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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/
12•nis0s•2h ago

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m-hodges•46m ago
Wake up babe, new Therac-25 just dropped.
Kiboneu•21m ago
It’s funny because the Therac-25 failures led the FDA to care about software defects. Before the Therac-25 incidents, software was considered a black box component.

History rhymes doesn’t it?

AndrewKemendo•14m ago
It’s almost as if we’re an entirely reactionary species that can’t think ahead forward on solving problems that aren’t as a result of some massive tragic event

So I wonder then *curiously* what kind of massive tragic event we’re going to have to have before everybody wakes up and realizes superhuman artificial intelligence is something they need to pay attention to politically

Sam Altman Just Dropped 8 Hard Truths About the Future of AI

https://medium.com/activated-thinker/sam-altman-just-dropped-8-hard-truths-about-the-future-of-ai...
1•r0f1•39s ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Office Lines – Search 60k+ Quotes from the Office (US)

https://theofficelines.com/
1•tranquillanate•54s ago•0 comments

Trying Out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait for an Invite

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/trying-out-thunderbird-appointment-while-i-patiently-await-for-a...
1•todsacerdoti•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My "Grandma" prompt dropped a production DB. So I built a Kill Switch

1•Esrbwt•3m ago•0 comments

Bank Skills: Give your AI agent a bank account

https://github.com/singularityhacker/bank-skills
1•BinaryAcid•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenBoot – Set up your macOS dev environment in one command

https://github.com/openbootdotdev/openboot
1•openbootdotenv•4m ago•1 comments

I Edited This Video 100% With Codex ft. SAM3 + MatAnyone + Remotion

https://www.adithyan.io/blog/codex-text-effects-toolchain
1•adithyan_win•4m ago•0 comments

Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13666
1•mustaphah•4m ago•0 comments

HeyWhatsThat

https://www.heywhatsthat.com/faq.html
2•1970-01-01•6m ago•1 comments

PyTorch Geometric

https://pytorch-geometric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#
1•waldarbeiter•6m ago•0 comments

Making Waffles with Group Theory

https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/02/09/making-waffles-with-group-theory/
1•hmpc•7m ago•0 comments

A Critical AI Niche Is Dominated by One Little-Known Japanese Company

https://www.wsj.com/tech/a-critical-ai-niche-is-dominated-by-one-little-known-japanese-company-d9...
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. To the Test

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/science/mathematics-ai-proof-hairer.html
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Can robots ever be graceful?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y46356zzyo
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

We Discourage Sleep in Code

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/why-we-discourage-sleep/
1•jwworth•10m ago•0 comments

AI Follows the 80/20 Rule

https://buchanan.one/blog/ai-pareto-principal/
1•boscillator•10m ago•0 comments

Dumbproxy 1.42.0 released with TrustTunnel support

https://github.com/SenseUnit/dumbproxy/releases/tag/v1.42.0
1•Snawoot•13m ago•1 comments

I kept highlighting on Kindle and never reusing them, so I built a small tool

https://litmarks.ai
1•tarikguney•14m ago•1 comments

Zendesk, get your shit together please

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/zendesk-get-shit-together/
2•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Jony Ive's Ferrari Luce EV Interior and Interface Design

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/09/jony-ive-ferrari-luce-ev-interior-design/
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

VCL App: 4x to 11x Faster Math Performance with Elements

https://blogs.remobjects.com/2026/02/09/your-vcl-app-faster-4x-to-11x-math-performance/
1•vintagedave•18m ago•0 comments

Learnings from Creating a GUI Library

https://blog.s-schoener.com/2026-02-09-gui/
1•todsacerdoti•19m ago•0 comments

The Joy of Programming

https://deanclatworthy.com/2026/02/09/the-joy-of-programming/
4•deanc•19m ago•1 comments

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It

https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
2•swolpers•19m ago•0 comments

BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

https://fr.ifixit.com/News/115528/bmws-newest-innovation-is-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-...
3•Kyro38•19m ago•1 comments

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
1•dm•19m ago•0 comments

Why does prompt injection work

https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/general/672622
1•cllxcll•20m ago•0 comments

What Drives Managers to Sabotage Talented Employees (2025)

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/what-drives-managers-to-sabotage-talented-employees
1•begueradj•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: My 2nd ever Quant Finance and ML Newsletter. Help me improve

https://static.philippdubach.com/newsletter/newsletter-2026-02.html
1•7777777phil•21m ago•0 comments

AI does not have human-level intelligence

http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2026/02/no-ai-does-not-have-human-level.html
1•danielam•21m ago•0 comments