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Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•1m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
1•ColinWright•4m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•7m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•7m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•8m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•9m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•10m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
3•sohimaster•13m ago•1 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
3•harshalone•13m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•18m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•19m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•21m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•21m ago•1 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
8•c420•22m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•22m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•22m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•24m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
4•surprisetalk•28m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
4•TheCraiggers•29m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•30m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
14•doener•30m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•31m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•32m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•33m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
4•elsewhen•36m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•38m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Comet Browser by Perplexity

https://comet.perplexity.ai/
36•RobinL•7mo ago

Comments

eamag•7mo ago
403 Forbidden
sleepytimetea•7mo ago
"Only available to the people paying $200/month"...nothing to see here
jasonvorhe•7mo ago
"We wanna get data, even outside the app to better understand you," [...] "What are the things you’re buying, which hotels are you going [to], which restaurants are you going to, what are you spending time browsing, tells us so much more about you."

Good luck with that. Chrome on steroids.

steve-atx-7600•7mo ago
Quote is from perplexity's CEO in case it isn’t obvious.
mnahkies•7mo ago
Fun thing is I'm actually onboard with that if all said data stays local and in my control. I can understand why it's beneficial to providing a more useful experience, but also very concerned about the potential negative externalities.

Sadly that doesn't seem to be the direction we're headed in, but I could happily get behind proprietary models that run on my machine/infrastructure - I'd always prefer OSS but the key issue with generative AI as it stands today (for me) is data privacy/sovereignty.

I want to use these tools to accelerate my progress, I don't want to hand over my business ideas, or personal life to the void to be seen by quality checkers and so forth.

The balance I'm striking at the moment is experimenting heavily with them for my OSS work, since it's in the public domain regardless, and being very cautious around anything more commercial.

dcreater•7mo ago
Yep. He isn't even trying to hide it. Don't touch this thing with a 10ft pole
k-i-r-t-h-i•7mo ago
Anyone know how they are building this? Is it a fork of chromium?
pona-a•7mo ago
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, still with no hint of the product.

dalmo3•7mo ago
I'm perplexed too
goriv•7mo ago
It seems like they just took a template and forgot to remove that part. It doesn't make any sense
pona-a•7mo ago
See more discussion here:

Perplexity Comet 31 points by birriel | 41 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513769

jsnell•7mo ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510913
bitbasher•7mo ago
Bring back comet cursor!
felarof•7mo ago
we have an open-source alternative that is ready to download -- https://browseros.com/
Brajeshwar•7mo ago
Cool. Where is the line skipper link for Hacker News users to see your comments?

Edit: My bad. One can exchange the download via email.

steve-atx-7600•7mo ago
Seems like they should focus on creating a reason that I would need their search instead of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok etc. Already dropped the 20$/month subscription; not sure why I’d need it.
bionhoward•7mo ago
Citations! Perplexity does the best job with references.

Also labs seems superior to artifacts / canvas because it incorporates research in advance of building apps, enabling it to gather data for the app and check docs

ilker2495•7mo ago
LOL. This is the worst page for a product I've ever seen. No information, no screenshots. Just facts about the planets in our Solar system. Not even all the planets, where's Mercury and Venus? Not even talking about how it fails to sell me on this browser. It can't even give me planet facts properly. Companies should stop pushing their landing page work to some unpaid intern who -probably- in turn put this together from a template. I'll stick with vanilla Firefox, thank you very much.
ertucetin•7mo ago
We just need a software that renders the f**ing html/css, that's all. Everyone please stop creating new browsers.