top 50% 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

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Android and iOS

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

6 months ago

Thank HN: You helped save 33,241 lives

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

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

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

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA

6 months ago

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

FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler

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

6 months ago

Gentoo on Codeberg

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

6 months ago

Using go fix to modernize Go code

https://go.dev/blog/gofix

6 months ago

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

HackMyClaw

https://hackmyclaw.com/

6 months ago

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

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

So You Want to Build a Tunnel

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

6 months ago

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D

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

6 months ago

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

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

https://berksoft.ca/gol/

6 months ago

Async/Await on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/async-await-on-gpu/

6 months ago

Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/stephen-colbert-says-cbs-forbid-interview-of-democrat-because-of-fcc-threat/

6 months ago

I Use Obsidian

https://stephango.com/vault

6 months ago

Poor Deming never stood a chance

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/

6 months ago

I swear the UFO is coming any minute

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-swear-the-ufo-is-coming-any-minute

6 months ago

Thinking Hard Burns Almost No Calories–But Destroys Your Next Workout

https://vo2maxpro.com/blog/thinking-hard-burns-no-calories-destroys-workout

6 months ago

America's Pensions Can't Beat Vanguard but They Can Close Your Hospital

https://www.governance.fyi/p/americas-pensions-cant-beat-a-vanguard

6 months ago

Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate

https://floedb.ai/blog/two-bits-are-better-than-one-making-bloom-filters-2x-more-accurate

6 months ago

Permacomputing

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html

6 months ago

Xbox UI Portfolio Site

https://gabrielcabrera.co/

6 months ago

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026

https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-and-Seagate-confirm-Hard-drives-for-2026-sold-out-11178917.html

6 months ago

Chess engines do weird stuff

https://girl.surgery/chess

6 months ago

A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+

https://twitter.com/MeshnetCapital/status/2023573563559547180

6 months ago

Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI

https://venturebeat.com/ai/lean4-how-the-theorem-prover-works-and-why-its-the-new-competitive-edge-in

6 months ago

Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File

https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax

6 months ago

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-3/

6 months ago

Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other

https://mage-bench.com/

6 months ago

Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

https://codemade.net/blog/building-for-one/

6 months ago

Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station

https://www.kpbj.fm/

6 months ago

Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2026/02/12/canadian-tourism-us-decline/88632515007/

6 months ago

Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026

https://dzrh.com.ph/post/meta-to-retire-messenger-desktop-app-and-messengercom-in-april-2026-users-shift-to-web-and-mobile-platforms

6 months ago

Russia's economy has entered the death zone

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/02/16/russias-economy-has-entered-the-death-zone

6 months ago

Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries

https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal-approaches/

6 months ago

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School

https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/

6 months ago

How to Review an AUR Package

https://bertptrs.nl/2026/01/30/how-to-review-an-aur-package.html

6 months ago

An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an_ai_ceo_finally_said_something_honest/

6 months ago

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

https://semiengineering.com/can-a-computer-science-student-be-taught-to-design-hardware/

6 months ago

Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YPJHkciv6ysgsSiJC/why-i-m-worried-about-job-loss-thoughts-on-comparative

6 months ago

A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh

https://zknill.io/posts/chatbots-worst-enemy-is-page-refresh/

6 months ago

America's Future Leaders Are Learning to Become Grifters

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/americas-future-leaders-are-learning

6 months ago

'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/my-words-are-like-an-uncontrollable-dog-on-life-with-nonfluent-aphasia/

6 months ago

Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/long-term-unemployment-becoming-a-status-quo-in-todays-job-market.html

6 months ago

Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

6 months ago

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

http://svardos.org/

6 months ago

Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart

https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/many-people-are-individually-optimistic

6 months ago

Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-tectonic-moon.html

6 months ago

Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn71mgmzljlo

6 months ago