top 50% 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

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989

https://worldwideweb.cern.ch

6 months ago

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

https://jimmyhmiller.com/learn-codebase-visualizer

6 months ago

Blue light filters don't work

https://www.neuroai.science/p/blue-light-filters-dont-work

6 months ago

OpenScan

https://openscan.eu/pages/scan-gallery

6 months ago

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

https://www.together.ai/blog/consistency-diffusion-language-models

6 months ago

Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2026/02/17/web-components-the-framework-free-renaissance.html

6 months ago

No Skill. No Taste

https://blog.kinglycrow.com/no-skill-no-taste/

6 months ago

Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead

https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/09/18/git-dont-create-gitkeep/

6 months ago

A16Z partner says that the theory that we'll vibe code everything is ' wrong'

https://www.aol.com/articles/a16z-partner-says-theory-well-050150534.html

6 months ago

ΛProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic

https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Dale.Miller/lProlog/

6 months ago

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse

https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/overclocking-the-pico-2

6 months ago

Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI

https://twitter.com/peterjliu/status/2024901585806225723

6 months ago

Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit

https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer

6 months ago

Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ew5jlqz87o

6 months ago

Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/three-engineers-charged-stealing-google-trade-secrets-data-iran-soc-snapdragon.html

6 months ago

Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-security

6 months ago

Tesla to pay $243M judgement over Autopilot crash

https://electrek.co/2026/02/20/tesla-has-to-pay-historical-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says/

6 months ago

Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2

https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents-part-2

6 months ago

An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review

https://sour.coffee/2026/02/20/an-arm-homelab-server-or-a-minisforum-ms-r1-review/

6 months ago

FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/fcc-asks-stations-for-pro-america-programming-like-daily-pledge-of-allegiance/

6 months ago

Lil' Fun Langs

https://taylor.town/scrapscript-000

6 months ago

How to Stop Being Boring

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-to-stop-being-boring/

6 months ago

Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel, powered by Pi

https://github.com/tmustier/pi-for-excel

6 months ago

Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-similar-effect-therapy-depression.html

6 months ago

Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

https://mines.fyi/

6 months ago

Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox

https://www.neowin.net/news/phil-spencer-is-exiting-microsoft-as-ai-executive-takes-over-xbox/

6 months ago