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Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•4m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•6m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
1•randycupertino•7m ago•1 comments

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
2•breve•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•13m 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•13m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•16m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•16m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•20m 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•21m 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•22m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
2•SchwKatze•22m 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•23m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•24m 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•25m ago•2 comments

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

1•Yogender78•25m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
2•vedantnair•25m 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•26m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
5•vedantnair•26m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•28m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
2•s4074433•32m ago•2 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•34m ago•0 comments

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

2•amichail•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•41m ago•2 comments

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

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•43m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•43m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•45m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•45m 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•46m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Comet Browser by Perplexity

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

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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.