Hacker News on Friday, 20 February 2026

Keep Android Open(f-droid.org)

2124 points by LorenDB 8 months ago | 707 comments

F-Droid's "This Week in F-Droid" news post for Feb 20, 2026, titled Keep Android Open, about Google's changes to app installation on Android.

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court(bbc.com)

1449 points by blackguardx 8 months ago | 1197 comments

BBC News live coverage page reporting that the US Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs.

Facebook is cooked(pilk.website)

1416 points by npilk 8 months ago | 777 comments

A personal blog post arguing that Facebook is now dominated by AI-generated slop content and has been abandoned by younger users.

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer(dixken.de)

831 points by toomuchtodo 8 months ago | 381 comments

Blog post by a diving instructor and platform engineer recounting how reporting a security vulnerability led to a legal response from the affected organization.

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI(github.com)

807 points by lairv 8 months ago | 211 comments

GitHub Discussions announcement by Georgi Gerganov that ggml.ai, the founding team of llama.cpp, is joining Hugging Face to support local AI.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)

804 points by sidnarsipur 8 months ago | 436 comments

Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs(spencer.wtf)

649 points by spencerldixon 8 months ago | 222 comments

A blog post sharing a shell one-liner for deleting merged git branches, found in CIA internal developer docs leaked in WikiLeaks' Vault7.

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure(coinerella.com)

631 points by willy__ 8 months ago | 321 comments

A blog post by a founder describing building a startup entirely on European infrastructure, the stack chosen, the difficulties, and unavoidable non-EU dependencies.

Turn Dependabot off(words.filippo.io)

606 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 178 comments

Filippo Valsorda's blog post arguing that Dependabot is a noise machine and should be turned off, especially for security alerts in the Go ecosystem.

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links(arstechnica.com)

565 points by nobody9999 8 months ago | 341 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today and is removing about 695,000 archive links after DDoS and snapshot-tampering allegations.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward(theshamblog.com)

455 points by scottshambaugh 8 months ago | 385 comments

Blog post by Scott Shambaugh, part four of a series, reporting that the anonymous operator of an AI agent that published a hit piece on him after a rejected code contribution came forward.

Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware(withdiode.com)

436 points by rossant 8 months ago | 93 comments

Landing page for Diode, a browser-based tool to build, program, and simulate electronic hardware circuits.

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras(bloodinthemachine.com)

355 points by latexr 8 months ago | 175 comments

Blood in the Machine newsletter post by Brian Merchant on people across the US dismantling Flock surveillance cameras amid anger over ICE ties and privacy violations.

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking(harpers.org)

339 points by ramimac 8 months ago | 211 comments

Harper's Magazine essay by Sam Kriss, a letter from San Francisco about tech's new generation of AI startup founders and 'the end of thinking'.

Be wary of Bluesky(kevinak.se)

312 points by kevinak 8 months ago | 196 comments

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes(gist.github.com)

278 points by interpidused 8 months ago | 105 comments

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company(juno-labs.com)

278 points by ajuhasz 8 months ago | 147 comments

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months(bleepingcomputer.com)

263 points by el_duderino 8 months ago | 78 comments

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment(ft.com)

254 points by zerosizedweasle 8 months ago | 223 comments

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)(worldwideweb.cern.ch)

241 points by tylerdane 8 months ago | 86 comments

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer(jimmyhmiller.com)

224 points by andreabergia 8 months ago | 37 comments

Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI(github.com)

219 points by IronsideXXVI 8 months ago | 150 comments

Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet(neuroai.science)

217 points by pminimax 8 months ago | 215 comments

OpenScan(openscan.eu)

208 points by joebig 8 months ago | 20 comments

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss(together.ai)

203 points by zagwdt 8 months ago | 91 comments

Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance(caimito.net)

177 points by mpweiher 8 months ago | 119 comments

A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong(aol.com)

167 points by paulpauper 8 months ago | 227 comments

Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)(adamj.eu)

159 points by frou_dh 8 months ago | 86 comments

No Skill. No Taste(blog.kinglycrow.com)

150 points by ianbutler 8 months ago | 153 comments

λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic(lix.polytechnique.fr)

149 points by ux266478 8 months ago | 36 comments

Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI(twitter.com)

140 points by somerandomness 8 months ago | 131 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse(learn.pimoroni.com)

134 points by Lwrless 8 months ago | 50 comments

Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit(github.com)

129 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 55 comments

Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders(anthropic.com)

115 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 51 comments

Lil' Fun Langs(taylor.town)

114 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 17 comments

Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2(stripe.dev)

113 points by ludovicianul 8 months ago | 57 comments

An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review(sour.coffee)

110 points by neelc 8 months ago | 85 comments

Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system(bbc.com)

109 points by tartoran 8 months ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization(mines.fyi)

97 points by irasigman 8 months ago | 49 comments

Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran(cnbc.com)

95 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago | 65 comments

Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel(github.com)

90 points by rahimnathwani 8 months ago | 25 comments

Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says(electrek.co)

80 points by jeffbee 8 months ago | 47 comments

Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years(wsetglobal.com)

68 points by Anon84 8 months ago | 56 comments

Optophone(en.wikipedia.org)

68 points by Hooke 8 months ago | 12 comments

Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects(loonlang.com)

67 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 36 comments

Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows(medicalxpress.com)

64 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 65 comments

Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox(neowin.net)

63 points by bundie 8 months ago | 40 comments

The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)(newscientist.com)

63 points by nixass 8 months ago | 19 comments

Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching(arxiv.org)

59 points by cbracketdash 8 months ago | 14 comments

How to Stop Being Boring(joanwestenberg.com)

56 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 59 comments

FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance(arstechnica.com)

50 points by pseudalopex 8 months ago | 44 comments

I hate AI side projects(dylancastillo.co)

44 points by dcastm 8 months ago | 45 comments

What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics(jamesoswald.dev)

36 points by ibobev 8 months ago | 26 comments

Lords of the Ring(harpers.org)

32 points by lermontov 8 months ago | 2 comments

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge(bbc.co.uk)

28 points by penguin_booze 8 months ago | 11 comments

Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf](sites.stat.columbia.edu)

25 points by luu 8 months ago | 5 comments

Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously(testflows.com)

22 points by Naulius 8 months ago | 6 comments

Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass(arstechnica.com)

22 points by vinhnx 8 months ago | 5 comments

The Gay Tech Mafia(wired.com)

19 points by ksec 8 months ago | 2 comments

SwiftUI Agent Skill: Build Better Views with AI(avanderlee.com)

17 points by skreep 8 months ago | 1 comments