top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-12

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

10 hours ago

1474 upvotes – 623 comments

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping

21 hours ago

935 upvotes – 290 comments

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

14 hours ago

863 upvotes – 685 comments

Gemini 3 Deep Think

https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2021981510400709092

9 hours ago

669 upvotes – 421 comments

ai;dr

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/aidr

9 hours ago

593 upvotes – 233 comments

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed

http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/

13 hours ago

570 upvotes – 226 comments

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/

8 hours ago

567 upvotes – 232 comments

Email is tough: Major European Payment Processor's Emails aren't RFC-Compliant

https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva

12 hours ago

456 upvotes – 310 comments

US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says

https://www.ft.com/content/c4f886a1-1633-418c-b6b5-16f700f8bb0d

11 hours ago

339 upvotes – 294 comments

Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation

7 hours ago

270 upvotes – 284 comments

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/apple_ios_263/

12 hours ago

247 upvotes – 199 comments

How to Make a Living as an Artist

https://essays.fnnch.com/make-a-living

22 hours ago

244 upvotes – 121 comments

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/

5 hours ago

227 upvotes – 117 comments

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled

2 hours ago

203 upvotes – 90 comments

Apache Arrow is 10 years old

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02/12/arrow-anniversary/

13 hours ago

186 upvotes – 50 comments

Polis: Open-source platform to find common ground at scale

https://pol.is/home2

8 hours ago

185 upvotes – 74 comments

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-carl-sagan-baloney-detection-kit.html

19 hours ago

183 upvotes – 102 comments

D Programming Language

https://dlang.org/

21 hours ago

179 upvotes – 207 comments

MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified

https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m25

9 hours ago

167 upvotes – 46 comments

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/

2 hours ago

165 upvotes – 103 comments
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