Hacker News on Thursday, 26 February 2026

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War(anthropic.com)

2828 points by qwertox 8 months ago | 1507 comments

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's statement on the company's discussions with the US Department of War about deploying its AI models for national security.

Layoffs at Block(twitter.com)

852 points by mlex 8 months ago | 967 comments

Jack Dorsey's X post sharing his note to Block employees announcing a cut from over 10,000 to under 6,000 staff, with severance details.

The happiest I've ever been(ben-mini.com)

616 points by bewal416 8 months ago | 336 comments

Personal essay about finding fulfillment as a volunteer youth basketball head coach in Indiana after feeling empty in a first post-college job.

What Claude Code chooses(amplifying.ai)

565 points by tin7in 8 months ago | 210 comments

A study by Amplifying that ran Claude Code against real repos 2,430 times to analyze which tools and libraries it chooses, finding it tends to build custom solutions.

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model(blog.google)

552 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 517 comments

Google Keyword blog post announcing Nano Banana 2, an image generation model combining Pro-level capabilities with Flash speed.

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

546 points by miki123211 8 months ago | 204 comments

A Tell HN post reporting that YC startup RunAnywhere and Voice.AI scraped GitHub commit data to send unsolicited marketing emails, raising GDPR concerns.

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise(cnn.com)

537 points by motbus3 8 months ago | 298 comments

CNN Business article reporting that Anthropic dropped its core safety commitment amid a dispute with the Pentagon over AI red lines.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf](ndss-symposium.org)

398 points by DamnInteresting 8 months ago | 173 comments

NDSS 2026 research paper presenting AirSnitch, attacks that bypass client isolation in Wi-Fi networks across home, office, and enterprise setups.

What does " 2>&1 " mean?(stackoverflow.com)

392 points by alexmolas 8 months ago | 226 comments

Stack Overflow question explaining the shell redirection 2>&1, which sends standard error to the same destination as standard output.

Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?(read.technically.dev)

357 points by itunpredictable 8 months ago | 354 comments

A Technically newsletter essay comparing vibe coding with the maker movement, asking whether vibe-coded apps are throwaway projects or lasting value.

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs(arstechnica.com)

346 points by jnord 8 months ago | 272 comments

Ars Technica article reporting HP says RAM now makes up about 35 percent of its PC bill of materials, up from 15-18 percent last quarter.

Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line(gitlab.com)

289 points by smalltorch 8 months ago | 73 comments

Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage(idc.com)

238 points by littlexsparkee 8 months ago | 253 comments

Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers(github.com)

225 points by ks2048 8 months ago | 90 comments

OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)(osmand.net)

210 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 78 comments

Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers(endowment.dev)

208 points by kvinogradov 8 months ago | 126 comments

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything(tuananh.net)

203 points by jasonpeacock 8 months ago | 67 comments

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf](cs.uml.edu)

186 points by spiffytech 8 months ago | 91 comments

Long Range E-Bike (2021)(jacquesmattheij.com)

174 points by birdculture 8 months ago | 270 comments

This time is different(shkspr.mobi)

170 points by speckx 8 months ago | 308 comments

In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%(bsky.app)

168 points by doener 8 months ago | 99 comments

Setting up phones is a nightmare(joelchrono.xyz)

168 points by bariumbitmap 8 months ago | 202 comments

You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account(heltweg.org)

156 points by rhazn 8 months ago | 222 comments

Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase(understandlegacycode.com)

151 points by foenix 8 months ago | 70 comments

Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit(disruptionbanking.com)

137 points by shin_lao 8 months ago | 41 comments

H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery(inconspicuous.info)

131 points by mrngm 8 months ago | 35 comments

Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)(gimp.org)

128 points by ibobev 8 months ago | 56 comments

I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”(grumpy-economist.com)

127 points by qsi 8 months ago | 157 comments

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor(usecardboard.com)

125 points by sxmawl 8 months ago | 70 comments

From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion(lighthousesoftware.co.uk)

121 points by simedw 8 months ago | 16 comments

Google Street View in 2026(tech.marksblogg.com)

121 points by marklit 8 months ago | 86 comments

He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network(calmatters.org)

109 points by Element_ 8 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal(github.com)

106 points by flamestro 8 months ago | 59 comments

Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail(unfudged.io)

104 points by cyrusradfar 8 months ago | 68 comments

America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice(garymarcus.substack.com)

104 points by MindGods 8 months ago | 42 comments

Just-bash: Bash for Agents(github.com)

97 points by tosh 8 months ago | 54 comments

Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet(morling.dev)

92 points by rmoff 8 months ago | 10 comments

RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet(frankchiarulli.com)

84 points by evakhoury 8 months ago | 14 comments

Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win(hollywoodreporter.com)

81 points by atombender 8 months ago | 62 comments

The real cost of random I/O(vondra.me)

80 points by jpineman 8 months ago | 15 comments

Story of XZ Backdoor [video](youtube.com)

80 points by Ulf950 8 months ago | 29 comments

Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'(cnn.com)

73 points by jb1991 8 months ago | 59 comments

Technical Excellence Is Not Enough(raccoon.land)

71 points by bo0tzz 8 months ago | 56 comments

iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information(apple.com)

67 points by throwfaraway4 8 months ago | 34 comments

Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands(apnews.com)

63 points by geox 8 months ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)(github.com)

62 points by tarasyarema 8 months ago | 41 comments

Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)(coderush.me)

61 points by transpute 8 months ago | 1 comments

C64 Copy Protection(commodoregames.net)

55 points by snvzz 8 months ago | 6 comments

Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."(twitter.com)

55 points by josephcsible 8 months ago | 27 comments

Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts(github.com)

54 points by zyoralabs 8 months ago | 7 comments

Programming in K(github.com)

53 points by tosh 8 months ago | 9 comments

The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign(foreignpolicy.com)

53 points by Jimmc414 8 months ago | 23 comments

Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications(scripps.edu)

51 points by littlexsparkee 8 months ago | 57 comments

Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown(bbc.co.uk)

50 points by robtherobber 8 months ago | 50 comments

SynthID(deepmind.google)

50 points by tosh 8 months ago | 43 comments

Move tests to closed source repo(github.com)

47 points by nilsbunger 8 months ago | 27 comments

Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again(pigeonsandplanes.com)

45 points by herbertl 8 months ago | 6 comments

Go-Native Durable Execution(dbos.dev)

43 points by hmaxdml 8 months ago | 11 comments

What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals(nytimes.com)

38 points by Hooke 8 months ago | 36 comments