top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-02-23

The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification

6 months ago

Ladybird Browser adopts Rust

https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/

6 months ago

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/

6 months ago

Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-leo-xiv-tells-priests-to-use-their-brains-not-ai-to-write-homilies

6 months ago

Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journal

6 months ago

Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

https://docs.hetzner.com/de/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/

6 months ago

Binance Fired Employees Who Found $1.7B in Crypto Was Sent to Iran

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employees-iran-firings.html

6 months ago

Terence Tao, at 8 years old [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf

6 months ago

Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1rce0lf/hetzner_european_hosting_provider_to_increase/

6 months ago

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2026)

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

6 months ago