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Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•3m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•7m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•9m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•12m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•26m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•27m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•40m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•43m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•53m ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•57m ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•59m ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
3•throwaw12•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•1h ago•0 comments

Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
2•andreabat•1h ago•1 comments

I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
2•mgh2•1h ago•1 comments

U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests
1•ludicrousdispla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
2•vladeta•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

https://github.com/thealidev/VectorVision-SVGV
1•thealidev•1h ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
2•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
2•bundie•1h ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years (2019)

https://www.sciencealert.com/ants-trapped-in-an-old-soviet-nuclear-bunker-survived-for-years-by-turning-on-their-own
130•MaysonL•4mo ago

Comments

withants•4mo ago
(2019) with ants
russdill•4mo ago
No, they didn't survive for years. They died after a short time, but their ranks were continually replenished by fresh ants falling from a colony above.
trhway•4mo ago
ants of Theseus
ge96•4mo ago
Kill 1 ant, 2 more shall rise to take its place
Rendello•4mo ago
Or fall.
jmdeon•4mo ago
I guess the interesting thing is they built and maintained a nest which looked mostly like a colony. The colony's food source being the fresh falling ants you mentioned.

> "In total darkness, they have constructed an earthen mound, which they have maintained all-year-round by moulding it and keeping the nest entrances open," researchers wrote in a study in 2016, noting these ants are "a far cry from a fully functional colony".

johndhi•4mo ago
With no queen how could they reproduce down there after the originals died of old age though?
Rendello•4mo ago
From the article:

> They were not reproducing, though. Instead, the population was being replenished through sheer accident.

IAmBroom•4mo ago
So you're saying the article itself has information about what the article contains?

Fascinating.

Rendello•4mo ago
I try not to get my heart rate up.
nemo•4mo ago
The ants who fell in died after a while, but the story is really about how they survived to form a colony close to a million through survival by cannibalism.
xattt•4mo ago
Thank you. I was trying to figure out how entropy was maintained after food was metabolized.
juttern•4mo ago
What...?
xattt•4mo ago
The article phrased the situation as generations of ants feeding on each other over many years. At some point, the energy value of the food drops because it’s consumed.
httpsoverdns•4mo ago
So very happy that the story ended with them giving the trapped ants a path back to their colony
spiderxxxx•4mo ago
No, they gave the cannibal ants a link to a new food source. Imagine you're living in your house, your neighborhood, and there's this large pit in the center, where the cannibals live. They're 30ft down so they can't get out, so you don't have to worry. Then someone puts a ladder down to them. Start of a horror movie if you ask me.
neom•4mo ago
This comment is full of interesting questions! Would they return to being normal ants due to the environment shift? If they are now truly just "cannibal ants" and not regular ants acting in an opportunistic cannibal manner, would they even bother going to the colony, or would they just kinda zombie around eating other ants? And do these new ant types need to function together in this new style?
ekaryotic•4mo ago
actually there was a chinese serial killer that used a technique like this. He had a septic tank and threw his victims in along with the dead bodies of his previous victims and would only let them out if they brought more victims from a train station. article is partially paywalled but is the case in question. https://archive.is/QxBDr https://medium.com/crimes-by-mr-o/this-teacher-was-thrown-in...
carlosjobim•4mo ago
Literal hell for ants, until they were saved by a supreme being.
cm2012•4mo ago
"Boy am I glad not have consciousness right now" the ant said, as the nearby ants start tearing at him, in the cold pitch black of a nuclear bunker.
balamatom•4mo ago
Vyell, fak.

Imagine visiting the basement at Omelas and this happens.

Poor ants.

staplung•4mo ago
"Difficult to tell from this vantage point if they will consume the captive Earth-men or merely enslave them...one thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here! And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. Like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar-caves."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jWAwUb63c

rbanffy•4mo ago
This is the kind of story older ants tell young ones about what happens when you stray into dark and forbidden tunnels.
dudeinjapan•4mo ago
Why didn't they just climb out the ventilation shaft they fell in? Can’t they walk on the ceiling?
waltbosz•4mo ago
From the research paper: https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/element/2/11//

> The upper part of the ant trail in Fig. 1; the ants (on the left) were unable to move along the ceiling and thus could not reach the outlet of the ventilation pipe. Photo taken on 18.09.2016 (Wojciech Stephan).

waltbosz•4mo ago
> In 2016, researchers installed a wooden boardwalk (below) in the bunker, connecting the ventilation pipe to the ground. Within four months, nearly all the trapped ants had deserted the bunker floor.

It sort of feels like the ruined a good experiment.

deafpolygon•4mo ago
This plotline is reminiscent of the horror plot in Pandorum, but it’s set in the world of ants.