top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-03

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060

6 months ago

Data centers in space makes no sense

https://civai.org/blog/space-data-centers

6 months ago

Qwen3-Coder-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-coder-next

6 months ago

What's up with all those equals signs anyway?

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/

6 months ago

New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/

6 months ago

Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo

6 months ago

Agent Skills

https://agentskills.io/home

6 months ago

Deno Sandbox

https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox

6 months ago

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

https://attheu.utah.edu/health-medicine/banning-lead-in-gas-worked-the-proof-is-in-our-hair/

6 months ago

Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/

6 months ago

Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/xcode-26-point-3-unlocks-the-power-of-agentic-coding/

6 months ago

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/

6 months ago

Bunny Database

https://bunny.net/blog/meet-bunny-database-the-sql-service-that-just-works/

6 months ago

221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale

https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/02/03/221-cannon-is-not-for-sale/

6 months ago

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines

https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL

6 months ago

A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw

https://brandon.wang/2026/clawdbot

6 months ago

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust

https://github.com/j178/prek

6 months ago

X offices raided French prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes

https://apnews.com/article/france-x-investigation-seach-elon-musk-1116be84d84201011219086ecfd4e0bc

6 months ago

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/floppinux-2025.html

6 months ago

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en

6 months ago

The Hot Mess of AI

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mess-of-ai/

6 months ago

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline

6 months ago

Tractor

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/tractor.html

6 months ago

Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

https://safe-now.live

6 months ago

Stay Away from My Trash

https://tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-trash

6 months ago

Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem

https://www.bicameral-ai.com/blog/introducing-bicameral

6 months ago

MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk

https://www.menuetos.net/

6 months ago

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/

6 months ago

DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved

https://www.bhusalmanish.com.np/blog/posts/dns-explained.html

6 months ago

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/

6 months ago

China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-moon-mission-mengzhou-artemis

6 months ago

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins

https://fortune.com/2026/02/03/famed-startup-incubator-y-combinator-to-let-founders-receive-funds-in-stablecoins/

6 months ago

Anthropic is Down

https://updog.ai/status/anthropic

6 months ago

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI

https://rentahuman.ai

6 months ago

I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored

https://nikolak.com/gdpr-failure/

6 months ago

GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387

6 months ago

How I've run major projects (2025)

https://www.benkuhn.net/pjm/

6 months ago

Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871179

6 months ago

Information Is Beautiful

https://informationisbeautiful.net/

6 months ago

Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-11/kilobyte-is-1000-bytes

6 months ago

Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux

https://blog.senko.net/sandboxing-ai-agents-in-linux

6 months ago

AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Was

https://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2026/02/02/AI-Copyright/

6 months ago

FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774934.3786425

6 months ago

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/

6 months ago

How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250124-how-to-carry-more-than-your-own-bodyweight

6 months ago

OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) Is Everywhere All at Once, and a Disaster

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/openclaw-a-k-a-moltbot-is-everywhere-all-at-once-and-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

6 months ago

From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0009.70066

6 months ago

The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/the-next-steps-for-airbus-big-bet-on-open-rotor-engines/

6 months ago

Bruce Schneier: AI and the scaling of betrayal

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html

6 months ago

An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847)

https://c82.net/euclid/

6 months ago

Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants

https://www.wired.com/story/how-data-brokers-can-fuel-violence-against-public-servants/

6 months ago

Plasma Effect

https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2016/11/01/plasma

6 months ago

Anthropic AI Tool Sparks Selloff from Software to Broader Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/legal-software-stocks-plunge-as-anthropic-releases-new-ai-tool

6 months ago

How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/how-vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source/

6 months ago

The browser catches homograph attacks. Your terminal doesn't

https://github.com/sheeki03/tirith

6 months ago

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/

6 months ago

Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly

https://github.com/mavdol/capsule

6 months ago

Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872733

6 months ago

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system

6 months ago

Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)

https://github.com/whispem/minikv

6 months ago

LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.

https://github.com/KrystianJonca/lnai

6 months ago

Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy

https://github.com/ambonvik/cimba

6 months ago