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Convert tempo (BPM) to millisecond durations for musical note subdivisions

https://brylie.music/apps/bpm-calculator/
1•brylie•35s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tasty A.F.

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1•adammfrank•1m ago•0 comments

The Contagious Taste of Cancer

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/contagious-taste-cancer
1•Thevet•2m ago•0 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
1•alephnerd•3m ago•0 comments

Bithumb mistakenly hands out $195M in Bitcoin to users in 'Random Box' giveaway

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-02-07/business/finance/Crypto-exchange-Bithumb-mis...
1•giuliomagnifico•3m ago•0 comments

Beyond Agentic Coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
2•todsacerdoti•4m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.loom.com/embed/e26a750c0c754312b032e2290630853d
1•kaicianflone•6m ago•0 comments

OpenBSD Copyright Policy

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
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OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•11m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•12m 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
2•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

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2•gurjeet•13m ago•0 comments

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

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You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
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Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•17m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•17m ago•1 comments

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

1•alentred•18m ago•0 comments

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

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2•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

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5•mindracer•20m ago•2 comments

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

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1•thm•20m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•21m 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/
2•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

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

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

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

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

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
2•ghazikhan205•23m ago•1 comments

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

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1•impish9208•24m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

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1•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

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

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1•p-s-v•24m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

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

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•25m ago•1 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-...