top 50% 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/

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

https://openciv3.org/

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

6 months ago

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/

6 months ago

An Update on Heroku

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

6 months ago

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

6 months ago

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox

6 months ago

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

https://vecti.com

6 months ago

How to effectively write quality code with AI

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

6 months ago

It's All a Blur

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

6 months ago

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

6 months ago

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

6 months ago

Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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

6 months ago

Systems Thinking

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

6 months ago

Things Unix can do atomically

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

6 months ago

NIMBYs Aren't Just Shutting Down Housing

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

6 months ago

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering

6 months ago

Early Christian Writings

https://earlychristianwritings.com/

6 months ago

Bits About Money: Fraud Investigation Is Believing Your Lying Eyes

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/fraud-investigation/

6 months ago

Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust

https://github.com/artifact-keeper

6 months ago

Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" Opens Up Possibilities for the Bioeconomy

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/invention-dna-page-numbers-synthesis-kaihang-wang

6 months ago

LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers

https://alperenkeles.com/posts/llms-could-be-but-shouldnt-be-compilers/

6 months ago

C Isn't a Language

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

6 months ago

I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded

https://vespalec.com/blog/tower-of-flaws/

6 months ago

US Immigration on the Easiest Setting

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/#n-600

6 months ago

Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis

https://eletric-vehicles.com/waymo/waymo-exec-admits-remote-operators-in-philippines-help-guide-us-robotaxis/

6 months ago

Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volkswagen-overtook-tesla-europes-top-ev-seller-2025-2026-02-05/

6 months ago

Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917886

6 months ago

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/

6 months ago

Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/ai-sell-off-stocks-amazon-oracle.html

6 months ago

Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-hannibal-famous-war-elephants-bone.html

6 months ago

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3

6 months ago

Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLb3nhIy2Lc

6 months ago

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative

6 months ago

Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped

https://www.educationnext.org/hard-lessons-from-new-naep-results/

6 months ago