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Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank

1•gabrywu•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro

3•sinisterMage•5m ago•0 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...

2•zdw•5m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o

4•bookofjoe•6m ago•1 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk

1•_bramses•7m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home

1•ilyaizen•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb

1•try_betaer•8m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership

2•anhxuan•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/

2•funnycoding•9m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/

1•thelok•9m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases

1•edwinarbus•9m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A

1•stmw•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext

1•tchoa91•11m ago•1 comments

FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

https://sluongng.substack.com/p/fosdem-26-my-hallway-track-takeaways

1•birdculture•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

https://env-shelf.vercel.app/

1•ivanglpz•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/

1•PetrBrzyBrzek•15m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit

1•radeeyate•16m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/

1•matt_d•16m ago•0 comments

Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/

1•blenderob•18m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html

1•CommonGuy•19m ago•0 comments

Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125083427.htm

1•fanf2•19m ago•0 comments

Fantasy football that celebrates great games

https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/ultigamemate/

1•blenderob•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animalese

https://animalese.barcoloudly.com/

1•noreplica•20m ago•0 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/

3•simonw•20m ago•0 comments

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

https://blog.plover.com/tech/gpt/micro-worlds.html

1•blenderob•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Velocity - Free/Cheaper Linear Clone but with MCP for agents

https://velocity.quest

2•kevinelliott•22m ago•2 comments

Corning Invented a New Fiber-Optic Cable for AI and Landed a $6B Meta Deal [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KLbc5DlRs

1•ksec•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: XAPIs.dev – Twitter API Alternative at 90% Lower Cost

https://xapis.dev

2•nmfccodes•23m ago•1 comments

Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst

2•eatitraw•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

https://github.com/Anipaleja/nginx-defender

2•anipaleja•30m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

AI "swarms" could distort democracy

https://www.mpg.de/26044163/ai-swarms-could-distort-democracy

5•giuliomagnifico•1w ago

Comments

saubeidl•1w ago

Already have been for a while. Brexit, Trump, AfD, all have been pushed by botnets.

giuliomagnifico•1w ago

The article talks specifically about AI, you’re confusing AI with bots, during Brexit there wasn’t AI for example…

> No more “copy-paste bots”: AI personas can convincingly imitate real users on social media

ben_w•1w ago

Sure, yes, but I'd still agree with saubeidl that the danger of inauthentic accounts was already demonstrated pre-AI with both copypasta and https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1019:_First_Post

AI does, as you say, make this much worse.