Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - An AI agent published a hit piece on me
• (01:32) - Gemini 3 Deep Think
• (02:43) - GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
• (03:45) - Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
• (04:56) - Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
• (06:10) - Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
• (07:24) - Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
• (08:26) - Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
• (09:25) - Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
• (10:25) - Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
• (11:19) - Outro

An AI agent published a hit piece on me
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729

Gemini 3 Deep Think
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989217

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996999

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
https://skipthe.tips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
https://pol.is/home2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992815

Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490