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

1 day ago

1290 upvotes – 1169 comments

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Android and iOS

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

1 day ago

1149 upvotes – 892 comments

Thank HN: You helped save 33,241 lives

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

1 day ago

1082 upvotes – 109 comments

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

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

1 day ago

564 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

1 day ago

518 upvotes – 243 comments

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

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

1 day ago

502 upvotes – 414 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/

1 day ago

451 upvotes – 260 comments

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

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

1 day ago

447 upvotes – 66 comments

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA

1 day ago

442 upvotes – 191 comments

Using go fix to modernize Go code

https://go.dev/blog/gofix

1 day ago

414 upvotes – 80 comments

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

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

1 day ago

412 upvotes – 338 comments

Gentoo on Codeberg

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

1 day ago

405 upvotes – 145 comments

HackMyClaw

https://hackmyclaw.com/

1 day ago

354 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/

1 day ago

325 upvotes – 337 comments

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

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

1 day ago

271 upvotes – 207 comments

So You Want to Build a Tunnel

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

1 day ago

267 upvotes – 105 comments

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D

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

1 day ago

267 upvotes – 51 comments

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

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

1 day ago

258 upvotes – 140 comments

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

https://berksoft.ca/gol/

1 day ago

239 upvotes – 87 comments

Async/Await on the GPU

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

1 day ago

223 upvotes – 54 comments

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/

1 day ago

217 upvotes – 71 comments

Poor Deming never stood a chance

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

1 day ago

192 upvotes – 130 comments

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

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

1 day ago

182 upvotes – 341 comments

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

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

1 day ago

182 upvotes – 147 comments

I swear the UFO is coming any minute

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

1 day ago

176 upvotes – 57 comments

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

1 day ago

167 upvotes – 192 comments

Xbox UI Portfolio Site

https://gabrielcabrera.co/

1 day ago

164 upvotes – 49 comments

I Use Obsidian

https://stephango.com/vault

1 day ago

164 upvotes – 87 comments

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

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

1 day ago

151 upvotes – 70 comments

Chess engines do weird stuff

https://girl.surgery/chess

1 day ago

150 upvotes – 81 comments

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

https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax

1 day ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

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/

1 day ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

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

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

2 days ago

110 upvotes – 64 comments

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

https://mage-bench.com/

1 day ago

110 upvotes – 82 comments

Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it

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

1 day ago

104 upvotes – 45 comments

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

1 day ago

97 upvotes – 101 comments

Russia's economy has entered the death zone

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

1 day ago

95 upvotes – 221 comments

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/

1 day ago

89 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station

https://www.kpbj.fm/

1 day ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs

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

1 day ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

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

1 day ago

84 upvotes – 118 comments

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

1 day ago

83 upvotes – 82 comments

America's Future Leaders Are Learning to Become Grifters

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

1 day ago

81 upvotes – 98 comments

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

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

1 day ago

79 upvotes – 99 comments

Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

1 day ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

'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/

1 day ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

http://svardos.org/

1 day ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

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

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

1 day ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxd9549y4xo

1 day ago

69 upvotes – 92 comments

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

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

1 day ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript

https://github.com/n-e/pg-typesafe

1 day ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments
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