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X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/x-pays-1-million-prize-creator-history-racist-posts-rcna257768
1•doener•2m ago•0 comments

155M US land parcel boundaries

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-layer
2•tjwebbnorfolk•7m ago•0 comments

Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
1•jbegley•10m ago•0 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net
1•dallen97•17m ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
1•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
2•y1n0•20m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
1•tolerance•20m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•21m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
2•linkdd•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•26m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•28m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/
1•neuling•31m ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en
1•aqeisi•32m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•34m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/ai-overviews-are-killing-the-web-search-and-theres-nothing-we-c...
3•bundie•39m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

https://theconversation.com/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress-267763
3•gnabgib•40m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•44m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
2•y1n0•45m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
4•calebhwin•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•57m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

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1•foxiel•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•1h ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
3•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•1h ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•1h ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of-irish-plants/
116•gnabgib•1w ago

Comments

nephihaha•1w ago
Not a very user friendly website IMHO. Surprised it doesn't list the Irish language names of many of these plants (as far as I could see).
riffic•1w ago
scientifically the only names that matter are the botanic binomials (ICN or ICNafp)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomencla...

wizzwizz4•1w ago
Scientifically, communication matters. Therefore, other names do also matter.
contingencies•1w ago
All other names are generally considered either common or historic. Common names are regarded as too ambiguous for scientific use, they are generally only mentioned in relevance to collections such as "How do the local people in <area x> having <population y> of <latin name z> (who might help identify where it is growing) refer to the organism?". In a small number of cases local names confer ethnobotanical or cultural semantics.
nephihaha•1w ago
I am well aware that laypeople don't always distinguish between various similar species of plants and animals, and I probably can't in some cases myself, but I am specifically interested in some of those "common or historic names" along with their "ethnobotanical or cultural semantics", to see how they might compare with words elsewhere.
contingencies•1w ago
For old Irish names I would have thought Gallic-Druidic cultural associations might have some sort of currency or influence. Maybe try looking for research with those conceptual frames of reference. Here's an example query to place with your favourite LLM: "make a list of the top 30 plants associated with traditional herbal lore in pre-modern ireland. seek gallic/druidic associations through etymology, lore and written record (if feasible). table format."
nephihaha•1w ago
There is some of that with certain names for sure. Also interested in comparisons with Manx and Scottish Gaelic and Broad Scots.
nephihaha•1w ago
I was specifically interested in the Irish names, because they are related to some research I have been doing for a number of years.

The Latin names are available in numerous other sources.

s_dev•1w ago
Richard Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc

The names of birds.

tl;dw: Knowing the name of something gives you no knowledge of that thing even if you can name it in every language but it's super useful to know when communicating with others.

jyoung789•1w ago
For those interested, you can search through the collections of herbariums all over north America through portals such as the Consortium of Midwest Herbaria[0], in Europe through digHerb [1], and throughout the rest of the world through many other symbiota portals [2].

You can find your nearest brick and mortar herbarium globally through Index Herbariorum[3]. Though these resources are incomplete, they are pretty extensive regardless.

[0]https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/collections/search/index....

[1]https://digiherb.symbiota.org/

[2] https://symbiota.org/symbiota-portals/

[3]https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/

Loughla•1w ago
Also for those in the States, contact your local state University extension office. They know of local resources like this that aren't widely advertised/don't have an online presence.
xattt•1w ago
Neat to see doi implemented as intended, where identifiers link to items that not articles.
dfajgljsldkjag•1w ago
It is very important that we treat the natural world like data that needs a backup. The environment changes so fast that we will lose the history of these plants if we do not save them in a digital format. This collection gives us a way to check the past against the future so we can see what has been lost.
impish9208•1w ago
Missed opportunity to name it “The Hibernian Herbarium”.