Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
• (01:34) - Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
• (02:52) - Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
• (04:02) - Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
• (05:07) - The Day the Telnet Died
• (06:09) - The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
• (07:17) - Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
• (08:29) - My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
• (09:40) - Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• (10:33) - Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
• (11:29) - Outro

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
https://campedersen.com/singularity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962996

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958231

The Day the Telnet Died
https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967772

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958345

Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959418

My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933444

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971516

Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
https://www.netviews.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955712