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  1. The Codex App (openai.com)
    ×3.12 1 | 348 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Mattermost say they will not clarify what license the project is under (github.com/mattermost)
    ×4.66 1 | 98 points by MallocVoidstar 46 minutes ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
    ×1.21 3 | 208 points by whoishiring 5 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Hacking Moltbook (wiz.io)
    ×2.25 4 | 155 points by galnagli 5 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
    ×1.19 15 | 42 points by tromp 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena (blog.google)
    ×1.07 8 | 69 points by salkahfi 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)
    ×2.67 4 | 213 points by wodniok 4 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
    ×1.12 17 | 191 points by yz-yu 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.67 15 | 197 points by indigodaddy 8 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
    ×1.14 20 | 75 points by whoishiring 5 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
    ×0.99 15 | 118 points by defrost 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS (github.com/stelviodev)
    ×0.71 35 | 9 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair (epa.gov)
    ×2.27 9 | 122 points by bilsbie 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)
    ×0.98 9 | 51 points by dbgrman 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Why software stocks are getting pummelled (economist.com)
    ×1.96 6 | 71 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer (atredis.com)
    ×0.94 32 | 11 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)
    ×2.20 39 | 87 points by PaulHoule 9 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)
    ×1.43 43 | 71 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder (iso-coaster.com)
    ×1.12 16 | 75 points by duck 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.95 26 | 30 points by evakhoury 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows (polliticalscience.vote)
    ×0.77 36 | 20 points by ps2026 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (recoil.org)
    ×1.00 30 | 126 points by noelwelsh 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled (cnbc.com)
    ×2.66 4 | 17 points by greatgib 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. UK government launches fuel forecourt price API (www.gov.uk)
    ×1.78 43 | 61 points by Technolithic 8 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.86 10 | 159 points by JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Zig Libc (ziglang.org)
    ×3.25 25 | 25 points by ingve 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (theverge.com)
    ×3.39 9 | 311 points by Anon84 9 hours ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Hypergrowth isn’t always easy (tailscale.com)
    ×1.19 30 | 116 points by usrme 10 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Valanza – my Unix way for weight tracking and anlysis (github.com/paolomarrone)
    ×0.36 58 | 22 points by lallero317 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Library of Juggling (libraryofjuggling.com)
    ×1.32 47 | 106 points by tontony 13 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Kernighan on Programming
    ×1.88 15 | 126 points by chrisjj 5 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Termux (github.com/termux)
    ×2.43 11 | 311 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ratchets in software development (2021) (qntm.org)
    ×1.10 49 | 109 points by nvader 15 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Solvingn the Santa Claus concurrency puzzle with a model checker (wyounas.github.io)
    ×0.38 55 | 14 points by simplegeek 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS (stelvio.dev)
    ×0.59 38 | 30 points by michal-stlv 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)
    ×3.27 | 807 points by zdw 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Best Gas Masks (theverge.com)
    ×7.03 20 | 509 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Common bacteria (Chlamydia) discovered in the eye linked to cognitive decline (medicalxpress.com)
    ×3.07 10 | 24 points by bikenaga 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Serverless backend hosting without idle costs – open-source (github.com/aryankashyap0)
    ×1.41 6 | 17 points by abyssglass01 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive (tomshardware.com)
    ×1.63 1 | 18 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech (morningstar.com)
    ×2.74 9 | 9 points by mooreds 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library (github.com/rustrum)
    ×0.29 60 | 30 points by rumatoest 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)
    ×0.86 54 | 93 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (linuxfromscratch.org)
    ×1.59 35 | 82 points by cf100clunk 3 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (dtic.mil)
    ×0.93 46 | 126 points by kioku 20 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. TikTok's popular influencer sold company for $975M to company doing $6M revenue (reddit.com)
    ×2.28 6 | 18 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. GitHub Actions Have "Major Outage"
    ×5.34 36 | 26 points by graton 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece (reference-global.com)
    ×0.69 51 | 43 points by bryanrasmussen 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Treasures found on HS2 route (bbc.com)
    ×0.96 46 | 117 points by breve 21 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)
    ×1.05 55 | 111 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Rev up the viral factories (science.org)
    ×0.63 56 | 44 points by etiam 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (rafaelcosta.me)
    ×2.22 16 | 409 points by rafaelcosta 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Eric Adams faces $3M rugpull allegation after issuing NYC Token (coindesk.com)
    ×1.63 18 | 4 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. They lied to you. Building software is hard (nordcraft.com)
    ×3.56 33 | 127 points by xiaohanyu 6 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Police facial recognition is now highly accurate, but public awareness lags (theconversation.com)
    ×2.66 2 | 12 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce (wired.com)
    ×3.31 2 | 256 points by smurda 16 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)
    ×1.19 18 | 191 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)
    ×3.39 11 | 315 points by martinald 21 hours ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)
    ×2.58 4 | 396 points by rebane2001 21 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)
    ×3.23 19 | 374 points by righthand 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)
    ×2.60 2 | 494 points by jimminyx 22 hours ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)
    ×3.10 16 | 713 points by l1am0 1 day ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Margin Call (asymco.com)
    ×2.40 34 | 153 points by zdw 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI controls is coming to Firefox (mozilla.org)
    ×2.32 2 | 23 points by ahlCVA 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push (spacenews.com)
    ×2.51 4 | 150 points by benkan 12 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)
    ×1.32 43 | 126 points by cyanbane 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines over Textbook Piracy (torrentfreak.com)
    ×2.08 18 | 13 points by t-3 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.05 6 | 24 points by CharlesW 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Parking lots as economic drains (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
    ×3.72 65 | 97 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
    ×1.77 17 | 393 points by doener 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Founding is a snowball (bawolf.com)
    ×1.05 35 | 104 points by bryantwolf 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)
    ×0.99 44 | 101 points by gmays 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st (adobe.com)
    ×3.28 37 | 18 points by jsheard 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)
    ×1.23 15 | 267 points by janandonly 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system (wesmckinney.com)
    ×2.55 33 | 14 points by j4mie 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] (mit.edu)
    ×0.81 49 | 77 points by zem 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)
    ×1.04 23 | 102 points by accrual 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 13 Year old boy swims for hours to save his family at sea in Western Australia (abc.net.au)
    ×3.60 14 | 14 points by rishabhd 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
    ×0.90 43 | 94 points by CzaxTanmay 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (theguardian.com)
    ×0.88 58 | 80 points by mitchbob 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline (euronews.com)
    ×7.69 11 | 61 points by saubeidl 9 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)
    ×3.37 11 | 869 points by cbeuw 2 days ago | 563 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. China finalizes proposed ban on Tesla-style hidden door handles for safety (electrek.co)
    ×3.41 50 | 4 points by Bender 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020) (tomverbeure.github.io)
    ×0.46 59 | 30 points by hasheddan 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China (koi.ai)
    ×1.51 37 | 86 points by tatersolid 8 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Reeeeeeally Long Covid (2022) (someweekendreading.blog)
    ×1.31 32 | 5 points by cratermoon 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload (windowscentral.com)
    ×4.13 57 | 180 points by jsheard 9 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted (kiki.computer)
    ×1.47 53 | 44 points by pikseladam 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)
    ×0.46 51 | 23 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???