top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-11

Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down

https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/

6 months ago

1082 upvotes – 702 comments

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

https://age-verifier.kibty.town/

6 months ago

951 upvotes – 456 comments

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841

6 months ago

804 upvotes – 515 comments

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

https://www.theverge.com/tech/876866/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ad-online-backlash

6 months ago

676 upvotes – 392 comments

Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine

https://fluorite.game/

6 months ago

536 upvotes – 304 comments

Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists

https://www.reuters.com/world/ireland-rolls-out-pioneering-basic-income-scheme-artists-2026-02-10/

6 months ago

505 upvotes – 693 comments

GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform

https://chat.z.ai/

6 months ago

482 upvotes – 519 comments

Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data

https://qcontinuum.substack.com/p/spying-chrome-extensions-287-extensions-495

6 months ago

472 upvotes – 205 comments

Why Vampires Live Forever

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/vampires-longevity/

6 months ago

397 upvotes – 185 comments

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5

6 months ago

378 upvotes – 8 comments

FAA Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-flight-restrictions.html

6 months ago

365 upvotes – 582 comments

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322%2825%2900391-4

6 months ago

345 upvotes – 405 comments

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics

https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-garry-tan-california-politics-garrys-list/

6 months ago

339 upvotes – 328 comments

NetNewsWire Turns 23

https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html

6 months ago

336 upvotes – 102 comments

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights

https://apnews.com/article/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-closed-1f774bdfd46f5986ff0e7003df709caa

6 months ago

333 upvotes – 6 comments

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6155012

6 months ago

310 upvotes – 238 comments

Thank You, AI

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2026/01/thank-you-ai/

6 months ago

298 upvotes – 212 comments

Communities Are Not Fungible

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-are-not-fungible/

6 months ago

246 upvotes – 104 comments

Do not apologize for replying late to my email

https://ploum.net/2026-02-11-do_not_apologize_for_replying_to_my_email.html

6 months ago

229 upvotes – 190 comments

U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/january-jobs-revisions-trump-rcna258398

6 months ago

206 upvotes – 185 comments

Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel

https://twitter.com/DrWhax/status/2021608609595945442

6 months ago

199 upvotes – 50 comments

Fun With Pinball

https://www.funwithpinball.com/exhibits/small-boards

6 months ago

169 upvotes – 11 comments

Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV

https://rivian.com/r2

6 months ago

168 upvotes – 343 comments

Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

https://www.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing

6 months ago

166 upvotes – 71 comments

5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2026/02/ancientegyptiandrillbit/

6 months ago

165 upvotes – 81 comments

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/11/ios-26-3-security-vulnerabilities/

6 months ago

150 upvotes – 112 comments

US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/victory-for-elon-musk-us-labor-board-abandons-authority-over-spacex/

6 months ago

149 upvotes – 57 comments

Exposure Simulator

http://www.andersenimages.com/tutorials/exposure-simulator/

6 months ago

139 upvotes – 81 comments

Apple's Latest Attempt to Launch the New Siri Runs into Snags

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/apple-s-ios-26-4-siri-update-runs-into-snags-in-internal-testing-ios-26-5-27

6 months ago

136 upvotes – 266 comments

AI-First Company Memos

https://the-ai-native.company/

6 months ago

132 upvotes – 208 comments

Covering electricity price increases from our data centers

https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-increases

6 months ago

127 upvotes – 107 comments

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2024/06/microwave-failure-spontaneously-turns-on/

6 months ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-did-the-fbi-get-nancy-guthries-doorbell-footage

6 months ago

126 upvotes – 80 comments

Something Big Is Happening

https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

6 months ago

124 upvotes – 88 comments

Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/science/luna-9-moon-lander-soviet.html

6 months ago

110 upvotes – 120 comments

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

6 months ago

110 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

https://github.com/adenhq/hive/blob/main/README.md

6 months ago

107 upvotes – 36 comments

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST

https://astro.theoj.org/article/156033-a-cosmic-miracle-a-remarkably-luminous-galaxy-at-_z_-sub-spec-sub-14-44-confirmed-with-jwst

6 months ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

From 34% to 96%: The Porting Initiative Delivers – Hologram v0.7.0

https://hologram.page/blog/porting-initiative-delivers-hologram-v0-7-0

6 months ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

The AI Vampire

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

6 months ago

106 upvotes – 103 comments

Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle

https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/magic-circle/

6 months ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas

https://truthout.org/articles/children-are-getting-sick-inside-ices-massive-family-jail-in-texas/

6 months ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Railway Global Outage

https://status.railway.com

6 months ago

86 upvotes – 68 comments

YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkrkd2xlx6o

6 months ago

86 upvotes – 102 comments

CEO 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.

https://www.404media.co/marc-benioff-jokes-ice-is-watching-salesforce-employees-who-traveled-to-the-u-s/

6 months ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-new-uk-onshore-wind-and-solar-is-50-cheaper-than-new-gas/

6 months ago

84 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents

https://github.com/JaredStewart/coderlm/blob/main/server/REPL_to_API.md

6 months ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/11189

6 months ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/nyregion/mamdani-lisa-gelobter-gif.html

6 months ago

76 upvotes – 86 comments

Should your developer company go open source?

https://extremefoundership.substack.com/p/should-your-developer-company-go

6 months ago

75 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Why electronics are still so unrecyclable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975933

6 months ago

74 upvotes – 139 comments

Who Smeared Feynman

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-feynman/

6 months ago

73 upvotes – 61 comments
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