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Sam Altman: I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189
1•doener•1m ago•0 comments

METR estimates that GPT-5.2 has a 50%-time-horizon of around 6.6 hrs

https://twitter.com/METR_Evals/status/2019169900317798857
1•tedsanders•1m ago•0 comments

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
1•DyslexicAtheist•3m ago•0 comments

Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Developers-Quiet-Away
2•cuechan•5m ago•0 comments

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone

https://twitter.com/lizziejohnsonnn/status/2019083204133609846
3•doener•6m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Ad

https://twitter.com/Grantblocmates/status/2019093077936497031
2•doener•7m ago•0 comments

Building Reliable AI Infrastructure: What We Learned Scaling AI Visibility

https://amplitude.com/blog/scaling-ai-visibility
1•linksku•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cradle Log – Free offline baby tracker with voice logging, AI insights

https://www.getcradlelog.com/
1•jack_burrr•8m ago•0 comments

An FPS built with Svelte, Threlte and Claude Opus built in just 2 hours

https://www.mr-spankys-meatballs.com
1•paulbjensen•9m ago•0 comments

Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/04/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-software-ide...
2•erehweb•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cohesix 0.4.0-alpha, a no-std control-plane OS

https://github.com/lukeb-aidev/cohesix
2•Cohesix•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We simulated 10K freelancers deciding to work for AI agents

1•Mert_Predicts•14m ago•0 comments

Open-source AI tool beats LLMs in literature reviews – and gets citations right

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00347-9
2•sohkamyung•15m ago•0 comments

Former Prime Ministers Harper and Chrétien Discuss Canada and the World [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhCacENdj7U
1•thomassmith65•16m ago•0 comments

Japan's Tourism Challenges: Declining Visitors and Shifting Trends in 2026

https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/japans-tourism-challenges-declining-visitors-and-...
2•mikhael•17m ago•0 comments

AI and Higher Ed: An Impending Collapse

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/07/24/ai-and-higher-ed-impending-collapse-opinion
1•talon8635•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where does operational truth live before it reaches "systems of record"?

2•former-aws•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LayerClaw – Observability tool for PyTorch training

2•prabhavsanga•18m ago•0 comments

"Grok, Is This True?" Analyzing LLM-Powered Fact-Checking on Social Media

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/85quw_v2
1•ytpete•20m ago•1 comments

Fast Autoscheduling for Sparse ML Frameworks

https://ajroot.pl/cgo2026scorch.html
1•matt_d•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WhookTown – Visualize your infrastructure as a 3D cyberpunk city

https://www.whook.town/
1•fralix•21m ago•0 comments

You don't want a faster Notion

https://outcrop.app/blog/speed
1•imedadel•22m ago•0 comments

AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/aws_codec_patent_holders/
2•ffworld•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: BederSnake Revolution: Snake+Sokoban+Match3 puzzle with MLsolvable lvls

https://bedersnake.itch.io/bedersnake-revolution
2•avtomatron•23m ago•0 comments

Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/better-biscuits-south-thanksgiving/576526/
3•Mernit•24m ago•1 comments

Everything We Teach at Y Combinator in 10 Minutes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg72m3CjuK4
2•Brysonbw•27m ago•0 comments

Apple Beats Tech Stocks by Most in a Year as It Avoids AI Panic

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-beats-tech-stocks-most-174832890.html
1•wslh•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I stopped trying to sleep on long-haul flights

https://www.flight-ready.online/
1•Zaleo•30m ago•2 comments

Portugal ruling party MPs seek social media ban for teens

https://macaubusiness.com/portugal-ruling-party-mps-seek-social-media-ban-for-teens/
1•belter•31m ago•0 comments

They Lied About Greenland. NASA Found This [video][25M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uZj5PZB4-0
2•Bender•32m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/
24•mxfh•1h ago

Comments

helle253•26m ago
why in the world is this being sunset i wonder
themafia•23m ago
The internet now exists and easily surpasses the value of this static publication.
varun_ch•19m ago
The World Factbook was a really useful resource on the internet.
MattGaiser•6m ago
This is an odd thing to say for something heavily used on the internet. It was not just a physical book.
mavhc•20m ago
Facts are not a thing the government is interested in now
themafia•22m ago
I don't know that the Schlesinger memo was real but I think it's conclusions were perfect. The CIA needs to be split into two divisions. The research division and the operations division.
callmeal•7m ago
They should all just go home. They already won. Remember this quote?

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

sparrish•16m ago
I remember doing research in the print version of the World Factbook back in college days. It was the most accurate and up-to-date info we could get on countries before the Interwebs. RIP.