DTF:HN for February 15, 2026

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