Hacker News · February 21, 2026 · 14:45

Wikipedia bans Archive.today links & Android sideloading and F-Droid warning - Hacker News (Feb 21, 2026)

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Wikipedia bans Archive.today links & Android sideloading and F-Droid warning - Hacker News (Feb 21, 2026)
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    Wikipedia bans Archive.today links

    — Wikipedia’s English edition is deprecating and blacklisting Archive.today after allegations of DDoS abuse and snapshot tampering, impacting ~695,000 links across ~400,000 pages; alternatives include Archive.org and Ghostarchive.
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    Android sideloading and F-Droid warning

    — F-Droid warns Android app-install policy changes are still coming despite public confusion, adding banners in F-Droid clients and urging outreach to regulators; F-Droid Basic 2.0-alpha3 adds mirrors, install history, CSV export, and more.
  3. 03

    LinkedIn blue badge identity vendor

    — A LinkedIn verification attempt reveals the “real person” badge is handled by Persona, involving passport scans (including NFC), selfie biometrics, device/IP/location signals, and broad subprocessor sharing—raising GDPR and US CLOUD Act concerns.
  4. 04

    Dependabot noise vs real security

    — Filippo Valsorda argues GitHub Dependabot creates alert fatigue—especially for Go—citing a GO-2026-4503 / CVE-2026-26958 case; he recommends scheduled `govulncheck` plus CI tests against latest deps instead.
  5. 05

    Vulnerability disclosure gone legal

    — A platform engineer reports a diving insurer portal with sequential IDs and shared default passwords, enabling account takeovers; the response reportedly came via lawyers demanding confidentiality, highlighting coordinated disclosure and GDPR notification questions.
  6. 06

    Local AI stack: Claws and llama.cpp

    — Andrej Karpathy’s “Claws” idea frames a new orchestration layer for LLM agents on personal hardware, while the ggml/llama.cpp team joins Hugging Face to strengthen local inference, packaging, and tighter Transformers integration.
  7. 07

    Facebook feed flooded with AI slop

    — A returning Facebook user finds the News Feed dominated by suggested, often AI-generated thirst-trap posts and engagement bait, raising concerns about recommendation quality, bot-like comments, and harmful content.
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    Rebuilding the first web browser

    — CERN’s WorldWideWeb Rebuild recreates the original 1990 NeXT-based browser inside a modern browser, letting people experience early web navigation and even authoring workflows like editing pages and creating links.

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