top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-02

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

6 months ago

XAI Joins SpaceX

https://www.spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex

6 months ago

The Codex App

https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/

6 months ago

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

https://www.frommers.com/tips/airfare/the-tsa-new-45-fee-to-fly-without-id-is-illegal-says-regulatory-expert/

6 months ago

Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years

https://www.millert.dev/

6 months ago

Ownership of open source flashcard app Anki transferred to for-profit AnkiHub

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610

6 months ago

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/court-orders-restart-of-all-us-offshore-wind-construction/

6 months ago

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org

6 months ago

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/tech/865689/microsoft-claude-code-anthropic-partnership-notepad

6 months ago

Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control

https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys

6 months ago

Termux

https://github.com/termux/termux-app

6 months ago

Zig Libc

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-01-31

6 months ago

Animated Knots

https://www.animatedknots.com/

6 months ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857488

6 months ago

Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce

https://www.wired.com/story/the-red-bull-leaks/

6 months ago

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works

https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1

6 months ago

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

https://www.githubstatus.com?todayis=2026-02-02

6 months ago

Linux from Scratch Ends SysVinit Support

https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-announce/2026-02/msg00000.html

6 months ago

Waymo Seeking About $16B Near $110B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-31/waymo-seeking-about-16-billion-near-110-billion-valuation

6 months ago

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/02/firefox-ai-toggle/

6 months ago