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Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•3m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
1•rolph•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•8m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•11m ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•12m ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
2•rolph•12m ago•0 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•16m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•19m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
3•cratermoon•20m ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

https://philipotoole.com/the-source-code-was-the-moat-no-longer/
1•otoolep•20m ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•20m ago•0 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
2•hhs•24m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

1•vampiregrey•26m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•27m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
2•hhs•29m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•29m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

2•Philpax•30m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
2•cui•36m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•38m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
3•EA-3167•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
6•fliellerjulian•40m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•42m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
3•RickJWagner•44m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•44m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
15•jbegley•45m ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

The DHS has been harvesting DNA from Americans for years

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-has-been-collecting-us-citizens-dna-for-years/
128•righthand•4mo ago

Comments

ChrisArchitect•4mo ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353800
reaperducer•4mo ago
I liked the world better when the tinfoil hat people were wrong.
slackfan•4mo ago
So back before we came out of the trees?
sschueller•4mo ago
The irony is that they didn't force people to give their DNA (except if you were arrested) but instead people willingly gave it and even paid for it.

If you think Bill Gates is going to implant a chip in your brain via a COVID vaccine you are mistaken. Once such tech exists (if ever) people will be lining up in queues and pay a lot of money to get it implanted.

reaperducer•4mo ago
The irony is that they didn't force people to give their DNA (except if you were arrested) but instead people willingly gave it and even paid for it.

You and I must have read different articles. The one being discussed here is about American citizens, who are not under arrest, being compelled to give cheek swabs as a condition of re-entering their own country.

add-sub-mul-div•4mo ago
This isn't a conspiracy, this just a law enforcement practice that people might not like and sounds scary enough to make for an inflammatory headline.
codedokode•4mo ago
Treating everyone as a potential criminal and collecting their DNA and fingerprints is not normal practice. Fingerprints are collected only from criminals or suspects.
fnordpiglet•4mo ago
Except it clearly states that you’re not allowed to submit DNA for civil statute enforcement or no reason at all by law, so it’s not just a law enforcement practice. It’s an illegal law enforcement practice.
OptionOfT•4mo ago
https://archive.ph/ov4RV
pfdietz•4mo ago
Have they ever encouraged people to submit DNA samples in order to identify criminal relatives? I could see this going over well with the law-and-order part of the population.
timcobb•4mo ago
This is a great call, these folks aren't devious or clever enough to understand that they can just ask...
pfdietz•4mo ago
Even more devious would be "submit DNA samples and we'll give you immunity from paternity lawsuits", since concerns over that might inhibit some.
potato3732842•4mo ago
Nobody who needs protection from a paternity lawsuit would fall for it.
IAmBroom•4mo ago
Oh, my sweet summer child. Have you met any teenage boys? Or most philandering men?
IAmBroom•4mo ago
A murderer was caught because he was semi-closely (2nd-cousin) related to my cousin. Her DNA was a loose match to evidence. They found out she is The Geneologist for our family, and asked her to help... Boom, found him.
Workaccount2•4mo ago
You just follow them around until they throw their lunch in the park waste bin, then collect their DNA off the garbage. No need to compel anyone.
pfdietz•4mo ago
That's the end game, but first you have to figure who to follow around. To do that, you triangulate with public DNA data of somewhat distant relatives. Forensic genealogy.
toomuchtodo•4mo ago
HN Search: GEDmatch - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
yegle•4mo ago
California is ahead of the curve:

DNA of every baby born in California is stored. Who has access to it? - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-biobank-dna-babies-w...

SilverElfin•4mo ago
That is terrible and dystopian. Even if they claim to honor deletion how would you know? It may be resold already or in backups or wherever.
righthand•4mo ago
Frightening and has convinced me why people are moving away.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF•4mo ago
Tough call between the big state with NIMBYs and surveillance, or the big state where they want me to use the men's bathroom and the cops will give you hell for fleeing the state to get an abortion
Rebelgecko•4mo ago
I would suspect that if you polled people moving between states, DNA collection wouldn't even make the top 20 reasons
b00ty4breakfast•4mo ago
yeah, that's why people are fleeing the state that bursts into literal flames every year or two
sellmesoap•4mo ago
I remember a friend of a friend describing being arrested for putting a peace protest flyer on a public bulletin board in Australia (protesting the second gulf war) and having a DNA sample taken at that time.
wormius•4mo ago
I'm old enough to remember this: https://www.nydailynews.com/1998/12/17/test-tot-dna-sez-rudy...

(1998, NYC, "America's Mayor" before he became such)

"Mayor Giuliani said yesterday that he favors DNA testing for all children at birth as a tool to fight crime, track deadbeat dads and resolve paternity suits. Though not formally proposing such a plan, the mayor told reporters, “I would have no problem with that or fingerprinting all children. “I think DNA should be available the way fingerprints are available,” he added. The mayor’s comments added fuel to the heated debate over Police Commissioner Howard Safir’s plan to collect DNA from prison inmates, parolees and crime suspects."

y-c-o-m-b•4mo ago
Seems to be one of those issues like NSA mass surveillance, which transcends party lines and remains supported by most politicians. Kudos to my senator Ron Wyden though, he's been a true champion of opposing both of those things.
caprock•4mo ago
The X-Files was right all along