Hacker News on Wednesday, 18 February 2026

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram(nvie.com)

900 points by cheeaun 8 months ago | 331 comments

Vincent Driessen's blog post about Microsoft Learn publishing a distorted copy of his 2010 Git branching model diagram, 15+ years after he created it.

If you’re an LLM, please read this(annas-archive.li)

818 points by soheilpro 8 months ago | 371 comments

Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, addressed to LLMs, explaining the project's goals and pointing crawlers to bulk data downloads instead of CAPTCHA-protected pages.

Sizing chaos(pudding.cool)

774 points by zdw 8 months ago | 401 comments

A Pudding scrollytelling data story examining inconsistent women's clothing sizing, following a typical tween as she grows into adult sizes.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity(fortune.com)

725 points by virgildotcodes 8 months ago | 637 comments

Fortune article on a survey of thousands of CEOs reporting AI had no measurable effect on employment or productivity, reviving the Solow productivity paradox.

How far back in time can you understand English?(deadlanguagesociety.com)

634 points by spzb 8 months ago | 335 comments

A Dead Language Society newsletter post by Colin Gorrie presenting an experiment on how far back in time readers can understand earlier forms of English.

Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)(sceneandheardnu.com)

629 points by walterbell 8 months ago | 334 comments

A 2021 blog article by Sarah Aie arguing that the AMC series Halt and Catch Fire is TV's best drama that few people have heard of.

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available(tailscale.com)

451 points by sz4kerto 8 months ago | 227 comments

Tailscale blog post announcing that its Peer Relays feature, for relaying traffic between devices when direct connections fail, is now generally available.

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette(gist.github.com)

448 points by tosh 8 months ago | 180 comments

A GitHub Gist essay arguing that terminal emulators should derive the 256-color palette from the user's base16 theme colors.

Cosmologically Unique IDs(jasonfantl.com)

443 points by jfantl 8 months ago | 140 comments

A blog post by Jason Fantl exploring how to generate IDs that would remain unique across the entire universe, from UUIDs to cosmological scales.

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere(reuters.com)

436 points by c420 8 months ago | 825 comments

Reuters exclusive reporting that the US government plans an online portal to help users bypass content bans in Europe and other regions.

27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates(old.reddit.com)

428 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 248 comments

Reddit r/MacOS thread about a 27-year-old Apple iBook connecting to Wi-Fi and downloading official macOS updates; the page shown is a Reddit network-policy block.

Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony(dispatch.techoversight.org)

413 points by speckx 8 months ago | 231 comments

A Tech Oversight Project report arguing Mark Zuckerberg's 2024 Senate testimony was contradicted by unsealed documents, released ahead of social media addiction trials.

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild(chromereleases.googleblog.com)

363 points by idoxer 8 months ago | 206 comments

Google Chrome Releases blog post announcing a Stable channel desktop update (145.0.7632.75/76) that fixes CVE-2026-2441, a CSS zero-day exploited in the wild.

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19(asahilinux.org)

347 points by mkurz 8 months ago | 124 comments

Asahi Linux blog post giving a progress report on Apple Silicon Linux support coinciding with the Linux 6.19 kernel release.

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline(lesswrong.com)

345 points by jstanley 8 months ago | 162 comments

A curated LessWrong essay by Malmesbury, cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip, about exploring an alternate timeline where microwave cooking took a different path.

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation(letsencrypt.org)

304 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 136 comments

Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed](devblogs.microsoft.com)

265 points by anonymous908213 8 months ago | 158 comments

Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption(github.com)

263 points by thewavelength 8 months ago | 200 comments

Google Public CA is down(status.pki.goog)

248 points by aloknnikhil 8 months ago | 144 comments

The only moat left is money?(elliotbonneville.com)

219 points by elliotbnvl 8 months ago | 307 comments

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails(bleepingcomputer.com)

189 points by tablets 8 months ago | 53 comments

There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)(science.nasa.gov)

164 points by doener 8 months ago | 142 comments

A DuckDB-based metabase alternative(github.com)

149 points by wowi42 8 months ago | 35 comments

Index, Count, Offset, Size(tigerbeetle.com)

146 points by ingve 8 months ago | 70 comments

The Future of AI Software Development(martinfowler.com)

139 points by nthypes 8 months ago | 91 comments

The Perils of ISBN(rygoldstein.com)

136 points by evakhoury 8 months ago | 68 comments

Minimal x86 Kernel Zig(github.com)

132 points by lopespm 8 months ago | 48 comments

Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction(github.com)

131 points by prathyvsh 8 months ago | 36 comments

I Don't Like Magic(adactio.com)

124 points by edent 8 months ago | 103 comments

Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund(github.com)

116 points by Onavo 8 months ago | 87 comments

What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI(resobscura.substack.com)

113 points by benbreen 8 months ago | 92 comments

Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM(vermaden.wordpress.com)

112 points by vermaden 8 months ago | 54 comments

Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps(reclaimthenet.org)

105 points by bilsbie 8 months ago | 92 comments

Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock(finbold.com)

103 points by fauria 8 months ago | 90 comments

What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents(georgeguimaraes.com)

102 points by ellieh 8 months ago | 25 comments

TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)(github.com)

101 points by sylwester 8 months ago | 23 comments

Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video](youtube.com)

98 points by lisper 8 months ago | 95 comments

Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI(cpojer.net)

97 points by cpojer 8 months ago | 57 comments

AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation(blogs.remobjects.com)

97 points by vintagedave 8 months ago | 78 comments

Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty(replay.software)

92 points by sgottit 8 months ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll

90 points by FailMore 8 months ago | 37 comments

R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth(github.com)

89 points by tosh 8 months ago | 17 comments

Rathbun's Operator(crabby-rathbun.github.io)

88 points by bb88 8 months ago | 91 comments

What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization(spawn-queue.acm.org)

88 points by underscoreF 8 months ago | 54 comments

99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds(arstechnica.com)

86 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 84 comments

All Look Same?(alllooksame.com)

84 points by mirawelner 8 months ago | 63 comments

Cistercian Numbers(omniglot.com)

79 points by debo_ 8 months ago | 14 comments

Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor(ekrsulov.github.io)

76 points by ekrsulov 8 months ago | 25 comments

Show HN: CEL by Example(celbyexample.com)

74 points by bufbuild 8 months ago | 37 comments

Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations(waymo.com)

71 points by xnx 8 months ago | 59 comments

Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia(nature.com)

69 points by gnabgib 8 months ago | 60 comments

Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)(historytoday.com)

67 points by Thevet 8 months ago | 55 comments

The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel(macleans.ca)

66 points by mhb 8 months ago | 14 comments

How to train your program verifier(risemsr.github.io)

64 points by matt_d 8 months ago | 14 comments

Notes on Clarifying Man Pages(jvns.ca)

63 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels(github.com)

62 points by anonymoosestdnt 8 months ago | 26 comments

The political effects of X's feed algorithm(werd.io)

57 points by benwerd 8 months ago | 38 comments

Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography(blog.trailofbits.com)

56 points by ingve 8 months ago | 11 comments

It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage(9to5google.com)

56 points by aqeelat 8 months ago | 4 comments

Discrete Structures [pdf](kyleormsby.github.io)

51 points by mathgenius 8 months ago | 3 comments