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Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
1•ShinyaKoyano•1m ago•0 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
1•m00dy•3m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•4m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•10m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•14m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•15m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•16m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•16m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•17m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•21m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•22m ago•0 comments

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

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•22m 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•31m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•31m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•33m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•33m 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...
2•surprisetalk•33m 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...
4•pseudolus•34m 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•34m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•35m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

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2•1vuio0pswjnm7•36m 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•36m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•37m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•38m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•40m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•41m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•42m 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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