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1•Malfunction92•2m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•2m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•4m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•5m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•6m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•7m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•16m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•16m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
17•bookofjoe•16m ago•4 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•17m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•19m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•19m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•19m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•20m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•21m ago•1 comments

FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

https://sluongng.substack.com/p/fosdem-26-my-hallway-track-takeaways
1•birdculture•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

https://env-shelf.vercel.app/
1•ivanglpz•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/
1•PetrBrzyBrzek•26m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit
1•radeeyate•27m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/
1•matt_d•27m ago•0 comments

Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/
1•blenderob•29m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

(nossl) What do Ursula von der Leyen and Putin have in common?

http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/314
8•sam_lowry_•2mo ago

Comments

imcritic•2mo ago
Dumb Ukrainian propaganda.
7bit•2mo ago
The irony here is striking — an article complaining about fake news ends up spreading it itself, by claiming that von der Leyen is unelected even though she was elected by the European Parliament.
sam_lowry_•2mo ago
Ok, elected if you stretch the meaning of the word "elect" way beyond layman's common sense.

War is peace.

dragonwriter•2mo ago
If election by vote of members of body itself elected by citizens isn't election, we need to start referring to the US President as an unelected leader.

Also, prime ministers in most parliamentary systems.

sam_lowry_•2mo ago
Member states control who will be presented to the EP.

As you may know European Parliament is not really a Parliament either, as it can neither enact laws nor appoint EU executives, it just approves or rejects Council proposals.

cardiffspaceman•2mo ago
Some Americans do think that the Electoral College is not that democratic.

I live in one of the states that belongs to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

dragonwriter•2mo ago
> Some Americans do think that the Electoral College is not that democratic.

"democratic" and "elected" are entirely different adjectives.

The system for electing the US President is very much not democratic, and still the President is very much elected. (Though its less undemocratic than it used to be, when the electors themselves were not generally directly elected by the voters.)

There are indirect elections that are reasonably demoocratic despite being indirect (the PM in some, but not all, parliamentary systems), there are elections that aren't based on anything like a general citizenry at all—e.g., Papal elections. For a leader to be elected is certainly not a sufficient condition for their position to be held democratically (it may be a necessary condition, though.)

naIak•2mo ago
The King of England was also elected. (Elected by God)
sam_lowry_•2mo ago
Also Putin was "elected" with 88.48% in 2024.
StopDisinfo910•2mo ago
Technically true even if the reality is more than the head of the commission is merely confirmed by the parliament after being proposed which is to say appointed by the council.

Supposedly, the council should put forward the candidate of the main party in the parliament but this has already been breached once.

But the system is likely to change soon because Von Der Leyen keeps playing with fire with the prerogatives of the position and annoying the council so much that I believe a change is unavoidable.