Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:21) - 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

(01:38) - What your Bluetooth devices reveal

(02:35) - Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

(03:36) - Ghidra by NSA

(04:37) - Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

(05:28) - Rise of the Triforce

(06:38) - Visual introduction to PyTorch

(07:45) - Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

(08:43) - Four Column ASCII (2017)

(09:45) - "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name

(11:03) - Outro

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546What your Bluetooth devices reveal
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560
Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396
Ghidra by NSA
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
https://jmail.world/jemini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334
Rise of the Triforce
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524
Visual introduction to PyTorch
https://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002231
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
https://github.com/zachlatta/freeflow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375
Four Column ASCII (2017)
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022270
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038318

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:21) - I’m joining OpenAI

(01:26) - EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

(02:44) - Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state

(03:51) - I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

(04:52) - Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

(06:06) - LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

(07:06) - Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

(08:17) - Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

(09:30) - Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

(10:46) - Audio is the one area small labs are winning

(11:49) - Outro

I’m joining OpenAI
https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025378
Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580
Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
https://modern-css.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025851
LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025399
Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028227
Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026071
Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
https://gwern.net/gwtar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024506
Audio is the one area small labs are winning
https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999285

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

(01:16) - Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

(02:06) - News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

(03:23) - My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

(04:37) - I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

(05:52) - NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

(06:54) - Descent, ported to the web

(07:50) - Breaking the spell of vibe coding

(09:01) - Instagram's URL Blackhole

(10:07) - OpenAI should build Slack

(11:25) - Outro

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
https://ooh.directory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449
News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138
My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294
I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191
NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
https://newpipe.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218
Descent, ported to the web
https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545
Breaking the spell of vibe coding
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006615
Instagram's URL Blackhole
https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004689
OpenAI should build Slack
https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

(01:23) - Monosketch

(02:20) - The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

(03:35) - GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

(04:36) - An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

(05:38) - Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

(06:49) - Gradient.horse

(07:44) - Building a TUI is easy now

(08:45) - Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

(09:56) - Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

(10:51) - Outro

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
https://ios-countdown.win/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064Monosketch
https://monosketch.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001871
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007656
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949
Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954696
Gradient.horse
https://gradient.horse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955311
Building a TUI is easy now
https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509
Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000505
Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008163

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - An AI agent published a hit piece on me

(01:32) - Gemini 3 Deep Think

(02:43) - GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

(03:45) - Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed

(04:56) - Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

(06:10) - Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users

(07:24) - Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

(08:26) - Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

(09:25) - Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation

(10:25) - Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

(11:19) - Outro

An AI agent published a hit piece on me
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729Gemini 3 Deep Think
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553
Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008
Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989217
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996999
Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
https://skipthe.tips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519
Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
https://pol.is/home2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992815
Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490