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Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice and restore memory (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032354.htm
1•walterbell•34s ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – an experimental, meditative audiovisual app

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1•_august•3m ago•0 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
1•martialg•3m ago•0 comments

Horizon-LM: A RAM-Centric Architecture for LLM Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04816
1•chrsw•3m ago•0 comments

We just ordered shawarma and fries from Cursor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WALQOiugbWc
1•jeffreyjin•4m ago•1 comments

Correctio

https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/C/correctio.htm
1•grantpitt•4m ago•0 comments

Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•8m ago•0 comments

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1•breve•9m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•9m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

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6•randycupertino•11m ago•1 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

https://supernote.eu/choose-your-product/
3•janandonly•13m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•13m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•14m ago•0 comments

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1•onesandofgrain•22m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

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7•karakoram•22m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•22m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•22m ago•1 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•24m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
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Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•26m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•30m 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/
2•SirLJ•32m 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/
3•randycupertino•32m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

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3•breve•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•38m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
3•ks2048•38m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•42m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: AI Code Smells

7•dhr•5mo ago
Just like AI text has tells like the em dash and certain phrases, what are some clues that code is AI generated?

Comments

raihankr•5mo ago
I think for AI-generated websites, they tend to use a lot of emojis for almost everything. Also, they use colorful and bright colors. Other indication is using a single HTML file for a page, with embedded CSS and JS. In my opinion, most developers who wrotes the codes themselves most likely wouldn't heavily embed their CSS and JS into the HTML file because of readability.
ayyeye2•5mo ago
While I'm sure this question is being asked in good faith, and this site is certainly the place for discussion regarding such matters, anyone replying might want to consider that you are assiting both sides in the development of this tech by pointing out it's identifying features. All clues to how LLMs generate and display output can then be better hidden from their next iteration.

Think twice; don't feed the beast.

efortis•5mo ago
- Needless guards, e.g. `if (document) document.body…` in the browser.

- Backwards compatibility, "This way handles version X, which end-of-life was 10 years ago."

- Unit tests with too much overlap. "Should add positive nums, Adds neg nums, Adds zero, …"

sky2224•5mo ago
// Comments with first letter capitalized detailing something very obvious on each line.
haute_cuisine•5mo ago
The code doesn't work in subtle ways, has low level of craft and slowly halts development speed over time because abstractions haven't been well thought of. It looks good on the surface if you doesn't care to spend energy investigating why it's not or don't have enough experience to see the sloppy work.
muzani•5mo ago
Repeated code. Like SingleFormDialog() and SimpleDialog(). PositiveButton() and PrimaryButton(). Humans do this, but only when different people wrote the classes.

Tests that are not connected to anything. You'll have FooTest but it's all mocks, never connect to Foo. My favorite was something like Assert('this function is able to destroy a planet') which returns true as just because it asserted a string.

Comments as signboards where to go next.

Really specific comments like `Alice function has been moved to RepositoryAlice`. Especially things that nobody would ever ask about.

paulcole•5mo ago
> what are some clues that code is AI generated?

Who gives a shit?

If it works it works.

datadrivenangel•5mo ago
Lots of doc strings and lots of functions.
moomoo11•5mo ago
Two methods that could have been one method. Or one method that could have been split into multiple.

I’ve noticed that AI is really terrible at following instructions sometimes. Either it takes it too literally, or it complete ignores it.