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Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
1•onurkanbkrc•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•3m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•6m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•8m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•9m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
1•mnming•9m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
2•juujian•11m ago•1 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•12m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•15m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
1•DEntisT_•17m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
2•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

https://mini-ledger.exe.xyz/
1•simonvc•18m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
4•sakanakana00•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•26m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
3•Tehnix•27m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
4•Nive11•28m ago•6 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
2•hunglee2•32m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
3•chartscout•35m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
3•AlexeyBrin•37m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
2•machielrey•39m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
3•tablets•43m ago•1 comments

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•48m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•48m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•49m ago•0 comments

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

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•54m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A 40-year study finds higher science funding under Republicans

https://www.psypost.org/a-40-year-study-finds-higher-science-funding-under-republicans/
17•delichon•4mo ago

Comments

softwaredoug•4mo ago
Historically republicans aren’t exactly fiscal hawks once they have complete power. But they force cuts when they control one chamber of congress.
IAmBroom•4mo ago
They controlled under Clinton, and didn't force severe cuts.

But those republicans more closely resembled rational actors.

RickJWagner•4mo ago
I just listened to Newt Gingrich on a podcast. He offered some great insights and was not mean, politically. It was interesting.
IAmBroom•4mo ago
Make no mistake: he shares massive blame for what the modern GOP has become. "Win at all costs" partisan politics were his stock-in-trade.

But yeah: he was still capable of moral thought and some ethical judgments. He's not Mitt Romney or John McCain, but neither is he a Trumpist.

qgin•4mo ago
Can we bring this back?
TimorousBestie•4mo ago
> The study has some limitations. The analysis identifies a strong association between party control and funding levels, but it cannot definitively prove a cause-and-effect relationship. The 40-year period studied offers limited instances of shifts in political control, which can make it difficult to isolate the precise impact of any single factor. The authors also caution that their findings are historical and may not predict future trends, especially given recent shifts in political rhetoric around science. They note that the observed historical support from Republicans is not a guarantee of future funding priorities.

Understatement of the year.

It’s hard to figure out who is the audience for this study. A hypothetical high-information voter can’t use this study to conclude “If I value science funding, I should vote for Republicans.” A low-or-middle information voter doesn’t care.

Possibly make-work for graduate students?

> Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

They’re an MBA school, they don’t even have a political science department, what is this?

AvAn12•4mo ago
1980s massive sci funding due to “Star Wars” defense program and funding revolutions in computer tech, pharma, public health, telecom, etc. Regan and both Bushes blew up their budgets, ran huge deficits forcing Clinton and Obama into making budget cuts to clean up their messes. So yeah, nominally the article may be true but the history is important.
ceejayoz•4mo ago
> The analysis showed that when Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, the average science and research account received approximately $150 million more in funding than when Democrats held the majority.

Yes, because when the Dems hold the majority, the Republicans filibuster or threaten government shutdowns to force painful cuts.

IAmBroom•4mo ago
Also, comparisons in USD are meaningless. % of the budget, or expressed in terms of GDP, or inflation-adjusted USD, would be far more useful when comparing things separated by four-year cycles.
rob74•4mo ago
> A sweeping 40-year analysis of United States government spending reveals that federal science and research programs received more funding when Republicans controlled the House of Representatives and the presidency.

Well, the current batch of Republicans is working hard to make sure that this observation will no longer be true in the future...

atmavatar•4mo ago
At the end of TFA is a link to the source study at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx5154

To be honest, the source study's graph of funding in particular makes me take this entire article with a giant grain of salt.

The line graph of funding over time looks to me like there's a huge drop-off of scientific funding during the stagflation era under Carter, followed by linearly-increasing funding until the 2008 financial crisis, whereby funding is again cut sharply, then returns to an upward trajectory. Any relation to which party had Congressional or White House control appears to be immaterial.

josefritzishere•4mo ago
Not this year.
analognoise•4mo ago
I mean is this kind of thing really convincing?

The side that thinks vaccines are a hoax, RFK Jr discovered the cause of autism, wants to burn up satellites we’ve already paid for because the carbon numbers are bad, suggested injecting bleach (remember that?), stared at the solar eclipse, constantly makes noise about how women should have fewer rights and maybe the 10 commandments belong in school… are not who you want in charge of science funding. Obviously.

Remember the sharpie path of the hurricane? No need for a supercomputer, we’ve got sharpie.

Team “windmills cause cancer” obviously isn’t better for science, get real.