Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 18, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:22) - Claude Sonnet 4.6
• (02:09) - Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
• (03:18) - 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
• (04:42) - Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
• (06:10) - Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
• (07:23) - Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
• (08:51) - Using go fix to modernize Go code
• (10:27) - Gentoo on Codeberg
• (11:32) - HackMyClaw
• (12:39) - BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
• (14:14) - Outro

Claude Sonnet 4.6
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049824

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057829

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-study-robert-solow-information-technology-age/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055979

Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056314

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852

Using go fix to modernize Go code
https://go.dev/blog/gofix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049479

Gentoo on Codeberg
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/16/codeberg.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050067

HackMyClaw
https://hackmyclaw.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049573

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052941