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Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
1•edent•3m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

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1•buildingwdavid•6m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
1•tosh•12m ago•0 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
2•onurkanbkrc•13m ago•0 comments

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

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Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

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1•headalgorithm•19m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
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Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•19m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
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Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

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3•juujian•21m ago•2 comments

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

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
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Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
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NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
2•DEntisT_•27m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

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2•tosh•28m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

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1•simonvc•28m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
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Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

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Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

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Skim – vibe review your PRs

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

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Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

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Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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What the longevity experts don't tell you

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2•machielrey•49m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

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3•tablets•54m ago•1 comments

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

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Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

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Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism

https://bobmschwartz.com/2017/12/28/umberto-eco-ur-fascism/
110•saubeidl•4mo ago

Comments

lawlessone•4mo ago
As ludicrous as i may sound, would contrived anger over companies/sports teams refreshing logos/mascots etc fall under this umbrella?

Back when Pepsi refreshed their logo, the reaction was mostly just people making fun of it. If they did the same now it seems like there would be anger.

uncletaco•4mo ago
The reaction to most companies changing logos now is just making fun of it. Look at cracker barrel.
kubb•4mo ago
Weren't people going around saying that the new logo is woke or some nonsense like that?
uncletaco•4mo ago
Some, sure, but most people were upset that it was bland and followed the trend of other companies that have been removing texture or uniqueness from their brand logos in favor of simple branding.

I sincerely doubt Steak 'n Shake tweeting "fire the CEO" was a serious call to action so much as it was jumping on the hate train for fun.

thomassmith65•4mo ago
It's obvious why they changed their logo. It's not the mascot's ethnicity and gender; it's that he looks like he's straight out of a 1990s "100,000 Pieces of Vector Clip Art" CD.
icameron•4mo ago
Great observation! It was also too complex to be a tile for an app launcher or favicon. It has to be legible at 180 x 180px these days.
mieses•4mo ago
"It has to be" sounds fascist
dfxm12•4mo ago
https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1958279379408372204

The framing isn't just that it is "woke", but, more to the essay, that they're destroying a classic American aesthetic.

They're very much making this out to be: it's us vs them, and mythologizing tradition. Equating corporate identity as American history does well to push corporate capitalism, but funnily enough, the logo only goes back to 1977. It's only as old as Don Jr!

conn10mfan•4mo ago
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracker-barrel-hyperre...

this may be of interest to you

lawlessone•4mo ago
thanks, was a good read.
dfxm12•4mo ago
I don't think it is ludicrous. The mainstream media hammers home that change is bad (without really reflecting on why), even meaningless aesthetic changes. They equate these logo and mascot changes are a threat to your way of life. Manufacturing small controversies like this conditions their viewers that they must always prefer the previous status quo, i.e. the cult of tradition.
Barrin92•4mo ago
Almost all of Eco's points are salient but I think the most important one today (omitted in this shortened version), is the point he makes about a kind of mass elitism:

" Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors."

What's unique about fascist ideologies compared to many other forms of authoritarianism is its petty sadism, where people will accept getting kicked as long as they can kick down themselves, akin to a school yard bully or prison system. Rather than exercise solidarity with people even worse off, it's a kind of of mutual abuse. Elitism with an inferiority complex. Which is I think what makes it so attractive on the internet.

full text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

dfxm12•4mo ago
LBJ recognized this: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9150190-if-you-can-convince...
anonymars•4mo ago
This might be the missing piece of a puzzle (fall in love vs fall in line).

Essentially in broad strokes (at the risk of caricature), you have one group that is cursed by trying to always build consensus: no one can be left behind/marginalized. Hence little gets done because heaven forbid someone's feelings get hurt or gets left a bit behind. It's also easier to subvert because it tends to be a more open tribe.

On the other side you have the hierarchy. Fall in line, know your place. It's effective at getting things done but steamrolls those at the bottom of the totem pole. Outsiders are not even on the totem pole.

Both of these, you could say, are attempts to cope with the slings and arrows of life: the consensus version attempting to minimize the harm to an equal minimum for everyone. The hierarchy version shunts the harm down to each lower level in the hierarchy (sucks to be at the bottom).

Perhaps two opposite points on a spectrum of organizing parts into a whole in general, and if you look you should see things move between the two everywhere. From personal relationships to code organization.

lovich•4mo ago
Well this was flagged off the front page quickly