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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
1•beardyw•40s ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•50s ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•3m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•3m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•3m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
1•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•3m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•5m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•5m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•5m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•11m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•12m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•13m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•14m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•14m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•15m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•15m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•18m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•19m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•21m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•21m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•23m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•25m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•26m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Tamiya chairman Shunsaku Tamiya dies at 90

https://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/263013/tamiya-chairman-shunsaku-tamiya-dies-at-90/
36•mbrd•6mo ago

Comments

mbrd•6mo ago
I’ve found scale modeling to be a very rewarding (and screen-free) hobby since Covid times, and I’ve built more Tamiya kits than any other manufacturer.

I’ve heard that Mr Tamiya was very hands-on in choosing their topics for kits so it will be interesting to see how things change. But what a company he built!

Edit: here is the official Tamiya announcement https://www.tamiya.com/english/pressrelease/20250722/index.h...

aardvark179•6mo ago
I have also found scale model building to be a deeply relaxing hobby, and Tamiya kits are definitely some of the most rewarding and pleasant to build. They also make superb tools and paints which I would hate to be without.
rjray•6mo ago
I've been a modeler since very very young. I took a break during college while getting my CS degree, but was drawn back into it when I learned that there were local clubs (IPMS/USA chapters) where I could meet other like-minded people and learn how to up my game. I've been balancing this non-screen hobby with being a professional dev for about 35 years, now. It's a fantastic way to relax and take my mind off of code.
pryelluw•6mo ago
Tamiya was a big part of my childhood. It was also part of my young adult years when I worked as a “mechanic” in a hobby shop.

Their assembly manuals have always been top notch. Giving me hours of entertainment even after assembling the model. It was a great introduction to systems design.

I’ve been wanting to get a re-release of the original grasshopper. It’s too cool to pass up.

lttlrck•6mo ago
Be sure to use NiCad batteries and a mechanical speed controller for the true retro experience!

My best friend had a Hornet. I was so jealous.

pryelluw•6mo ago
I hated those mechanical speed controllers. Burned so many that would pick them up for two at a time.
saltcured•6mo ago
After the Grasshopper, I went for the Big Wig. I guess I had a fetish for all wheel drive systems long before I had a driver's license.

But you know you had a serious problem when you started ordering sealed ball bearing kits to replace the teflon bushings in the drive-train. That's where my adolescent paper route income went, instead of drinks or drugs...

m463•6mo ago
I find it a little sad that hobby stores seem to have disappeared from the landscape. As a kid I remember most towns usually had numerous hobby stores, and nowadays they're either gone, or something super generic like Michaels which isn't too different from walmart or target.

That said, I'm surprised once in a while, like Yodobashi camera in Japan, or some other specialty stores in akihabara etc which feature lots of this.

any other must-see stores?

toomuchtodo•6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiya_Corporation
mthoms•6mo ago
I'll never forget my Tamiya Grasshopper (it was the most affordable of their RC kits). I spent more time upgrading and tweaking the thing than I did driving it, but I loved every minute of it.
hyperpl•6mo ago
My first RC was almost the Grasshopper but I ended up with a Nissan King Cab instead. Great memories!
diggernet•6mo ago
I've got their R/C Flakpanzer Gepard in a box somewhere. It was great fun to build and run, except maybe the part where you had to assemble the tracks piece by piece.

Of course the old NiCad battery is long since dead. And R/C frequencies have changed since then, so the controller and receiver are probably useless. But from time to time I wonder about what it would take to modernize and revive it.

https://tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/56003

pengaru•6mo ago
My first hobby grade RC car was a $20 second-hand Tamiya Boomerang from one of my friends down the street.

It was a bunch of plastic and nothing competitive but I must have rebuilt it a dozen times just for fun. Then at some point I got a Motown Missile 48,000 RPM motor for it. It was a battery connector melting ballast resistor glowing riot. But eventually my parents got tired of taking me to the hobby shop for replacement spur gears... next xmas I got a rc10 graphite and never really looked back at Tamiya anything.

But it was a great low-cost introduction to how cars work and the hobby in general, super fun times.

RIP