top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-13

Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone

https://ios-countdown.win/

6 months ago

Monosketch

https://monosketch.io/

6 months ago

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/

6 months ago

Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

6 months ago

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safely-from-its-mission-and-its-new-structure-is-a-test-for-whether-ai-serves-society-or-shareholders-274467

6 months ago

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/

6 months ago

MinIO repository is no longer maintained

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/7aac2a2c5b7c882e68c1ce017d8256be2feea27f

6 months ago

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

https://skipthe.tips/

6 months ago

Breaking the spell of vibe coding

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/

6 months ago

Ring owners are returning their cameras

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/ring-owners-are-returning-their-cameras-here-s-how-much-you-can-get/ar-AA1W8Qa3

6 months ago

Visual Introduction to PyTorch

https://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.html

6 months ago

IBM Triples Entry Level Job Openings. Finds Limits to AI

https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/tech-giant-ibm-tripling-gen-z-entry-level-hiring-according-to-chro-rewriting-jobs-ai-era/

6 months ago

Why I'm not worried about AI job loss

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss

6 months ago

MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

6 months ago

Audio is the one area small labs are winning

https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai

6 months ago

Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46758

6 months ago

Instagram's URL Blackhole

https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664

6 months ago

Building a TUI is easy now

https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now

6 months ago

AWS Adds support for nested virtualization

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/3dca5e45d5ad05460b93410087833cbaa624754e

6 months ago

I Gave Claude Access to My Pen Plotter

https://harmonique.one/posts/i-gave-claude-access-to-my-pen-plotter

6 months ago

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for 'Tactical Targeting'

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clearview-ai-deal-to-use-face-recognition-for-tactical-targeting/

6 months ago

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book

6 months ago

The Scott Shambaugh Situation Clarifies How Dumb We Are Acting

https://ardentperf.com/2026/02/13/the-scott-shambaugh-situation-clarifies-how-dumb-we-are-acting/

6 months ago

Open Source Is Not About You

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9

6 months ago

Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database

https://github.com/alibaba/zvec

6 months ago

CSS-Doodle

https://css-doodle.com/

6 months ago

Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]

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

6 months ago

US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/climate/trump-repeals-epa-endangerment-finding

6 months ago

How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/02/11/full-body-mris-cancer-aneurysm/88396037007/

6 months ago

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/12/apocalypse-no-how-almost-everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-the-maya-is-wrong

6 months ago

Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil

6 months ago

The wonder of modern drywall

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall

6 months ago

IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes

https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw

6 months ago

WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What?

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-sucks-too/

6 months ago

Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

https://cloudrouter.dev/

6 months ago

Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve

https://blog.exe.dev/expensively-quadratic

6 months ago

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent

https://www.wired.com/story/i-tried-rentahuman-ai-agents-hired-me-to-hype-their-ai-startups/

6 months ago

What 1.4M emails reveal about America's most notorious sex offender

https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2026/02/12/inside-epsteins-network

6 months ago

The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-02-13.html

6 months ago

The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/

6 months ago

Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential"

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2

6 months ago

Assistant to the Regional Manager

https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/assistant-to-the-regional-manager

6 months ago

Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-make-electrons-flow-like-water-20260211/

6 months ago

Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction

https://note.com/hydraenids/n/nbe89030deaba

6 months ago

AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62dlvdq3e3o

6 months ago

New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]

https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf

6 months ago

Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence

https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/hear-the-amati-king-cello-the-oldest-known-cello-in-existence-c-1560.html

6 months ago

Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000206

6 months ago