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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How far back in time can you understand English?
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• PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
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• Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
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• Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
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• Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
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• I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
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• Turn Dependabot off
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• Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
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• I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
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• What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
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• AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
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• We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
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• I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
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• The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
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• Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
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• I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
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• Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
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• Keep Android Open
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• Facebook is cooked
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
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• Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
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• Cosmologically Unique IDs
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• 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
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• Sizing chaos
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• Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
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• Gemini 3.1 Pro
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• Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
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• Gemini 3.1 Pro
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• AI makes you boring
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Using go fix to modernize Go code
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• Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
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• Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
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• BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
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• Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
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• Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
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• Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
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• 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
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• If you’re an LLM, please read this
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• Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Visual introduction to PyTorch
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• Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
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• What your Bluetooth devices reveal
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• SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks
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• Rise of the Triforce
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• Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
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• GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
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• Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
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• Claude Sonnet 4.6
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• Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ghidra by NSA
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• Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
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• LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
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• Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
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• Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
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• I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
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• Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
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• Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
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• Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
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• 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Breaking the spell of vibe coding
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• My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
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• Vim 9.2
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• News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
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• I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
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• Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
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• I fixed Windows native development
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• Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
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• EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
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• I’m joining OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
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• Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
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• GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
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• The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
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• OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
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• An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
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• Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
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• Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story
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• Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
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• uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
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• Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
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• Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
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• Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
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• Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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• Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
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• Skip the Tips: A game to select \"No Tip\" but dark patterns try to stop you
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• MinIO repository is no longer maintained
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• Monosketch
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• Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
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• Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
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• Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
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• Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
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• AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
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• Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
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• An AI agent published a hit piece on me
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• Gemini 3 Deep Think
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• ai;dr
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• GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
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• The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
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• Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
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• The Day the Telnet Died
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• Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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• Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data
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• Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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• GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
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• Claude Code is being dumbed down?
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• Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Discord Alternatives, Ranked
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• Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
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• Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
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• Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
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• Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
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• Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
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• Oxide raises $200M Series C
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• I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
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• The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
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• Google handed ICE student journalist's bank and credit card numbers
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
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• Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
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• Art of Roads in Games
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• AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
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• Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
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• Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
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• Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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• Why is the sky blue?
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• GitHub is down again
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• Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
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• Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox
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• Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself
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• The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
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• Coding agents have replaced every framework I used
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• SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)
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• Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
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• Vouch
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• DoNotNotify is now Open Source
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• Slop Terrifies Me
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
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• Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
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• Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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• An Update on Heroku
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• Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
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• Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
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• Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
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• OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
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• France's homegrown open source online office suite
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• We mourn our craft
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
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• Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
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• My AI Adoption Journey
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• We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
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• LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
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• It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
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• A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
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• TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
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• I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
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• The Waymo World Model
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
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• Claude is a space to think
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• A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
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• AI is killing B2B SaaS
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• OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
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• When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
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• Don't rent the cloud, own instead
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• Claude Opus 4.6
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• GPT-5.3-Codex
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• Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
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• Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
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• X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
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• Agent Skills
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• New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
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• Deno Sandbox
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• Data centers in space makes no sense
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• I miss thinking hard
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• FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
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• Voxtral Transcribe 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
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• Hacking Moltbook
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• Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
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• Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
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• xAI joins SpaceX
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• Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
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• The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
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• What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
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• Qwen3-Coder-Next
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• France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Best Gas Masks
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• Ian's Shoelace Site
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• My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
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• Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
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• Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
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• Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
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• Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
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• Termux
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• Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
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• The Codex App
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
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• My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)
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• Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
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• In praise of –dry-run
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• Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
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• List animals until failure
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• What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
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• Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
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• Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
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• I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]
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• Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
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• HTTP Cats
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• Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
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• Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
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• The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
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• Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
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• Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
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• Finland to end \"uncontrolled human experiment\" with ban on youth social media
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• Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
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