top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-26

Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

5 months ago

Layoffs at Block

https://twitter.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343

5 months ago

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163885

5 months ago

The happiest I've ever been

https://ben-mini.com/2026/the-happiest-ive-ever-been

5 months ago

What Claude Code Chooses

https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks

5 months ago

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

5 months ago

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change

5 months ago

Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance

6 months ago

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean

5 months ago

New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/

5 months ago

Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?

https://read.technically.dev/p/vibe-coding-and-the-maker-movement

5 months ago

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ram-now-represents-35-percent-of-bill-of-materials-for-hp-pcs/

5 months ago

Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line

https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalphone

5 months ago

Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage

https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/wwsmartphoneforecast4q25/

5 months ago

Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers

https://endowment.dev/

5 months ago

Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

https://github.com/anadim/AdderBoard

5 months ago

OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation

https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/

5 months ago

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything

https://tuananh.net/2026/02/25/buildkit-docker-hidden-gem/

5 months ago

In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3mfptlfeucn2i

5 months ago

You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account

https://www.heltweg.org/posts/you-want-to-visit-the-uk-you-better-have-a-google-play-or-app-store-account/

5 months ago

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines [pdf, 2003]

https://cs.uml.edu/~fredm/courses/91.308-spr05/files/palmdocs/uiguidelines.pdf

5 months ago

Time Is Different

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/this-time-is-different/

5 months ago

Setting up phones is a nightmare

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/setting-up-phones-is-a-nightmare/

5 months ago

Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase

https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/a-process-to-do-safe-changes-in-a-complex-codebase/

5 months ago

Long Range E-Bike

https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/

5 months ago

Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."

https://twitter.com/KryDotExe/status/2026806591517856208

5 months ago

He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network

https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/alpr-border-patrol-caltrans/

5 months ago

Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit

https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/02/24/jane-street-hit-with-terra-40b-insider-trading-suit/

5 months ago

I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word."

https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/refine

5 months ago

Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-backs-out-warners-deal-paramount-win-1236516763/

5 months ago

H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery

https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/h-bomb-a-frank-lloyd-wright-typographic

5 months ago

From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion

https://lighthousesoftware.co.uk/projects/from-noise-to-image/

5 months ago

America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/america-and-probably-the-world-stands

5 months ago

Google Street View in 2026

https://tech.marksblogg.com/google-street-view-coverage.html

5 months ago

Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/02/22/%C3%B8yvind-kol%C3%A5s-interview-ww2017/

5 months ago

Story of XZ Backdoor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

5 months ago

Show HN: Unfudged – version control without commits

https://www.unfudged.io/

5 months ago

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

https://www.usecardboard.com/

5 months ago

just-bash: Bash for Agents

https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash

5 months ago

iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/iphone-and-ipad-approved-to-handle-classified-nato-information/

5 months ago

Show HN: Deff – side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal

https://github.com/flamestro/deff

5 months ago

Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet

https://www.morling.dev/blog/hardwood-new-parser-for-apache-parquet/

5 months ago

The real cost of random I/O

https://vondra.me/posts/the-real-cost-of-random-io/

5 months ago

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa

5 months ago

Technical Excellence Is Not Enough

https://raccoon.land/posts/technical-excellence-is-not-enough/

5 months ago

RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet

https://www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/building-the-rcade/

5 months ago

Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/health/forever-chemicals-aging-men-wellness

5 months ago

You Just Need Postgres

https://youjustneedpostgres.com/

5 months ago

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty

5 months ago

SynthID

https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

5 months ago

Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-pentagon-hegseth-dario-amodei-9b28dda41bdb52b6a378fa9fc80b8fda

5 months ago

Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications

https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2026/20260211-janda-molecule.html

5 months ago