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Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
2•RebelPotato•3m ago•0 comments

Dorsey's Block cutting up to 10% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/business/dorseys-block-cutting-up-10-staff-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-02...
1•dev_tty01•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freenet Lives – Real-Time Decentralized Apps at Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxNBz1VTE0
1•sanity•7m ago•1 comments

In the AI age, 'slow and steady' doesn't win

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/30/2026/in-the-ai-age-slow-and-steady-is-on-the-outs
1•mooreds•15m ago•1 comments

Administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-wont-let-student-deported-honduras-return-2...
1•petethomas•15m ago•0 comments

How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated? (2023)

https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks (2025)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/11/23/ai-networks-and-mechanical-turks
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Awesome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKVEUGEk6Y
1•linkdd•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built a Free AI LinkedIn Carousel Generator

https://carousel-ai.intellisell.ai/
1•troyethaniel•20m ago•0 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html
1•todsacerdoti•21m ago•0 comments

Open Challange (Get all Universities involved

https://x.com/i/grok/share/3513b9001b8445e49e4795c93bcb1855
1•rwilliamspbgops•22m ago•0 comments

Apple Tried to Tamper Proof AirTag 2 Speakers – I Broke It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLK6ixQpQsQ
2•gnabgib•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Isolating AI-generated code from human code | Vibe as a Code

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gace/vaac
1•bstrama•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: More beautiful and usable Hacker News

https://twitter.com/shivamhwp/status/2020125417995436090
3•shivamhwp•25m ago•0 comments

Toledo Derailment Rescue [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHh5yHxkfU
1•samsolomon•27m ago•0 comments

War Department Cuts Ties with Harvard University

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4399812/war-department-cuts-ties-with-harva...
6•geox•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
1•yi_wang•32m ago•0 comments

A Bid-Based NFT Advertising Grid

https://bidsabillion.com/
1•chainbuilder•35m ago•1 comments

AI readability score for your documentation

https://docsalot.dev/tools/docsagent-score
1•fazkan•43m ago•0 comments

NASA Study: Non-Biologic Processes Don't Explain Mars Organics

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-ful...
2•bediger4000•46m ago•2 comments

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74w48d8epgo
2•dabinat•47m ago•0 comments

X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/x-pays-1-million-prize-creator-history-racist-posts-rcna257768
6•doener•49m ago•1 comments

155M US land parcel boundaries

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-layer
2•tjwebbnorfolk•53m ago•0 comments

Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
2•jbegley•57m ago•1 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net
1•dallen97•1h ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
2•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
2•y1n0•1h ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
2•tolerance•1h ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

An AI Company Just Fired Someone for Endorsing Human Extinction

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/did-an-ai-company-just-fire-someone
9•AndrewKemendo•6mo ago

Comments

KingOfCoders•6mo ago
What people often get wrong (this was xAI), when Musk talks about "humanity" and "Mars" that needs to survive and not go extinct, he means him and his many (dozens? hundreds?) of children, not you and me. Many people seem to misunderstand Mr. Musk there.
antonvs•6mo ago
I'm not so sure. He's smart enough not to risk his life on a certainly doomed mission. He's already realized that a realistic Mars colony isn't going to happen in his lifetime, which is probably what triggered him to start spiraling. Depending on how things unfold, he might try to con some of his children into going, though.
kubb•6mo ago
Without major breakthroughs, a Mars colony isn’t going to happen, period.

And these breakthroughs are by no means guaranteed. Remember, we still don’t have flying skateboards, despite all the technological progress since Back to the Future came out.

What’s stopping us is physics itself, not lack of sufficiently complex technology.

glimshe•6mo ago
What is the key major breakthrough (vs incremental technology refinement) needed in your opinion? Serious question.
kubb•6mo ago
1) Orders of magnitude cheaper, faster and more reliable travel in both directions.

2) Ability to recreate Earth-like conditions including gravity, atmosphere, sunshine, farming and raising livestock on a massive scale (hundreds of square kilometers) on Mars.

3) Ability to create adequate conditions for the transport phase.

4) Ability to justify the investment (most issues on earth solved, remember opportunity cost).

calciphus•6mo ago
Take a look at "A City on Mars" https://www.acityonmars.com/ for a detailed analysis and a pretty entertaining book!
antonvs•6mo ago
I agree, I was just being cowardly and insulating myself from "you can't be sure it'll never happen" comments.

In the far enough future, and assuming we escape a technological collapse due to climate change or world war, something like a large base housing hundreds of people at a time seems possible. It could be built autonomously by reasonably intelligent robots, which isn't that much of a stretch from the tech we're converging on today.

But a true colony, with long term residents having and raising children, is essentially a fantasy at this point.

RickJWagner•6mo ago
Source?
monero-xmr•6mo ago
I’ve met tons of people who are pro-extinction even if they don’t acknowledge it that way. The “global warming means I can’t have kids” people I’ve met numerous times. I guess we just need to all die so a planet full of unfeeling matter can decrease a few degrees (?)
kubb•6mo ago
I'm always surprised by this attitude - just because one person doesn't want children, doesn't mean that the world population isn't at its peak and growing.

Extinction of the species while the species has 8.2 billion specimen seems like the most illogical thing to be woried about. If you have a full fridge of food and don't want to go grocery shoping, it doesn't make you pro-starvation.

If the population drops, and there's suddenly more space and resources available, people will want children again.

explodes•6mo ago
That is one way to apply the most extreme label to something that may not fit the mold.
Animats•6mo ago
We can see the beginning of the end of humans now. "Peak baby" worldwide was in 2013. Essentially all of the developed world has a birth rate below replacement rate.[1] This could just be a slow phaseout of humans over the next century as AIs take over.

Milton Friedman's position that the sole purpose of the corporation is to maximize shareholder value is now accepted economic wisdom in the US.[1] So, once AIs get better at running businesses than humans, investment decisions will put AIs in charge. It's the free market in action.

Next big milestone to watch for: first big company with an AI in charge and outperforming competitors. This outcome is inherent in capitalism.

[1] https://desapublications.un.org/publications/world-populatio...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...

AndrewKemendo•6mo ago
100% concur

Thats what we’re doing

Conways law always wins

dpassens•6mo ago
How would you know that human population will go down to zero rather than stabilise at a lower point or start to grow back after a period of decline? All projections into the future are, of course, just hypotheses but "people will have children as the vast majority of them are biologically hardwired to do" strikes me as a lot more likely than all of humanity just deciding not to keep having children.
readthenotes1•6mo ago
So the "worthy successor" of people are basically cucks for AI?
aitchnyu•6mo ago
I thought of A-GI as a motivation-free program that can turn paperclip-maximizer. Should an AGI necessarily "want" something?