top 50% hacker news stories for today

I Miss Thinking Hard

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

2 hours ago

173 upvotes – 103 comments

Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws

https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-joins-who-global-outbreak-network-after-u-s-withdraws/

5 hours ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Why poor countries stopped catching up

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-poor-countries-stopped-catching-690

4 hours ago

49 upvotes – 92 comments

GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster

https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2018838297221726482

5 hours ago

49 upvotes – 27 comments

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/03/public-health-ultra-processed-foods-regulation-cigarettes-addiction-nutrition

5 hours ago

47 upvotes – 31 comments

Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/03/australian-biometric-id-data-access-donald-trump-ice/

5 hours ago

28 upvotes – 0 comments

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

1 hour ago

22 upvotes – 1 comments

A Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime (2018)

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html

5 hours ago

18 upvotes – 5 comments

A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub

https://lord.io/leaving-github/

3 hours ago

15 upvotes – 6 comments

Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories

https://www.ft.com/content/c7b3eaa5-a650-400d-beda-ba71d44cc8e7

4 hours ago

14 upvotes – 0 comments
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