Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 17, 2026. Featuring: GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple, Four Column ASCII (2017), 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight, Rethinking High-School Science Fairs, How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is, and more.
Stories covered:
1. GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/grapheneos-eng/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045612
2. Four Column ASCII (2017)
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022270
3. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546
4. Rethinking High-School Science Fairs
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/rethinking-high-school-science-fairs
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006080
5. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2513815-how-teaching-molecules-to-think-is-revealing-what-a-mind-really-is/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004629
6. Rendering the Visible Spectrum
https://brandonli.net/spectra/doc/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012895
7. Undo in Vi and Its Successors
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViUndoMyViews
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047443
8. Rise of the Triforce
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524
9. Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser
https://glitchycam.com
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033954
10. Poor Deming never stood a chance
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042895
