top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-24

IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: Report

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-soldiers-tel-sultan-gaza-red-crescent-civil-defense-massacre-report-forensic-architecture-earshot

6 months ago

I'm helping my dog vibe code games

https://www.calebleak.com/posts/dog-game/

6 months ago

OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/

6 months ago

Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/apple-accelerates-us-manufacturing-with-mac-mini-production/

6 months ago

Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness

https://pi.dev

6 months ago

I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978

https://wordglyph.xyz/one-piece-at-a-time

6 months ago

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/

6 months ago

How to talk to anyone, and why you should

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/24/stranger-secret-how-to-talk-to-anyone-why-you-should

6 months ago

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

https://serverhost.com/blog/firefox-148-launches-with-exciting-ai-kill-switch-feature-and-more-enhancements/

6 months ago

Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

6 months ago

Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-blood-boosts-alzheimer-diagnosis-accuracy.html

6 months ago

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

6 months ago

Nearby Glasses

https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

6 months ago

Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/goodbye-innerhtml-hello-sethtml-stronger-xss-protection-in-firefox-148/

6 months ago

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLM agents

https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymization

6 months ago

Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2

6 months ago

Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times

https://www.mariannefeng.com/portfolio/kindle/

6 months ago

Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates

https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-8b-base-model-release/

6 months ago

Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3

https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine

6 months ago

Steel Bank Common Lisp

https://www.sbcl.org/

6 months ago