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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•3m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•3m 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•6m 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•8m 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•8m 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•10m 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•14m 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•14m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•15m 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•17m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•17m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•17m 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•18m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•21m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•22m 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•26m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•28m 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
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2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition Winners

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2025-small-world-in-motion-competition
138•marojejian•4mo ago

Comments

jacquesm•4mo ago
Be sure to click the 'honorable mentions' link, lots more good stuff in there.
deadbabe•4mo ago
These worlds are so small and alien to our own, they could never imagine us. Is there an even higher world we can’t even imagine?
boppo1•4mo ago
I wonder this frequently.
Gooblebrai•4mo ago
You'd enjoy reading End of the Microcosmos by Cixin Liu
deadbabe•4mo ago
Where can I find it?
_bo_gao•4mo ago
Happen to have worked with the 1st place winner Jay McAllen before, a super smart guy who likes to build everything from scratch
boppo1•4mo ago
It's a huge shame that they don't have these available for download as 4k videos with low compression. I really, really want to watch that tardigrade on my vertical screen.
WickyNilliams•4mo ago
Same! As appreciative as I am to behold these beautiful scenes, seeing compression artifacts on them is practically a crime
xnx•4mo ago
Lots more where that came from: https://www.instagram.com/tardigrade_circus/
cr125rider•4mo ago
All of these are incredible. Watch them all. Ogle at our world these wonderful people have brought to light.
jihadjihad•4mo ago
> To capture the video, McClellan had to anticipate movements and program a custom motion-control system to keep the reproductive structures perfectly in frame. He also employed advanced focus-stacking techniques to maintain crystal clarity across focal planes, a challenge that led him to develop his own hardware and software for microscopic video.

Damn that’s cool. I’d love to see more about that.

jdnier•4mo ago
That must be for "Dissolution and crystallization of cobalt, copper and sodium chlorides". It's quite something to watch!

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2025-small-world-i...

jonahx•4mo ago
"In vitro growth of chick sensory neurons, shown in gold using a dye marking their internal structure (18 hour time lapse)"

40X (Objective Lens Magnification)

How is this possible? Wouldn't neurons be at much tinier scale than 40x?

From https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2025-small-world-i...

_caw•4mo ago
Could be using a 10x or similar eyepiece so 400x total? I am not super familiar with microscopes but that is my guess.
mircea•4mo ago
Your guess is correct. A 10x (typical) or 20x eyepiece would be used.
xnx•4mo ago
All of these are amazing, but seeing individual red blood cells flow through capillaries really makes me think what a miracle is that our bodies work at all: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2025-small-world-i...
j_bum•4mo ago
The sea urchin (#5) is my favorite, I think. The tardigrade is incredible too.

Both made me awe at the marvel of biological machinery. Such complicated and sophisticated behavior is occurring all around us, even in the tiniest of organisms.

Beautiful.