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/

2 months ago

915 upvotes – 517 comments

XAI Joins SpaceX

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

2 months ago

898 upvotes – 2070 comments

The Codex App

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

2 months ago

805 upvotes – 637 comments

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/

2 months ago

613 upvotes – 750 comments

Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years

https://www.millert.dev/

2 months ago

610 upvotes – 327 comments

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

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

2 months ago

572 upvotes – 250 comments

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/

2 months ago

497 upvotes – 421 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org

2 months ago

440 upvotes – 141 comments

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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

2 months ago

408 upvotes – 523 comments

Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control

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

2 months ago

396 upvotes – 245 comments

Termux

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

2 months ago

360 upvotes – 180 comments

Zig Libc

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

2 months ago

355 upvotes – 159 comments

Animated Knots

https://www.animatedknots.com/

2 months ago

344 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

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

2 months ago

316 upvotes – 530 comments

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

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

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 156 comments

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

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

2 months ago

271 upvotes – 28 comments

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

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

2 months ago

265 upvotes – 108 comments

Linux from Scratch Ends SysVinit Support

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

2 months ago

224 upvotes – 401 comments

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

2 months ago

218 upvotes – 334 comments

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

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

2 months ago

212 upvotes – 102 comments
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