top 50% 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

Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

2 months ago

210 upvotes – 285 comments

Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/1.html

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 75 comments

EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-advances-farmers-right-repair-their-own-equipment-saving-repair-costs-and

2 months ago

196 upvotes – 80 comments

Why software stocks are getting pummelled

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/01/why-software-stocks-are-getting-pummelled

2 months ago

184 upvotes – 277 comments

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/ice-protester-says-her-global-entry-was-revoked-after-agent-scanned-her-face/

2 months ago

173 upvotes – 109 comments

Julia

https://borretti.me/fiction/julia

2 months ago

172 upvotes – 33 comments

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-geologists-mystery-green-river-uphill.html

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 44 comments

Kernighan on Programming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857444

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 62 comments

Mattermost say they will not clarify what license the project is under

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/8886

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 155 comments

EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push

https://spacenews.com/eu-launches-government-satcom-program-in-sovereignty-push/

2 months ago

162 upvotes – 112 comments

Stop incentivizing surface parking lots

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/stop-incentivizing-surface-parking

2 months ago

162 upvotes – 199 comments

Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/nvidia-stock-price-openai-funding.html

2 months ago

158 upvotes – 64 comments

My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz

2 months ago

158 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857487

2 months ago

141 upvotes – 539 comments

Library of Juggling

https://libraryofjuggling.com/

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 28 comments

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf]

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf

2 months ago

137 upvotes – 77 comments

Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/kaggle-game-arena-updates/

2 months ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/

2 months ago

130 upvotes – 39 comments

AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage

https://github.com/surprisetalk/AdBoost

2 months ago

128 upvotes – 128 comments

Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home

https://danielmangum.com/posts/making-ferrite-core-inductors-home/

2 months ago

123 upvotes – 36 comments

The largest number representable in 64 bits

https://tromp.github.io/blog/2026/01/28/largest-number-revised

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

UK Government Launches Fuel Forecourt Price API

https://www.developer.fuel-finder.service.gov.uk/access-latest-fuelprices

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 148 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)

https://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2018-06-05-time-machine-style-backups-with-rsync

2 months ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]

https://www.weber.edu/wsuimages/psychology/FacultySites/Horvat/OnBeingSaneInInsanePlaces.PDF

2 months ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations

https://stormatics.tech/blogs/unlocking-high-performance-postgresql-key-memory-optimizations

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 8 comments

MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China

https://www.koi.ai/blog/maliciouscorgi-the-cute-looking-ai-extensions-leaking-code-from-1-5-million-developers

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 87 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

xAI Joins SpaceX

https://x.ai/news/xai-joins-spacex

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 5 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Adobe Animate will be discontinued effective March 1, 2026

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/animate/kb/end-of-life.html

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 64 comments

EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/02/eu-must-become-a-genuine-federation-to-avoid-deindustrialisation-and-decline-draghi-says

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 207 comments
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