top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-14

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/

6 months ago

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

6 months ago

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/

6 months ago

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

https://ooh.directory/

6 months ago

Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

6 months ago

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

6 months ago

Vim 9.2 Released

https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php

6 months ago

Ghidra by NSA

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

6 months ago

Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-13

6 months ago

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html

6 months ago

Descent, Ported to the Web

https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/

6 months ago

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/platforms-bend-over-backward-to-help-dhs-censor-ice-critics-advocates-say/

6 months ago

A Programmer's Loss of Identity

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

6 months ago

OpenAI should build Slack

https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack

6 months ago

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

6 months ago

You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore

https://nicole.express/2026/not-my-casual-hobby.html

6 months ago

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL

https://github.com/mickamy/sql-tap

6 months ago

Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB

https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi

6 months ago

Show HN: Threat Radar – Live cyber threat intelligence dashboarddead

https://radar.offseq.com/

6 months ago

YouTube as Storage

https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage

6 months ago