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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Gemini 3.1 Pro (01:50) - Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal (03:06) - Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] (04:22) - An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward (05:38) - US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (07:09) - America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks (08:39) - MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes (10:02) - AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton (11:27) - Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024) (13:00) - I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure (14:33) - Outro Gemini 3.1 Prohttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074735Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminalhttps://micasa.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072968An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forwardhttps://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewherehttps://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shockshttps://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-savehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074389MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minuteshttps://gist.github.com/interpiduser5/547d8a7baec436f24b7cce89dd4ae1eahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082496AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeletonhttps://www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-exoskeletonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078324Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043345I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructurehttps://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.