It's 2026-02-16. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight | comment
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment | comment
What your Bluetooth devices reveal | comment
Use protocols, not services | comment
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files | comment
Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless | comment
Privilege is bad grammar | comment
The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself | comment
The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting | comment
Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State | comment
An AI agent published a hit piece on me | comment
Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android | comment
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? | comment
EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear | comment
Claude Code is being dumbed down? | comment
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code | comment
I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers | comment
Gemini 3 Deep Think | comment
ai;dr | comment
uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts | comment
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark | comment
I’m joining OpenAI | comment
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | comment
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it | comment
Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance | comment
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter | comment
News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns | comment
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics | comment
Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died | comment
Vim 9.2 | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Claude Opus 4.6 | comment
An AI agent published a hit piece on me | comment
Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android | comment
GPT-5.3-Codex | comment
I miss thinking hard | comment
The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday | comment
EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear | comment
Claude Code is being dumbed down? | comment
Voxtral Transcribe 2 | comment
The Waymo World Model | comment
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code | comment
Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun | comment
Google handed ICE student journalist's bank and credit card numbers | comment
I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers | comment
Gemini 3 Deep Think | comment
Don't rent the cloud, own instead | comment
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed | comment
ai;dr | comment
uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts | comment
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark | comment
I’m joining OpenAI | comment
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | comment
GitHub is down again | comment
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it | comment
Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video] | comment
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs | comment
Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance | comment
Why is the sky blue? | comment
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter | comment
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock | comment
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