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Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
1•RyanMu•3m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•6m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
1•rcarmo•7m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•8m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•9m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•11m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•11m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•14m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•14m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•15m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•16m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•16m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•25m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•25m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
31•bookofjoe•25m ago•11 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•26m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•28m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•29m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•29m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•29m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•31m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Research find high levels of microplastics in artery plaque of stroke patients

https://www.businessinsider.com/microplastics-artery-plaque-mysterious-link-stroke-heart-attack-2025-4
12•hsuduebc2•9mo ago

Comments

hsuduebc2•9mo ago
https://archive.is/iyGrb
turtleyacht•9mo ago
Maybe we will find research correlating microplastics as ideal surfaces for cellular biofilm [1] deposition. Petri dishes are plastic too, so we would have observed a discrepancy much sooner--then the nano-scale is a possible factor.

Nanobiology could become its own specialist field.

[1] A Biofilm's Shape Emerges from Cellular Geometry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764875 - 13 hours ago (6 points, 0 comments)

genewitch•9mo ago
So it's acting as a substrate for the plaque?

Short of using glass for everything and switching to copper pipes, what other ways am I ingesting plastic?

Maybe we should have stuck with wood and Bakelite.

jdietrich•9mo ago
Bakelite is a phenol-formaldehyde polymer. Wood is substantially made of lignin, a cross-linked phenolic polymer, and cellulose, a long-chain saccharide polymer.

"Plastic" is an incredibly fuzzy category. Bakelite is a plastic by any reasonable definition of the word and I would staunchly defend the argument that wood is a fibre-reinforced plastic composite. The stuff we'd definitely agree are plastics - petrochemical-based synthetic polymers - are a hugely diverse group of materials with vastly different chemistries. Plastic materials that look and feel almost identical often have completely different chemical structures, e.g. PC and PMMA.

As a polymer enjoyer, I just don't know how to make sense of the popular understanding of (and panic around) plastics. I can't imagine a similar tenor of discussion around metals, which is at least a category we can usefully define. Is there anyone out there who is terribly afraid of zinc or tin because they're right above cadmium and lead in the periodic table? Is anyone afraid of tungsten because it looks and feels just like uranium?

genewitch•9mo ago
I don't intend to sound dismissive, but i'm at least 82.4% sure that there's no nanowoods in my brain, or in my arteries; and about 90% sure that there's no bakelite in my blood. There is however lead and cadmium and "plastic" which i am assuming means things like ABS, PET, nylon.