DTF:HN for February 21, 2026

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