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DTF:HN for February 10, 2026

DTF:HN for February 10, 2026

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 Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 10, 2026. Featuring: Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time, Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine, Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs, Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial, Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month, and more. Stories covered: 1. Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959418 2. Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958231 3. Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920 4. Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-jury-told-meta-google-addiction.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959832 5. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663 6. Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments https://github.com/distr-sh/distr HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958742 7. Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954136 8. RLHF from Scratch https://github.com/ashworks1706/rlhf-from-scratch HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958378 9. Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954049 10. Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.0 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957198
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