Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-23
- Attention Media ≠ Social Networks susam.net - 59 comments 150 points
- Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 hypha.pub - 50 comments 125 points
- What Is a Database Transaction? planetscale.com - 12 comments 68 points
- Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents – Stripe Dot Dev Blog stripe.dev - 53 comments 56 points
- The Dance Floor Is Disappearing in a Sea of Phones www.bloomberg.com - 41 comments 48 points
- Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not hypha.pub - 39 comments 42 points
- What’s the best way to learn a new language? www.bbc.com - 31 comments 36 points
- Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement kb.porkbun.com - 13 comments 25 points
- Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown www.bbc.com - 4 comments 25 points
- I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall rename.world - 4 comments 22 points
- Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums www.popsci.com - 1 comments 16 points
- Sewage Spill in the Potomac River www.vdh.virginia.gov - 2 comments 15 points
- We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them quesma.com - 2 comments 14 points
- Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct www.theguardian.com - 2 comments 14 points
- Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework github.com - 0 comments 14 points
- New York Just Killed Its Robotaxi Plan. The Real Problem Isn’t the Technology www.phyware.io - 13 comments 10 points
- OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill bsky.app - 2 comments 10 points
- Holo v0.9: A Modern Routing Stack Built in Rust github.com - 2 comments 9 points
- The U.S. spent $30B to ditch textbooks fortune.com - 6 comments 8 points
- Amazon’s tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts www.politico.com - 1 comments 8 points
- Fedify 2.0.0: Modular architecture, debug dashboard, and relay support github.com - 0 comments 8 points
- Lawyer says Google shut down his Gmail, Voice and Photos after NotebookLM upload discrepancyreport.com - 2 comments 7 points
- Why every automaker is quietly bringing back the inline-six engine carbuzz.com - 3 comments 6 points
- Wobbling gyroscopes could harvest energy from ocean waves physicsworld.com - 1 comments 6 points
- Can I get a version of Windows that hasn’t been infiltrated by Co-Pilot malware? learn.microsoft.com - 1 comments 6 points
- Tech billionaires limit their children’s screen time fortune.com - 1 comments 6 points
- Show HN: Cheddar-bench – unsupervised benchmark for coding agents github.com - 0 comments 6 points
- Levelsio: HN is more negative lately because of AI threat twitter.com - 0 comments 6 points
- The 17% Risk domofutu.substack.com - 0 comments 6 points
- Show HN: I built a free AI tool that picks your SaaS tech stack based on budget appstackbuilder.com - 4 comments 5 points
February 23, 2026 ∙