top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-25

Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But Then Gemini Changed the Rules

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules

6 months ago

Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence

https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence

6 months ago

Never Buy A .online Domain

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/online-tld-is-pain

6 months ago

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

6 months ago

New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes

https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/

6 months ago

Amazon Busted for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price

6 months ago

Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer

6 months ago

Banned in California

https://www.bannedincalifornia.org/

6 months ago

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/

6 months ago

Claude Code Remote Control

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control

6 months ago

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/final-2025-data-is-in-us-energy-use-is-up-as-solar-passes-hydro/

6 months ago

How Will OpenAI Compete?

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x

6 months ago

The United States needs fewer bus stops

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/

6 months ago

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/01/21/notepad-and-paint-updates-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

6 months ago

Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust

https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi

6 months ago

I made MCP cheaper in one command

https://kanyilmaz.me/2026/02/23/cli-vs-mcp.html

6 months ago

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/

6 months ago

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/

6 months ago

First Website

https://info.cern.ch

6 months ago

om

https://www.om-language.com/

6 months ago

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

6 months ago

LLM=True

https://blog.codemine.be/posts/2026/20260222-be-quiet/

6 months ago

Show HN: Respectify – a comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

https://respectify.org/

6 months ago

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

https://github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter

6 months ago

Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play

https://llmskirmish.com/

6 months ago

US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai

6 months ago

GNU Texmacs

https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html

6 months ago

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-pentagon-threatens-anthropic

6 months ago

100M-Row Challenge with PHP

https://github.com/tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge

6 months ago

The Misuses of the University

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-of-the-university/

6 months ago

Racket v9.1

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/02/racket-v9-1.html

6 months ago

Writing a "clear room" Z80 and Spectrum emulator with Claude Code

https://antirez.com/news/160

6 months ago

An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop

https://aircada.com/blog/ai-vs-human-3d-ecommerce

6 months ago

A Man Who Stole Infinity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

6 months ago

Why isn't LA repaving streets?

https://lapublicpress.org/2026/02/why-isnt-la-repaving-streets/

6 months ago

Show HN: I ported Manim to TypeScript (run 3b1B math animations in the browser)

https://github.com/maloyan/manim-web

6 months ago

Turing Completeness of GNU Find: From Mkdir-Assisted Loops to Standalone Comput

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20762

6 months ago

Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin

https://github.com/yassi/dj-control-room

6 months ago

Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock

https://www.clocksimulator.com/

6 months ago

Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-enters-the-cloud-native-developer-desktop-market/

6 months ago

I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye

https://paultendo.github.io/posts/confusable-vision-visual-similarity/

6 months ago

Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw

https://tachyon.so/blog/sandboxes-wont-save-you

6 months ago

Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=73405.0

6 months ago

Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147183

6 months ago

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/

6 months ago

Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10114-5

6 months ago

The Slow Death of the Power User

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

6 months ago

More Cows, More Wives

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/more-cows-more-wives

6 months ago

Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

https://tunaformac.com

6 months ago

I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus

https://github.com/benjismith/ai-randomness

6 months ago

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

https://www.popsci.com/technology/floppy-disk-archivist-project/

6 months ago

Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code

https://github.com/mksglu/claude-context-mode

6 months ago

Ghosts'n Goblins – "Worse danger is ahead"

https://superchartisland.com/ghostsn-goblins/

6 months ago

What Happened to Fry's Electronics

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-frys-electronics/

6 months ago

Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152355

6 months ago

Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/amazon_blame_human_not_ai/

6 months ago

Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra

https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-steering-8b/

6 months ago

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (using HN posts)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

6 months ago

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rk3588-and-rk3576-video-decoders-support-merged-in-the-upstream-linux-kernel.html

6 months ago

Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/meta-abortion-ai-chatbot-leak-teen-info-ban/

6 months ago