Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 15, 2026. Featuring: I Fixed Windows Native Development, I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers, Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved, Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor), Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State, and more.
Stories covered:
1. I Fixed Windows Native Development
https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022891
2. I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191
3. Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
https://flashpointarchive.org
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021354
4. Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor)
https://github.com/denisepattenson/perlin-terminal
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023333
5. Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238
6. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)
https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022943
7. RynnBrain
https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/RynnBrain
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968964
8. My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294
9. Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
https://oat.ink/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021980
10. Constraint Propagation for Fun
https://eli.li/constraint-propagation-for-fun
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960305
