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My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•17s 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•33s ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•1m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•1m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•3m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
3•derriz•3m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•3m 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•3m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•4m ago•0 comments

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

1•MicroWagie•7m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•8m ago•0 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
2•jackhalford•9m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•10m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•12m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•14m ago•1 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•14m ago•0 comments

Jeremy Wade's Mighty Rivers

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyOro6vMGsP_xkW6FXxsaeHUkD5e-9AUa
1•saikatsg•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM

https://github.com/sam-mfb/backgammon-mcp
2•sam256•17m ago•0 comments

AI Command and Staff–Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming

https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-command-and-staff-operational-evidence-and-in...
1•tomwphillips•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CCBot – Control Claude Code from Telegram via tmux

https://github.com/six-ddc/ccbot
1•sixddc•18m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

2•amichail•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Convert your articles into videos in one click

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3•kositheastro•23m ago•1 comments

Red Queen's Race

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2•rzk•23m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•26m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•26m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
2•tosh•27m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Spring Boot Deep Dive

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/
1•jjcob_sikorski•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•32m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
1•vasanthv•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•38m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ukrainian Sniper Sets New Record for Longest Confirmed Engagement (13,000ft/4km)

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukrainian-sniper-sets-new-record-for-longest-confirmed-engagement/
7•giuliomagnifico•5mo ago

Comments

sema4hacker•5mo ago
Here "engagement" means "target was hit". What does "aiming supported by an artificial intelligence system" mean? What does "adjustments from an unmanned aerial vehicle" mean? The rifle has "an effective range of up to 2,000 m, and a maximum range of up to 7,000 m" (though it was apparently effective at 4,000 meters). Does "maximum" vs. "effective" mean you're unlikely to hit anything over 2,000?
mvid•5mo ago
Not sure, but I believe that they were using some proprietary system to account for wind/temp, because over that distance they will have a massive impact. Adjustments via drone likely just means they used a drone to get a better idea of adjustments for follow up shots. I would imagine that the rifle was even held by a device to make more precise micro adjustments

Assuming his rifle was factory accurate to 1/2 MOA and he made zero shooter related inconsistencies, and all environmental factors between the shooter and the target were accounted for, at 4km he would expect to hit inside of a 60cm diameter circle

Shots like this are mostly luck

symbolicAGI•5mo ago
This war is Peak Sniper.

The Line of Contact is becoming too lethal for soldiers and crewed weapons. In Ukraine, drones account for the majority of russian casualties. The "grey zone" between opposing dug-in positions has greatly widened beyond rifle range. Drones are now out-ranging the Soviet era artillery that russia uses.

So it is simply too dangerous for a sniper to crawl across 20-30 Km of grey zone under enemy observation day and night to reach an advantageous sniper's nest.