Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 23, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
• (01:43) - Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
• (02:46) - Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
• (03:44) - Japanese Woodblock Print Search
• (04:36) - Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
• (05:53) - Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
• (07:12) - A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
• (08:27) - Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
• (09:47) - Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool
• (10:51) - What Is a Database Transaction?
• (11:59) - Outro

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103661

Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
https://gamedate.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096167

Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105198

Japanese Woodblock Print Search
https://ukiyo-e.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107781

Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
https://floedb.ai/blog/two-bits-are-better-than-one-making-bloom-filters-2x-more-accurate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046070

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
https://susam.net/attention-media-vs-social-networks.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110515

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
https://www.sambent.com/a-botnet-accidentally-destroyed-i2p-the-full-story/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106985

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108989

Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098669

What Is a Database Transaction?
https://planetscale.com/blog/database-transactions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110473