top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-07

We Mourn Our Craft

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

2 months ago

822 upvotes – 869 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

2 months ago

814 upvotes – 345 comments

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

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

2 months ago

435 upvotes – 187 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

2 months ago

433 upvotes – 135 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

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

2 months ago

404 upvotes – 724 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

2 months ago

381 upvotes – 79 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

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

2 months ago

374 upvotes – 594 comments

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/

2 months ago

349 upvotes – 273 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

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

2 months ago

302 upvotes – 74 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

2 months ago

301 upvotes – 460 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

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

2 months ago

279 upvotes – 278 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

2 months ago

251 upvotes – 35 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

2 months ago

233 upvotes – 47 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

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

2 months ago

223 upvotes – 226 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

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

2 months ago

220 upvotes – 194 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

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

2 months ago

219 upvotes – 225 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

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

2 months ago

218 upvotes – 43 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

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

2 months ago

191 upvotes – 59 comments

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

2 months ago

187 upvotes – 284 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 121 comments
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