Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-20
- Gemini 3.1 Pro blog.google - 760 comments 670 points
- Gemini 3.1 Pro deepmind.google - 8 comments 602 points
- AI makes you boring www.marginalia.nu - 329 comments 590 points
- Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal micasa.dev - 165 comments 507 points
- We’re no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science www.theguardian.com - 386 comments 416 points
- Paged Out Issue #8 - pdf pagedout.institute - 57 comments 363 points
- DOGE Track dogetrack.info - 193 comments 331 points
- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward theshamblog.com - 211 comments 282 points
- California’s new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves blog.adafruit.com - 333 comments 280 points
- Pebble Production: February Update repebble.com - 130 comments 277 points
- America vs. Singapore: You can’t save your way out of economic shocks www.governance.fyi - 391 comments 267 points
- South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection www.theguardian.com - 149 comments 266 points
- IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in ’efficiency’ shakeup www.theregister.com - 146 comments 249 points
- MuMu Player - NetEase silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes gist.github.com - 92 comments 235 points
- AI is not a coworker, it’s an exoskeleton www.kasava.dev - 216 comments 202 points
- A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data github.com - 34 comments 202 points
- Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial www.wsj.com - 104 comments 190 points
- Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia makie.org - 69 comments 177 points
- DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ www.techdirt.com - 47 comments 173 points
- Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus www.bbc.com - 103 comments 155 points
- Micropayments as a reality check for news sites blog.zgp.org - 321 comments 147 points
- Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging www.hankgreen.com - 133 comments 141 points
- Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves - 2025 kodiak64.co.uk - 21 comments 131 points
- Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban oban.pro - 53 comments 128 points
- Farewell, Rust for web yieldcode.blog - 140 comments 125 points
- Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app github.com - 55 comments 121 points
- Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications github.com - 58 comments 120 points
- Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial www.ft.com - 106 comments 117 points
- Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today - 2022 borischerny.com - 93 comments 117 points
- Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal’s war elephants www.smithsonianmag.com - 26 comments 98 points
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