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Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•21s ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•1m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•8m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•10m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•14m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•15m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•17m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•22m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•24m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•24m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•24m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•26m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•27m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•33m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•34m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•35m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•37m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•37m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•38m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•41m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•41m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•41m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•43m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•44m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•45m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•46m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Havana Syndrome Device Purchased

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politics/havana-syndrome-device-pentagon-hsi
19•yalok•3w ago

Comments

NN88•3w ago
https://sashaingber.substack.com/p/exclusive-us-has-been-tes...
manfromchina1•3w ago
That link has the following: https://x.com/nettermike/status/2009843044028428714

> Security Guard: Without a doubt. I'm sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they're capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They're not to be messed with.

Sounds like a strategic bluff.

OutOfHere•3w ago
Indeed it was covered in multiple mainstream news that the US used such a weapon in Venezuela:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-used-sonic-weapon-venezu...

https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/world-news/us-used-powerful-so...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome, the use of the device has been increasing exponentially:

> There are no official statistics, but media reporting indicated a total of 26 people around 2017,[10] 40 in 2019 (U.S. and Canadian),[11] 130 people in May 2021,[12] more than 200 by September 2021,[13] and more than 1,000 by early 2022.[14]

I suspect that this device's proliferation is going to raise major hell worldwide in the years to come.

spankibalt•3w ago
Time to get Anduril & Associates churn out knock-offs for local "law" enforcement distribution, so they can help Mango Mussolini and Crew to Make America Great Again. "That's what I voted for!1!!"
ggm•3w ago
If they haven't been scammed, there would have to be a belief the originating economy has countermeasures or some belief it can sustain across its use.

If they have been scammed, it wouldn't be the first time. Those carbomb detection broomstick handles come to mind.

recursivecaveat•3w ago
For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker Though the later rename is the one that really took off internationally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651. Its really a stranger-than-fiction story, a used-car salesman sells to governments a dowsing rod that you can program to find anything by sticking a polaroid in. Pretty grim though when you consider all the people that died from bombings trusting these worthless things, and the money pocketed by corrupt buyers along the way. Only 12 years for the guy at the top too.
mac3n•3w ago
What's great about such devices is that they can be interpreted by the operator, and lend a false air of authority to their judgement.

There's a great opportunity for AI here.

harambae•2w ago
There’s a recent podcast, I think it’s called “Explosive Lies”, covering this
bigbadfeline•3w ago
> The device acquired by HSI produces pulsed radio waves, one of the sources said

"radio waves" are easily detected. The problems in Havana persisted for weeks and I can't believe the people affected didn't have the tech to detect mere "radio waves"... That story doesn't pass the sniff test.

thepotatodude•3w ago
I think Havana Syndrome was caused by non-human technology. Whether they have reverse-engineered it or not is the question.