Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2026-02-14

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uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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

1 day ago

1104 upvotes – 334 comments

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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/

2 days ago

730 upvotes – 606 comments

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

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

1 day ago

584 upvotes – 247 comments

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

https://ooh.directory/

1 day ago

577 upvotes – 137 comments

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Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable

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

1 day ago

547 upvotes – 357 comments

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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story

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

1 day ago

546 upvotes – 6 comments

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Vim 9.2 Released

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

1 day ago

414 upvotes – 185 comments

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

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

1 day ago

364 upvotes – 282 comments

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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

2 days ago

343 upvotes – 219 comments

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Descent, Ported to the Web

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

1 day ago

299 upvotes – 61 comments

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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/

1 day ago

285 upvotes – 180 comments

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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/

1 day ago

239 upvotes – 34 comments

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OpenAI should build Slack

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

1 day ago

239 upvotes – 308 comments

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

https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi

1 day ago

226 upvotes – 68 comments

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

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

1 day ago

226 upvotes – 43 comments

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You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore

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

1 day ago

220 upvotes – 178 comments

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YouTube as Storage

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

1 day ago

208 upvotes – 150 comments

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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

1 day ago

179 upvotes – 95 comments

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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

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

1 day ago

161 upvotes – 37 comments

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Amsterdam Compiler Kit

https://github.com/davidgiven/ack

1 day ago

154 upvotes – 66 comments

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NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

https://npmx.dev

1 day ago

151 upvotes – 69 comments

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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

1 day ago

149 upvotes – 136 comments

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