HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-16

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)

    928 points · HN #47038546

  2. 02

    I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)

    1516 points · HN #47031580

  3. 03

    What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)

    540 points · HN #47035560

  4. 04

    Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)

    433 points · HN #47011548

  5. 05

    Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)

    488 points · HN #47031334

  6. 06

    Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)

    410 points · HN #47002231

  7. 07

    I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)

    290 points · HN #47004384

  8. 08

    Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)

    277 points · HN #47040375

  9. 09

    Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)

    434 points · HN #47032876

  10. 10

    State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)

    134 points · HN #47039478

  11. 11

    Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)

    163 points · HN #47041456

  12. 12

    Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)

    523 points · HN #47034713

  13. 13

    Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)

    153 points · HN #47038731

  14. 14

    PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)

    168 points · HN #47014460

  15. 15

    SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)

    364 points · HN #47040430

  16. 16

    "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)

    265 points · HN #47038318

  17. 17

    Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)

    121 points · HN #47041836

  18. 18

    JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)

    178 points · HN #47029339

  19. 19

    Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)

    151 points · HN #47030271

  20. 20

    Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)

    398 points · HN #47033622

  21. 21

    Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)

    93 points · HN #47028705

  22. 22

    Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)

    131 points · HN #47000034

  23. 23

    UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)

    379 points · HN #47035679

  24. 24

    1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)

    135 points · HN #46984768

  25. 25

    Building a model that visualizes strategic golf (golfcoursewiki.substack.com)

    66 points · HN #47037568

  26. 26

    Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)

    102 points · HN #47039834

  27. 27

    Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

    337 points · HN #47038125

  28. 28

    Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)

    377 points · HN #47034192

  29. 29

    Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)

    116 points · HN #47039966

  30. 30

    Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)

    131 points · HN #47032235