Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 21, 2026. Featuring: I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over, Keep Android Open, Turn Dependabot off, I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer, Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws", and more.
Stories covered:
1. I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245
2. Keep Android Open
https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091419
3. Turn Dependabot off
https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094192
4. I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
https://dixken.de/blog/i-found-a-vulnerability-they-found-a-lawyer
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092578
5. Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/21/claws/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099160
6. Facebook is cooked
https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091748
7. Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006
8. CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
https://worldwideweb.cern.ch
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095429
9. Coccinelle: The Linux kernel's source-to-source transformation tool
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098669
10. Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17
https://www.cppstories.com/2026/shared_mutex/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049499
