top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-20

F-Droid: "Keep Android Open"

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html

6 months ago

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0l9r67drg7t

6 months ago

Facebook is absolutely cooked

https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked

6 months ago

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer

https://dixken.de/blog/i-found-a-vulnerability-they-found-a-lawyer

6 months ago

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/

6 months ago

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759

6 months ago

"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure

https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/

6 months ago

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

https://spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cleaning-up-merged-git-branches-a-one-liner-from-the-cias-leaked-dev-docs.html

6 months ago

Turn Dependabot Off

https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/

6 months ago

Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

6 months ago

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/

6 months ago

Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

https://www.withdiode.com/

6 months ago

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

6 months ago

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/

6 months ago

Be Wary of Bluesky

https://kevinak.se/blog/be-wary-of-bluesky

6 months ago

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

https://gist.github.com/interpiduser5/547d8a7baec436f24b7cce89dd4ae1ea

6 months ago

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

https://juno-labs.com/blogs/every-company-building-your-ai-assistant-is-an-ad-company

6 months ago

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paypal-discloses-data-breach-exposing-users-personal-information/

6 months ago

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment

https://www.ft.com/content/dea24046-0a73-40b2-8246-5ac7b7a54323

6 months ago

Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News

6 months ago