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Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
1•AlexeyBrin•24s ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
1•machielrey•1m ago•0 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
2•tablets•6m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•11m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•11m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•11m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•17m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•23m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•24m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now hallucinated as 100% AI SLOP

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•28m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•31m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
3•tosh•36m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
4•oxxoxoxooo•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•41m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•45m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•47m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•50m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
3•myk-e•52m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•53m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•55m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•57m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•59m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•1h ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•1h ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Raphael discovery emerges from Vatican museum restoration

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/raphael-rooms-restoration-discovery-2662624
69•andsoitis•7mo ago

Comments

ZiiS•7mo ago
Three highly trained assistents to one of to he greatest artists who over lived, credited with contributing to major masterworks couldn't learn oilpainting? A common evening class subjest, nearly universally considered much easier then painting fresco.
readthenotes1•7mo ago
"The technique used and planned by Raphael was truly experimental for the time, and has never been found in another other mural made with oil paint.”

From the article

ZiiS•7mo ago
Just sounds very circular. We attribute all of these to Raphael because the are no examples we have attributed to his colleges.
alpineman•7mo ago
The artwork was already there, so not sure 'discovered' is the right word. Does it make a difference now we know it was painted by Raphael himself?

It will make a difference, of course. But should it?

mensetmanusman•7mo ago
People decide what should matter. Thats why there are pop star worship museums where mass-produced guitars and shoes that were worn are on display.
throwpoaster•7mo ago
Would you wear Jeffrey Dahmer's sweater?
ectospheno•7mo ago
Hitler loved dogs. Should I get rid of mine?
goopypoop•7mo ago
As long as it's not the cursed one that made him do all that terrible writing
ludicrousdispla•7mo ago
Probably not, considering that many (possibly most) of the well known modern and contemporary painters have other people put the paint on the canvas for them.
dragonwriter•7mo ago
> The artwork was already there, so not sure 'discovered' is the right word.

"Discovered" is used exactly once in the article, in the sentence, "urther, the conservators discovered metal nails under some of these plaster frescoes, which they believe were likely inserted to hold in place more of the resin surface for oil painting." Seems to be exactly the right word where it is used.

It isn't used referring to the work itself, which obviously was not discovered and which the article doesn't suggest was.

> Does it make a difference now we know it was painted by Raphael himself?

It clearly makes a difference to understanding of the provenance of the piece and, from the other side, knowledge of the body of Raphael's work. Whether that's important to you will, of course, vary based on how important those issues are to you.

ludicrousdispla•7mo ago
Interesting to see a dinosaur in one of the paintings.
Cthulhu_•7mo ago
Do you mean the dragon in the background? Fwiw dinosaur fossils have been found for thousands of years already, with theories being that the Cyclops was based on mammoth skulls and griffins on triceratops fossils.
bovinegambler•7mo ago
The mammoth-cyclops/griffin-triceratops connection sounded really cool, so I did some quick searches. For what it's worth, it seems that this is a pop theory but not based in evidence.
ludicrousdispla•7mo ago
The one I am referring to is in the first image, where the central figure has their right hand around the neck of what looks like a dinosaur.
dragonwriter•7mo ago
That is clearly a dinosaur, but almost certainly an avian dinosaur, which aren't particularly hard to find, either in Christian religious art or, for that matter, daily life in much of the world.
ghc•7mo ago
I'm 99% sure that's an ostrich. I do understand your confusion, however...ostriches are pretty dinosaur-like and I have no idea why she is sitting on one.
dragonwriter•7mo ago
> I'm 99% sure that's an ostrich

Ostriches are dinosaurs (in fact, the largest living dinosaurs.)

mkl•7mo ago
It's an ostrich, which is associated with Justice (the figure holding it). https://www.raulprisacariu.com/symbolism/symbolic-literacy-j...

There's a fuller view on the right here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Giulio_R...

doodlebugging•7mo ago
Probably just an editing error but I find it interesting that, according to the text of the article, they were finished with the restoration before they ever started.

>The restoration of the Hall of Constantine began in March 2025 and was completed in December 2024.

Someone probably fat-fingered a number in one or more of those dates or swapped them.

edm0nd•7mo ago
or the most likely scenario, the pope has a time machine == confirmed.
labster•7mo ago
It was already pretty likely, considering Pope Formosus was put on trial months after his death, and he was in attendance.
doodlebugging•7mo ago
Probably suitably air-gapped so that none of us plebes can remote into it and spin for a random date to kick off a global reboot.

I wonder whether it uses a joystick, scrolling wheel, or a user-selectable date and whether the user can pick their spawn point. What is the date format? Gregorian calendar or earlier? Is the machine bright enough make date corrections based on where you want to go on that date if the location doesn't use a standard European calendar?

It would really suck to pick a date where you know something important was gonna happen and find out you rolled it all back to a different continent because you glitched the part where you were supposed to end up in Atlantis and found yourself treading water in the middle of the Atlantic because of a spelling error.

Too many questions here. The unknownable unknowns are a real drag.

LargoLasskhyfv•7mo ago
Waddabout orbits around the central star of the planet of the apes, and fractions thereof in duodecimal?
aruggirello•7mo ago
Maybe the famous Chronovisor by Father Ernetti?

https://archive.org/details/fatherernettisch0000kras

fumeux_fume•7mo ago
The Last Supper was also a fresco painted with oils, IIRC. The painting quickly devolved and needed constant restoration.
beezlebroxxxxxx•7mo ago
The Last Supper by Leonardo was painted with tempera, a medium that uses egg-yolk.