41: DTF:HN for February 10, 2026

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
   (Article | HN Discussion)
2. Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
   (Article | HN Discussion)
3. Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
   (Article | HN Discussion)
4. Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
   (Article | HN Discussion)
5. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
   (Article | HN Discussion)
6. Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
   (Article | HN Discussion)
7. Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
   (Article | HN Discussion)
8. RLHF from Scratch
   (Article | HN Discussion)
9. Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model
   (Article | HN Discussion)
10. Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
    (Article | HN Discussion)