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

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

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•2m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•5m 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•5m 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...
1•pseudolus•5m 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•6m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•7m 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•7m 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
2•obscurette•7m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•9m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•9m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•12m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•13m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•13m 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•13m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•14m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•15m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•16m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•16m 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•17m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•17m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•20m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•21m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•23m 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•24m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•25m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•27m ago•2 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•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Metamaterials, AI, and the Road to Invisibility Cloaks

https://open.substack.com/pub/thepotentialsurface/p/metamaterials-ai-and-the-road-to
36•Annabella_W•4mo ago

Comments

bovermyer•4mo ago
More than an invisibility cloak, I'd like to be able to "paint" my house with a programmable material that could change color/pattern.
dboreham•4mo ago
HOA president enters the room..
eru•4mo ago
Mostly only in the US.
kamarg•4mo ago
I knew a guy that was extremely upset to find out that there isn't a lenticular garage door product so he could have it display an "animated" image as it opened/closed.
GistNoesis•4mo ago
Do you mean something like an e-ink display like on the BMW iX flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpKO-VuHMFA
raugustinus•4mo ago
So confused when I read invincibility cloak.
Annabella_W•4mo ago
Now that really would be science fiction haha!
Nevermark•4mo ago
Ah yes, the dynamic structural assistance cloak. It is on the list.

Along with the aerodynamic lift and propulsion cloak.

The future is super.

Legend2440•4mo ago
You could probably make a bulletproof cloak out of kevlar right now.

Might be a little stiff though.

bilsbie•4mo ago
Minor thing but how cool to use this on pillars of cars and have total visibility ?
Annabella_W•4mo ago
This would actually be great! I guess the core challenge to achieving this would be in designing a metamaterial that meets the structural demands (strength-to-weight ratio) of a car body while also performing the complex wave manipulation required for invisibility. I wonder how far we are from reconciling those two very different requirements. Perhaps with the use of AI for metamaterials design we could be closer than we think!
bilsbie•4mo ago
They were talking about a cloak. So conceivably you just keep the existing materials and wrap this around it.
A_D_E_P_T•4mo ago
You don't need metamaterials. There are various patents on "invisibility cloak" systems, and most of them use screens and cameras to project what's behind the wearer onto the front-facing screen, e.g.: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2016160588A1

Some others, mostly intended for military vehicles, aim to match surface IR emissions to the background.

Using metamaterials -- which need to be printed or, even worse, made with lithography techniques -- adds unnecessary cost and vastly increases complexity.

nine_k•4mo ago
Screens have a very limited range of brightness. More importantly, they only project a picture in one direction, so, if you can move laterally, you'll notice that it's a flat picture.

If metamaterials can alleviate any of that to some degree, they could make a form of invisibility cloak covering large objects practical.

Annabella_W•4mo ago
Agree, both screens and metamaterials for this application have their pros and cons. Manufacturing metamaterials at a large scale is an area I'm looking into next!
nl•4mo ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=588610 from 2009, when it was first shown this was possible.

Edit: and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2762325 which had more discussion

Annabella_W•4mo ago
Thanks for sharing!