top 50% 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

1171 upvotes – 343 comments

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

766 upvotes – 622 comments

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

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

6 months ago

620 upvotes – 259 comments

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

https://ooh.directory/

6 months ago

614 upvotes – 147 comments

Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable

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

6 months ago

569 upvotes – 364 comments

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story

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

6 months ago

554 upvotes – 6 comments

Vim 9.2 Released

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

6 months ago

435 upvotes – 194 comments

Ghidra by NSA

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

6 months ago

433 upvotes – 220 comments

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

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

6 months ago

369 upvotes – 305 comments

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

366 upvotes – 235 comments

Descent, Ported to the Web

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

6 months ago

324 upvotes – 69 comments

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

296 upvotes – 177 comments

A Programmer's Loss of Identity

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

6 months ago

256 upvotes – 176 comments

OpenAI should build Slack

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

6 months ago

251 upvotes – 326 comments

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

246 upvotes – 34 comments

You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore

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

6 months ago

236 upvotes – 186 comments

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

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

6 months ago

233 upvotes – 44 comments

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

https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi

6 months ago

230 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Threat Radar – Live cyber threat intelligence dashboarddead

https://radar.offseq.com/

6 months ago

223 upvotes – 2 comments

YouTube as Storage

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

6 months ago

221 upvotes – 155 comments

7zip.com Is Serving Malware

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/02/fake-7-zip-downloads-are-turning-home-pcs-into-proxy-nodes

6 months ago

188 upvotes – 96 comments

PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]

https://www.intertronics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/PCB-Rework-and-Repair-Guide.pdf

6 months ago

167 upvotes – 48 comments

Audiophiles Can't Distinguish Audio Sent Through Copper, Banana or Mud

https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator

6 months ago

166 upvotes – 146 comments

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/

6 months ago

165 upvotes – 38 comments

Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=105451

6 months ago

164 upvotes – 62 comments

A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format

https://dbg.re/posts/car-file-format/

6 months ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

Amsterdam Compiler Kit

https://github.com/davidgiven/ack

6 months ago

160 upvotes – 67 comments

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

https://npmx.dev

6 months ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

Rendering the Visible Spectrum

https://brandonli.net/spectra/doc/

6 months ago

147 upvotes – 29 comments

Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/gemini-3-deep-think/

6 months ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE criticsdead

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/homeland-security-has-reportedly-sent-out-hundreds-of-subpoenas-to-identify-ice-critics-online-135245457.html

6 months ago

129 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone

https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile

6 months ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/11/30/How-many-registers-does-an-x86-64-cpu-have

6 months ago

115 upvotes – 95 comments

A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term testing results

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html

6 months ago

107 upvotes – 118 comments

What dating apps are optimizing. Hint: It isn't love

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-dating-apps-optimizing-hint-isnt.html

6 months ago

106 upvotes – 102 comments

DBASE on the Kaypro II

https://stonetools.ghost.io/dbase-cpm/

6 months ago

99 upvotes – 47 comments

Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview

https://www.lux.camera/mark-iii-looks/

6 months ago

96 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar

https://github.com/Geek-1001/arcmark

6 months ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk4lz4e3eo

6 months ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

A header-only C vector database library

https://github.com/abdimoallim/vdb

6 months ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Evolving Git for the Next Decade

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1057561/bddc1e61152fadf6/

6 months ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Discord: A case study in performance optimization

https://newsletter.fullstack.zip/p/discord-a-case-study-in-performance

6 months ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

https://www.righto.com/2026/02/8087-instruction-decoding.html

6 months ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf]

https://www.elvish.org/articles/EASIS.pdf

6 months ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Dune II written in HTML5/JS

https://github.com/oklemenz/Dune2JS

6 months ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments
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