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Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
1•PaulHoule•39s ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
1•dshearer•1m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•2m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•6m 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•8m 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•9m ago•2 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•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•15m 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•15m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•18m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•18m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•22m ago•1 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•23m 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•24m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
2•SchwKatze•24m 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•25m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•26m 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•27m ago•2 comments

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

1•Yogender78•27m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
2•vedantnair•27m 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•28m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
6•vedantnair•28m ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•30m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
2•s4074433•34m 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•36m ago•0 comments

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

2•amichail•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•43m ago•2 comments

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

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•45m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•spenvo•45m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Does No Response Mean a Bad Idea?

3•samehsbs•6mo ago
I've posted on Ask HN a couple of times, asking for feedback or thoughts on ideas I'm exploring, but I get no real interaction. No upvotes, no comments.

I'm wondering: does that generally mean the idea is just not interesting, or is it more about timing or wording?

Would love to hear how others interpret silence on HN. How do you know if it's your idea that didn’t resonate, or just a quiet post?

Comments

JohnFen•6mo ago
I don't think you can assume that no response means the idea is bad. When I pass on these, sometimes it's that, but sometimes it's that the idea is something that may be good, but isn't something of interest to me, or isn't something I know anything about, or isn't something I have an opinion on. Sometimes, I don't feel like I understood what was said well enough to have a comment about it. Sometimes, it's about the title: if the title doesn't tell me the topic, or is clickbaity, then I'm not even going to read the post. Sometimes the idea is something that is not actually relevant to what HN is about.

And sometimes it's just timing -- as in, I never saw it.

samehsbs•6mo ago
it's kind of a mix of all those points! Usually i click on titles that share my interest.
PaulHoule•6mo ago
Personally I feel like the /new page is flooded with "here's a low-effort business idea based on AI, what is your feedback?" or "here's something I vibe coded that almost worked" or "how come vibe coding works when other people do it but it doesn't work when I do it?" or "I never even used GPT-5 but here's my hot take!"

If you had serious plans to make a GPT-6 that's a different thing but we don't want to hear about "me too" ideas unless you've got something to back them up, and probably don't if you do have something to back them up -- I think you'd get better result pitching something AI powered without ever saying "AI".

But seriously, the average post to HN gets exactly 1 vote. Don't take it personally.

samehsbs•6mo ago
Thank you for your thoughts!
andsoitis•6mo ago
I looked at your Ask HN posts (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=samehsbs)

I think your expectations of the HN community doesn't quite match what people are primarily on here for. If I may; you're treating it as a way to get early feedback on startup / product ideas, but HN users are primarily here to discuss or debate interesting topics, not to help you get a product off the ground.

Yes, people also provide feedback on products, but usually it is in a later phase of its development and then lands as a Show HN.

If you look at the Ask posts (https://news.ycombinator.com/ask) you will get a sense of what kinds of things resonate.

samehsbs•6mo ago
I appreciate your Thought! a valid point
PaulHoule•6mo ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew which shows asks that were not successful (almost all of them) for comparison
samehsbs•6mo ago
I already built MVPs before and host them but didn't work for different reasons, so i thought to validate the idea first before building it is smarter!