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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
362•nar001•3h ago•178 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
94•bookofjoe•1h ago•79 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
413•theblazehen•2d ago•152 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
77•AlexeyBrin•4h ago•15 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/
10•thelok•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
769•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
33•samasblack•1h ago•18 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
49•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
25•vinhnx•2h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1019•xnx•1d ago•580 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
155•alainrk•4h ago•191 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
158•jesperordrup•9h ago•56 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
9•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
16•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
10•mellosouls•2h ago•8 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
102•videotopia•4d ago•26 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
7•simonw•1h ago•1 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•41 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
260•isitcontent•19h ago•33 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
99•tartoran•1h ago•28 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
273•dmpetrov•19h ago•145 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
34•matt_d•4d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
15•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
544•todsacerdoti•1d ago•262 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
415•ostacke•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
361•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
61•helloplanets•4d ago•64 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
332•eljojo•22h ago•205 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
456•lstoll•1d ago•298 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
370•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
Open in hackernews

AI Econ Seminar

https://cameron.stream/blog/econ-seminar/
8•forthwall•1mo ago

Comments

clbrmbr•3w ago
Can you make the presenter have a spine?
cpfiffer•3w ago
Probably, yeah. I was considering working with the agent to go have a sabbatical and come back as a mighty tenured professor.
BugsJustFindMe•3w ago
I feel like I need to flag this because this whole thing is 100% just "I instructed one LLM to be a moron and another one to be an asshole and you'll never guess what happened next!". Slop about slop about slop.

Also, in addition to it being another "look at this wacky LLM output" post, many of OP's summaries of what the agents did are egregious caricatures of the actual output if you bother to look at the actual linked details.

Compare...

OP's summary says:

> Dr. Chen: "If 16% of entry-level jobs disappeared, why is labor force participation only down 0.3%?

vs

https://cameron.stream/docs/econ-seminar/seminar-1-ai-labor/... says...

> "You've documented displacement in specific occupations and entry-level hiring patterns, but where's the aggregate labor market story? If AI genuinely reduces entry-level hiring in exposed sectors, are these 22-25 year-olds reallocating to non-exposed industries, or does your data suggest actual structural unemployment—and if so, shouldn't we see that reflected in your own aggregate wage and employment figures rather than the modest changes you cite?"

Neither the thesis evidence nor the actual agent output claim that "16% of entry-level jobs disappeared". That's only in OP's caricature summary.

> Dr. Roberts: "If AI complements experienced workers, their wages should be rising.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. *SNORT*. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sorry, sorry. Now compare that vs:

https://cameron.stream/docs/econ-seminar/seminar-1-ai-labor/...

> "If AI truly is substituting for entry-level labor in high-wage occupations while complementing experienced workers, then by basic microeconomic theory—shifting the relative marginal products—we should observe wages for experienced workers in those occupations rising faster than wages for new entrants elsewhere. Yet your own evidence shows within-occupation wage inequality declined in AI-exposed fields. What's the theoretical mechanism that reconciles selective displacement of entry-level workers with flat or compressed wage differentials?"

Anyway.

cpfiffer•3w ago
Eh, it was a fun thing to fuck around with while I was testing something technical. If you think I am being rigorous in any way, you are sorely mistaken.
BugsJustFindMe•3w ago
> If you think I am being rigorous

I said the opposite.

petermcneeley•3w ago
An economist is to economy as to what an alchemist is to chemistry.
cpfiffer•3w ago
Noted