top 50% 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

Four Column ASCII (2017)

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

6 months ago

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

https://newpipe.net/

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

Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

https://knock-knock.net

6 months ago

Two different tricks for fast LLM inference

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

6 months ago

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/15/david-greene-google-ai-podcast/

6 months ago

How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing

https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/how-to-choose-between-hm-and-bidir/

6 months ago

State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID

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

6 months ago

AI is going to kill app subscriptions

https://nichehunt.app/blog/ai-going-to-kill-app-subscriptions

6 months ago

Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices

https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue

6 months ago

Voith Schneider Propeller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller

6 months ago

I don't think AGI is imminent

https://dlants.me/agi-not-imminent.html

6 months ago

A Pokémon of a Different Color

https://matthew.verive.me/blog/color/

6 months ago

Learning Lean: Part 1

https://rkirov.github.io/posts/lean1/

6 months ago

Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)

https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse

6 months ago

Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

https://zamoshi.substack.com/p/ninety-four-degrees

6 months ago

1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists

https://github.com/cavedave/Manannan

6 months ago

Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10177

6 months ago

GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/

6 months ago

Kimi Claw

https://www.kimi.com/bot

6 months ago

Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI

https://github.com/gpasquero/voog

6 months ago

Git is a file system. We need a database for the code

https://gist.github.com/gritzko/6e81b5391eacb585ae207f5e634db07e

6 months ago

Error payloads in Zig

https://srcreigh.ca/posts/error-payloads-in-zig/

6 months ago

Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music

https://caucascapades.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/guitars-of-the-ussr-and-the-jolana-special-in-azerbaijani-music/

6 months ago

Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals

https://digitalseams.com/blog/making-a-font-with-9999-ligatures-to-display-thirteenth-century-monk-numerals

6 months ago

DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/djvu-and-its-connection-to-deep-learning/

6 months ago

Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults

https://gero.usc.edu/2026/01/19/shingles-vaccine-slower-biological-aging/

6 months ago

Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)

https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/6-arm64/

6 months ago

Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

6 months ago