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Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•1m ago•0 comments

Watch Ukraine's Minigun-Firing, Drone-Hunting Turboprop in Action

https://www.twz.com/air/watch-ukraines-minigun-firing-drone-hunting-turboprop-in-action
1•breve•1m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•2m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
1•randycupertino•3m ago•0 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

https://supernote.eu/choose-your-product/
1•janandonly•5m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•6m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

https://poddley.com/guests/ana-kasparian/episodes
1•onesandofgrain•14m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-si...
7•karakoram•14m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•14m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•14m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
2•dshearer•17m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•18m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•22m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•24m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
3•randycupertino•25m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
3•breve•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•31m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
3•ks2048•31m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•34m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•34m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•38m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•39m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•40m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
3•SchwKatze•40m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•41m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
7•guerrilla•42m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Is it worth it? (2021)

https://griffin.com/blog/is-it-worth-it
21•todsacerdoti•1w ago

Comments

Archelaos•1w ago
Reminds me of the Info-Dialogue-Box I removed from an application last year. This saved perhaps 1 second to click it away each time it was shown. I estimated that it shows up about 3,000 times a month in the company. This means 36,000 times a year, or 180,000 times in 5 years, that is equivalent to 50 hours. -- It took me perhaps 10 minutes to remove it, including tests. With average labour costs of 50 Euros per hours for the users, the company is going to save about 2,500 Euros over a period of 5 years.
Cthulhu_•1w ago
Possibly related, the other day I removed a few dozen iOS simulators, but each one triggered a confirmation popup (they stacked, lol). But I noticed that with this version of MacOS, each one animates away, and the animation has to be finished before the next one disappears. Disabling animations / reducing motion makes these dialog appear / disappear animations go away and the interactions a lot snappier.

I wanted to reduce the animation time of switching screens / workspaces as well but reducing motion just changes it from a swipe to a fade animation, which wasn't any better for me.

dissent•1w ago
The conclusion of the article is "yes", because you usually end up saving more time in the long run than you think.

But there's an even better reason. Consistency, encapsulation of process, and a form of self documentation. This is the real goal - the time savings are a bonus.

Cyan488•1w ago
One of my first visible actions when working at a new company is to recommend the search software Voidtools Everything, and to set a 30 minute meeting to teach people how to use it.

For the next 6-12 months I get so much positive feedback about all the time that is saved while navigating the network drives.

I joke that the efficiency gains from its introduction organization-wide alone pay my salary!

xnx•1w ago
Can't be emphasized enough how useful this tool is and how insane it is that it is not native to Windows (even after 40 years).

I wish Everything that head easier search bookmarking and/or tabbed interface.

RetroTechie•1w ago
> A company of 100 engineers should probably have 10-20% of the team allocated to just internal tools and making things go faster.

But beware of Jevons paradox.

Say that eg. a software project has 10 developers, and each build takes ~15 minutes. Most developers would take at least some care to check their patches, understand how they work etc, before submitting. And then discuss follow-on steps with their team over a coffee.

Now imagine near-instant builds. A developer could copy-paste a fix & hit "submit", see "oh that doesn't work, let's try something else", and repeat. You'll agree that probably wouldn't help to improve the codebase quality. It would just increase the # of non-functional patches that can be tested & rejected in a given time span.

In other words: be careful what you wish for.

TrudosKudos•1w ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828492

Thank you for sharing! I was inspired by the source material and created an interactive version of the formula mentioned in the source.