top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-15

OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

I Fixed Windows Native Development

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

6 months ago

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

https://modern-css.com

6 months ago

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

https://oat.ink/

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502

6 months ago

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

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

6 months ago

Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved

https://flashpointarchive.org

6 months ago

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

https://newpipe.net/

6 months ago

Four Column ASCII (2017)

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/

6 months ago

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/

6 months ago

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

https://gwern.net/gwtar

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

https://jmail.world/wiki/peter-thiel

6 months ago

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

https://microgpt.boratto.ca

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago