top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-04

I Miss Thinking Hard

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard

6 months ago

Voxtral Transcribe 2

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2

6 months ago

Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

6 months ago

FBI Couldn't Get into WaPo Reporter's iPhone Because Lockdown Mode Enabled

https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/

6 months ago

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

https://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/

6 months ago

AI Is Killing B2B SaaS

https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-killing-b2b-saas

6 months ago

Claude Is a Space to Think

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think

6 months ago

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

https://pdfa.org/a-case-study-in-pdf-forensics-the-epstein-pdfs/

6 months ago

The Great Unwind

https://occupywallst.com/yen

6 months ago

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/guinea-worm-on-track-to-be-2nd-eradicated-human-disease-only-10-cases-in-2025/

6 months ago

Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-pivotal-ai-product-is-running-into-big-problems-ce235b28

6 months ago

Why More Companies Are Recognizing the Benefits of Keeping Older Employees

https://longevity.stanford.edu/why-more-companies-are-recognizing-the-benefits-of-keeping-older-employees/

6 months ago

Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering

https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp

6 months ago

Claude Code for Infrastructure

https://www.fluid.sh/

6 months ago

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post

6 months ago

French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel

https://twitter.com/Ced_haurus/status/2018716889191498172

6 months ago

Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany

6 months ago

Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it

https://derekyan.com/ma-book/

6 months ago

Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch

https://www.scd31.com/posts/building-an-arcade-display-adapter

6 months ago

Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/

6 months ago