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OpenClaw ClawHub Broken Windows Theory – If basic sorting isn't working what is?

https://www.loom.com/embed/e26a750c0c754312b032e2290630853d
1•kaicianflone•44s ago•0 comments

OpenBSD Copyright Policy

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
1•Panino•1m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•5m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•6m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•7m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
1•gurjeet•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•9m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•9m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•11m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•12m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
2•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•14m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•14m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•15m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•17m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•18m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•18m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•19m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•19m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•20m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•21m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•23m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•24m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•24m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Trump Isn't Building a Ballroom

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom
24•flockyflock•1mo ago

Comments

throwfaraway135•1mo ago
Went into expecting some crazy conspiracy... But found a surprisingly convincing and well researched story.
msuniverse2026•1mo ago
I still don't get it, why would you need a data centre at the whitehouse? A 9-story deep one at that.
defrost•1mo ago
Trump.

Anybody sane in office would build the same kind of thing (hardened command and control bunker) but somewhere else in the area.

The argument for the whitehouse location would be "in the event of a nuclear missile headed for DC with little to no time to move ... " the POTUS could be moved straight down and have access to all that is needed for digital control, etc.

The argument against would be that's the one location almost guarenteed to get a penetrating atomic or conventional warhead (if anywhere) and it'd be better to be anywhere else.

That said .. any bunker or data centre might well be some distance away .. and the project is build a fast transport tunnel from the complex already under that wing to a new deep bunker some reasonable distance away.

Ekaros•1mo ago
Honestly. Actually on premise infra doesn't sound insane. Especially if there is say real air-gapped part of it. Or in general storing information in place that at least feels like properly access controlled. To data stay inside premises it could make some sense.

And maybe NSA knows some attack vectors that we do not. So even geographically close by might have risks involved.

rasz•1mo ago
The answer is its not a data center. Trump watched Alex Garland's Civil War (2024), maybe even requested intelligence briefing on putin's Palace bunker.
acjohnson55•1mo ago
The article addresses that at the end:

> And this has to be at the White House specifically because location determines oversight. When infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President, when it exists at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it can be classified under executive privilege. The East Wing sits directly above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker where Dick Cheney sheltered during September 11th. By demolishing the entire East Wing, you create space to expand that existing secure facility, integrate new infrastructure, go deeper underground. All protected by the classification that covers anything related to presidential security.

silexia•1mo ago
I wish it was a data center, probably a bribe to a contractor though.
dhx•1mo ago
I don't understand the pretend secrecy. Why not just state openly they're rebuilding or expanding the bunker? Wouldn't it be obvious from the high number of trucks coming and going from the area (even if disguised within a shed) that significant excavation is occurring, or that a significant amount of steel and concrete is then being added?

It didn't take long for people to link a growing mound of spoil on a nearby golf course (East Potomac Golf Links) to excavations occurring at the White House.[1] A few simple volume calculations, and/or truck movement counts, is all one would seemingly need to estimate the size of the new bunker.

USD$300m also doesn't buy much of anything underground, especially at top secret military bunker pricing. Look at the cost of typical rail tunneling projects (much simpler and more efficient construction) for rough comparison.

[1] https://golf.com/news/white-house-carting-dirt-golf-course-p...