXXVI • Hacker News
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Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs • Feb 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM • bbc.com • Slashdot
20
The Funny Men • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM • tildes.net • ~creative
1062
Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:51 AM • github.com/ggml-org • Hacker News
597
“I’ll just have ai do it” • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:41 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
115
The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020) • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM • newscientist.com • Hacker News
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Newly discovered virus linked to colorectal cancer: Scientists discovered a new and previously undescribed virus that infects gut bacteria in patients with colorectal cancer. The virus is found significantly more often in patients with colorectal cancer. • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM • sdu.dk • r/science
393
PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:22 AM • bleepingcomputer.com • Hacker News
216
How to stop being boring • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:19 AM • joanwestenberg.com • Hacker News
86P
"Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought • Feb 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM • coinerella.com • Lobsters
362
Scientists discover new dinosaur species deep in the Sahara Desert • Feb 20, 2026 at 7:50 AM • abcnews.com • r/science
201
Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows • Feb 20, 2026 at 7:24 AM • medicalxpress.com • Hacker News
625
Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment • Feb 20, 2026 at 7:04 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
192
Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2 • Feb 20, 2026 at 6:20 AM • stripe.dev • Hacker News
224P
Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:50 AM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
1280
The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec) • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM • taalas.com • Hacker News
601
As ADHD diagnoses surge, so does an unregulated coaching industry. Research found most of the coaches self-identified as having or suspecting they have ADHD. Most (89.3 percent) reported no professional background in mental health and the median per hour rate for ADHD coaching is $150 an hour • Feb 20, 2026 at 5:03 AM • knowablemagazine.org • r/science
23
How I Built My Own Music Streaming Setup • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:35 AM • yordi.me • Bear
5
The wonderful, weird career of Valtteri Bottas – ahead of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team's debut, Bottas reflects on reinvention, balance and longevity • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:19 AM • esquire.com.au • ~sports.motorsports
1096
I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure • Feb 20, 2026 at 4:02 AM • coinerella.com • Hacker News
53
We pushed a Docker image change that took down prod for 40 minutes. The fix was a comment that nobody read. • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:55 AM • github.com/DecispherHQ • r/programming
285
Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:52 AM • jimmyhmiller.com • Hacker News
216
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:48 AM • learn.pimoroni.com • Hacker News
351
Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM • caimito.net • Hacker News
171
How I made a shooter game in 64 KB • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:29 AM • youtube.com • r/programming
58
Keep Android Open • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:23 AM • keepandroidopen.org • Lobsters
398
Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot • Feb 20, 2026 at 3:18 AM • ft.com • r/webdev
321P
A special kind of hell • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:57 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
162
A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:55 AM • youtube.com • r/programming
74P
Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM • bbc.co.uk • ~health
44
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes • Feb 20, 2026 at 2:00 AM • arstechnica.com • science.slashdot
37
NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as “Type A” mishap, says agency made mistakes • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:54 AM • arstechnica.com • ~space
60
Giving away three copies of my friend's recently-released game • Feb 20, 2026 at 1:25 AM • tildes.net • ~games