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Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•50s ago•0 comments

Watch Ukraine's Minigun-Firing, Drone-Hunting Turboprop in Action

https://www.twz.com/air/watch-ukraines-minigun-firing-drone-hunting-turboprop-in-action
1•breve•1m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•1m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
1•randycupertino•3m ago•0 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

https://supernote.eu/choose-your-product/
1•janandonly•5m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•5m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

https://poddley.com/guests/ana-kasparian/episodes
1•onesandofgrain•14m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-si...
7•karakoram•14m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•14m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•14m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
2•dshearer•17m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•18m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•22m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•24m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
3•randycupertino•24m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
3•breve•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•30m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
3•ks2048•30m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•34m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•34m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•38m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•39m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•39m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
3•SchwKatze•39m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•40m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
7•guerrilla•42m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

$30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm (2023)

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/12/13/30m-military-wreath-charity-buys-solely-from-its-founders-farm/
60•thunderbong•2mo ago

Comments

ahartmetz•2mo ago
3 million wreaths for 30 million USD, is that correct? That's still a dubious arrangement, but a sane price and far from the unbounded greed and depravity of some usually large and public corporations.
tehjoker•2mo ago
If the price is sane, I wonder if there is a competitor looking to break into the action, hence the appearance of a piece "asking questions". A great method is to break up the original operation, insert a company that has no compunction about charging higher prices in the name of good process, and clean up.

I just went on Amazon and the wreaths there are like $20-$50. It makes sense that a bulk purchase should be less, so $10 does feel reasonable though I am no expert.

culi•2mo ago
Well it's plain corruption, but yeah it's not like the $10,000 toilet seat cover,[0] $7,622 coffee maker,[1] or $37 screws[2]

[0] https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/20/us/military-price-on-coff...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-...

jazzyjackson•2mo ago
The cost isn't for the item, it's for the paperwork attesting to the acquisition and delivery of the item.

Whether one screw or 500 screws are ordered, it still takes an hour or two to fill out the forms and submit the invoice.

Think of $37 as the "fuck off" price, except the buyer has no one else to buy from because the seller is the only one meeting FARS/CMMC regulations

dragonwriter•2mo ago
Its plainly using a charity as a mechanism to funnel work to the founder's for-profit business, so that the 501c3 is, in fact, organized and operated for the benefit of a private interest, which isn’t merely “dubious”.
xnx•2mo ago
Very common to see scammy behavior in charities like "Kars 4 Kids" and even other military charities like Wounded Warriors: "Dozens of former employees reported extravagant spending, including luxury resorts, parties, and excessive travel, with only 50-60% of funds going to programs."
zippyman55•2mo ago
Maybe we donate $30M to actually helping vets who need help.
bluesounddirect•2mo ago
this is what the va is for , americans pay piles of money in taxes , and still the helping vets scams exist .
em-bee•2mo ago
i don't understand this part:

donors who believe their charitable contributions are being spent to maximize the good done, and not to support for-profit ventures.

the money is used to buy or make wreaths. exactly how is that supposed to work at that scale without sourcing from a for-profit venture?

the article suggests that the for-profit part should be sold to someone else. while i get the potential conflict of interest, that's only a conflict if the owners attempt to maximize their profits.

i am willing to bet that if they sell the for-profit part, whoever buys it, will do exactly that: raise prices and maximize profits.

zippyman55•2mo ago
Oh!!!!! Those guys! Ok, first, it looks pretty darn impressive when you visit a national cemetery and see all those displayed. So, I am not in anyway knocking those vets who served and died.

But, I remember, Wreaths Across America was trying to build a flagpole in rural Maine, that you could see from outer space. Now, this is starting to look like a tourist exhibit to make money.

I do not want people to make money off our Vets. I want them to help the vets in every way possible. Perhaps a modest amount of money, sure. But, please, no $400K salaries.