top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-10

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

https://campedersen.com/singularity

6 months ago

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

6 months ago

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/

6 months ago

Google Handed ICE Student Journalist's Bank and Credit Card Numbers

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/

6 months ago

Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html

6 months ago

Oxide raises $200M Series C

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-200m-series-c

6 months ago

Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents

https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/

6 months ago

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798

6 months ago

The Day the Telnet Died

https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/

6 months ago

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-jury-told-meta-google-addiction.html

6 months ago

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

6 months ago

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine

https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2

6 months ago

Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.0

6 months ago

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser

https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs

6 months ago

Gradient.horse

https://gradient.horse

6 months ago

Zulip.com Values

https://zulip.com/values/

6 months ago

Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c

6 months ago

The US Is Flirting with Its First-Ever Population Decline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/trump-immigration-crackdown-could-shrink-us-population-for-first-time

6 months ago

Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'

https://www.threads.com/@qa_test_hq/post/DUkC_zjiGQh

6 months ago

Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time

https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time

6 months ago

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/

6 months ago

Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

6 months ago

Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers

https://www.infinitelymore.xyz/p/complex-numbers-essential-structure

6 months ago

Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews

https://www.netviews.app

6 months ago

Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat

6 months ago

How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260210-00/?p=112052

6 months ago

What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-09-what-functional-programmers-get-wrong-about-systems/

6 months ago

Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(26)00008-2

6 months ago

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-creator-hate-immigrants

6 months ago

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-declines-review-modernas-mrna-flu-shot-rcna258436

6 months ago

The Three Year Myth

https://green.spacedino.net/the-three-year-myth/

6 months ago

How Is Data Stored?

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-is-data-stored

6 months ago

Faster Than Dijkstra?

https://systemsapproach.org/2026/02/09/faster-than-dijkstra/

6 months ago

Competition is not market validation

https://www.ablg.io/blog/competition-is-not-validation

6 months ago

Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook

https://computernewb.com/~lily/files/Documents/NTDesignWorkbook/

6 months ago

Bazzite Post-Mortem

https://ba.antheas.dev/bazzite-postmortem.html

6 months ago

We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

https://cad-search-three.vercel.app/

6 months ago

Shades of Halftone

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shades-of-halftone/

6 months ago

The Switch to Linux and the Beginning of My Self-Hosting Journey

https://hazemkrimi.tech/blog/linux-self-hosting-journey/

6 months ago

Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?"

https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Wild-Blue-Yonder/Articles/Article-Display/Article/3600155/toyotas-and-terrorists-why-are-isiss-trucks-better-than-ours-said-the-american/

6 months ago

The Falkirk Wheel

https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/visit/canals/visit-the-forth-clyde-canal/attractions/the-falkirk-wheel

6 months ago

Redefining Go Functions

https://pboyd.io/posts/redefining-go-functions/

6 months ago

Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components

https://github.com/tambo-ai/tambo

6 months ago

Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments

https://github.com/distr-sh/distr

6 months ago

London's Most Controversial Cyclist

https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/jeremy-vine-loves-him-motorists-hate-him-is-this-londons-most-controversial-cyclist/

6 months ago

Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzv529v5no

6 months ago

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/

6 months ago

Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings

https://github.com/taf2/mdvi

6 months ago

Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations

https://blog.janestreet.com/fun-with-algebraic-effects-hardcaml/

6 months ago

Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity

https://paperboat.website/home/

6 months ago

A shortage of tenors

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/02/09/the-world-is-suffering-from-a-shortage-of-tenors

6 months ago

RLHF from Scratch

https://github.com/ashworks1706/rlhf-from-scratch

6 months ago