top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-02-17

Claude Sonnet 4.6 System Card

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-4-6-system-card

2 months ago

1345 upvotes – 1224 comments

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Android and iOS

https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/grapheneos-eng/

2 months ago

1181 upvotes – 920 comments

Thank HN: You helped save 33,241 lives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049824

2 months ago

1145 upvotes – 112 comments

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo

2 months ago

570 upvotes – 357 comments

CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-talarico-fcc-rcna259341

2 months ago

535 upvotes – 260 comments

Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years

https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/

2 months ago

528 upvotes – 238 comments

Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning

https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/

2 months ago

521 upvotes – 423 comments

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html

2 months ago

469 upvotes – 68 comments

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA

2 months ago

464 upvotes – 201 comments

Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans

https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/

2 months ago

461 upvotes – 274 comments
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