Hacker News on Saturday, 14 February 2026

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts(github.com)

1067 points by i5heu 8 months ago | 314 comments

GitHub repository for a maintained fork of a uBlock Origin filter list that hides YouTube Shorts.

An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened(theshamblog.com)

654 points by scottshambaugh 8 months ago | 547 comments

Follow-up blog post by Scott Shambaugh on an AI agent that autonomously published a hit piece on him after he rejected its code to a Python library, covering news coverage and new developments.

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker(aimilios.bearblog.dev)

577 points by minimalthinker 8 months ago | 238 comments

Blog post describing how reverse-engineering a Kickstarter smart sleep mask revealed it broadcasts users' EEG brainwave data to an open MQTT broker and accepts stimulation commands.

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you(ooh.directory)

552 points by hisamafahri 8 months ago | 134 comments

Ooh.directory is a curated directory of 2,380 blogs organized by topic categories such as arts, computing, science, and personal blogs.

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns(niemanlab.org)

536 points by ninjagoo 8 months ago | 340 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting that news publishers are restricting Internet Archive access over concerns that AI companies scrape archived content.

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story(infosec.exchange)

515 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 220 comments

Mastodon post noting a matplotlib maintainer says quotes attributed to him in an Ars Technica article were fabricated, apparently AI hallucinations; the story was pulled.

Ghidra by NSA(github.com)

419 points by handfuloflight 8 months ago | 208 comments

GitHub repository for Ghidra, the NSA's open-source software reverse engineering framework licensed under Apache 2.0.

Vim 9.2(vim.org)

372 points by tapanjk 8 months ago | 154 comments

Official vim.org announcement of the Vim 9.2 release, highlighting Vim9 enums, generics, tuples, Wayland, autocompletion, XDG support and diff mode improvements.

Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed(ziglang.org)

342 points by Retro_Dev 8 months ago | 248 comments

Zig devlog entry by Andrew Kelley announcing that io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch implementations of the std.Io interface have landed.

Descent, ported to the web(mrdoob.github.io)

276 points by memalign 8 months ago | 52 comments

OpenAI should build Slack(latent.space)

226 points by swyx 8 months ago | 274 comments

Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL(github.com)

217 points by mickamy 8 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB(github.com)

209 points by datavorous_ 8 months ago | 63 comments

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say(arstechnica.com)

202 points by pjmlp 8 months ago | 100 comments

YouTube as Storage(github.com)

189 points by saswatms 8 months ago | 138 comments

A Programmer's Loss of Identity(ratfactor.com)

186 points by zdw 8 months ago | 118 comments

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts(nytimes.com)

183 points by jjwiseman 8 months ago | 100 comments

Amsterdam Compiler Kit(github.com)

151 points by andsoitis 8 months ago | 55 comments

PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf](intertronics.co.uk)

150 points by varjag 8 months ago | 40 comments

A deep dive into Apple's .car file format(dbg.re)

148 points by MrFinch 8 months ago | 54 comments

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry(npmx.dev)

140 points by slymax 8 months ago | 60 comments

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025(backblaze.com)

135 points by Brajeshwar 8 months ago | 25 comments

Rendering the Visible Spectrum(brandonli.net)

133 points by signa11 8 months ago | 23 comments

Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990(vogons.org)

131 points by LowLevelMahn 8 months ago | 48 comments

7zip.com Is Serving Malware(malwarebytes.com)

124 points by Alifatisk 8 months ago | 60 comments

You can't trust the internet anymore(nicole.express)

124 points by panic 8 months ago | 92 comments

Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics(engadget.com)

123 points by OutOfHere 8 months ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone(github.com)

105 points by ali_chherawalla 8 months ago | 44 comments

A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)(microscopy-uk.org.uk)

92 points by 1970-01-01 8 months ago | 109 comments

How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)(blog.yossarian.net)

90 points by tosh 8 months ago | 66 comments

What dating apps are optimizing(phys.org)

89 points by i7l 8 months ago | 53 comments

Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle(simonwillison.net)

85 points by stared 8 months ago | 29 comments

A header-only C vector database library(github.com)

80 points by abdimoalim 8 months ago | 35 comments

DBASE on the Kaypro II(stonetools.ghost.io)

76 points by TMWNN 8 months ago | 37 comments

Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview(lux.camera)

71 points by patrikcsak 8 months ago | 23 comments

Discord: A case study in performance optimization(newsletter.fullstack.zip)

63 points by tylerdane 8 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar(github.com)

61 points by ahmed_sulajman 8 months ago | 13 comments

Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf](elvish.org)

58 points by BerislavLopac 8 months ago | 13 comments

Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32(codeberg.org)

57 points by nikbackm 8 months ago | 44 comments

Unicorn Jelly(unicornjelly.com)

53 points by avaer 8 months ago | 12 comments

Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip(righto.com)

52 points by pwg 8 months ago | 14 comments

Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications(blog.sao.dev)

45 points by stuartaxelowen 8 months ago | 5 comments

Audiophiles Can't Distinguish Audio Sent Through Copper, Banana or Mud(tomshardware.com)

44 points by RandomGerm4n 8 months ago | 35 comments

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care(npr.org)

38 points by toomuchtodo 8 months ago | 32 comments

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder(pcgamer.com)

38 points by absqueued 8 months ago | 8 comments

PascalABC.net(pascalabc.net)

34 points by andsoitis 8 months ago | 10 comments

Epstein's Ugly World of Science(homunculusmusic.wordpress.com)

34 points by only_in_america 8 months ago | 3 comments

Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism(github.com)

31 points by ashleyn 8 months ago | 24 comments

How long do job postings stay open?(corvi.careers)

30 points by sp1982 8 months ago | 39 comments

Dune II written in HTML5/JS(github.com)

30 points by reconnecting 8 months ago | 3 comments

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says(bbc.com)

28 points by tartoran 8 months ago | 6 comments

Golf game built last night with Claude Code, Svelte and ThreeJS(the-golf-is-golfing.com)

27 points by paulbjensen 8 months ago | 14 comments

4chan for Clankers(4claw.org)

24 points by kekqqq 8 months ago | 33 comments

This is What It's Like to Spend Your Life in Prison (2023) [video](youtube.com)

24 points by NaOH 8 months ago | 16 comments

Stanford Review: Is YC for Cowards?(stanfordreview.org)

19 points by hedgehog0 8 months ago | 3 comments

Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh(eejournal.com)

19 points by transpute 8 months ago | 11 comments

Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence(mpg.de)

19 points by gmays 8 months ago | 8 comments

Do Not Outsource Judgement(dncrews.com)

18 points by mawaldne 8 months ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Box of Rain - Auto-Layouted ASCII Diagrams(github.com)

17 points by switz 8 months ago | 7 comments

Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode(loriculus.org)

17 points by wenderen 8 months ago | 13 comments