top 10 hacker news stories for today

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798

18 hours ago

513 upvotes – 330 comments

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

https://campedersen.com/singularity

4 hours ago

495 upvotes – 284 comments

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

9 hours ago

477 upvotes – 420 comments

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/

6 hours ago

452 upvotes – 404 comments

Oxide raises $200M Series C

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-200m-series-c

7 hours ago

441 upvotes – 227 comments

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-jury-told-meta-google-addiction.html

7 hours ago

420 upvotes – 317 comments

Google Handed ICE Student Journalist's Bank and Credit Card Numbers

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/

3 hours ago

411 upvotes – 149 comments

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser

https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs

20 hours ago

378 upvotes – 53 comments

Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.0

12 hours ago

324 upvotes – 150 comments

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine

https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2

10 hours ago

279 upvotes – 54 comments
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