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USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
1•breve•59s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•1m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
1•ks2048•1m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•5m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•5m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•9m ago•0 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•10m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•10m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
1•SchwKatze•10m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•11m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•13m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•13m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•14m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
1•vedantnair•14m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•15m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
3•vedantnair•15m ago•0 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•17m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
1•s4074433•21m ago•1 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•30m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•32m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•32m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•33m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•34m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•35m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•36m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•38m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
5•codexon•38m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You're a Moron?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/magazine/ai-commercials-ads-loneliness.html
35•lxm•7mo ago

Comments

orionblastar•7mo ago
MIT study on AI and Intelligence: https://archive.is/ClSRM
hammyhavoc•7mo ago
Solutions designed for a perceived demographic via dogfooding the same technology?
8bitsrule•7mo ago
Advertisers have tried to manipulate our social fears and anxieties since Edward Bernays invented it a century ago, to get more women to smoke cigarettes for Lucky Strike. Along the lines of 'you'll wonder where the yellow went...' or 'the heartbreak of psioriasis' ... The old SOB lived to be 103 years old.

It's sort of the opposite of 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.'

absurdo•7mo ago
This theory about Edward Bernays and the lucky strike being some PR mastermind striked me as bullshit and still strikes me as bullshit. People have convinced themselves of how this one guy is behind it all because it’s an easy answer - that’s the bigger con.
plausibilitious•7mo ago
This happens a lot in historiography. Easy tales become handles for epochs and then denounced as contrived, then revived. Reminds me of the xkcd about levels of rebuttal.

The guy indeed was behind the "Torches of Freedom" campaign. And was indeed an influential person. Would it have happened without him? Most likely. But he did do the things. Is History driven by personalities? By structures? Big debate there. Nonetheless, Bernays' story is not bunk.

djhn•7mo ago
I’ve also always wondered what a more critical and impartial review of source material would reveal about Bernays’ impact.
stdbrouw•7mo ago
Sure, but I think the bigger point is that, if you've got a really great and really useful product, why would you need to convince people to use it by highlighting barely realistic use cases and exploiting their fears and anxieties?
throwaway798214•7mo ago
https://archive.ph/Yy2Bb
rasz•7mo ago
Its a filter, like in that Microsoft "Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?" paper.
amai•7mo ago
The paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
bni•7mo ago
Morons are the ones most impressed with "AI", so its core demographic and low hanging fruit to sell to.
bombcar•7mo ago
Many business ads especially are aimed at CEOs and CEOs think their employees are morons, or should be.
thunky•7mo ago
It's easier to sell to a moron...

A lot of morons think AI is useless, too, but in that case there is nothing to sell to them.

seniortaco•7mo ago
"If, for some reason, your brain stops functioning, Meta’s got you."

This is a great slogan haha.

doright•7mo ago
> the less funny assumption is that someone could be more moved by an A.I. letter than by the unpolished emotion of an enthusiastic child.

You'd be surprised. Tiger parenting is definitely a thing. That the technology validates this mindset only adds more fuel to the fire.

_mlbt•7mo ago
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

-George Carlin

codelikeawolf•7mo ago
> Why doesn’t he ask his girlfriend what a thermodynamicist is? (She should know: That’s what her dad does.)

My dad worked a lot of different jobs at the same company before he retired a few years ago. I know at some point one of his jobs had "logistics" in the title. I only ever had a vague notion of what his job entailed. Unless the job title is obvious, like "plumber", I wouldn't expect this woman to know what the hell her dad does.