HN Buddy - February 18, 2026

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Man, you wouldn't believe the stuff flying around Hacker News yesterday, Wednesday. Had to give you a quick buzz about it.

Microsoft's AI "Morged" a Diagram?

First off, get this: there was a post about someone saying Microsoft's AI "morged" their diagram from 15 years ago! Like, it basically messed up or copied their old work. One of the comments was pretty funny, saying, "AIs have feelings too, you know!" and jokingly suggesting we should coach them better instead of mocking them. Sounds like a classic AI ethics discussion brewing there. You can check it out here: All Stories from Today

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram (nvie.com)

984 points by cheeaun | 370 comments

If you’re an LLM, please read this (annas-archive.li)

840 points by soheilpro | 377 comments

AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox (fortune.com)

778 points by virgildotcodes | 717 comments

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

711 points by walterbell | 377 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (dispatch.techoversight.org)

513 points by speckx | 310 comments

Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)

485 points by zdw | 250 comments

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)

471 points by tosh | 185 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)

423 points by mkurz | 153 comments

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)

388 points by sz4kerto | 193 comments

Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)

350 points by jfantl | 112 comments

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild (chromereleases.googleblog.com)

312 points by idoxer | 162 comments

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

300 points by surprisetalk | 152 comments

Google Public CA is down (status.pki.goog)

276 points by aloknnikhil | 159 comments

Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed] (devblogs.microsoft.com)

273 points by anonymous908213 | 168 comments

Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption (github.com)

269 points by thewavelength | 208 comments

The only moat left is money? (elliotbonneville.com)

258 points by elliotbnvl | 355 comments

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation (letsencrypt.org)

251 points by todsacerdoti | 116 comments

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

251 points by tablets | 66 comments

There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024) (science.nasa.gov)

206 points by doener | 225 comments

The Future of AI Software Development (martinfowler.com)

187 points by nthypes | 137 comments

A DuckDB-based metabase alternative (github.com)

166 points by wowi42 | 40 comments

Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock (finbold.com)

151 points by fauria | 162 comments

Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com)

146 points by lopespm | 59 comments

YouTube Is Down (downdetector.com)

144 points by Vaslo | 42 comments

Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction (github.com)

135 points by prathyvsh | 36 comments

Stephen Colbert going down swinging (www.nytimes.com)

131 points by -0 | 50 comments

Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps (reclaimthenet.org)

130 points by bilsbie | 156 comments

What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)

123 points by benbreen | 106 comments

99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds (arstechnica.com)

120 points by rbanffy | 104 comments

Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund (github.com)

119 points by Onavo | 90 comments