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OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•2m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•3m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
1•gurjeet•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•6m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•6m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•8m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•9m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•9m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
2•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•11m ago•0 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•11m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•12m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•14m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•15m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•15m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•16m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•16m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•17m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•18m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•20m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•21m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•22m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•22m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•23m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

RFK Jr.'s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/rfk-jr-s-maha-wants-to-make-chemtrail-conspiracy-theories-great-again/
36•ndsipa_pomu•3mo ago

Comments

ndsipa_pomu•3mo ago
What bugs me about the chemtrail conspiracies that I've heard about is that distributing toxins from planes is probably about the worst practical way to distribute them. If you really want to put stuff into the water supplies then it's surely far more efficient and cheaper to hire a load of people to dump the chemicals straight into the reservoirs. It's also indiscriminate which isn't likely to be useful - why poison everyone within potentially wide areas subject to wind conditions?
DemocracyFTW2•3mo ago
chemtrails work surprisingly well on a flat globe
krapp•3mo ago
The smart way to do it is either in medication or the food supply. Far easier to target specific demographics.

But yeah, chemtrail people also think they're used for weather modification. These people don't think rationally.

ndsipa_pomu•3mo ago
Weather modification makes more sense to me as that would need to be done by plane (I wonder if balloons would work, but I suppose they're harder to position exactly). I'm not sure why they'd be modifying weather, but things like increasing rainfall over areas might be useful which raises the question of why does it need to be a conspiracy? If they've got a system that increases farm yields then why not make it public knowledge and even sell weather services to various states.
quantified•3mo ago
Contrails do modify weather a bit.

Of course, funny how they don't modify it enough to put rain or snow where it's needed.

dekhn•3mo ago
Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail#Impacts_on_climate I think that's considered an actual legitimate scientific phenomenon.
krapp•3mo ago
No, I'm referring to the conspiracy theory[0,1] whereby it's believed that various chemicals and "chaff" are being deployed by commercial airliners as part of an active and intentional effort to "geoengineer" the climate. I am not referring to the incidental and mundane environmental effects of contrails.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/tennessee-lawmak...

quantified•3mo ago
Hence fluoridation. You're onto them.
D-Coder•3mo ago
That's what the boattrails are for.

https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1668403778611-4f20c4afc816...

metalman•3mo ago
unfortunatly absurdism has languished until very recently with the youngest generation comming up, though they are faced with a dificult task in differentiating there humor from actual official press releases
techblueberry•3mo ago
Why do people focus on stuff like this? Why not more direct and obvious harms to society like wealth consolidation or AI or whatever? Even if I thought vaccines were dangerous, there are so many things ahead of vaccines that keep me up at night.
fennec-posix•3mo ago
It's all a distraction. Since a lot of these guys peddling this benefit from the actual harms to society.
techblueberry•3mo ago
I don't mean RFK Jr, I think this stuff comes up because there are like everyday people who care? Why do those people care!
krapp•3mo ago
It's possible to focus on more than one thing at a time as a society, and we do.

But the medical regulatory establishment of the US being taken over by anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists is worth at least a single article, I think, and it does directly and obviously harm society. Funding for research, education, trust in and access to vaccines are all going to be negatively affected, the destruction of medical infrastructure and knowledge will have long-term consequences beyond a single administration.

Yizahi•3mo ago
Fortunately Arstechnica has provided an answer for that question too:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/believing-misinforma...

Basically conspiracy heads like to be in opposition to the "establishment", and will look for and spread anything fitting this theme. It gives them sense of own worth, and a sense of community - a small circle of "people who have the secret knowledge".

janice1999•3mo ago
While the modern "chemtrails" conspiracy makes no sense, it's interesting how like many conspiracies there is a grain of truth, however twisted, at the center. During the Cold War the US (and Canada and the UK and others) carried out experiments on large population centers by, among other things, dispersing chemicals from planes to simulate nuclear fallout and biological weapon attacks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

RickJWagner•3mo ago
You know what?

RFK is a mixed bag. Some of his ideas are kooky. But he’s also getting harmful gook taken out of food, and he’s setting a good example of how aging adults can keep themselves healthy. ( Check out RFK and Pete Hegseth doing pull ups and push ups. They’re both obviously good about exercise. )

I’m giving RFK good marks for some, but not all, of his program. Some of what he’s pushing is good stuff.

tylerflick•3mo ago
A broken clock is right twice a day.
krapp•3mo ago
Doing pullups and pushups is not a signifier of good health, or even a good exercise regimen. The Liver King can probably do plenty of both and he probably aligns with a lot of RFK's "holistic" views and he's a mess.
RickJWagner•3mo ago
Can you do 50 pull ups and 100 push ups in less than 10 minutes?

RFK did, and he’s 71 years old.

Just curious if you, as a critic, can match it.

krapp•3mo ago
Yes.
RickJWagner•3mo ago
Good for you, that’s awesome. I wish everybody were in that kind of shape.
rapjr9•3mo ago
Fortunately the solution is easy, cloudbusters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbuster

Basically a metal rod/pipe with a good earth ground pointed at the sky. How conductive are trees? Maybe trees already act as cloudbusters, so we should plant more trees! Someone should apply for an NIH grant to try this. Don't know if I'm being sarcastic, it might actually have health benefits, there doesn't seem to have been much independent research.

OutOfHere•3mo ago
Don't small planes spread aersolized lead? Also, isn't there a history of the military spreading biological weapons on multiple occasions, basically deadly germs and ticks?
cosmicgadget•3mo ago
Ergo jet contrails are mind control chemicals? Wow.
OutOfHere•3mo ago
Lead pollution does affect cognition adversely.
cosmicgadget•3mo ago
The best way to eliminate leaded aviation fuel is to say it is evidenced by contrails linked to a government mind control program.
cosmicgadget•3mo ago
> In June, Kennedy hired Delany to be the HHS’s director of MAHA implementation. But Delany was fired in early August, reportedly due to in-fighting with other Kennedy devotees.

Well certainly after that little dust up this guy will have no pull with the administration

> In an April 28, 2025, appearance on Dr. Phil Primetime, an audience member asked Kennedy what he would do about “stratospheric aerosol injections,” which she claimed are “continuously peppered on us every day.” Kennedy responded: “It’s done, we think by DARPA [a research agency in the Department of Defense] and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. … I am going to do everything in my power to stop it.

Gdi.

Yizahi•3mo ago
Technically he is right. USA is the main chemtrail country on a planet, legally spraying lead on its own citizens for decades how. Maybe this is how RFK got his brain damage :)