top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-05

Claude Opus 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

6 months ago

GPT-5.3-Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/

6 months ago

Don't rent the cloud, own instead

https://blog.comma.ai/datacenter/

6 months ago

My AI Adoption Journey

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey

6 months ago

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

6 months ago

Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZGrDz7PU

6 months ago

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting

6 months ago

It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/its-2026-just-use-postgres

6 months ago

OpenClaw Is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/openclaw-is-what-apple-intelligence-should-have-been

6 months ago

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/03/badnas/

6 months ago

CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/

6 months ago

Claude Code Agent Teams

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams

6 months ago

The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9534

6 months ago

CIA to Sunset the World Factbook

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/cia-closes-world-factbook-online-resource/106307724

6 months ago

The RCE that AMD won't fix

https://mrbruh.com/amd/

6 months ago

European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/

6 months ago

Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware

https://1password.com/blog/from-magic-to-malware-how-openclaws-agent-skills-become-an-attack-surface

6 months ago

Ardour 9.0 Released

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

6 months ago

Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority"

https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

6 months ago

ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202602/ice-seeks-industry-input-on-ad-tech-location-data-for-investigative-use

6 months ago

Company as Code

https://blog.42futures.com/p/company-as-code

6 months ago

Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw

https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot

6 months ago

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-claude-opus-46-software-hunting

6 months ago

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm

6 months ago

Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13613973-claude-opus-4-6-extra-usage-promo

6 months ago

Wirth's Revenge

https://jmoiron.net/blog/wirths-revenge/

6 months ago

The New Collabora Office for Desktop

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/

6 months ago

Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp

https://github.com/vkazanov/elcity

6 months ago

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes

6 months ago

BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

https://www.ifixit.com/News/115528/bmws-newest-innovation-is-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair

6 months ago

Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6

https://claude.com/blog/opus-4-6-finance

6 months ago

GB Renewables Map

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/

6 months ago

OpenAI Frontier

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-frontier/

6 months ago

Why child prodigies rarely become elite performers

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/why-child-prodigies-rarely-become-elite-performers

6 months ago

India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

6 months ago

A few CPU hardware bugs

https://www.taricorp.net/2026/a-few-cpu-bugs/

6 months ago

Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf

6 months ago

The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/05/the-wyden-siren-senators-cryptic-cia-letter-follows-a-pattern-thats-never-been-wrong/

6 months ago

Stop Using Icons in Data Tables

https://medium.com/@codythistleward/stop-using-icons-in-data-tables-7537af18ea0d

6 months ago

The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traffic-mimes-of-colombia

6 months ago

Jane Street Blog – What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

https://blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-expect-tests/

6 months ago

If you've got Nothing to Hide

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

6 months ago

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview

6 months ago

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World

https://www.quantamagazine.org/expansion-microscopy-has-transformed-how-we-see-the-cellular-world-20260204/

6 months ago

Slack CLI for Agents (OSS)

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack

6 months ago

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/625565405086220583

6 months ago

Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data

https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/hnet_part_I/

6 months ago

Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189

6 months ago

Animated Engines

https://animatedengines.com/

6 months ago

Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-vehicles-firewood-in-the-fuel-tank/

6 months ago

Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

https://apnews.com/article/cuba-us-oil-power-outages-electricity-trump-ccab32796f7b57353adedc380181c68f

6 months ago