Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-13
- An AI agent published a hit piece on me theshamblog.com - 694 comments 1663 points
- AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it github.com - 688 comments 879 points
- Gemini 3 Deep Think blog.google - 497 comments 788 points
- GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark openai.com - 269 comments 662 points
- Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed blog.can.ac - 239 comments 629 points
- ai;dr www.0xsid.com - 248 comments 623 points
- Major European payment processor can’t send email to Google Workspace users atha.io - 325 comments 486 points
- Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues noheger.at - 176 comments 386 points
- US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says www.ft.com - 303 comments 347 points
- Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash www.theverge.com - 176 comments 342 points
- Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation www.anthropic.com - 334 comments 328 points
- Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification matrix.org - 137 comments 268 points
- Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware www.theregister.com - 208 comments 252 points
- Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation pol.is - 80 comments 228 points
- Skip the Tips: A game to select “No Tip” but dark patterns try to stop you skipthe.tips - 130 comments 227 points
- Apache Arrow is 10 years old arrow.apache.org - 58 comments 208 points
- Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically - 2025 www.openculture.com - 105 comments 199 points
- Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver waymo.com - 188 comments 191 points
- ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn’t Do What DHS Says It Could www.techdirt.com - 53 comments 188 points
- MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified www.minimax.io - 51 comments 175 points
- So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it’s turned into a carbon sink www.livescience.com - 71 comments 167 points
- America’s Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody’s Coming to Put It Out www.threathunter.ai - 173 comments 163 points
- AWS Adds support for nested virtualization github.com - 56 comments 158 points
- TikTok is tracking you, even if you don’t use the app www.bbc.com - 108 comments 152 points
- A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k log.jasongodfrey.info - 99 comments 148 points
- A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks - 2024 loriemerson.net - 40 comments 140 points
- Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM ericmigi.github.io - 23 comments 136 points
- Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings aethermug.com - 81 comments 135 points
- The “Crown of Nobles” Noble Gas Tube Display - 2024 theshamblog.com - 30 comments 131 points
- Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 arstechnica.com - 21 comments 130 points
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