Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 28, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - We Will Not Be Divided
• (01:30) - Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
• (02:53) - OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
• (04:15) - A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
• (05:55) - OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
• (07:37) - A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
• (09:00) - Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
• (10:36) - Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
• (11:36) - NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
• (13:07) - A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
• (13:54) - Outro

We Will Not Be Divided
https://notdivided.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188697

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
https://twitter.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181211

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180569

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146487

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189535

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182483

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181944