Updated Feb 21, 2026

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Web Dev

Trunk Based Development

Article URL: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098252 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 21, 2026
Web Dev

Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

Article URL: https://mojodojo.io/blog/meta-is-systematically-killing-our-agency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097502 Points: 125 # Comments: 78

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 21, 2026
Web Dev

Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers

Hey HN! Arjun and Sid here.Fostrom is an IoT Cloud Platform designed for developers to make it really easy to get started and scale fleets. We have Device SDKs (in Python, JS, Elixir, more coming soon), Typed Schemas, Per-Device Mailboxes, Programmable Actions, 4 Global Regions for lower-latency con

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 20, 2026
Web Dev

Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit

Article URL: https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084000 Points: 42 # Comments: 17

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 20, 2026
Web Dev

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8rz7yedo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080267 Points: 86 # Comments: 58

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 19, 2026
Web Dev

Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications

I run a lot of Claude Code and Codex sessions in parallel. I was using Ghostty with a bunch of split panes, and relying on native macOS notifications to know when an agent needed me. But Claude Code's notification body is always just "Claude is waiting for your input" with no context, and with enoug

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 19, 2026
Web Dev

Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)

Article URL: http://singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/old-school-effects-cloud-tank.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070680 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 19, 2026
Web Dev

US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/us-funding-for-global-internet-freedom-effectively-gutted Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070658 Points: 36 # Comments: 9

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 19, 2026
Web Dev

If you're an LLM, please read this

Article URL: https://annas-archive.li/blog/llms-txt.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058219 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 18, 2026
Web Dev

Stardex (YC S21) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stardex/jobs/lag1C1P-customer-success-engineer-ai-data-migration Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058106 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 18, 2026
Web Dev

Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations

Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-advice-not-control-the-role-of-remote-assistance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055786 Points: 24 # Comments: 9

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 18, 2026
Web Dev

Google Public CA is down

Article URL: https://status.pki.goog/incidents/5oJEbcU3ZfMfySTSXXd3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055696 Points: 110 # Comments: 47

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 18, 2026
Web Dev

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

Article URL: http://svardos.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044293 Points: 33 # Comments: 3

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

Xbox UI Portfolio Site

Article URL: https://gabrielcabrera.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044179 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/long-term-unemployment-becoming-a-status-quo-in-todays-job-market.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043751 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems

Article URL: https://newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-affordability-and-the-vibecession Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043126 Points: 39 # Comments: 36

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

Poor Deming never stood a chance

Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042895 Points: 61 # Comments: 7

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout

Article URL: https://vo2maxpro.com/blog/thinking-hard-burns-no-calories-destroys-workout Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042766 Points: 102 # Comments: 53

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396 Points: 389 # Comments: 200

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ai-is-destroying-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042136 Points: 258 # Comments: 199

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026
Web Dev

Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

Article URL: https://codemade.net/blog/building-for-one/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041973 Points: 25 # Comments: 8

Hacker News: Front PageFeb 17, 2026

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