Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
• (01:16) - Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
• (02:06) - News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
• (03:23) - My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
• (04:37) - I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
• (05:52) - NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
• (06:54) - Descent, ported to the web
• (07:50) - Breaking the spell of vibe coding
• (09:01) - Instagram's URL Blackhole
• (10:07) - OpenAI should build Slack
• (11:25) - Outro

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
https://ooh.directory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
https://newpipe.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218

Descent, ported to the web
https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545

Breaking the spell of vibe coding
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006615

Instagram's URL Blackhole
https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004689

OpenAI should build Slack
https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553