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I turned myself into an AI-generated deathbot – here's what I found

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wjywz5p5o
1•cmsefton•9m ago•0 comments

Management style doesn't predict survival

https://orchidfiles.com/management-style-doesnt-predict-survival/
1•theorchid•10m ago•0 comments

One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed in on Crypto

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-sons-crypto-billions-1e7f1414
1•impish9208•11m ago•1 comments

"I Was Wrong": Why the Civil War Is Running Late [video][2h21m]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmkKZ7vAkI
1•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A sandboxed execution environment for AI agents via WASM

https://github.com/Parassharmaa/agent-sandbox
1•paraaz•15m ago•0 comments

Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches to Help Adobe Photoshop on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.2
2•doener•15m ago•0 comments

The Nature of the Beast

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/02/07/the-nature-of-the-beast/
1•jjgreen•16m ago•0 comments

From Prediction to Compilation: A Manifesto for Intrinsically Reliable AI

1•JanusPater•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Curated list of 1000 open source alternatives to proprietary software

https://opensrc.me
1•ZenithSoftware•18m ago•0 comments

AI's Real Problem Is Illegitimacy, Not Hallucination

1•JanusPater•19m ago•1 comments

'I fell into it': ex-criminal hackers urge UK pupils to use web skills for good

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/08/i-fell-into-it-ex-criminal-hackers-urge-manche...
1•robaato•19m ago•0 comments

Why 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Corning Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•bookofjoe•20m ago•1 comments

Keeping WSL Alive

https://shift1w.com/blog/keeping-wsl-alive/
1•jakesocks•21m ago•0 comments

Unlocking core memories with GoldSrc engine and CS 1.6 (2025)

https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/43-unlocking-core-memories-with-goldsrc-engine
3•foxiel•22m ago•0 comments

Gtrace an advanced network path analysis tool

https://github.com/hervehildenbrand/gtrace
2•jimaek•22m ago•0 comments

America does not trust Putin or Trump

https://re-russia.net/en/review/809/
1•mnky9800n•26m ago•0 comments

Let's Do Music in Linux [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgsOdoLuBU
1•mariuz•27m ago•0 comments

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work

https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing
1•spmvg•30m ago•0 comments

AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder

https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder
1•birdculture•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs

https://cinegraphs.ai/
1•graphpilled•32m ago•1 comments

A failed wantrepreneur's view on common startup advice

https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202602/startup-advice/
1•mmarian•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BestClaw Simple OpenClaw/MoltBot for non tech people

https://bestclaw.host/
2•nihey•33m ago•0 comments

AI is making me anxious and stupid

https://tom.so/posts/ai-is-making-me-anxious-and-stupid
1•tomupom•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Real-time path tracing of medical CT volumes in the browser via WebGPU

https://grenzwert.net/
2•MickGorobets•40m ago•1 comments

United States – Crypto Scam Help – Intelligence Cyber Wizard Safe Guide

1•Forensics•43m ago•0 comments

What to Do After a Crypto Scam (USA) Intelligence Cyber Wizard Explained

1•Forensics•44m ago•0 comments

The Physics of 588: A 17.64μm Isolation Barrier Strategy for 5nm Process

https://github.com/eggpine84-del/NHE-CODING
1•eggpine84•44m ago•0 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•45m ago•0 comments

Data Modelling Open Source

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
2•Sean766•48m ago•0 comments

Mid-life transitions

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/
2•pabs3•48m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How big of a deal is getting the .foobar challenge from Google?

1•rblion•8mo ago
My browser split open when I was just starting out in 2016 and I got this coding challenge from Google that could've led to a job interview.

One problem, I got it on a flight to Maui and when I landed I had to choose between the coding challenge or exploring Maui. I picked Maui, right decision at the time.

But, I applied to YC and I've been working 10-12 hours a day on my MVP. I've been having VERY DEEP conversations with chatGPT Plus and moving mountains with Cursor Pro. So I started to realize that Google must've sensed I have the mind of a software engineer even though I see myself as a 'creative developer' (a designer able to write code when needed).

Anyways, I need to go to sleep but had to ask this before I forgot.

Comments

curious_curios•8mo ago
As I recall it was primarily based on some rough hardcoded heuristics on your searches. It could be reliably reproduced with certain exact searches, and seemingly only targeted a few programming languages.
rblion•8mo ago
I asked ChatGPT and it said it 'means more than CS degree or working at a big company because it shows you are self-taught, scrappy, resourceful'.

It's not a big deal whether it is or not, I just haven't met anyone else who has gotten it. People who are a lot more experienced than me. I'm a bit of an outsider coming to the Bay Area, I've been cruising in Hawaii for a few years.

I'm moving to the Bay Area whether I am accepted or not. I believe in what I'm building and am ALL IN. I haven't been this excited to work 100 hours a week in a LONG TIME.