HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Gemini 3.1 Pro (blog.google)

    963 points · HN #47074735

  2. 02

    Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (micasa.dev)

    657 points · HN #47075124

  3. 03

    AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (kasava.dev)

    522 points · HN #47078324

  4. 04

    27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (reddit.com)

    460 points · HN #47066241

  5. 05

    Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)

    436 points · HN #47072968

  6. 06

    America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks (governance.fyi)

    311 points · HN #47074389

  7. 07

    Pebble Production: February Update (repebble.com)

    314 points · HN #47073112

  8. 08

    Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use (claude.com)

    655 points · HN #47069299

  9. 09

    Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails (royapakzad.substack.com)

    225 points · HN #47038032

  10. 10

    A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data (github.com/veirt)

    266 points · HN #47076659

  11. 11

    We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (theguardian.com)

    519 points · HN #47079222

  12. 12

    Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (zgp.org)

    199 points · HN #47078167

  13. 13

    Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia (makie.org)

    198 points · HN #47072444

  14. 14

    A beginner's guide to split keyboards (justinmklam.com)

    263 points · HN #47029368

  15. 15

    15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern (nicolasdickenmann.com)

    202 points · HN #47068890

  16. 16

    AI makes you boring (marginalia.nu)

    705 points · HN #47076966

  17. 17

    Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (stepfun.com)

    231 points · HN #47069179

  18. 18

    Show HN: Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app (github.com/fjrevoredo)

    131 points · HN #47072863

  19. 19

    Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice (anthropic.com)

    119 points · HN #47073947

  20. 20

    How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing (thunderseethe.dev)

    153 points · HN #47025885

  21. 21

    Show HN: cmux - Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications (github.com/manaflow-ai)

    198 points · HN #47079718

  22. 22

    Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants (smithsonianmag.com)

    118 points · HN #47077245

  23. 23

    Gemini 3.1 Pro (deepmind.google)

    612 points · HN #47075318

  24. 24

    Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025) (kodiak64.co.uk)

    142 points · HN #47073044

  25. 25

    Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022) (borischerny.com)

    137 points · HN #47074869

  26. 26

    Voith Schneider Propeller (wikipedia.org)

    140 points · HN #47027171

  27. 27

    Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan (gamingonlinux.com)

    289 points · HN #47068948

  28. 28

    Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024) (planetscale.com)

    112 points · HN #47037781

  29. 29

    Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals (digitalseams.com)

    93 points · HN #47024585

  30. 30

    Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial (wsj.com)

    212 points · HN #47075245