top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-17

Claude Sonnet 4.6 System Card

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

6 months ago

1345 upvotes – 1224 comments

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Android and iOS

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

6 months ago

1181 upvotes – 920 comments

Thank HN: You helped save 33,241 lives

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

6 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

6 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

6 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/

6 months ago

528 upvotes – 238 comments

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

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

6 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

6 months ago

469 upvotes – 68 comments

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA

6 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/

6 months ago

461 upvotes – 274 comments

FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler

https://www.freecad.org/index.php

6 months ago

440 upvotes – 191 comments

Gentoo on Codeberg

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/16/codeberg.html

6 months ago

436 upvotes – 152 comments

Using go fix to modernize Go code

https://go.dev/blog/gofix

6 months ago

432 upvotes – 84 comments

AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ai-is-destroying-open-source/

6 months ago

422 upvotes – 355 comments

HackMyClaw

https://hackmyclaw.com/

6 months ago

367 upvotes – 180 comments

Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/15/tesla-sales-down-tremendously-in-uk-norway-netherlands-germany-spain-sweden-denmark-portugal-switzerland/

6 months ago

358 upvotes – 366 comments

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/

6 months ago

285 upvotes – 223 comments

So You Want to Build a Tunnel

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/2/17/so-you-want-to-build-a-tunnel

6 months ago

271 upvotes – 110 comments

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D

https://aeris.edbn.me/?city=SFO

6 months ago

270 upvotes – 56 comments

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification

https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693

6 months ago

266 upvotes – 145 comments
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