Hacker News on Saturday, 21 February 2026

I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over(thelocalstack.eu)

1354 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 462 comments

Blog post examining what personal and biometric data is shared when verifying identity on LinkedIn with a passport and selfie, based on its privacy policy and terms.

What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)(milk.com)

453 points by wizardforhire 8 months ago | 197 comments

Les Earnest's 1988 RISKS post recounting how a childhood cipher code earned him an FBI record and complicated his later security clearance.

Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents(twitter.com)

351 points by Cyphase 8 months ago | 795 comments

Andrej Karpathy's X post about buying a Mac mini to try 'claws', security worries about OpenClaw, and claws as a new layer on top of LLM agents.

Why is Claude an Electron app?(dbreunig.com)

330 points by dbreunig 8 months ago | 289 comments

Blog post by Drew Breunig asking why Anthropic's Claude desktop app uses Electron if AI coding agents make writing native apps nearly free.

Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU(github.com)

300 points by xaskasdf 8 months ago | 80 comments

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?(anuragk.com)

270 points by beAroundHere 8 months ago | 132 comments

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"(simonwillison.net)

257 points by helloplanets 8 months ago | 416 comments

AI uBlock Blacklist(github.com)

245 points by rdmuser 8 months ago | 110 comments

Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme(unsung.aresluna.org)

237 points by onli 8 months ago | 83 comments

CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate(koreaherald.com)

225 points by phront 8 months ago | 227 comments

Acme Weather(acmeweather.com)

222 points by cryptoz 8 months ago | 130 comments

Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust(harudagondi.space)

220 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 59 comments

zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32(github.com)

213 points by tosh 8 months ago | 117 comments

Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games(gamedate.org)

208 points by msuniverse2026 8 months ago | 29 comments

Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst(antipolygraph.org)

199 points by grubbs 8 months ago | 122 comments

EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)(eduke32.com)

190 points by reconnecting 8 months ago | 67 comments

What Is OAuth?(leaflet.pub)

189 points by cratermoon 8 months ago | 70 comments

macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)(igorstechnoclub.com)

176 points by Igor_Wiwi 8 months ago | 70 comments

Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks(science.org)

164 points by suddenlybananas 8 months ago | 53 comments

‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)(science.org)

161 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 164 comments

Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation(carbuzz.com)

160 points by iancmceachern 8 months ago | 385 comments

EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)(environment.ec.europa.eu)

158 points by cyrusmg 8 months ago | 113 comments

Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026(blog.cloudflare.com)

156 points by nomaxx117 8 months ago | 107 comments

A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage(turbopuffer.com)

152 points by Sirupsen 8 months ago | 49 comments

Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents(june.kim)

138 points by gfortaine 8 months ago | 71 comments

Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency(mojodojo.io)

133 points by zenincognito 8 months ago | 84 comments

Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++(github.com)

110 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 35 comments

Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool(github.com)

110 points by anon111332142 8 months ago | 30 comments

Aesthetics of single threading(ta.fo)

97 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 34 comments

Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming(inputlag.science)

96 points by akyuu 8 months ago | 32 comments

LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in(neowin.net)

92 points by XzetaU8 8 months ago | 71 comments

Code has always been the easy part(laughingmeme.org)

79 points by Ozzie_osman 8 months ago | 84 comments

24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it(ahmedkaddoura.com)

67 points by daem 8 months ago | 22 comments

Text-Based Google Directions(gdir.telae.net)

66 points by TigerUniversity 8 months ago | 18 comments

Build Your Own Forth Interpreter(codingchallenges.fyi)

66 points by AlexeyBrin 8 months ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust(github.com)

62 points by ragnaroekX 8 months ago | 20 comments

Topological Naming Problem(wiki.freecad.org)

61 points by tripdout 8 months ago | 23 comments

How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model(tinfoil.sh)

57 points by FrasiertheLion 8 months ago | 36 comments

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU(itv.com)

54 points by saubeidl 8 months ago | 56 comments

Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"(prql-lang.org)

53 points by dmit 8 months ago | 39 comments

Excessive token usage in Claude Code(github.com)

52 points by behnamoh 8 months ago | 13 comments

ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives(github.com)

50 points by zdw 8 months ago | 31 comments

The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead(boristane.com)

49 points by zenon_paradox 8 months ago | 39 comments

Password managers less secure than promised(ethz.ch)

47 points by mono-bob 8 months ago | 39 comments

DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit(dialup95.com)

47 points by robputt 8 months ago | 39 comments

What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body(theatlantic.com)

44 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 9 comments

Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized(lukasmetzner.github.io)

43 points by lukasmetzner 8 months ago | 7 comments

Typed Assembly Language (2000)(cs.cornell.edu)

43 points by luu 8 months ago | 17 comments

The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated(nekonomicon.irixnet.org)

41 points by ThatGuyRaion 8 months ago | 8 comments

Those who can, teach history(historytoday.com)

40 points by hhs 8 months ago | 36 comments

Trunk Based Development(trunkbaseddevelopment.com)

39 points by handfuloflight 8 months ago | 32 comments

Graph Topology and Battle Royale Mechanics(blog.lukesalamone.com)

36 points by salamo 8 months ago | 3 comments

When etcd crashes, check your disks first(nubificus.co.uk)

34 points by _ananos_ 8 months ago | 11 comments

Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology(newatlas.com)

31 points by jonbaer 8 months ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Cellarium: A Playground for Cellular Automata(github.com)

31 points by andrewosh 8 months ago | 0 comments

Who's liable when your AI agent burns down production?(reading.sh)

29 points by zenoware 8 months ago | 8 comments

Colorado moves age checks from websites to operating systems(biometricupdate.com)

29 points by iamnothere 8 months ago | 20 comments

Claude Code's compaction discards data that's still on disk(github.com)

28 points by aciccarelli2 8 months ago | 17 comments

Large Language Model Reasoning Failures(arxiv.org)

25 points by T-A 8 months ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?

24 points by dakiol 8 months ago | 15 comments