Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:14) - Gemini 3.1 Pro
• (01:50) - Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
• (03:06) - Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
• (04:22) - An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
• (05:38) - US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
• (07:09) - America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
• (08:39) - MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
• (10:02) - AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
• (11:27) - Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
• (13:00) - I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
• (14:33) - Outro

Gemini 3.1 Pro
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074735

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
https://micasa.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072968

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
https://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-save
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074389

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
https://gist.github.com/interpiduser5/547d8a7baec436f24b7cce89dd4ae1ea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082496

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
https://www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-exoskeleton
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078324

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043345

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483