Hacker News on Friday, 13 February 2026

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android(ios-countdown.win)

1525 points by ozzyphantom 8 months ago | 748 comments

A countdown-timer protest page demanding Apple fix the iOS keyboard by the end of WWDC 2026, or the author will switch back to Android.

Monosketch(monosketch.io)

821 points by penguin_booze 8 months ago | 137 comments

Landing page for MonoSketch, a browser-based ASCII sketching and diagramming app for drawing diagrams such as circuits in text characters.

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling(politico.eu)

693 points by danso 8 months ago | 748 comments

Politico Europe article on the EU's push to make social media platforms like TikTok and Meta end addictive design features such as infinite scrolling.

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube(cordcuttersnews.com)

606 points by walterbell 8 months ago | 315 comments

Cord Cutters News article reporting that the sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 is now available to watch free on YouTube.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics(openai.com)

545 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 369 comments

OpenAI post announcing that GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics; the captured page shows only a loading logo.

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission(theconversation.com)

501 points by DamnInteresting 8 months ago | 254 comments

The Conversation article on OpenAI removing 'safely' from its mission statement and how its new corporate structure tests whether AI serves society or shareholders.

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you(skipthe.tips)

449 points by randycupertino 8 months ago | 389 comments

A browser game where players try to select "No Tip" on tip screens built around 39 dark patterns, by vladimirj.dev.

MinIO repository is no longer maintained(github.com)

439 points by psvmcc 8 months ago | 318 comments

A GitHub commit to the MinIO repository updating README.md to clarify the project's state, indicating it is no longer maintained.

Visual introduction to PyTorch(0byte.io)

372 points by 0bytematt 8 months ago | 25 comments

A visual, beginner-friendly tutorial introducing PyTorch, covering tensors, autograd, and building a simple neural network.

Breaking the spell of vibe coding(fast.ai)

367 points by arjunbanker 8 months ago | 293 comments

A fast.ai essay by Rachel Thomas arguing that vibe coding resembles a sinister variant of flow akin to gambling, and that human creativity and thinking still matter.

Lena by qntm (2021)(qntm.org)

319 points by stickynotememo 8 months ago | 171 comments

"Lena", a 2021 short story by qntm written as a wiki article about MMAcevedo, the first executable image of a human brain.

Ring owners are returning their cameras(msn.com)

318 points by c420 8 months ago | 231 comments

BGR article syndicated on MSN about Ring camera owners returning their devices and how much money they can get back.

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption(fortune.com)

316 points by WhatsTheBigIdea 8 months ago | 184 comments

Audio is the one area small labs are winning(amplifypartners.com)

295 points by rocauc 8 months ago | 90 comments

Instagram's URL Blackhole(medium.com)

288 points by tkp-415 8 months ago | 46 comments

AWS Adds support for nested virtualization(github.com)

282 points by sitole 8 months ago | 107 comments

Building a TUI is easy now(hatchet.run)

282 points by abelanger 8 months ago | 218 comments

Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu(github.com)

277 points by jpeeler 8 months ago | 253 comments

I gave Claude access to my pen plotter(harmonique.one)

272 points by futurecat 8 months ago | 178 comments

I'm not worried about AI job loss(davidoks.blog)

259 points by ezekg 8 months ago | 430 comments

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for 'Tactical Targeting'(wired.com)

232 points by cdrnsf 8 months ago | 131 comments

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide(github.com)

227 points by xx123122 8 months ago | 27 comments

Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database(github.com)

209 points by dvrp 8 months ago | 35 comments

Open source is not about you (2018)(gist.github.com)

192 points by doubleg 8 months ago | 156 comments

The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting(ardentperf.com)

191 points by darccio 8 months ago | 95 comments

CSS-Doodle(css-doodle.com)

176 points by dsego 8 months ago | 17 comments

How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?(usatoday.com)

139 points by brandonb 8 months ago | 209 comments

The wonder of modern drywall(worksinprogress.news)

136 points by jger15 8 months ago | 208 comments

IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes(github.com)

135 points by dawg91 8 months ago | 65 comments

How did the Maya survive?(theguardian.com)

135 points by speckx 8 months ago | 112 comments

Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing(github.com)

130 points by gurjeet 8 months ago | 46 comments

WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?(blog.feld.me)

128 points by thomasjb 8 months ago | 101 comments

Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video](youtube.com)

123 points by CharlesW 8 months ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs(cloudrouter.dev)

121 points by austinwang115 8 months ago | 33 comments

Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve(blog.exe.dev)

113 points by luu 8 months ago | 67 comments

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent(wired.com)

110 points by speckx 8 months ago | 70 comments

The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement(simonwillison.net)

106 points by coloneltcb 8 months ago | 58 comments

Assistant to the Regional Manager(smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net)

100 points by NaOH 8 months ago | 35 comments

The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming(martinfowler.com)

96 points by bigwheels 8 months ago | 40 comments

Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water(quantamagazine.org)

94 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 14 comments

Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction(note.com)

88 points by uolmir 8 months ago | 10 comments

Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal(economist.com)

82 points by doener 8 months ago | 70 comments

New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf](nickbostrom.com)

74 points by uejfiweun 8 months ago | 79 comments

US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases(cnn.com)

72 points by heresie-dabord 8 months ago | 46 comments

Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence(openculture.com)

71 points by tesserato 8 months ago | 35 comments

Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video](dwarkesh.com)

67 points by danielmorozoff 8 months ago | 141 comments

What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf](complang.tuwien.ac.at)

63 points by tosh 8 months ago | 47 comments

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is(newscientist.com)

60 points by pella 8 months ago | 41 comments

11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for(homolova.sk)

59 points by heyimada 8 months ago | 53 comments

Good Riddance, 4o(mahadk.com)

58 points by JustSkyfall 8 months ago | 75 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer)(github.com)

57 points by matt1398 8 months ago | 39 comments

Rethinking High-School Science Fairs(asteriskmag.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 49 comments

Launching Interop 2026(hacks.mozilla.org)

56 points by linolevan 8 months ago | 3 comments

Delphi is 31 years old – innovation timeline(blogs.embarcadero.com)

56 points by andsoitis 8 months ago | 23 comments

AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry(bbc.com)

50 points by darod 8 months ago | 27 comments

Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs(chromewebstore.google.com)

37 points by somesortofthing 8 months ago | 39 comments

I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini)(coder.com)

37 points by ericpaulsen 8 months ago | 29 comments

AI bot crabby-rathbun is still polluting open source(nickolinger.com)

34 points by olingern 8 months ago | 18 comments

Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?

34 points by catapart 8 months ago | 59 comments

I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably(jitbit.com)

30 points by speckx 8 months ago | 31 comments