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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
1•pseudolus•21s ago•0 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•4m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
1•bkls•4m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•5m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
2•roknovosel•5m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•14m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•14m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•16m 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•16m 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...
2•pseudolus•17m 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•17m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•18m 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•19m 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
3•obscurette•19m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•21m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•21m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•23m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•24m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•25m 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•25m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•26m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•26m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•28m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
7•derriz•28m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•28m 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•28m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•29m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•32m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
2•edward•33m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Promises of a US manufacturing Renaissance leave experts scratching their heads

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/18/trumps-tariffs-manufacturing-resurgence-jobs
8•rntn•5mo ago

Comments

taylodl•5mo ago
Business favors predictability and consistency. It doesn't matter so much what politicians do so long as the business and financial market is predictable and consistent for long periods of time. Markets have enough volatility without politics adding to the mix. Businesses by and large aren't going to make significant investments in increasing US manufacturing without that predictability and consistency. There have been a few making promises to invest in US manufacturing, but you'll notice the details are always scant and a timeline is rarely mentioned. As such, it's understood to be posturing for the current administration in order to curry favor.
duxup•5mo ago
Another issue with constancy, the companies getting special deals with tariffs and so on are those who have cosied up to the executive branch. There's only so much room for those folks I'm not sure many businesses can count on that advantage or afford to maintain it (even some that seemed to be in found themselves out and having to suck up again).
nabla9•5mo ago
It's not just Trump, it's also US public who thinks that domestic manufacturing brings jobs. Even Destin Sandlin (Smarter Every day guy) hinted it in a recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

Manufacturing as share of jobs declines even in those countries that are big at manufacturing. China, Germany, Japan, South Korea. China buys half of worlds robots. Manufacturing can create only very low paying jobs that people do in third countries.

You can bring more manufacturing but not much more jobs. Most likely the lost comparative advantage means net welfare loss if you force it.

toomuchtodo•5mo ago
The US public thinks bringing back domestic manufacturing will bring back good jobs. Of course, this is not true. Most of this will be automated. Importantly, any job can be a good job with a sufficient wage and labor protections. The performance art around "good manufacturing jobs" is a carrot being thrown to an unsophisticated electorate so they don't find out there aren't going to be good jobs for them (and so they don't figure out that organizing and labor policy are the only ways to better jobs). Very similar to the propaganda of unskilled vs skilled labor and the justification for the pay disparity between the two.
jqpabc123•5mo ago
Manufacturing is increasingly done by robots.

This is true in China as well as the USA.

Example: Hyundai has an auto assembly plant in Mobile Alabama that builds new cars using less than 20 hours of human labor per car.

Tariffs are nothing but a huge new consumption tax. Tax increases rarely lead to job creation and consumers pay the price for it.