HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-21

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over (thelocalstack.eu)

    1483 points · HN #47098245

  2. 02

    How far back in time can you understand English? (deadlanguagesociety.com)

    793 points · HN #47061614

  3. 03

    Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents (twitter.com/karpathy)

    412 points · HN #47096253

  4. 04

    Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust (harudagondi.space)

    250 points · HN #47103931

  5. 05

    CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019) (cern.ch)

    257 points · HN #47095429

  6. 06

    What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) (milk.com)

    510 points · HN #47102576

  7. 07

    Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation (carbuzz.com)

    173 points · HN #47103136

  8. 08

    Be wary of Bluesky (kevinak.se)

    366 points · HN #47095597

  9. 09

    Acme Weather (acmeweather.com)

    254 points · HN #47098296

  10. 10

    Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company (juno-labs.com)

    315 points · HN #47092203

  11. 11

    Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool (github.com/coccinelle)

    134 points · HN #47098669

  12. 12

    Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++ (github.com/a-e-k)

    123 points · HN #47103506

  13. 13

    Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras (bloodinthemachine.com)

    467 points · HN #47095134

  14. 14

    What Is OAuth? (leaflet.pub)

    231 points · HN #47096520

  15. 15

    Index, Count, Offset, Size (tigerbeetle.com)

    167 points · HN #47058584

  16. 16

    Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents (june.kim)

    154 points · HN #47096466

  17. 17

    AI uBlock Blacklist (github.com/alvi-se)

    295 points · HN #47098582

  18. 18

    EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source) (eduke32.com)

    211 points · HN #47104185

  19. 19

    A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong (aol.com)

    190 points · HN #47095105

  20. 20

    Permacomputing (xxiivv.com)

    181 points · HN #47046858

  21. 21

    Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023) (adamj.eu)

    202 points · HN #47094877

  22. 22

    Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming (inputlag.science)

    114 points · HN #47103945

  23. 23

    Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI (venturebeat.com)

    145 points · HN #47047027

  24. 24

    Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" (simonwillison.net)

    290 points · HN #47099160

  25. 25

    Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst (antipolygraph.org)

    246 points · HN #47102975

  26. 26

    The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (2015) (macleans.ca)

    77 points · HN #47055261

  27. 27

    I Don't Like Magic (adactio.com)

    160 points · HN #47059147

  28. 28

    Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust (github.com/ragnaroek)

    88 points · HN #47101890

  29. 29

    Why is Claude an Electron app? (dbreunig.com)

    428 points · HN #47104973

  30. 30

    macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025) (igorstechnoclub.com)

    224 points · HN #47101200