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What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out
1•stevekrouse•57s ago•0 comments

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/02/06/kpmg-pressed-its-auditor-to-pass-on-ai-cost-savings/
1•cainxinth•1m ago•0 comments

Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
1•birdmania•1m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
2•samasblack•3m ago•1 comments

I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/trendscope-market-scanner
1•mohammede•4m ago•0 comments

Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com
1•microflash•5m ago•0 comments

Building Interactive C/C++ workflows in Jupyter through Clang-REPL [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QX3RPH-building_interactive_cc_workflows_in_jupyter_throug...
1•stabbles•6m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/
1•facundo_olano•8m ago•0 comments

Full-Circle Test-Driven Firmware Development with OpenClaw

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/07/full-circle-test-driven-firmware-development-with-openclaw/
1•ptorrone•8m ago•0 comments

Automating Myself Out of My Job – Part 2

https://blog.dsa.club/automation-series/automating-myself-out-of-my-job-part-2/
1•funnyfoobar•8m ago•0 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
20•tartoran•9m ago•1 comments

Dependency Resolution Methods

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html
1•zdw•9m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/crypto-firm-apologises-for-sending-bitcoin-users-40-billion...
1•Someone•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
1•maxmoq•10m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•11m ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_and_disproven_cancer_treatments
1•brightbeige•11m ago•0 comments

Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

https://github.com/debugmeplease/debug-ME
1•debugmeplease•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

1•gogo61•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

https://paperinvest.io/arena
1•andrenorman•16m ago•0 comments

TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

https://tostracker.app/analysis/ai-training
1•tldrthelaw•20m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/github-devil/
2•elashri•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

https://github.com/ricardomoratomateos/distill
1•ricardomorato•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/tree/main/sigma-runtime/SR-053
1•teugent•21m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-make-a-local-open-source-ai-chatbot-who-has-access-to-fedora-do...
1•jadedtuna•22m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
1•samtrack2019•22m ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
1•mellosouls•23m ago•1 comments

The Neuroscience Behind Nutrition for Developers and Founders

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=797
1•01-_-•23m ago•0 comments

Bang bang he murdered math {the musical } (2024)

https://taylor.town/bang-bang
1•surprisetalk•23m ago•0 comments

A Night Without the Nerds – Claude Opus 4.6, Field-Tested

https://konfuzio.com/en/a-night-without-the-nerds-claude-opus-4-6-in-the-field-test/
1•konfuzio•25m ago•0 comments

Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-02-06-0
2•geox•27m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-rule-of-law-is-dead-in-the-us/
57•mrtesthah•6mo ago

Comments

jleyank•6mo ago
Overly broad title - the rule of "law" is doing just fine at lower levels. Just ask anybody with excess melanin or X chromosomes how the law's doing... At the highest level, no, there's no law at the moment, only whim's.
42772827•6mo ago
The rule of law generally refers to societies where everyone is subject to the same set of laws. China, for example, does not and has not had the rule of law. Instead they have rule BY law, where laws are simply to control certain people’s behavior.
taylodl•6mo ago
Nor has Russia, North Korea... and many others. Now the United States, which once stood apart as a beacon of liberty and due process, has chosen to dim that light. The rule of law has given way to rule by law - where laws are no longer shields for the weak, but weapons for the powerful. The light on the hill has not just flickered; it has been extinguished, not by foreign enemies, but by domestic choices. The world watches, not with hope, but with a growing sense of betrayal.
reactordev•6mo ago
You missed the point. At the LEO level, laws are definitely being enforced
slightwinder•6mo ago
You missed the point. Enforcement of laws is irrelevant for the question whether a society has "rule of law" or is just ruled by laws. "Rule of law" is a specific concept, it does not mean that a society has laws and executes them.

You may have heard of "no one is above the law" or "all are equal before the law", this is the quintessence of it. There is no king above the law, if there is the rule of law.

reactordev•6mo ago
The point of the comment, I understand the point of the article and the point of no king above the law if there is rule of law.

The comment was about the abuse of “law” towards minorities. So go learn about how police departments are trained to seek and destroy these communities.

42772827•6mo ago
That you have the means to make that distinction inside the justice system illustrates the dichotomy. In places that never had the rule of law to begin with, what you described is the standard expectation of the individuals living it. To question it, or to comment on it at all, would be akin to asking a fish “how’s the water”? If it could talk, it’d respond, “what the hell is water”?
nkrisc•6mo ago
What you’re describing is also an example of the absence of the rule of law.

“Rule of law” means the laws are applied equally and fairly to all, regardless of status or authority.

reactordev•6mo ago
Then it’s been absent for 30 years.
nkrisc•6mo ago
Longer, for sure.
kcplate•6mo ago
It’s a lovely concept but has literally never existed in the US or literally anywhere else in the world—ever.
gorbachev•6mo ago
This book from 2011 describes how it's been that way for basically forever.

https://www.amazon.com/With-Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality/dp...

With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful - by Glenn Greenwald

Covzire•6mo ago
"When I get what I want, there is rule of law, when I don't, there isn't" is not a valid way to parse whether actual 'rule of law' exists.
tempfile•6mo ago
Did you even read the article?
Covzire•6mo ago
Yes, its analysis is completely vapid and one dimentional.
sundaeofshock•6mo ago
So are you.
mattmaroon•6mo ago
“ Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,”

This is the sort of story that turns HN into /r/politics . Flagged.

jeffbee•6mo ago
The condition of the nuclear-armed nation that totally dominates the information technology industry seems on-topic.
mattmaroon•6mo ago
It doesn't on Hacker News, and what I quoted comes directly from the link at the bottom of the page. By that logic we'd also be discussing tariffs (the economy of the nation that totally dominates the IT industry...), and all sorts of other things here.

This is a community designed intentionally to not go down that rabbit hole. There are plenty where you can. I've been here since the early days, trust me, it's better this way.

taylodl•6mo ago
This isn't about politics, it's about the rule of law. If you see that as a political issue, then we have bigger problems.
mattmaroon•6mo ago
Rule of law is 100% political. Law is political. Legal systems are political. It may not be partisan, but it is political.
taylodl•6mo ago
The rule of law is not at all political. It's philosophical. It's a shame you see it otherwise. I see it as a marker of how far we've fallen. We can no longer discuss something as "the rule of law" without people claiming we're discussing politics.
kcplate•6mo ago
> How far we have fallen

This presume that we were once at a level where the rule of law actually existed. Humanity across the world and across the ages has never been in a place where there was equality of all under the law.

mattmaroon•6mo ago
What it means in the real world is entirely political. There is much open to interpretation, by the political system.

And in any case this article isn’t about the theory, it’s a complaint about a politician. This article is 100% political and clearly doesn’t belong here.

Herring•6mo ago
It's just a power grab. And yes, both parties have been treating the rest of the world like that for a long time.

One great strategy in the prisoner's dilemma is tit-for-tat. When it's your turn, repeat exactly what your counterpart did last turn. The rest of the world learned that with tariffs, and hopefully team blue figures it out too.

ptrhvns•6mo ago
If Veritasium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM) is right, tit-for-tat with a little extra forgiveness to break downward spirals is a little better.
jredwards•6mo ago
I've heard tit-for-two-tats is effective
dinfinity•6mo ago
I'm not sure tit-for-tat works with organisations. If leadership changes, the trust that you built up can just go out the door with the old leadership. The EU is learning that the hard way.

What remains stable is a very basic and primitive power dynamic (generally in resources and violence).

morninglight•6mo ago
America has the best judicial system that money can buy!
josefritzishere•6mo ago
This is the very real state of affairs in the US. The Federal government has fallen to an openly corrupt, self-enriching administration. The argument that "it's been that way for a long time" has some merit but completely ignores the sudden and rapid decline this year. We have armed masked groups roaming the streets, sometimes with military support kidnapping people off the street. This is not normal in a developed country. This is nowhere near normal.
28304283409234•6mo ago
Flagging it won't make it less real.
tastyface•6mo ago
Hey mods, remember when you removed the flags on that Hulk Hogan article because “people wanted to discuss it”? Well, how about this one? Surely this is more relevant and interesting to the community than a celebrity death. Surely.
BiteCode_dev•6mo ago
After 2001 the US lost the habeas corpus in total silence. The Snowden revelations demonstrated that you can have a stage level conspiracy unveiled, and again nothing Will happen.

The writing has been on the wall for 2 decades: laws don't matter there.