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/

13 hours ago

938 upvotes – 407 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

9 hours ago

719 upvotes – 445 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

593 upvotes – 428 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/

16 hours ago

510 upvotes – 213 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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

12 hours ago

364 upvotes – 211 comments

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team

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

23 hours ago

356 upvotes – 186 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/

4 hours ago

338 upvotes – 68 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox

10 hours ago

299 upvotes – 147 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

10 hours ago

295 upvotes – 72 comments

An Update on Heroku

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

10 hours ago

290 upvotes – 219 comments

Systems Thinking

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

20 hours ago

258 upvotes – 115 comments

Things Unix can do atomically

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

20 hours ago

244 upvotes – 89 comments

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

https://vecti.com

6 hours ago

220 upvotes – 105 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

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

7 hours ago

156 upvotes – 115 comments

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

https://github.com/artifact-keeper

21 hours ago

145 upvotes – 60 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

141 upvotes – 113 comments

NIMBYs Aren't Just Shutting Down Housing

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

10 hours ago

136 upvotes – 305 comments

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

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

15 hours ago

135 upvotes – 89 comments

Early Christian Writings

https://earlychristianwritings.com/

3 hours ago

133 upvotes – 72 comments

Bits About Money: Fraud Investigation Is Believing Your Lying Eyes

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

8 hours ago

129 upvotes – 158 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo

4 hours ago

120 upvotes – 13 comments

LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers

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

12 hours ago

108 upvotes – 116 comments

C Isn't a Language

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

1 day ago

106 upvotes – 168 comments

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

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

22 hours ago

103 upvotes – 48 comments

US Immigration on the Easiest Setting

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

14 hours ago

96 upvotes – 111 comments

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/

21 hours ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty

4 hours ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

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

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

5 hours ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

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

11 hours ago

86 upvotes – 82 comments

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

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

22 hours ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rexy9y3no

23 hours ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files

https://martinalderson.com/posts/wall-street-lost-285-billion-because-of-13-markdown-files/

11 hours ago

59 upvotes – 51 comments
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