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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•3m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•3m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
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What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

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1•surprisetalk•5m 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•6m 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/
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Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
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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...
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How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•8m ago•0 comments

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1•jackhalford•9m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•10m ago•0 comments

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My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

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1•lukastyrychtr•17m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
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AI Skills Marketplace

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eInk UI Components in CSS

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2•MicroWagie•21m ago•0 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•22m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•23m ago•1 comments

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1•geox•24m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•26m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

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3•nar001•28m 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•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

US 'Homeland Security' Twitter account seemingly run from Israel

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/11/23/twitter-location-data/
50•botanical•2mo ago

Comments

sschueller•2mo ago
How is this possible? Are they paying social media companies in foreign countries to do their posting?
qntmfred•2mo ago
it's of course possible. it wouldn't make sense, but it is certainly possible. the more important question is whether it is true. no, it is not.
sfc32•2mo ago
Most of Maga is in Africa, and all over Africa? A bit difficult to understand.
game_the0ry•2mo ago
Likely bots using VPNs.
jstanley•2mo ago
The article is admittedly very difficult to follow, but that's not what it is saying.

That is something that it is quoting. Including a "community note" that it is a map of male circumcision from some academic paper.

The article is implying that the account that posted the map (which is "fake news" according to the community note in the screenshot) was revealed to be from some country other than the US.

ceejayoz•2mo ago
Twitter’s monetization program rewards engagement. It’s not life changing amounts in the developed world. It is in much of Africa.
qntmfred•2mo ago
it's not real you can safely ignore it
belter•2mo ago
Imagine being paid in rubles to pretend you are from Ohio...
sparrish•2mo ago
The map is fake. Please note the X community note on that post: "This map is the prevalence of male circumcision" from a 2024 study https://www.mdpi.com/2563-6499/5/3/36 (see figure 1)
catigula•2mo ago
AFAIK this was fake news. Plenty of screenshots flying making many claims about the intentions of all kinds of people, Israelis, Indians, Nigerians, etc.
karel-3d•2mo ago
No it was not. That screenshot was nonsense. And if you believe it you are quite gullible.
sschueller•2mo ago
Can you provide a source?
karel-3d•2mo ago
You can click on the account yourself.
irthomasthomas•2mo ago
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1992314672436175055
ecshafer•2mo ago
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/xs-new-cou...

Hindustan times article was much better on this. Shows that this issue is prevalent on both side, with seemingly less of an axe to grind against Israel, and Right wing accounts.

qntmfred•2mo ago
yup. it's just discord sowing all around. cambridge analytica wasn't all that long ago.
saaaaaam•2mo ago
(a) The Canary is not a reliable journalistic news source

(b) The article says “Twitter is incredibly buggy, so sometimes different people have different user experiences” but then presents the “evidence” of location as incontrovertible proof.

(c) One of the maps purporting to show MAGA account locations has a community fact check note attached to it saying that it is, in fact, a map of the prevalence of male circumcision.

takoid•2mo ago
I have yet to see any definitive proof that this is real.

The screenshot in this post appears fabricated (specifically, the 'July 2008 in Israel' is misaligned): https://x.com/astrrals/status/1991942287128199433

The video evidence, which is the only video evidence that seems to exist, is equally unconvincing: https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1992288673887343014

Additionally, Nikita Bier has gone on record stating that "Location was not available on any gray check account at any point." https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1992382852328255743

derelicta•2mo ago
It got flagged insanely quickly lol
Sporktacular•2mo ago
Why is this flagged now? It's been 15 minutes. Is this a Hasbara thing again?
myth_drannon•2mo ago
Yes, shalom my friend.