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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•5m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•5m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•7m 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•8m 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/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•9m ago•0 comments

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...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•10m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•10m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•11m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•12m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•14m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•15m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•16m 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•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•17m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•17m ago•0 comments

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

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•19m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•19m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•19m 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•19m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•20m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•23m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•24m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•25m 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•26m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•28m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•30m 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•30m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)

https://www.unilad.com/news/scientist-beer-bottle-deepest-point-ocean-mariana-trench-667878-20240213
41•thunderbong•1mo ago

Comments

amelius•1mo ago
I would be more surprised if stuff like that would not find its way to places like that.
cap11235•1mo ago
And it's not like there is anything (other than submersibles) that might cause it to find its way out again.
eimrine•1mo ago
I would like to see some movie like unresponsible guy throws his bottle to somewhere than some natural power moves it.
andy99•1mo ago
Isn’t that The Gods Must Be Crazy?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

dehugger•1mo ago
This is an incredible film
amelius•1mo ago
That was a great movie, thanks for sharing! :)
CrzyLngPwd•1mo ago
But did they pick it up?
bch•1mo ago
Not worth it for the $0.10 return. Put more down there to incentivize.
casey2•1mo ago
Literal navalgazing
someothherguyy•1mo ago
different source that loads without javascript https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/12/oceanographe...

(lacking details on the bottle itself)

meisel•1mo ago
I'm curious what objects do/don't survive at the water pressure. I guess bottles are strong enough
fogleman•1mo ago
Presumably it was open & empty, so it's just a piece of glass surviving...
dmurray•1mo ago
Even so, wouldn't you expect that you could crush an open empty beer bottle by putting a heavy enough weight on it? A human can't do it, but I would expect an elephant can.
jdmoreira•1mo ago
That's not how pressure works if it's opened. The forces balance out
bracketfocus•1mo ago
The pressure inside the bottle is the same as the outside. So it’s not the same as stomping on an empty bottle.
FL410•1mo ago
But the forces are the same all around the bottle (again assuming it is open)
rags2riches•1mo ago
The bottle wouldn't be empty though.
RajT88•1mo ago
There is quite a lot of pressure put outside from the beer of a full bottle, but that little bit of air is probably enough to cause it to implode at some point.

I'll be honest; I have no idea how to estimate that. I'm sure there are folks on here who can (and might). It's probably not as deep as you'd think.

wolvoleo•1mo ago
I'd imagine the cap will fail under the pressure long before the forces get high enough to implode the bottle.
mihaaly•1mo ago
no
UniverseHacker•1mo ago
Solids and liquids mostly don’t compress so as a general rule most can handle those pressures without experiencing any real mechanical stress, as they instantly provide a perfectly matching internal pressure that balances out the forces to zero.

It’s mostly things that contain gases that can get crushed by high pressure. Almost any type of closed cell foam for example, will either collapse to a small size or crack and crumble apart depending on how rigid it is.

Living things tend to get harmed by pressure changes because they have compressible gasses and/or biological compartments that contain things that experience phase changes between gas and liquid at different pressures.

jordanpg•1mo ago
I agree it's something of a bummer, but why is this surprising or "bizarre"?
malux85•1mo ago
Scientists [ad] discover [ad] beer [ad] [popup] [ad] bottle in [ad] the [ad] [ad] [ad]

Painful

aorth•1mo ago
I don't see any ads on Firefox (Android) with uBlock Origin.

That site seems horrible though. Random words in the body like reddit are hyperlinks to SEO landing pages on the same site. And there must be a better (original) source for the story than this...

pmdr•1mo ago
It's peak content form that AI was trained on and is now writing itself.
natebc•1mo ago
https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/blog/articles/mission-...

Seems like this is better, or at least maybe a primary source?

drnick1•1mo ago
You should really use an ad blocker. The Internet is basically unusable these days without one. I block ad domains at the DNS level too, but the ad blocker is still necessary to remove the empty frames left, sad.
add-sub-mul-div•1mo ago
If you don't want to use an adblocker that's your choice, but it doesn't make complaining about it content that we want to read.
cbisnett•1mo ago
What’s the chance this was dropped off one of the research vessels at some point? It seems unlikely to drift given it sank to the bottom.
apt-apt-apt-apt•1mo ago
It'd be surprising if we found it on the moon, but how is it surprising that something fell 7 miles until it hit the floor
gnabgib•1mo ago
2020 Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (103 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702000

2019 Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag (169 points, 126 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899374

2019 In Mariana Trench, every animal tested had plastic in its gut (57 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302531

2018 Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench (359 points, 326 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17057305

anonymousiam•1mo ago
Perhaps it was tossed overboard by somebody on the support vessel...
fnord77•1mo ago
I have a feeling someone dropped this bottle on purpose when they were over the trench. They knew what they were doing. Note the lack of other littler.
sowbug•1mo ago
The article mentions thalassophobia, which is my new vocabulary word for today. It means fear of large bodies of water.
andy99•1mo ago
I found that to be really bad writing

  When it comes to exploring the deep sea, unless you suffer from thalassophobia (the fear of large bodies of water), it can be quite fascinating.
What purpose does this serve, other than to introduce a word that has no future relevance in the article. It’s just an empty sentence padding the word count.
karmakurtisaani•1mo ago
How would you otherwise be aware the author knew this word?
nephihaha•1mo ago
Fear of the sea not large bodies of water.

Thalassa! Thalassa!

(Ancient Greek literary reference there.)

patrickmay•1mo ago
Time for a remake of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" with octopi.
rwmj•1mo ago
octopodes
hermannj314•1mo ago
For years we were told trans-oceanic communication was best done with messages in bottles and suddenly even those are being intercepted.

Finally time to switch to protonmail.

a3w•1mo ago
Depends on your thread model:

Swiss police can see your proton mail if they get a court to allow viewing it. But the Swiss do not have a submarine, so underwater bottle passing is safe against them.

Combine both, and you are safe! Offline mails in a bottle should be a april fool's RFC any time now.

techjamie•1mo ago
Secure Anycast IP Over Tidal Transport
quinndupont•1mo ago
SO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS. Tis a shame everything has to be fluffed up and sold
immibis•1mo ago
We really need to do more adversarial interoperability. There should be a browser or at least a .onion site that blocks ads and bypasses paywalls.

Yes, it would be illegal - just like a great many good things in the past, some of which led to the law being changed.

The Decline of Deviance essay posted here a few days ago says people used to take legal risks a lot more often than they do today.

1vuio0pswjnm7•1mo ago
What beer was it
hulitu•1mo ago
A radler. So no technically a beer. That's why they trew it away.
hulitu•1mo ago
They were lead by a bottle.