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Cycling in France

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

What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•1m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•4m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•5m ago•0 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•5m 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•6m ago•0 comments

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

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1•tusharnaik•7m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•7m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•8m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•8m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•8m 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•9m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•10m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•12m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•13m ago•0 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•15m 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•16m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•17m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•19m 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•20m ago•0 comments

Jeremy Wade's Mighty Rivers

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1•saikatsg•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM

https://github.com/sam-mfb/backgammon-mcp
2•sam256•22m ago•0 comments

AI Command and Staff–Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming

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1•tomwphillips•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CCBot – Control Claude Code from Telegram via tmux

https://github.com/six-ddc/ccbot
1•sixddc•23m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

2•amichail•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Convert your articles into videos in one click

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3•kositheastro•28m ago•1 comments

Red Queen's Race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
2•rzk•29m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•31m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
2•tosh•32m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Big Paychecks Can't Woo Enough Sailors for America's Commercial Fleet

https://www.wsj.com/business/logistics/big-paychecks-cant-woo-enough-sailors-for-americas-commercial-fleet-e40c422e
10•andrewrn•2mo ago

Comments

andrewrn•2mo ago
Here's a link to a reddit post where someone commented the article's full text: https://www.reddit.com/r/maritime/comments/1panh11/thoughts_...
andrewrn•2mo ago
This is pretty intriguing. Would love if someone would chime in as to the downsides, as this seems too good to be true. I suppose being away from home for extended periods sucks, but the stints at home sound like a hacker's dream.
metalman•2mo ago
think about it rationaly or emotionaly, it's the same, you are swallowed whole by a corporate institutional machine, litteraly, all of, ALL of your time is at work, inside a steel can, ALL of your food is "approved", your clothing, you are monitored as to where you are and where you can go, when, and why, subject to a whole other set of laws, and so a good number of people who are doing it, are bat shit crazy, from all that and of course the physical reality of danger and bieng constantly in motion, "sea legs", and "land legs", and the specialists in every port, ready to liven up shore leave...never kill them, but dumping them unconsious at the end of the gang plank 20 min before the boat leaves, is fair game, with that bieng a feature, not a bug, for some number on every boat
red-iron-pine•2mo ago
you're not hacking remotely, you're standing watch staring at water for 12 hours and then sleeping in a closet.

source: brother did it for a while. good money but basically couldn't keep a relationship and found it was fairly joyless. he read a lot of books tho

andrewrn•2mo ago
Yeah I meant during shore leave. You have all your time to yourself, when you could hack on projects. That's pretty amazing.
lisbbb•2mo ago
I read the discussion on a military-related forum and people had very different perspectives on the actual situation. The Academy isn't the only way in and most of the jobs don't pay that good until you are way further along.

That said, I had a neighbor who had two step kids, a boy and a girl, who both went through the Merchant Marine Academy and both have very lucrative careers going. The neighbor moved away, so I can't find out how well they are doing and it was about 10 years ago now... It worked for those kids (from the middle of the US).

pengaru•2mo ago
How lucrative? FAANG or better?
andrewrn•2mo ago
Definitely not Faang lol. He probably means $250k at most
red-iron-pine•2mo ago
MMA is a sweet deal if you can swing it.

Know a few folks who went through it, and several went straight military. Part of the reason is that you're still obligated to military service via the MMAm just as a Navy reserve officer, and the Naval services (Navy, Marines, Coast Guard) will generally take you since you're an academy grad and already know naval military leadership.

You're also obligated to the federal gov, not necessarily the service, so you could in theory try to be an Army officer.

toomuchtodo•2mo ago
Related:

Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41331066 - August 2024 (15 comments)