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Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.

  1. 15H AGO

    2.17.26 | Miles Wu's origami holds 10k times its weight, Bluetooth devices reveal personal data, dark web agent aids rescue of girl from abuse

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (01:38) - What your Bluetooth devices reveal (02:35) - Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (03:36) - Ghidra by NSA (04:37) - Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (05:28) - Rise of the Triforce (06:38) - Visual introduction to PyTorch (07:45) - Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (08:43) - Four Column ASCII (2017) (09:45) - "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (11:03) - Outro 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weighthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546What your Bluetooth devices revealhttps://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560 Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abusehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396 Ghidra by NSAhttps://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidrahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548 Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Fileshttps://jmail.world/jeminihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334 Rise of the Triforcehttps://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524 Visual introduction to PyTorchhttps://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002231 Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologuehttps://github.com/zachlatta/freeflowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375 Four Column ASCII (2017)https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022270 "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other namehttps://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038318

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  2. 1D AGO

    2.16.26 | Joining OpenAI, EU bans unsold apparel destruction, Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest highlight U.S. surveillance

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - I’m joining OpenAI (01:26) - EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear (02:44) - Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (03:51) - I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (04:52) - Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (06:06) - LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop (07:06) - Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (08:17) - Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (09:30) - Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (10:46) - Audio is the one area small labs are winning (11:49) - Outro I’m joining OpenAIhttps://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclawhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwearhttps://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_enhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025378 Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance statehttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittinglyhttps://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/116072773118828295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580 Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015https://modern-css.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025851 LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptophttps://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025399 Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championshiphttps://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 quotationshttps://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 formathttps://gwern.net/gwtarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024506 Audio is the one area small labs are winninghttps://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999285

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  3. 2D AGO

    2.15.26 | uBlock filter for YouTube Shorts, Ooh.directory for finding blogs, News publishers restrict Internet Archive access

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts (01:16) - Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you (02:06) - News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns (03:23) - My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker (04:37) - I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers (05:52) - NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed (06:54) - Descent, ported to the web (07:50) - Breaking the spell of vibe coding (09:01) - Instagram's URL Blackhole (10:07) - OpenAI should build Slack (11:25) - Outro uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shortshttps://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest youhttps://ooh.directory/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449 News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concernshttps://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 brokerhttps://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294 I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainershttps://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 feedhttps://newpipe.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218 Descent, ported to the webhttps://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545 Breaking the spell of vibe codinghttps://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006615 Instagram's URL Blackholehttps://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004689 OpenAI should build Slackhttps://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slackhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553

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  4. 3D AGO

    2.14.26 | Fix iOS keyboard or switch to Android, Monosketch, EU targets infinite scrolling

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android (01:23) - Monosketch (02:20) - The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling (03:35) - GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics (04:36) - An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened (05:38) - Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 (06:49) - Gradient.horse (07:44) - Building a TUI is easy now (08:45) - Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube (09:56) - Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide (10:51) - Outro Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Androidhttps://ios-countdown.win/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064Monosketchhttps://monosketch.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001871 The EU moves to kill infinite scrollinghttps://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 physicshttps://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 Happenedhttps://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 1986https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954696 Gradient.horsehttps://gradient.horsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955311 Building a TUI is easy nowhttps://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-nowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509 Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTubehttps://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 guidehttps://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008163

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  5. 4D AGO

    2.13.26 | AI agent hit piece, Gemini 3 Deep Think, GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - An AI agent published a hit piece on me (01:32) - Gemini 3 Deep Think (02:43) - GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (03:45) - Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed (04:56) - Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues (06:10) - Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (07:24) - Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (08:26) - Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you (09:25) - Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation (10:25) - Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) (11:19) - Outro An AI agent published a hit piece on mehttps://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729Gemini 3 Deep Thinkhttps://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‑Sparkhttps://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 Changedhttp://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596 Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continueshttps://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 usershttps://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-vivahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989217 Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlashhttps://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceledhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996999 Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop youhttps://skipthe.tips/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519 Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberationhttps://pol.is/home2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992815 Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490

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  6. 5D AGO

    2.12.26 | Claude Code's simplification, Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification loophole, Amazon Ring's lost dog ad controversy

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Claude Code is being dumbed down? (01:26) - Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass (02:32) - Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance (03:44) - Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter (04:49) - GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks (05:52) - Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code (07:05) - WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system (08:05) - Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists (09:10) - NetNewsWire Turns 23 (10:06) - “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work (11:04) - Outro Claude Code is being dumbed down?https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypasshttps://age-verifier.kibty.town/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982421 Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillancehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/876866/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ad-online-backlashhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978966 Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutterhttps://fluorite.game/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976911 GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic taskshttps://z.ai/blog/glm-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974853 Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Codehttps://github.com/tonyyont/peon-pinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985151 WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance systemhttps://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 artistshttps://www.reuters.com/world/ireland-rolls-out-pioneering-basic-income-scheme-artists-2026-02-10/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977175 NetNewsWire Turns 23https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978490 “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your workhttps://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933529

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  7. 6D AGO

    2.11.26 | Singularity on Tuesday, Europe's $24T split from Visa and Mastercard, Ex-GitHub CEO's new AI developer platform

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday (01:34) - Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun (02:52) - Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents (04:02) - Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine (05:07) - The Day the Telnet Died (06:09) - The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964) (07:17) - Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time (08:29) - My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder (09:40) - Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (10:33) - Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews (11:29) - Outro The Singularity will occur on a Tuesdayhttps://campedersen.com/singularityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962996Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begunhttps://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 agentshttps://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345 Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 enginehttps://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958231 The Day the Telnet Diedhttps://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 timehttps://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959418 My eighth year as a bootstrapped founderhttps://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933444 Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilityhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971516 Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViewshttps://www.netviews.apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955712

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  8. FEB 10

    2.10.26 | Discord mandates face scan or ID, Sky color explanation, $3.88 Walmart clock converted to ESP8266 Wi-Fi clock

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Why is the sky blue? (01:21) - Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (02:40) - Another GitHub outage in the same day (03:43) - Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs (05:02) - Sandboxels (06:03) - Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (07:12) - Discord Alternatives, Ranked (08:14) - Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser (09:17) - Outro Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next monthhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-outhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663Why 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 clockhttps://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clockhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947096 Another GitHub outage in the same dayhttps://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949452 Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920 Sandboxelshttps://neal.fun/sandboxels/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946308 Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash riskhttps://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, Rankedhttps://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949564 Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browserhttps://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954136

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