top 50% 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/

6 months ago

Gemini 3 Deep Think

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

6 months ago

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

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

6 months ago

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

ai;dr

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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

6 months ago

Ralph Giles Passed Away (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

https://pol.is/home2

6 months ago

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

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

6 months ago

Beginning autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo Driver

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/ro-on-6th-gen-waymo-driver

6 months ago

How to Make a Living as an Artist

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

Apache Arrow is 10 years old

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

6 months ago

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/ice-cbp-knew-facial-recognition-app-couldnt-do-what-dhs-says-it-could-deployed-it-anyway/

6 months ago

D Programming Language

https://dlang.org/

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL

https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/

6 months ago

A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k

https://log.jasongodfrey.info/questions/The-Most-Expensive-Party-Balloon-in-History

6 months ago

So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-around-the-taklamakan-desert-that-its-turned-this-biological-void-into-a-carbon-sink

6 months ago

America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

https://www.threathunter.ai/blog/americas-cyber-defense-agency-burning-down/

6 months ago

Discord Just Killed Anonymity

https://michael-dev-tech.github.io/Website/matrix.html

6 months ago

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks

https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/

6 months ago

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260210-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it

6 months ago

Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

http://www.lisp-screenshots.org

6 months ago

Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM

https://ericmigi.github.io/pebble-qemu-wasm/

6 months ago

Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass

https://geo-racers.com/

6 months ago

The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display

https://theshamblog.com/the-crown-of-nobles-noble-gas-tube-display/

6 months ago

Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings

https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings

6 months ago

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from Anywhere

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991591

6 months ago

The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware

https://lwn.net/Articles/1055590/

6 months ago

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78/

6 months ago

Show HN: rari, the rust-powered react framework

https://rari.build/

6 months ago

1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300-year-old-world-chronicle-unearthed-in-sinai/156948

6 months ago

Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

https://www.moltis.org

6 months ago

Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code

https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2026/ocr-textbooks-modal-deepseek/

6 months ago

Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)

https://www.thepragmaticcto.com/p/lines-of-code-are-back-and-its-worse

6 months ago

A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment

https://stargazingbuddy.com/

6 months ago

Fixing retail with land value capture

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/fixing-retail-with-land-value-capture/

6 months ago

Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0zdd7yl4vo

6 months ago

How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn1w4MRHIhc

6 months ago

Shut Up: Comment Blocker

https://rickyromero.com/shutup/

6 months ago

The missing digit of Stela C

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/stela-c/

6 months ago

Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions

https://herbertlui.net/recoverable-and-irrecoverable-decisions/

6 months ago

65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/65-lines-of-markdown-a-claude-code-sensation.html

6 months ago

Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box

https://realfood.gov/#answers

6 months ago