Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-16
- EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear environment.ec.europa.eu - 614 comments 879 points
- I’m joining OpenAI steipete.me - 592 comments 867 points
- Amazon’s Ring and Google’s Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state greenwald.substack.com - 569 comments 785 points
- I fixed Windows native development marler8997.github.io - 341 comments 716 points
- Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library oat.ink - 125 comments 491 points
- Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died www.videogameschronicle.com - 38 comments 390 points
- Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it’s 2015 modern-css.com - 139 comments 355 points
- LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop github.com - 152 comments 337 points
- Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City’s Public Hospitals theintercept.com - 102 comments 274 points
- Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle - Chess960 World Championship www.fide.com - 134 comments 232 points
- Palantir vs. the “Republik”: US analytics firm takes magazine to court www.heise.de - 59 comments 219 points
- Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations arstechnica.com - 155 comments 216 points
- Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format gwern.net - 70 comments 213 points
- Two different tricks for fast LLM inference www.seangoedecke.com - 65 comments 184 points
- Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser microgpt.boratto.ca - 13 comments 161 points
- Radio host David Greene says Google’s NotebookLM tool stole his voice www.washingtonpost.com - 82 comments 143 points
- Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 jmail.world - 25 comments 135 points
- Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server’s door knock-knock.net - 54 comments 129 points
- State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID reclaimthenet.org - 93 comments 128 points
- AI is going to kill app subscriptions nichehunt.app - 183 comments 113 points
- Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF zamoshi.substack.com - 89 comments 109 points
- Reversed engineered game Starflight - 1986 github.com - 49 comments 109 points
- Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research arxiv.org - 48 comments 90 points
- Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices github.com - 15 comments 87 points
- Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality www.pennmedicine.org - 57 comments 86 points
- 1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists github.com - 28 comments 85 points
- SCM as a database for the code gist.github.com - 86 comments 80 points
- GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor www.gnu.org.ua - 50 comments 80 points
- DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning - 2023 scottlocklin.wordpress.com - 18 comments 78 points
- Kimi Claw www.kimi.com - 88 comments 77 points
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