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1•surprisetalk•1m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•1m 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•1m 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•2m 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•2m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•3m 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•4m 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
1•obscurette•4m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•5m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•6m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•8m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•9m ago•0 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•10m 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•10m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•11m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•11m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•13m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•13m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•13m 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•13m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•14m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•17m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•18m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•19m 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•20m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•22m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•24m 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•24m ago•0 comments

Jeremy Wade's Mighty Rivers

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyOro6vMGsP_xkW6FXxsaeHUkD5e-9AUa
1•saikatsg•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM

https://github.com/sam-mfb/backgammon-mcp
2•sam256•27m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Why didn't Biden release the Epstein files?

https://www.vox.com/politics/421141/epstein-files-biden-trump-conspiracy
12•lr0•6mo ago

Comments

bediger4000•6mo ago
Oh, come on. Trump and His Base spent years bellyaching about Papadopoulos getting entirely justified surveillance. There was plenty of reasons including Trump inciting and armed revolt just before Biden took office. Can you imagine what kind of a storm releasing Epstein files would have caused Biden?
msgodel•6mo ago
It's obviously a MAD situation and everyone's in them.

The whole point of Trump was to just steamroll over this sort of thing and ignore the criticism. To see him cowering from it is incredibly disappointing.

clipsy•6mo ago
> The whole point of Trump was to just steamroll over this sort of thing and ignore the criticism.

Sorry, you've misunderstood: the whole point of Trump is to benefit Trump. Anyone else who benefits and any other positive outcomes are purely coincidental.

msgodel•6mo ago
Yes I meant from the voter's perspective obviously.
PaulHoule•6mo ago
Didn't want to blow the lid off for a lot of people.

Wasn't "out to get" Trump because if we was out to get Trump (or anybody important out to get Trump) he wouldn't have gotten away with Jan 6.

Trump is in trouble because he promised a lot and didn't deliver and if he does deliver, his name is in those files.

gsf_emergency_2•6mo ago
Faisal Islam: Tariffs are working

https://old.reddit.com/r/BoycottUnitedStates/comments/1m7baz...

The hallmark of a positive sum framework is that it's more general or accurate than the author intended. (Not original I don't recall the source)

(Gygax comes off as a proto-PG. Intention was for Joker to be "chaotic evil" but the implementation might have had other ideas. Maybe Joachim's Joker I would have his approval? )

In the case of Trump, it helps Japan to "turn far-right", which is also evil at face value. Silver lining not yet found, not by this commenter at least

(Ps: Kipling & "good intentions" rhyme in my head. Need to take a page from you and sleep on all this before continuing)

https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/the-anti-immigrat...

PaulHoule•6mo ago
Part of the hard-right turn is that center left parties since 1990 have conceded to the Reagan-Thatcher-Merkel consensus that "we can't afford the welfare state" whereas hard right parties are saying "we can afford the welfare state if we throw out migrants"

In the big picture though it really should be the world vs the New China and not the US vs the world. When Japan was beating us in cars in the 1980s we got them to build cars here. We should be getting China to build state-of-the-art factories here: the biggest advantage they have is that they build "lights out" factories that need hardly any human labor -- like a mushroom factory in Shanghai where they stack them up hundreds of feet high and only handle them with forklifts. Thankfully they are building one of those in Texas:

https://mushroombusiness.com/news/finc-and-ocm-invest-in-us-...

gsf_emergency_2•6mo ago
Negative sum lagniappe (=lappe?) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/invasive-golden-oy...

Sorry for going nth-order on this..

It's interesting that China-US industrial relations are still viewed with a Japanese lens. Beech (aka shimeji) mushrooms was more of a Japanese thing than Golden Oyster I think??

The downside is that Toyota-in-Detroit was probably going to do as much for rank-and-file in all countries as FINC-in-Texas..

Capital flows... (To be harped on after I review more data)

PaulHoule•6mo ago
The founders of Finc Biotech went to Japan to study how they cultivated Beech mushrooms and then they went home to do it bigger and better -- they got some award from the CCP for patriotic accomplishment or something like that. If that's patriotism I want to see more of it.

The only drawback of their Beech mushrooms is that you have to cook them before you eat them, you can't slice them up and put them in a salad raw the way you can with those white buttons.

They're great with red meat. I think most Texans would like them sauteed next to a steak or in a burger

gsf_emergency_2•6mo ago
Nono, I'm all for global->local innovation & enoki (& shimeji)

That's what the best of American patriotism looks like... And Earth patriotism :)

Even so, I'd like to see people other than founders get something from this kinda tech system..

Are you suggesting everyone become founders? That's a decent idea, but lots of schlep .. in revamping institutions

(Detour to F1nc: Jack Ma tried to do same Japan agri thing yet he's still not fully rehab'd )

There is a lot of triangle trade between assholes, capitalists & labor.. (though startups finc & smaller may not be such s/assholes/founders/ s/labor/talent/)

you may not return to this thread.. ntheless I had a frameshifting realization: Meiji 1870-1880 was pretty fully run by gen Z ( with a sprinkling of older guys) ... Including the Emperor!! Hot on the heels of Napoleonic France, I guess. There's a novel that got me on this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_no_Ue_no_Kumo

Best American version.imho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga

What this means: pre Revo France (ru) had anomalously great (technical? Vocational?) edu with respect to the econ

THIS IS WHERE LLM

gsf_emergency_2•6mo ago
https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/CGB%20Files/Innovation%...

Coda (1979 Gordon Bell of House Intel):

In the U.S., in contrast, the role of the computer and robot is still debated, while our disgruntled work force grows impatient carrying out meaningless work on throw-away items. We must return to valuing the understanding of our technology, so that we stop being the slaves of Japanese enterprise.

Oncular advice for an underspecified "we"

How are the Fujianese building in Arizona going to do anything for the technical masses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlandia_(album)

In 1979, Deng Xiaoping might have already been thinking about rare earths. (1992 voiced, check when they started building rail to Inner Mongolia/Tibet vs Yunnan eg )

d00mB0t•6mo ago
Excellent question.
d00mB0t•6mo ago
A better question is "Who was running the exploitation ring?" because it sure wasn't Epstein alone.
duxup•6mo ago
Why not?
duxup•6mo ago
Dude was dead and releasing the files just makes enemies.

Not saying that’s ok, but the basic incentives seem apparent.

krapp•6mo ago
For people who don't read the article, the answer as suggested in the article is that the FBI and the courts wouldn't allow it either for Biden or for Trump as releasing the evidence to the public would violate the privacy of witnesses and informants and might interfere in future investigations, even though no such investigations are forthcoming.

Make of that what you will.