top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-21

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

6 months ago

What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/security_clearance.html

6 months ago

How Taalas "prints" LLM onto a chip?

https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html

6 months ago

When Code is Free, Why is Claude is an Electron app?

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/21/why-is-claude-an-electron-app.html

6 months ago

Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126

6 months ago

Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU

https://github.com/xaskasdf/ntransformer

6 months ago

Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games

https://gamedate.org/

6 months ago

AI uBlock Blacklist

https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist

6 months ago

Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme

https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/

6 months ago

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/21/claws/

6 months ago

zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32

https://github.com/tnm/zclaw

6 months ago

CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10679206

6 months ago

Acme Weather

https://acmeweather.com/blog/introducing-acme-weather

6 months ago

Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust

https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/parse-dont-validate-and-type-driven-design-in-rust/

6 months ago

Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

https://antipolygraph.org/statements/statement-038.shtml

6 months ago

EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-law-more-sustainable-circular-and-safe-batteries-enters-force-2023-08-17_en

6 months ago

What Is OAuth?

https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:3vdrgzr2zybocs45yfhcr6ur/3mfd2oxx5v22b

6 months ago

macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool

https://igorstechnoclub.com/sandbox-exec/

6 months ago

EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)

https://www.eduke32.com/

6 months ago

Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188

6 months ago