top 50% 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

2081 upvotes – 998 comments

I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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

6 months ago

1105 upvotes – 377 comments

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

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

6 months ago

655 upvotes – 198 comments

Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing

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

6 months ago

633 upvotes – 680 comments

Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness

https://pi.dev

6 months ago

606 upvotes – 304 comments

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

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

6 months ago

561 upvotes – 200 comments

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

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

6 months ago

538 upvotes – 233 comments

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

476 upvotes – 11 comments

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

464 upvotes – 393 comments

Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution

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

6 months ago

460 upvotes – 378 comments

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

451 upvotes – 167 comments

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

447 upvotes – 325 comments

Nearby Glasses

https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

6 months ago

431 upvotes – 219 comments

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

372 upvotes – 159 comments

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLM agents

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

6 months ago

354 upvotes – 240 comments

Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion

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

6 months ago

349 upvotes – 128 comments

Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times

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

6 months ago

333 upvotes – 88 comments

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

326 upvotes – 90 comments

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

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

6 months ago

316 upvotes – 82 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp

https://www.sbcl.org/

6 months ago

291 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

6 months ago

275 upvotes – 93 comments

Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-2025-update

6 months ago

238 upvotes – 244 comments

Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%

https://electrek.co/2026/02/24/tesla-eu-registrations-crash-january-2026-bev-growth/

6 months ago

225 upvotes – 283 comments

OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/openai-resets-spend-expectations-targets-around-600-billion-by-2030.html

6 months ago

225 upvotes – 193 comments

An interactive intro to quadtrees

https://growingswe.com/blog/quadtrees

6 months ago

221 upvotes – 30 comments

Kansai Airport has never lost a baggage in the 30 years since it opened

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/features/japan-focus/20241228-229891/

6 months ago

221 upvotes – 109 comments

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/irs-meta-corporate-taxes.html

6 months ago

218 upvotes – 224 comments

Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/william-shatner-announces-all-star-metal-album

6 months ago

216 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

https://github.com/generalaction/emdash

6 months ago

205 upvotes – 72 comments

HuggingFace Agent Skills

https://github.com/huggingface/skills

6 months ago

201 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes

https://github.com/GreatScott/enveil

6 months ago

201 upvotes – 132 comments

Looks Like it is Happening

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15500

6 months ago

184 upvotes – 174 comments

Iowa Farmers Are Leading the Fight for Repair

https://www.ifixit.com/News/115722/iowa-farmers-are-leading-the-fight-for-repair

6 months ago

178 upvotes – 44 comments

Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid

https://www.cape.co/

6 months ago

177 upvotes – 190 comments

Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite

https://mketab.org/blog/sqlite_kdbx/

6 months ago

151 upvotes – 114 comments

1Password pricing increasing 20% in March

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139951

6 months ago

145 upvotes – 209 comments

Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

6 months ago

145 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

https://hackersmacker.org

6 months ago

145 upvotes – 167 comments

Show HN: Open-Weight Image-Video VAE (Better Reconstruction ≠ Better Generation)

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/vae-reconstruction-vs-generation

6 months ago

128 upvotes – 16 comments

Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/paypal-stock-stripe-acquisition-report.html

6 months ago

127 upvotes – 84 comments

Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/denver-removing-flock-cameras-new-axon-contract/73-640b5af3-7c87-4fea-8aa1-2510ad3257b8

6 months ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"

https://unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-little-detail-that-wouldnt-sell-anything/

6 months ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/inside-the-quixotic-team-trying-to-build-an-entire-world-in-a-20-year-old-game/

6 months ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

Reading English from 1000 Ad

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html

6 months ago

123 upvotes – 56 comments

80386 Protection

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_protection/

6 months ago

123 upvotes – 30 comments

Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)

https://norlinder.nu/posts/GC-Cost-CPU-vs-Memory/

6 months ago

119 upvotes – 37 comments

Sprites on the Web

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/

6 months ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S000169182600171X

6 months ago

108 upvotes – 117 comments

Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7gw3l395ro

6 months ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Modeling Cycles of Grift with Evolutionary Game Theory

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/grifters-skeptics-marks/

6 months ago

97 upvotes – 44 comments

Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario

6 months ago

97 upvotes – 1 comments

We Are Changing Our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/

6 months ago

87 upvotes – 60 comments

1Password Raising Prices ~33%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140133

6 months ago

85 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back

https://www.playlinex.com/

6 months ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/2025909963445707171

6 months ago

82 upvotes – 132 comments

Atlantic: Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/sam-altman-train-a-human/686120/

6 months ago

80 upvotes – 109 comments
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