HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-18

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)

    827 points · HN #47066552

  2. 02

    If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)

    905 points · HN #47058219

  3. 03

    AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox (fortune.com)

    792 points · HN #47055979

  4. 04

    Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)

    470 points · HN #47063005

  5. 05

    Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)

    467 points · HN #47064490

  6. 06

    Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (googleblog.com)

    379 points · HN #47062748

  7. 07

    15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)

    1047 points · HN #47057829

  8. 08

    Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021) (sceneandheardnu.com)

    763 points · HN #47056314

  9. 09

    DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)

    321 points · HN #47064047

  10. 10

    Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)

    495 points · HN #47057824

  11. 11

    The Perils of ISBN (rygoldstein.com)

    160 points · HN #47063663

  12. 12

    R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com/phreda4)

    96 points · HN #47065179

  13. 13

    What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (acm.org)

    106 points · HN #47064845

  14. 14

    Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990 (vogons.org)

    166 points · HN #47015138

  15. 15

    Learning Lean: Part 1 (rkirov.github.io)

    131 points · HN #47022604

  16. 16

    Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com/lopespm)

    155 points · HN #47055262

  17. 17

    Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)

    467 points · HN #47059275

  18. 18

    Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (techoversight.org)

    545 points · HN #47060486

  19. 19

    A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com/taleshape-com)

    179 points · HN #47057879

  20. 20

    Show HN: VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor (ekrsulov.github.io)

    86 points · HN #47062096

  21. 21

    Cistercian Numbers (omniglot.com)

    89 points · HN #47062883

  22. 22

    Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM (vermaden.wordpress.com)

    118 points · HN #47059520

  23. 23

    TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant) (github.com/datanoisetv)

    130 points · HN #47057707

  24. 24

    Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll

    111 points · HN #47060220

  25. 25

    'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (mitpress.mit.edu)

    84 points · HN #47054744

  26. 26

    How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)

    203 points · HN #47054369

  27. 27

    Google Public CA is down (pki.goog)

    279 points · HN #47055696

  28. 28

    Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] (devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql)

    368 points · HN #47067759

  29. 29

    All Look Same? (alllooksame.com)

    116 points · HN #47067498

  30. 30

    Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com/pocketbase)

    125 points · HN #47062561