2.11.26 | Singularity on Tuesday, Europe's $24T split from Visa and Mastercard, Ex-GitHub CEO's new AI developer platform

Hacker News Highlights · Feb 11, 2026 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

(01:34) - Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

(02:52) - Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

(04:02) - Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine

(05:07) - The Day the Telnet Died

(06:09) - The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)

(07:17) - Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time

(08:29) - My eighth…