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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•34s ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•44s ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•2m 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•3m 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•3m 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•3m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•5m 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•5m 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
1•obscurette•5m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•7m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•7m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•10m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•10m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•11m 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•11m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•12m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•13m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•14m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•14m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•14m 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•15m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•15m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•18m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•19m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•20m 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•21m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•23m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•25m 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•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

https://github.com/Ido-Levi/Hephaestus
81•idolevi•3mo ago

Comments

oneandonley1•3mo ago
Terminators soon to follow or the matrix
dudeinjapan•3mo ago
Terminators make good project managers apparently
jmhammond•2mo ago
I mean more to the name, Hephaestus did a lot in the Horizon Zero Dawn project…
hamasho•3mo ago
Umm... I just discovered vibe-kanban[1] as a Kanban-based coding agent and superpowers[2] for brainstorming last week, and am planning to try it this weekend. And your product looks like the combination of both... It's interesting so I hope I'll have enough energy to try all of them, but my gut tells me I'll end up spending my weekend on my bed.

[1] https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban [2] https://github.com/obra/superpowers

baalimago•3mo ago
Very inspirational, cool! Good job!

Couldn't quite get everything to run since there was so much configuration to setup, but the idea is solid.

idolevi•3mo ago
It's still a very first version honestly.. What did you find in the configuration hard? I'll try to streamline it so it'll be easier to run
baalimago•2mo ago
I tried to get e2e working with Codex on a python fastAPI webapp. I made it all the way to the "organizer" who were supposed to read the PRD, but always failed since the agent started executing the PRD markdown as a python script.

My request would be to have an example PRD with premade workflow which works reasonably well for any project. I didn't use the `run_example.py` as it lacked workflows. At the end of the day, I just want to investigate if the project is something I'd like to dedicate time to, I gave up after about 2-3 hours. To have it 'plug-and-play' would be neat.

There's also a lot of references to your local filesystem, which perhaps could be cleaned up.

danr4•3mo ago
still not sold on agent orchestration. needs to be super simple and as close to the native agent interface, like Conductor et al. adding another layer of complexity while LLMs are evolving so rapidly is just fighting against the waves.
maddmann•3mo ago
I’m curious how this would work for production level apps. My concern is that it would go off and do a lot of extra stuff and grow your codebase with orphaned code or non mvp features.
idolevi•3mo ago
Hey, This is just a very first version of Hephaestus that is only a month in a work to showcase the idea of an autonomous agent orchestration. As we speak I'm building on top of it a development tool that would learn your codebase as time goes on, which is hopefully going to result in faster development.

Although do note that Hephaestus is not only for development purposes, it's supposed to be an agnetic framework for building workflows - such as a research workflow, investment workflow and so on, based on the semi-structured phases principles.

Also - everything is forever going to be open source (including the future features and development tools), so look out :)

maddmann•3mo ago
Cool, nice work. I’ll check it out at some point
djmips•2mo ago
Premature optimization as a service? Ok that's a bit unfair but it would be reassuring if the examples showed that debugability was a design pillar.
idolevi•2mo ago
That's fair, the PRD example is pretty cool but not the best - I have a few workflows that I use myself for doing bug bounties and deep research, but they are a bit much.

The current examples were mostly to show how you could set up different phases and how agents can work in parallel in different phases while still keeping some structure - basically any problem that you could define the logical phases in the way for solving it is going to work great with Hephaestus.

Soon I'll release a few more examples and a few tools that would make Hephaestus a development tool that learns about your repo as time goes and able to fix and add features for your code base

djmips•2mo ago
That's great to hear! Exciting times.