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Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•1m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•12m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•13m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•14m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
2•cwwc•17m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•17m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•19m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•20m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•21m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•22m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•22m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•22m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•25m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•28m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•34m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

2•fud101•34m ago•4 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•36m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
1•petethomas•37m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•37m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•42m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•47m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•47m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
3•todsacerdoti•48m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•49m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•50m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•53m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
2•tzury•55m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•57m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245
115•mdhb•2w ago

Comments

mdhb•2w ago
Because the headline underplays it quite a bit the actual story here is that the Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.
JumpCrisscross•2w ago
> a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results

Guesses as to what they were looking for?

dang•2w ago
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700527.
bediger4000•2w ago
Wow this is bad. Will there be any accountability?
JumpCrisscross•2w ago
> Will there be any accountability?

FTA: "SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act."

Probably nothing under this administration. But there is a paper trail–now cited in public–for folks in the future to pursue.

In the meantime, I'm curious what civil damages they may be liable for.

toomanyrichies•2w ago
Not only will there be no punitive action taken by this admin, but I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration, for any and all actions they may have taken, before his term is out.

I hope I’m wrong, but in his 5 years as President he has yet to display any hint of restraint or ethical compass, so I would be very surprised if this doesn’t happen.

EDIT: “to punitive action” => “no punitive action”

galleywest200•2w ago
Surely they must have committed some state crimes, which are not pardonable by the president.
JumpCrisscross•2w ago
> I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration

I expect he will. At that point, Biden will have pardoned his son for felony gun and tax crimes, as well as pioneered the preëmptive pardon, while Trump will have pardoned violent insurrections, drug lords, fraudsters and his corrupt inner circle. If that isn’t enough to build consensus on striking pardon power from the Constitution entirely, I don’t know what will be.

CamperBob2•2w ago
Question: what kind of father would fail to protect his son from an endless bullshit performative Republican inquisition that we all know would have happened?
simmerup•2w ago
Especially considering Trump is an obvious vindictive, narcissistic bully who would love to torment Biden
CamperBob2•2w ago
Exactly, that's my point. It's silly to play the game in good faith when you know damned well that you're the only one doing so. At the time Biden promised not to pardon his son, it still seemed vanishingly unlikely that we'd re-elect Trump, and in fact he hadn't even been nominated yet.

So many things changed between June and December 2024. The country's wheels came off, and the undercarriage dragged on the road and caught fire.

tzs•2w ago
Several presidents have given preemptive pardons before Biden: Ford, Carter, the first Bush, and Trump in his first term.
jfengel•2w ago
According to the OSC:

https://osc.gov/Documents/Public%20Files/Press%20Release/OSC...

Violations are sent to the President for disciplinary action.

So, no.

JumpCrisscross•2w ago
Which in practice means he has (more) lackeys loyal to him on pain of criminal prosecution.
defrost•2w ago
Pam Bondi's already tasked with assembling a crack team of WWW legal interns to gaslight and ignore the issue as we type.
montroser•2w ago
> Shapiro also revealed that despite prior assertions in court, SSA’s DOGE team members “were using links to share data through the third-party server ‘Cloudflare.’”

Wreckless incompetence at the highest levels of government.

CamperBob2•2w ago
Wreckless incompetence at the highest levels of government

You mean reckless incompetence. There was plenty of wrecking.

montroser•2w ago
Yes, you are right!
banga•2w ago
The dogs of DOGE Whining for relevance Shit on everything
N_Lens•2w ago
I think there's an unprecedented level of lawbreaking and disregard for consequences by this administration. So far they haven't been held to account, it remains to be seen if they ever will.
JohnTHaller•2w ago
Link for when flagged: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-soc...
donkey_brains•2w ago
Wow, this is bad. Almost as bad as that time Hunter Biden got his laptop stolen am I right?

/s

LastTrain•2w ago
Why is this flagged? It is a security breach.
soco•2w ago
There might be a population overlap, or at least ideology overlap, between doge and hn.
antiochIst•2w ago
You can track how this story spread from CNN at 3:32 PM as first to report, then whistleblower.org, peters.senate.gov, and eventually scienceblog.com and democracydocket.com. Yandori shows 54 sources picked it up with 48 citations: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-20-9734134-trump-...