top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-07

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

6 months ago

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

6 months ago

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system/

6 months ago

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/

6 months ago

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/

6 months ago

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

6 months ago

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back

6 months ago

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-since-great-recession/

6 months ago

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR

6 months ago

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

6 months ago

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

6 months ago

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html

6 months ago

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

6 months ago

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode

6 months ago

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html

6 months ago

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o

6 months ago

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines

6 months ago

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo

6 months ago

Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-client-era-ruining-pcs

6 months ago

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

6 months ago