HN Buddy - February 24, 2026

Hey buddy,

Man, Hacker News today was a mixed bag – some heavy stuff, some super cool tech, and even a feel-good story. Let me give you the quick rundown.

Gaza Aid Worker Report

First off, the big one everyone was talking about was this report claiming the IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point-blank range last year. It got a ton of attention, like over 600 comments, so obviously, it sparked a lot of intense

All Stories from Today

IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report (www.dropsitenews.com)

1695 points by Qem | 644 comments

I'm helping my dog vibe code games (www.calebleak.com)

859 points by cleak | 246 comments

OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)

562 points by rzk | 174 comments

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston (www.apple.com)

487 points by haunter | 476 comments

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)

452 points by shaunpud | 378 comments

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (wordglyph.xyz)

442 points by wordglyph | 162 comments

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week (blog.cloudflare.com)

433 points by ghostwriternr | 166 comments

Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona (fortune.com)

432 points by robtherobber | 311 comments

Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (medicalxpress.com)

431 points by wglb | 165 comments

Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution (keepandroidopen.org)

404 points by kaplun | 326 comments

Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 (hacks.mozilla.org)

339 points by todsacerdoti | 153 comments

Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness (pi.dev)

320 points by kristianpaul | 134 comments

Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates (www.guidelabs.ai)

317 points by adebayoj | 87 comments

Nearby Glasses (github.com)

302 points by zingerlio | 113 comments

Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)

258 points by rebane2001 | 90 comments

Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (www.mariannefeng.com)

227 points by mengchengfeng | 51 comments

Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3 (github.com)

222 points by petewarden | 43 comments

Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14% (electrek.co)

219 points by breve | 249 comments

Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons (www.guitarworld.com)

213 points by mhb | 108 comments

Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024) (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

209 points by thunderbong | 98 comments

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight (www.nytimes.com)

205 points by mitchbob | 206 comments

OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B (www.cnbc.com)

202 points by randycupertino | 170 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org)

197 points by tosh | 74 comments

Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter (stripe.com)

196 points by jez | 209 comments

Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion (www.inceptionlabs.ai)

196 points by fittingopposite | 87 comments

Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes (github.com)

194 points by parkaboy | 122 comments

Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair (www.ifixit.com)

175 points by gnabgib | 44 comments

Looks like it is happening (www.math.columbia.edu)

167 points by jjgreen | 113 comments

Hugging Face Skills (github.com)

157 points by armcat | 44 comments

Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment (github.com)

142 points by onecommit | 57 comments

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