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They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
1•breve•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•4m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
1•pastage•4m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•5m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
1•birdculture•10m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•16m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•17m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now hallucinated as 100% AI SLOP

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•22m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•24m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
2•tosh•30m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
3•oxxoxoxooo•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•34m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•39m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•40m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•43m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
3•myk-e•45m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•46m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•48m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•50m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•52m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•55m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•1h ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•1h ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Dan Brown: The human species has never created a technology it hasn't weaponized

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-21/dan-brown-the-human-species-has-never-created-a-technology-that-it-hasnt-weaponized.html
19•pilingual•4mo ago

Comments

vivzkestrel•4mo ago
AI is now the latest to spread propaganda, create deepfakes and alter narratives. While it has a few good things happening around, much of it feels like enabling the masses to create slop
BoredPositron•4mo ago
I don't think it's the masses creating slop. It's just throwing a megaphone to the slop makers.
fennecbutt•4mo ago
Oh, soooo insightful.
Calvin02•4mo ago
Pacemakers? MRI machines? Kidney Dialysis?
nerdsniper•4mo ago
Allegedly the CIA has researched weaponizing pacemakers by hacking them at a distance.

But your point stands, and a different argument would be needed to refute it.

kazinator•4mo ago
What is the weaponization of a memory-foam mattress?

Of a dove-tail joint in woodworking?

> Derek Amato began playing the piano magnificently after nearly drowning in a swimming pool. It happened in 2006. Ten years later, a 16-year-old soccer player, Reuben Nsemoh, began speaking perfect Spanish after being knocked out by a ball.

Tabloid bullshit.

nmstoker•4mo ago
This is the sort of idea that gets momentum just because people don't find it easy to recall counter examples on the basis the idea puts the problem: most people aren't mentally indexing tech on a weaponized or not basis. Therefore to validate the idea they need to do a scan of technologies in their memory, many give up and just accept it.

Fortunately as people here demonstrated there are a myriad of counter examples.

I look forward to someone challenging Brown regarding the weaponization of the dishwasher! And the zipper, velcro, food processors, air-conditioning, elevators, escalators, weighing scales, thermometers and wind turbines!

oreially•4mo ago
Going back in history more: aqueducts, looms, pottery, and baths were not really ever weaponized.
stevenalowe•4mo ago
Supposedly someone(s) tried to assassinate Miyamoto Musashi by trapping him in the bath
c_o_n_v_e_x•4mo ago
Humans weaponizing water flow (or lack there of) has been routinely used through out history.
Zee2•4mo ago
I’ll give it a shot. Zippers/velcro are critical for most modern military gear. Elevators are used to increase the storage capacity for warplanes on aircraft carriers. Thermometers (well, any temperature sensing device) are important for many weapons systems, guidance computers, etc. Wind turbines… hmm, the infamous Stuka siren was basically a wind turbine welded to the side of the plane!

(This is mostly facetious)

djohnston•4mo ago
Antibiotics
owenversteeg•4mo ago
Wow, this is a terrible interview. The interviewer repeatedly references his book Inferno. I like the Telegraph review of it, "Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown", available here sans paywall: https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...

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