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Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit
1•radeeyate•57s ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/
1•matt_d•1m ago•0 comments

Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/
1•blenderob•2m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html
1•CommonGuy•3m ago•0 comments

Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125083427.htm
1•fanf2•4m ago•0 comments

Fantasy football that celebrates great games

https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/ultigamemate/
1•blenderob•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animalese

https://animalese.barcoloudly.com/
1•noreplica•4m ago•0 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
1•simonw•5m ago•0 comments

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

https://blog.plover.com/tech/gpt/micro-worlds.html
1•blenderob•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Velocity - Free/Cheaper Linear Clone but with MCP for agents

https://velocity.quest
1•kevinelliott•6m ago•1 comments

Corning Invented a New Fiber-Optic Cable for AI and Landed a $6B Meta Deal [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KLbc5DlRs
1•ksec•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: XAPIs.dev – Twitter API Alternative at 90% Lower Cost

https://xapis.dev
1•nmfccodes•8m ago•0 comments

Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst
1•eatitraw•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

https://github.com/Anipaleja/nginx-defender
2•anipaleja•14m ago•0 comments

The Super Sharp Blade

https://netzhansa.com/the-super-sharp-blade/
1•robin_reala•15m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
1•tusslewake•17m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out
1•stevekrouse•18m 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•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
3•birdmania•18m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
3•samasblack•20m 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•21m ago•0 comments

Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com
2•microflash•22m 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•23m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/
2•facundo_olano•25m 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•25m 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•25m ago•1 comments

Dependency Resolution Methods

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html
1•zdw•26m 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•27m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
2•maxmoq•28m 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/
2•headalgorithm•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Carved stone mask – Pre-pottery, Neolithic B period

https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/334459-0
49•webmaven•5mo ago

Comments

nemomarx•5mo ago
So how do we think it was made if it's pre pottery? Pure stone carving for this kind of detail seems very impressive
YeGoblynQueenne•5mo ago
>> This carved stone mask depicting a human face (...)

It's carved stone. Must weigh a ton to carry on one's face.

noselasd•5mo ago
2.2-4.4 pounds, not that much tbh. (source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/140610-ol...)
hopelite•5mo ago
That does seem relatively presumptuous of the "scientists". Maybe "humanoid" would be more appropriate, especially considering that it does not seem to demonstrate any effort to accurately represent the human face. It could very well represent some sort of spirit or "demon".

It also could very well not have been a mask humans would have worn, but instead it could have been part of some other thing like a statue or maybe an effigy that was burned, i.e., the "mask" could have been added to a straw or wood statue/figure that was then burned; saving the "mask" for next season/time.

It could have also very well just have been a kind of thing you would use to deter intruders by having or placing it somewhere.

A mask presumes that a human would wear it or it emulates such a purpose. It does not even need to be that. Think of old porcelain dolls whose face was porcelain but the rest of the head was stuffed fabric. That would also explain the holes on its perimeter. That kind of thing is also still done in certain places during various pagan celebrations that have survive and are so old no one knows how old they are, probably handed down and evolved from even before the time of this "mask's" creation.

nemomarx•5mo ago
The teeth marks look kinda like a skeleton to me. I could see it being part of an effigy but also maybe sewn into a headdress or something?
Avicebron•5mo ago
Could be, I'm getting "death mask" vibes. So maybe something someone would be buried with, If we can assume there were fasteners of some sort in the holes around the circumference I can see this being sewn on to burial wrappings.
mbonnet•5mo ago
> does not seem to demonstrate any effort to accurately represent the human face

you must be being facetious. This is plainly obviously a human face.

Evidlo•5mo ago
8800-6500 BC if you were wondering
dyauspitr•5mo ago
That’s insanely old. I didn’t even know we knew of communities that old outside of Gobleki Tepe
hopelite•5mo ago
It depends on your definition of communities. The oldest preserved cave paintings and artifacts from what is now Germany indicate that there were communities 35,000-40,000 years ago.

Just take a moment and contemplate that the best estimate we have has a range of 5,000 years.

contingencies•5mo ago
Aborigines arrived in Australia ~50K-65KYA
gerdesj•5mo ago
Do you mean something like: There is evidence that approximately 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, homo sapiens reached the land that we now call Australia.

You can't possibly describe those people as Aborigines before arrival. Its almost as daft as describing any modern nation as being ready formed when it sticks up a flag and starts slagging off the neighbours.

The colonization that originally puts hom. sap. on Terra Horribilis, sorry, Australis is remarkable. Can you imagine just how many efforts failed? Its a long way to Aus from the last island hop. A quick scan, it look like what we now call Papua New Guninea would be a possible launch pad.

itsnowandnever•5mo ago
the oldest discovered buildings for continuous occupancy are actually Tel al-Qaramel near Aleppo (not far from Gobekli Tepe) and they're 1000 years older than Gobekli Tepe

the oldest continuously inhabited city is Jericho (Ariha in Arabic) and that's essentially where this mask was found (100KM to the south, anyway). Jericho has been inhabited since 9600 BC.

backprop1989•5mo ago
At once familiar and also utterly alien. Perhaps part of a ritual to honor the dead, or perhaps worn to scare children into eating their vegetables. We'll never know.
contingencies•5mo ago
I'm going to print this for my kid's orthodontist's office. Funny bloke, always wears crazy socks and refers to himself as a "fencing contractor".
stavarotti•5mo ago
Every time I see artifacts like these I can’t help but think whether we are producing artifacts that will be discovered 10000 years into the future, and still be in a robust state.
CognitiveLens•5mo ago
There are definitely projects designed with the specific intent of doing that, e.g. https://longnow.org/clock/

But there are other things, including awesome-and-dangerous nuclear waste sites, with warning messages/symbols designed to last beyond the collapse of modern civilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...

throwup238•5mo ago
Oh a LOT will still be around in ten thousand years, especially if climate change causes a lot of desertification. The oldest Egyptian papyrus is almost 4,600 years old and that’s just papyrus, an organic material that doesn’t survives very long in more humid climates.

Ten thousand years isn’t very much in geological timescales, not enough to bury everything and crush it to dust so anything that gets left in a landfill (and not harvested in the future) has a chance of surviving. Anything made of noble metals like gold and platinum especially, so it’ll mostly be a question of how much is thrown away versus recycled.

Our modern middens will be full of artifacts.

analog31•5mo ago
The Disney copyrights will still be around.
ahazred8ta•5mo ago
You can leave your own kiln fired clay tablet. https://dumbcuneiform.com
sawjet•5mo ago
Our geostationary satellites should probably be able to last for a billion years without major decay.
throwup238•5mo ago
This might not actually be the oldest mask. There are 16 known Neolithic masks in the world and only two have secure archaeological context (the stuff found in the same strata as the mask that we can actually radiocarbon date, like bones or wood). Most of them were found long ago and sold to collections without archaeologists excavating them, losing a lot of the scientific value. AFAIK more than ten of them are still in private collections.

This mask is not one of the two, as it was discovered by a Palestinian farmer and without a controlled excavation all that context was lost (although they’ve done surveys of the discovery site and found evidence of similarly aged artifacts). It was dated with patina analysis, which is a bit controversial to say the least. Which is to say, the scientific consensus about its age is fragile.

every•5mo ago
Reminds me of a hockey goalie mask...
harbingerofdoom•5mo ago
Israeli archeology is a joke Talk about vested interests.