DTF:HN for February 23, 2026

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