Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-18
- GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple blog.tomaszdunia.pl - 785 comments 1100 points
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 www.anthropic.com - 907 comments 1029 points
- Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives news.ycombinator.com - 75 comments 691 points
- CBS didn’t air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC www.nbcnews.com - 221 comments 480 points
- Is Show HN dead? No, but it’s drowning www.arthurcnops.blog - 377 comments 458 points
- Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans electrek.co - 237 comments 423 points
- Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity fortune.com - 241 comments 345 points
- Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway asteroidos.org - 36 comments 337 points
- Using go fix to modernize Go code go.dev - 67 comments 322 points
- Gentoo on Codeberg www.gentoo.org - 108 comments 307 points
- Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of - 2021 www.sceneandheardnu.com - 178 comments 304 points
- HackMyClaw hackmyclaw.com - 146 comments 288 points
- BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs github.com - 88 comments 253 points
- Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring www.theregister.com - 183 comments 243 points
- I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D aeris.edbn.me - 48 comments 240 points
- Google Public CA is down status.pki.goog - 127 comments 234 points
- Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification kotaku.com - 124 comments 231 points
- Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway cleantechnica.com - 169 comments 213 points
- Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat arstechnica.com - 64 comments 203 points
- So you want to build a tunnel practical.engineering - 83 comments 202 points
- Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp berksoft.ca - 72 comments 189 points
- Async/Await on the GPU www.vectorware.com - 50 comments 181 points
- America’s pensions can’t beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital www.governance.fyi - 325 comments 180 points
- WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 www.heise.de - 180 comments 162 points
- Chess engines do weird stuff girl.surgery - 76 comments 144 points
- I swear the UFO is coming any minute www.experimental-history.com - 48 comments 143 points
- A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+ twitter.com - 61 comments 137 points
- YouTube Is Down downdetector.com - 39 comments 133 points
- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout theshamblog.com - 77 comments 107 points
- Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other mage-bench.com - 77 comments 102 points
February 18, 2026 ∙