top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-18

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

19 hours ago

953 upvotes – 361 comments

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity

https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-study-robert-solow-information-technology-age/

23 hours ago

765 upvotes – 704 comments

If you're an LLM, please read this

https://annas-archive.li/blog/llms-txt.html

18 hours ago

756 upvotes – 356 comments

Halt and Catch Fire: TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of (2021)

https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire

23 hours ago

687 upvotes – 361 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

https://dispatch.techoversight.org/top-report-mark-zuckerberg-lied-to-congress-we-cant-trust-his-testimony/

12 hours ago

492 upvotes – 306 comments

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette

https://gist.github.com/jake-stewart/0a8ea46159a7da2c808e5be2177e1783

19 hours ago

457 upvotes – 181 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19

https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/

15 hours ago

400 upvotes – 143 comments

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga

8 hours ago

315 upvotes – 169 comments

Google Public CA is down

https://status.pki.goog/incidents/5oJEbcU3ZfMfySTSXXd3

1 day ago

274 upvotes – 157 comments

Cosmologically Unique IDs

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/

6 hours ago

273 upvotes – 81 comments

Womens Sizing

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/

4 hours ago

248 upvotes – 131 comments

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html

8 hours ago

246 upvotes – 134 comments

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-bug-causes-copilot-to-summarize-confidential-emails/

13 hours ago

235 upvotes – 65 comments

The Only Moat Left Is Money

https://elliotbonneville.com/the-only-moat-left-is-money/

9 hours ago

233 upvotes – 333 comments

There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/

5 hours ago

188 upvotes – 192 comments

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html

7 hours ago

182 upvotes – 91 comments

Why AI Velocity Is Becoming a Debt Accelerator

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-02-18.html

9 hours ago

179 upvotes – 130 comments

A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

https://github.com/taleshape-com/shaper

18 hours ago

162 upvotes – 40 comments

Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock

https://finbold.com/warren-buffett-dumps-1-7-billion-of-amazon-stock/

7 hours ago

144 upvotes – 154 comments

YouTube Is Down

https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/

1 day ago

144 upvotes – 42 comments
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