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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
551•klaussilveira•10h ago•155 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
874•xnx•15h ago•531 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
79•matheusalmeida•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
190•isitcontent•10h ago•24 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
12•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
190•dmpetrov•10h ago•84 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
302•vecti•12h ago•133 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
347•aktau•16h ago•169 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
346•ostacke•16h ago•90 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
74•quibono•4d ago•16 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
6•helloplanets•4d ago•3 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
443•todsacerdoti•18h ago•226 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
46•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
242•eljojo•13h ago•148 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
16•romes•4d ago•2 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
379•lstoll•16h ago•258 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
224•i5heu•13h ago•170 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
103•SerCe•6h ago•82 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
162•limoce•3d ago•85 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
131•vmatsiiako•15h ago•56 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

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63•phreda4•9h ago•11 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
20•gmays•5h ago•3 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

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14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
262•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
40•gfortaine•8h ago•11 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1034•cdrnsf•19h ago•428 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
6•neogoose•2h ago•3 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
56•rescrv•18h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
85•antves•1d ago•63 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
20•denysonique•6h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers

https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463
81•greyadept•9mo ago

Comments

gnabgib•9mo ago
Small discussion (61 points, 2 months ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022628
bigthymer•9mo ago
Similar to how cartographers embed false information into maps to catch plagiarists, I expect a deliberate practice such as this to proliferate to catch specific sources used by AI.

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

avidiax•9mo ago
The model makers can also embed such things to prove if someone copied the model or perhaps that they trained on their model's outputs.

Would also be fun to make a model that has no idea that dropbears aren't real, but thinks that Bigfoot is real, but is taboo to talk about.

arkh•9mo ago
> For instance, observers have noted the rise of “tortured phrases” used to evade automated integrity software, such as “counterfeit consciousness” instead of “artificial intelligence”.

This has been a thing for years in the social media / podcast space. Unalive, bubbling yourself, vitamins, pdf files etc. in lieu of forbidden words because of the holy advertiser money.

thinkingemote•9mo ago
what does "bubbling yourself" mean and cover for? I've not heard of it before. Sounds kind of fun and harmless. I did a search and it seems to refer to the act of putting oneself in a bubble, that is surrounding oneself intentionally in a social network group identity bubble. (A kind of psychological defence method like repression which in the long term isn't good). What forbidden words does it replace?
arkh•9mo ago
It's used by some for "killing yourself". Not as fun and harmless.
thinkingemote•9mo ago
Thanks and that search engines are advertising vehicles reinforce your comment! They don't want people to find what people are using that term for.

Edits: Oh and the harmless and fun is the disguise!

Tade0•9mo ago
Google's AI told me it's "looking for or being interested in Pastorelli Yourself Ys Pure Bubble floor tiles".

All in all I shouldn't be surprised, considering advertising is Google's business.

brador•9mo ago
It comes from that Wii mario game where in multiplayer you’d jump to death and bubble up and it would auto follow the still living (best) player to finish the level.
Kon-Peki•9mo ago
Wait, hold on.

In that Wii Mario game players could “bubble themselves” to avoid death. And then shake their controller to bring their bubble closer to an active player, who could pop the bubble and turn the “bubbled” player back into an active player. And if all players were “bubbled” then you’d go back to the world selection screen without any player losing a life - you’d only lose any powerups you had.

So is this the correct source for the terminology, or did nobody using it actually play the game, or???

arrowsmith•9mo ago
This is why you hear political podcasts talk about “the Austrian painter” or “midcentury Germans” and not the common names by which those things are known. Gotta keep that sweet YouTube monetisation.
anal_reactor•9mo ago
It's strange that societies discover every 100 years or so how profanities come to existence.
pseudo0•9mo ago
This is an interesting emergent trend though because it's designed to evade automated content moderation. The whole point of "PDF file" is that it's perfectly innocuous without an understanding of the surrounding context. With real-time audio transcription increasingly common, even livestreamers have to do this to avoid getting hit with automated bans or deprioritization.
arrowsmith•9mo ago
What is PDF file a euphemism for? That was the only one in the original post I couldn’t figure out.

Porn?

SSLy•9mo ago
a nonce
arrowsmith•9mo ago
Ohhhhhh.
iamthemonster•9mo ago
There is a long history of euphemisms taking over - one day we may say "unalived" as a perfectly normal replacement for "killed", just as we don't call bears "arkto" or "ursa" any more, we just euphemistically call them "brown things", i.e. "bero" in protogermanic hence "bear" in English.
fao_•9mo ago
> This is why you hear political podcasts talk about “the Austrian painter” or “midcentury Germans” and not the common names by which those things are known. Gotta keep that sweet YouTube monetisation.

I've never heard anyone on youtube or on a podcast use terms that referred to the Nazis without directly calling them Nazis, and it hasn't had an effect on their monetization. I wonder what kind of media you're consuming that put you in contact with people who would use euphemisms for this sort of thing?

Smithalicious•9mo ago
Exactly which platforms will penalise namedropping Hitler varies and it varies by circumstances, but this is a real thing as far as I can tell, on tiktok and also on YouTube videos algorithmically flagged as "intended for children" (regardless of whether they are or not).
fao_•9mo ago
> on YouTube videos algorithmically flagged as "intended for children" (regardless of whether they are or not).

There's a huge button where you can set a video as being child-friendly or not. I don't understand :P

jowea•9mo ago
I've seen youtube videos with the nazi swastika humorously censored with a $ monetisation sign. Are all those people doing this unnecessarily?
artemonster•9mo ago
"seggs", "unalived". ugh.
Ferret7446•9mo ago
It just goes to show that you can't easily change human behavior. Humans, and reality in general, will route around whatever petty schemes the ruler of the day dictate.
simianwords•9mo ago
But many of the existing papers with that phrase also happen to be from Iran. Interesting

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22v...

NoMoreNicksLeft•9mo ago
If they only differ by a dot, this could be legitimate papers being translated poorly. I don't see what the big deal is. Is the suggestion that these journal articles just AI garbage? I thought the editorial boards were supposed to be able to put a stop to that.
atahanacar•9mo ago
I'm assuming they are using LLMs for translation, which makes this mistake as it already knows about "vegetative electron microscopy".
colingauvin•9mo ago
Asked an Iranian-German electron microscopist that I know.

Scanning = robeshi

Vegetative = royeshi

Probably just a typo. Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) are very common instruments.

simianwords•9mo ago
this is in the article
firesteelrain•9mo ago
There is an epidemic of scientific fraud in Iranian academic circles. Not that academic fraud is isolated to Iran but it’s got a higher prevalence there

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202306138216

userbinator•9mo ago
It reminds me of this from 16 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359

I wonder how long it will be before AI regurgitates that hilarity.

zeristor•9mo ago
So papers printed in double columns are scanned as one column?

I think that’s the far greater issue, and that there would be many other issues. Maybe this case is a rare exception but surely the text would be converted from a two column format to a single body before being processed.

The joys of hindsight.

jimmydddd•9mo ago
I understand why AI would find and use the weird phrase (vegetative electron microscopy) if it's used on the Internet. But I'm confused about the term being used in scientific papers? Does that mean the scientific papers were written by (or with the help of) AI systems? And the folks writing the scientific papers didn't proof read their papers?
einsteinx2•9mo ago
> Does that mean the scientific papers were written by (or with the help of) AI systems? And the folks writing the scientific papers didn't proof read their papers?

That seems to be exactly the implication, which is extremely disappointing.

tasuki•9mo ago
Not surprising at all though.
firesteelrain•9mo ago
It was digitized and translated wrong by computer systems pre-Generative AI then GenAI comes along and uses it in reference material. People either reading the original text or brainstorming via GenAI comes along across this term and judge it as authoritative. So it persists
carlmr•9mo ago
Not only that, AI is used for translation a lot nowadays, and the trust in its output seems to be quite high. If you're not a native English speaker and aren't surrounded by many, you might have a much harder time finding such a mistake while proofreading.

I've seen students hand in auto-translated garbage 10 years ago. Nowadays auto-translation works well enough that you are at least able to read it.

readthenotes1•9mo ago
And here I thought it would refer to "unable to replicate" or "photoshopped image"