Hacker News Digest - February 18, 2026

Stories marked "Not new today" appeared on one or more previous daily pages.

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

sceneandheardnu.com | walterbell | 754 points | 393 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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2. Claude Sonnet 4.6

anthropic.com | adocomplete | 1338 points | 1220 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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3. Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

news.ycombinator.com | chaseadam17 | 1139 points | 113 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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4. BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

github.com | rurban | 459 points | 201 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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5. AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox

fortune.com | virgildotcodes | 788 points | 748 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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6. Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

asteroidos.org | moWerk | 468 points | 68 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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7. Minimal x86 Kernel Zig

github.com | lopespm | 155 points | 64 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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8. Gentoo on Codeberg

gentoo.org | todsacerdoti | 432 points | 152 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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9. The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad Not new today

ro.co | nnmg | 40 points | 50 comments | discussion

First seen: February 17, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 2 days

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10. Using go fix to modernize Go code

go.dev | todsacerdoti | 431 points | 84 comments | discussion

First seen: February 18, 2026 | Consecutive daily streak: 1 day

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