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Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
1•haizzz•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
1•Nive11•1m ago•0 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
1•hunglee2•5m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
1•chartscout•7m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
2•AlexeyBrin•10m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
1•machielrey•12m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
2•tablets•16m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•21m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•21m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•22m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•27m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•33m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•34m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now as AI slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•39m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•41m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
3•tosh•47m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
4•oxxoxoxooo•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•51m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
3•goranmoomin•55m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•56m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•57m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•1h ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
4•myk-e•1h ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
5•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•1h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•1h ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Sauron, home security startup, plucks CEO out of Sonos

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/from-sonos-to-sauron-new-ceo-takes-on-high-end-home-security-startup-still-in-development/
14•ohjeez•1mo ago

Comments

ohjeez•1mo ago
Overheard: Wouldn't it be interesting if Sauron eventually merged with Ring?
Python3267•1mo ago
Oh god, it makes sense now. Palinteer is partnering with ring for footing and will be acquired by Sauron.
jondwillis•1mo ago
My favorite (read: least favorite) of these Tolkien-inspired menacing companies is Thiel’s Valar: “[who are] god-like immortal spirits that chose to enter the mortal world to prepare it for their living creations.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_Ventures

rebolek•1mo ago
Who names their company Sauron? Are these people totally evil?
catigula•1mo ago
>build what they envisioned as a military-grade home security system for tech elites

It must be feel so good lording over the plebs as a fiery eye.

triceratops•1mo ago
Also, why is Tolkien's estate seemingly twiddling its thumbs while all these companies use its intellectual property? Or does the estate get licensing fees?
xenospn•1mo ago
They have no claim, unless you create another literary character or something in the likeness of the original character. Naming a company after a fictional character is not an issue.
triceratops•1mo ago
I didn't know that and I find it surprising.
ssl-3•1mo ago
Sort of. Fictional character names are just words... unless these words are used in trade, at which point they become trademarks.

And in this context: "Sauron" is a registered trademark. https://trademarks.justia.com/772/04/sauron-77204394.html

This status doesn't necessarily give the owner absolute control of the mark, but it can limit the ways in which others use it in trade.

Things would be this way whether "Sauron" was ever the name of a fictional character or not. The use as a character name by the trademark owner neither implicitly enhances nor diminishes the trademark's integrity.

ohjeez•1mo ago
...and geez haven't these people read any other books?!
mrandish•1mo ago
Yeah, I have a feeling rebranding might be in their future. As one of the somewhat rare crossover people who are both technical but with some marketing chops, it never ceases to surprise me how branding can elude some people who are technically brilliant.
kentbrew•1mo ago
Right, right, because Sauron's home had really great security. :/
Larrikin•1mo ago
Was this guy involved in anyway with the rollout of the new Sonos app? Anybody involved in that debacle should be a pariah. They took a nearly universally loved product, broke it, doubled down, and turned the entire company into a product people actively avoid. Sonos products should never be bought new because all the previous customers have to sell at a significant loss because the product still doesn't work right anymore.

As a Sonos owner and former customer the most exciting news I've heard in a long time are the people working on Music Assistant have put out their attempt at a protocol to be a Sonos replacement for all speakers.

bestouff•1mo ago
Indeed Max was involved in the "new app" trainwreck. And was subsequently fired from Sonos along with Patrick. (Source : I also have been fired with several hundreds others because of that fiasco ; you can guess I'm somewhat bitter)
skulk•1mo ago
> Sauron is also appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy. Recent high-profile incidents include a November armed robbery at the home of tech investors Lachy Groom and Joshua Buckley in San Francisco’s Mission District, where $11 million in cryptocurrency was stolen during a 90-minute ordeal involving torture and threats.

I'll never get tired the irony in one of crypto's most lauded design features (private key = money) leading to it being almost impossible to secure from an XKCD 538 style attack. In the crypto-libertarian's mind, the only solution here is to arm yourself and your house to the teeth and constantly look over your shoulder. Never mind the fact that the social contract is being ripped up and cynical actors are concentrating resources and preparing to shut the other half out for good.

jondwillis•1mo ago
New business idea: camp outside of Michelin-rated restaurants, waiting for your favorite cynic to venture outside their bunker for a meal.
vslira•1mo ago
Funny name given that Sauron infamously didn’t prevent a break-in

Btw: isn’t lotr out of copyright in death of author + 50yrs countries? Where’s the legal Chinese movie trilogy?

SquibblesRedux•1mo ago
Well, Palantir was taken.
hurfdurf•1mo ago
UK and US seem to have death + 70 years.
jamesgill•1mo ago
Wasn’t Sauron defeated by an amateur hacker who defeated the security, found a backdoor and destroyed the power grid?