top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-15

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/

1 day ago

879 upvotes – 158 comments

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en

9 hours ago

792 upvotes – 545 comments

Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly

14 hours ago

708 upvotes – 527 comments

I Fixed Windows Native Development

https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/

15 hours ago

678 upvotes – 329 comments

OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future

https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw

5 hours ago

595 upvotes – 438 comments

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library

https://oat.ink/

18 hours ago

474 upvotes – 122 comments

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hideki-sato-designer-of-segas-consoles-dies-age-75/

10 hours ago

356 upvotes – 35 comments

Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved

https://flashpointarchive.org

21 hours ago

325 upvotes – 80 comments

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

https://newpipe.net/

1 day ago

323 upvotes – 106 comments

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502

9 hours ago

315 upvotes – 138 comments

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/15/palantir-contract-new-york-city-health-hospitals/

9 hours ago

259 upvotes – 97 comments

Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

https://modern-css.com

8 hours ago

245 upvotes – 96 comments

Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm

https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951

20 hours ago

207 upvotes – 113 comments

Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-vs-the-Republik-US-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court-11176508.html

10 hours ago

200 upvotes – 60 comments

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

https://gwern.net/gwtar

11 hours ago

185 upvotes – 65 comments

Two different tricks for fast LLM inference

https://www.seangoedecke.com/fast-llm-inference/

17 hours ago

173 upvotes – 64 comments

(Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

8 hours ago

159 upvotes – 130 comments

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/

4 hours ago

140 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser

https://microgpt.boratto.ca

8 hours ago

118 upvotes – 8 comments

State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID

https://reclaimthenet.org/40-attorneys-general-back-ids-online-safety-act

7 hours ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments
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