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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
2•beardyw•6m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•7m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•9m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•9m 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•9m 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...
2•pseudolus•10m 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•10m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•11m 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•11m 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
3•obscurette•12m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•17m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•17m 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•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•19m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•19m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•20m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
7•derriz•20m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•20m 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•21m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•22m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•24m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•25m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•27m 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•28m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•29m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•31m 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•32m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Htmx: Access modern browser features directly from HTML

https://htmx.org/
23•vemy•3mo ago

Comments

prein•3mo ago
I've been writing a ton of ts/js at work, so using htmx for a quick weekend project was a nice change of pace.

I really appreciated the library of examples; they cover a lot of common use cases. Between that and the docs I had no trouble figuring out how things worked.

blinkbat•3mo ago
I still have no idea what benefits having your API serve markup is supposed to confer, but people tell me it's "great".

also, I find your headline misleading. htmx uses javascript, there's no accessing anything "directly from html". you could say that about any framework with directives, ie vue, but we all know better.

andersmurphy•3mo ago
It's really good for streaming view updates to your users in realtime.
blinkbat•3mo ago
you mean via SSE? is any part of that an inherent "htmx only" thing, or even a "markup API only" thing?

a framework using a neat piece of technology isn't really a boon for the framework -- the technology of streaming itself is great, sure, but you can do that with any stack.

andersmurphy•3mo ago
Sure, but the browser is fast and rendering HTML so why stream anything else? Why stream javascript + json to build html. You're adding a bunch of marshalling that doesn't need to be there.
brooke2k•3mo ago
Yeah, as I understand it the idea is that instead of making the server-side complex and the frontend code complex, you retain as much complexity server-side as possible and treat the browser as just a hypermedia renderer.

If a part of the page needs to change, the server figures out what it should change to and sends that page fragment.

At least, that's my cursory understanding from reading https://hypermedia.systems

andersmurphy•3mo ago
Right. But, hypermedia systems doesn't go far enough. It can be even simpler then that.

In a video game the "server" doesn't figure out what's changed (that's too much work) it just redraws the frame. So rather than the complexity of working out what has changed you can just send down the whole page again whenever something changes.

This gives you view = f(state) over the wire and has great DX. It's called immediate mode in games.

ale_jacques•3mo ago
The main point of hypermedia is the browser, not a gaming platform. Not even the mobile platform. HTMX is not purposed nor it advertises that it should be used outside of the browser scope. I use Unpoly that replies on the same principles (HTML over the wire) and both of them are very clear about their intentions.
andersmurphy•3mo ago
In my mind collaborative apps are a core feature of the web. Streaming hypermedia is a great way to keep all your state on the server and have a solid multiplayer/realtime experience, especially with large datasets.

Here's a basic google sheets clone that does just that:

https://cells.andersmurphy.com/

datadrivenangel•3mo ago
I do really appreciate that HTMX has a curated list of criticisms on their blog: https://htmx.org/essays/#on-the-other-hand
rsyring•3mo ago
And they have fun with it:

HTMX Sucks mug: https://swag.htmx.org/products/htmx-sucks-mug