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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
1•beardyw•3m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•4m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
1•pseudolus•7m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•7m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•8m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•9m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•14m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•16m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•17m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•17m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•18m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•19m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•21m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•22m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•24m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•25m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•26m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•28m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•29m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Open letter from more than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies

https://www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter-more-60-ceos-minnesota-based-companies
66•SilverElfin•1w ago

Comments

SilverElfin•1w ago
List of companies signing onto this includes 3M, General Mills, Best Buy, Mayo Clinic, Target, and many other well known companies.
ronbenton•1w ago
Hm that is a weird way to ask for the feds to stop shooting innocent people
actionfromafar•1w ago
Reads like a prayer to summon a nostalgic past.
yodon•1w ago
It's hard to imagine a joint letter that says less than this one does.
Arnt•1w ago
Do you have some examples of letters that say more? Some ltter signed by 30 CEOs or more.
dougb5•1w ago
You can tell the message was written by committee, or by a large language model prompted to respect "both sides". No human with a soul could honestly characterize the situation as passively as this: "The recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life."
baubino•1w ago
It was almost certainly written by lawyers. The letter basically says, “The current situation is disrupting our bottom line. This cannot continue.”
TheAlchemist•1w ago
You could hardly write something more generic - they could maybe add some calls for world peace and universal prosperity...

How is this kind of bullshit upvoted here ?

yodon•1w ago
It's still worth knowing that this letter was written, even if the letter is only significant because of how embarrassingly little it says.
mickle00•1w ago
I appreciate the idea behind this letter, but it just feels so....weak?

"C'mon guys, we're all on the same team here, let's talk it out" /s

sbarre•1w ago
Yeah it has pretty gross "both sides" vibes.. Like they're feeling inconvenienced or something..
actionfromafar•1w ago
"Attention. You are doing fascism too hard right now."
whatever1•1w ago
Why do we expect the companies to do the job of our elected officials ?

Congress does not seem to object to the current practices of federal law enforcement, why corporate CEOs should?

cpgxiii•1w ago
Because the only signal the Trump administration responds to is "market goes down".
dashundchen•1w ago
Only when they are not manipulating it to drop themselves for some nice insider trading
bulbar•1w ago
Not "why should", but "why do they object" is the right question. When big corporations jump in telling you "how you manage the police is bad for us" that's a big sign something's very wrong.
mediaman•1w ago
Some are complaining this letter is weak and generic.

Of course it is. You have 3M, Target, General Mills, Cargill, and US Bancorp on here, among others.

If you are looking for some revolutionary call to action, you're looking in the wrong place. And you're misunderstanding what's happening.

It is a really big deal for these very conservative, large, rich companies to be telling the federal government to cut it out, even if it is written in generic legalese.

The letter is not for you. It is for the administration. And it is extremely clear.

ameliaquining•1w ago
I do think they would likely have used more forceful rhetoric if they were dealing with a more normal administration. The current one is atypically spite-driven and prone to retaliate against critics, so they probably figured that saying anything insufficiently conciliatory-sounding would likely be counterproductive.
foogazi•1w ago
> The current one is atypically spite-driven and prone to retaliate against critics

That’s why they do that

shalmanese•1w ago
Even if that is the instinct, this is a mistaken way to deal with narcissistic bullying.

It’s writing the piece in the first place rather than what you put in it that raises the ire. There’s no way to compromise or mollify the wording in a way that makes them give you like, half the punishment.

What’s more, the attempt to mollify signals weakness that just invites them to feel even more vindictive. Being more forthright and decisive is what earns their grudging respect. China understood this, Zohran Mandani understood this. Meanwhile, Europe and Democratic leadership, universities and large law firms refuse to understand this.

Driver4732•1w ago
You can't have change unless you call out directly who is doing the wrongdoing. In this case, it's the executive branch of the federal government led by Trump. The letter is weak and toothless. Trump and DHS have shown no signs of stopping the ICE invasion, yet these companies call for all parties to come together "to find real solutions." These companies want to look good for the local community but are scared of getting targeted by Trump.
duxup•1w ago
I’d like to know what this “work behind the scenes” really is.