Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 23, 2026. Featuring: Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel, Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics, Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer, I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard, and more.
Stories covered:
1. Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899
2. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journal
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119530
3. Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-lidar-microvision-adas
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075455
4. Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
https://magicalmushroom.com/index
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119274
5. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113728
6. 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-release-28-boiorix/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078112
7. Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1rce0lf/hetzner_european_hosting_provider_to_increase/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121029
8. Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
https://blog.nytsoi.net/2026/02/23/facebook-robots-txt
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121210
9. Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"
https://prql-lang.org/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099980
10. femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121539
