top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-06

I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/

2 months ago

1177 upvotes – 554 comments

The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simulation

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation

2 months ago

1155 upvotes – 662 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/

2 months ago

990 upvotes – 308 comments

TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/business/tiktok-addictive-design-europe.html

2 months ago

685 upvotes – 539 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/

2 months ago

610 upvotes – 288 comments

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-new-bill-in-new-york-would-require-disclaimers-on-ai-generated-news-content/

2 months ago

583 upvotes – 245 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

2 months ago

519 upvotes – 350 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

2 months ago

463 upvotes – 115 comments

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/

2 months ago

402 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/

2 months ago

400 upvotes – 232 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox

2 months ago

390 upvotes – 217 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com

2 months ago

385 upvotes – 183 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/

2 months ago

356 upvotes – 304 comments

It's All a Blur

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/its-all-a-blur

2 months ago

355 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

2 months ago

326 upvotes – 40 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

2 months ago

322 upvotes – 166 comments

Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2026/01/21/very-snowy-place/

2 months ago

308 upvotes – 328 comments

Systems Thinking

http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2026/02/systems-thinking.html

2 months ago

279 upvotes – 117 comments

Things Unix can do atomically

https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomically.html

2 months ago

257 upvotes – 94 comments

NIMBYs Aren't Just Shutting Down Housing

https://inpractice.yimbyaction.org/p/nimbys-arent-just-shutting-down-housing

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 481 comments
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