3:14:02 AM TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2026

THE HACKER NEWS

mustaphah

6 hours ago

Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless

Agent Skills are structured packages of procedural knowledge that augment LLM agents at inference time. Despite rapid adoption, there is no standard way to measure whether they actually help...

4 HOURS AGO

FOUR_FIFTHS

Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox

8 HOURS AGO

YICHAB0D

Neurons outside the brain

3 DAYS AGO

HANDFULOFLIGHT

Ghidra by NSA

12 HOURS AGO

HENRYNDUBUAKU

Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium

9 HOURS AGO

SURPRISETALK

Privilege is bad grammar

3 DAYS AGO

TRANSPUTE

Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh

15 HOURS AGO

TOSH

planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary

14 HOURS AGO

HAREL

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

17 HOURS AGO

TODSACERDOTI

MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings

colinprince

2 hours ago

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

Detectives desperate to locate a 12-year-old, seen abused online, found a surprising lead.

zachlatta

6 hours ago

Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc - zachlatta/freeflow...

tartoran

an hour ago

Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm

The law funds troops who want to freeze their eggs or their sperm, as Ukraine's population plummets....

lirbank

7 hours ago

Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers

Synchronization barriers let you test for race conditions with confidence....

VorpalWay

3 hours ago

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

Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scot...

ssgodderidge

13 hours ago

What your Bluetooth devices reveal

Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices....

lorisdev

3 hours ago

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

My Plasma task switcher was a second too slow, so I built - and shipped - my own in Zig, without actually knowing Zig, using AI tools....

max-m

6 hours ago

Rise of the Triforce

During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX ...

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/

TMWNN

3 days ago

DBASE on the Kaypro II

CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat....

dvrp

21 hours ago

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release....

knackers

9 hours ago

The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation

After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fu...

scoofy

10 hours ago

Building a model that visualizes strategic golf

A way to actually see the ideas hidden in golf course architecture....

turth

11 hours ago

Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter...

speckx

14 hours ago

Running My Own XMPP Server

Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption....

patrikcsak

3 days ago

Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview

Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It's still a work in progress, but we're ready to start sharing what we've worked on ...

righthand

12 hours ago

UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment

Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel....