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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
143•theblazehen•2d ago•42 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
668•klaussilveira•14h ago•202 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
949•xnx•19h ago•551 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
122•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
53•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
17•kaonwarb•3d ago•19 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
229•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
28•jesperordrup•4h ago•16 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
223•dmpetrov•14h ago•117 comments

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

https://vecti.com
330•vecti•16h ago•143 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
494•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
381•ostacke•20h ago•95 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•20h ago•181 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
288•eljojo•17h ago•169 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
412•lstoll•20h ago•278 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
63•kmm•5d ago•6 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
19•bikenaga•3d ago•4 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
90•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
256•i5heu•17h ago•196 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
32•romes•4d ago•3 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
44•helloplanets•4d ago•42 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
12•speckx•3d ago•5 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
59•gfortaine•12h ago•25 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...
33•gmays•9h ago•12 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/
1066•cdrnsf•23h ago•446 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•67 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
288•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
149•SerCe•10h ago•138 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
183•limoce•3d ago•98 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
73•phreda4•13h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Bluementhals letter about ICE memo justifying entry into homes without warrant [pdf]

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026-01-21-Letter-from-Blumenthal-to-DHS-ICE.pdf
70•rawgabbit•2w ago

Comments

Johnny_Bonk•2w ago
What/who is bluementhals?
nerdsniper•2w ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Blumenthal

The letter linked by this post is signed by the U.S. Senator.

> Richard Blumenthal

> Ranking Member

> Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

chiengineer•2w ago
This is 2026 in a nutshell

"Uggh chat gpt can you get these illegal kkk badge wearing nazis out of my house wtf man "

tom_•2w ago
Myself assumes they're point is that their should be some apostrophe's.
trhway•2w ago
20+ years ago it was torture memo. Similar principle of responsibility laundering - some government lawyer writes a memo that it is ok do to that thing (even when it is an obviously illegal thing), and the government agents go full speed ahead, and nobody held responsible after that.
chiengineer•2w ago
It wasnt just some rando totally unknown gov lawyer

He was south Korean and proud to sign it for bush and said so in multiple interviews he would do it all over again

John yoo

trhway•2w ago
>proud to sign it for bush and said so in multiple interviews he would do it all over again

why not if you can't be held responsible.

kccoder•2w ago
Morals, ethics, empathy, humanity, …
trhway•2w ago
well, we see time and time again what's left of "Morals, ethics, empathy, humanity, …" once the threat of consequences is removed.
dc396•2w ago
Yep, the "Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley." (perhaps ironically given the reputation of Berkeley).
nerdsniper•2w ago
From a tech perspective, I do find myself occasionally having interesting discussions with co-founders about what it means to be operating our business in a legal environment where the rule of law is diminished. Startups have often had to contend with variance in enforcement and interpretation.

Some of my favorite historical examples of startups who had to worry about uncertain rule of law are:

- Aereo[0]: Who tried their very best to follow the law diligently but got slapped down anyways.

- Uber[1]: Who blatantly broke the law so callously that they relied on gaps in the rule of law to enable their business model.

- Kim Dotcom[2]: A German-born citizen who had never set foot inside USA's jurisdiction found himself arrested by the FBI in helicopters storming his home in New Zealand. This emphasized that any founder needs to follow US law, no matter where they are operating.

In each case, it seemed that whoever had more money tended to win, rather than who had the letter of the law on their side.

0: https://archive.md/PJHhD

1: https://archive.md/tqk3W

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

metalcrow•2w ago
I agree with your overall point, but for Kim's case, it seems it was actually NZ police who arrested him, no? NZ just decided to enforce US law because of mutual treaties.
nerdsniper•2w ago
Ah, you’re right. The reporting[0] at the time seemed to imply that a handful of FBI agents were present among the NZ officers during what was reported to be a "US-led raid". FBI agents evidently[1] left the country with physical evidence from the raid that NZ was supposed to keep custody of.

0: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/96384/fbi-agents-continu...

1: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/fbi-committed-illegal-ac...

spwa4•2w ago
So it was NZ choosing to violate it's own laws under pressure, just not quite as dramatically as reported?

Doesn't NZ have laws about not having a death penalty, and therefore it is impossible to extradite anyone that has 0.01% chance to get the death penalty?

nmfisher•2w ago
To clarify, Kim Dotcom was arrested by NZ police and is making his way through the NZ court system. It wasn't a Maduro situation. I'm not sure he's even been extradited yet (though that's the most likely outcome).
Bender•2w ago
Kim was operating a large amount of servers in the US at Equinix in Ashburn, VA. Apparently he had a presence in multiple countries that had legal relationships with the USA. Perhaps he could have chosen hosting in countries that do not cooperate with the USA but I don't know which those would have been for that scale of operation.
bayarearefugee•2w ago
It is completely unsurprising that this is happening.

It will be completely unsurprising that despite a "strongly worded letter" it will continue to happen and there will be no consequences despite the unconstitutionality.

The US Government and the very idea of a rule of law here are hopelessly broken and there is no obvious peaceful path to ever fixing it.

hshdhdhj4444•2w ago
The problem is that either a majority, or a large enough minority that due to how the U.S. constitution distributes power, of voters are absolutely fine with this.
bayarearefugee•2w ago
That is one of the major problems, yes.

Other problems include:

too many Americans just don't vote or pay attention to politics at all

the 3 branch system of government used in the US never foresaw or planned for a situation in which two of the branches would just simply abdicate their own power

ChrisArchitect•2w ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712279