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Neomacs: Rewriting the Emacs display engine in Rust with GPU rendering via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•33s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
1•ShinyaKoyano•4m ago•0 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
1•m00dy•6m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•6m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•13m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•16m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•17m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•18m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•19m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•19m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•24m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•25m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•25m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•33m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•34m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•36m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•36m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
2•surprisetalk•36m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
5•pseudolus•37m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•37m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•38m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•38m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•39m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•40m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•44m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US Government spending?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4j33klz33o
7•mellosouls•9mo ago

Comments

ZeroGravitas•9mo ago
The original 2 Trillion was described as "waste" by Musk which means the claims have reduced even more than this indicates.
1659447091•9mo ago
For the top 4 claims investigated that actually had documents/evidence - DoGE's claims are actually speculation based on the maximum/ceiling contract values and projected future costs, not actual expenditures.

For example an IRS IT contract that "saved" 1.9 billion (contract total value) but showed no actual spending had happened (but excused as poor record keeping). Oh, and the contractor's CEO said the agreement had been cancelled by Biden last year.

A Migrant Facility contract with a 2.9 billion celling (or in DoGE speak, "savings") that needs to be renewed each year until 2028. The real, documentable savings are approximately $153 million. Estimated from the 18m/month fixed running cost from February (announced cuts) until the annual review to renew in November.

Of the stated 160billion in saving, only 32.5billion have receipt, and going on the above pattern of "saving" claims, DoGE is looking more like cover for a data grab and compromising systems to assure that data keeps flowing in once they get kicked out. However, not included in their saving total is the unemploying of some ~200k middle-class Americans

treetalker•9mo ago
One question I have, related to your last point, is how much any "savings" has been offset by the effects of the utter chaos that DOGE alone has caused. My hypothesis is that DOGE has only increased waste from the perspective of the public.