top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-07

We Mourn Our Craft

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

6 months ago

822 upvotes – 869 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique

6 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/

6 months ago

435 upvotes – 187 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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

6 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/

6 months ago

404 upvotes – 724 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

6 months ago

381 upvotes – 79 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

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

6 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/

6 months ago

349 upvotes – 273 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

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

6 months ago

302 upvotes – 74 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

6 months ago

301 upvotes – 460 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

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

6 months ago

279 upvotes – 278 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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

6 months ago

251 upvotes – 35 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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

6 months ago

233 upvotes – 47 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

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

6 months ago

223 upvotes – 226 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

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

6 months ago

220 upvotes – 194 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

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

6 months ago

219 upvotes – 225 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

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

6 months ago

218 upvotes – 43 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

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

6 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

6 months ago

187 upvotes – 284 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

6 months ago

185 upvotes – 121 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/

6 months ago

166 upvotes – 77 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain

6 months ago

147 upvotes – 94 comments

Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines

https://people.com/waymo-exec-reveals-company-uses-operators-in-the-philippines-to-assist-autonomous-vehicles-11900507

6 months ago

145 upvotes – 202 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-approved-glp-1-drugs

6 months ago

144 upvotes – 329 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path

6 months ago

141 upvotes – 38 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501

6 months ago

133 upvotes – 5 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-earth/

6 months ago

131 upvotes – 43 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code

6 months ago

126 upvotes – 96 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

6 months ago

123 upvotes – 32 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls

6 months ago

121 upvotes – 14 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo

6 months ago

109 upvotes – 145 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/

6 months ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collisions/

6 months ago

99 upvotes – 69 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html

6 months ago

84 upvotes – 92 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-and-conservation?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&utm_source=join1440

6 months ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo

6 months ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md

6 months ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments
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