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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/
229•erickhill•4h ago•134 comments

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

https://skipthe.tips/
103•randycupertino•2h ago•46 comments

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
596•meetpateltech•9h ago•243 comments

Gemini 3 Deep Think

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/
714•tosh•10h ago•443 comments

An AI agent published a hit piece on me

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
1539•scottshambaugh•11h ago•633 comments

AWS Adds support for nested virtualization

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/3dca5e45d5ad05460b93410087833cbaa624754e
102•sitole•3h ago•45 comments

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
259•c420•4h ago•120 comments

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation

https://pol.is/home2
197•mefengl•9h ago•75 comments

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed

http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/
585•kachapopopow•14h ago•232 comments

How a Cat Debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)

https://blog.dwac.dev/posts/cat-debugging/
23•lukasgelbmann•4d ago•1 comments

Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions

https://herbertlui.net/recoverable-and-irrecoverable-decisions/
41•herbertl•4h ago•17 comments

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users

https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva
467•thatha7777•13h ago•312 comments

My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-12-13-my-grandma-was-a-fed-lessons-from-digitizing-hundreds-of-hour...
66•SamPatt•4d ago•16 comments

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/ro-on-6th-gen-waymo-driver
171•ra7•11h ago•165 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
8•zdw•5d ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

101•kmansm27•10h ago•126 comments

Apache Arrow is 10 years old

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02/12/arrow-anniversary/
194•tosh•14h ago•53 comments

Fixing retail with land value capture

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/fixing-retail-with-land-value-capture/
70•marojejian•7h ago•110 comments

Rari – Rust-powered React framework

https://rari.build/
109•bvanvugt•8h ago•59 comments

Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-mone...
294•ryanhn•8h ago•296 comments

How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn1w4MRHIhc
60•rombr•8h ago•18 comments

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)

https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
136•keepamovin•12h ago•37 comments

Partial 8-Piece Tablebase

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
39•qsort•3d ago•0 comments

The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024)

https://theshamblog.com/the-crown-of-nobles-noble-gas-tube-display/
127•Ivoah•15h ago•27 comments

Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600

https://www.qotile.net/synth.html
8•harel•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass

https://geo-racers.com/
105•pattle•17h ago•72 comments

Shut Up: Comment Blocker

https://rickyromero.com/shutup/
91•mefengl•10h ago•35 comments

The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware

https://lwn.net/Articles/1055590/
120•todsacerdoti•13h ago•36 comments

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/ice-cbp-knew-facial-recognition-app-couldnt-do-what-dhs-says-...
177•cdrnsf•7h ago•48 comments

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/
246•foresto•6h ago•121 comments
Open in hackernews

What 1.4M emails reveal about America's most notorious sex offender

https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2026/02/12/inside-epsteins-network
53•doener•2h ago

Comments

OgsyedIE•1h ago
Jack Blanchard in the Politico podcast (almost as good as Odd Lots if you're fine with listening to stuff at 2x speed on commutes) remarked that one of the most important aspects of the response to the publicization of the first 2% of the Epstein Files is that it may be a watershed moment where the better parts of citizen journalism have become completely competitive with institutional journalism, due heavily to the faster turnaround times of the former.

It's hard to see conventional pipelines doing a faster job of parsing scattered mentions of rare phrases like 'jerky' across a million documents than the competitive environment of individual entrepreneurialism could.

siavosh•1h ago
There’s also a lot of self censorship happening in the mass media.
hikkerl•1h ago
It's been this way for a while if you look in the right places.

Any time there's a shooting or terrorist attack, I know the MSM will be reporting "motive unknown" and info/photos about the perpetrator will be vague and biased. Go to 4chan and you'll immediately find their complete bio, life history, religious and political views, a download link to the manifesto, photos and videos, their mother's maiden name and their pet goldfish's birthday and favourite food. All of which the autists compiled by studying the shadow cast by a mole on the perp's left arm based on the angle of the sun at noon on Wednesday.

nofriend•1h ago
And which will frequently be completely wrong, but they will believe it absolutely because it fits with their political biases.
dash2•1h ago
… as well as the shooter’s posting history and maybe a link to the livestream?
64275488537•1h ago
Respectfully, you also said that "we now know" that taking the COVID19 vaccine could have killed you earlier today, which is completely false. I don't think you are getting your news from reliable sources, and I see this comment as further evidence of that. I'm sure there's lots of information on 4chan about the identity of mass shooters, and that some of it is accurate, but most of it is probably wild speculation, outright trolling, and mistaken identity. Like when Reddit pinned the Boston Marathon bombings on a series of innocent people who were standing on a rooftop or missing because they had killed themselves.

Then again, you also openly expressed an antisemitic conspiracy theory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959252) along with a lot of racist Great Replacement stuff (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922014), so maybe unreliable news sources are the least of it. Seems like you're probably a literal White Nationalist.

Enginerrrd•54m ago
To be honest, my working heuristic for over a decade now has been to assume that if someone openly admits to reading 4chan without any hesitation, caveats, or embarrassment, they can quite likely be lumped in with a general basket of deplorables.

Is it totally fair? No. Is it reasonably high probability? IMO, yes. Is there likely information value on 4chan that could be difficult to find elsewhere? Probably. Is it worth my time and aggravation to sort through it? No.

RajT88•1h ago
The amount of breathless conclusion jumping from citizen journalists has been completely bananas as well. I had to tell a friend of mine to take a break from it.

The level of tinfoil hat theories (example: cannibalism) which people are now taking as the truth off of which to build more theories is really something. The unfortunate thing is - in our current environment, the crazy speculation and knowingly dealing in just shit you made up seems to actually pay off when pressuring public officials.

I am glad the files were released. A lot of people have a lot of explaining to do. I don't actually think this ends up going anywhere, but we'll see.

dash2•1h ago
This, and also a lot of antisemitism seems to have been enabled.
strictnein•46m ago
> The amount of breathless conclusion jumping from citizen journalists has been completely bananas as well.

I saw a video on Instagram claiming (or at least insinuating) that Epstein had access to all of Lifetouch's photos, because "the company is in the Epstein files!". Turns out, it was a single line item for $109 in what looked like banking records. In comparison, that same selection of files mentioned Whole Foods ~250 times.

For those outside the US, Lifetouch does school photos for about half the schools in the US (or something like that) so you can understand how that's a thread that conspiracy theorists can pull on. But there's nothing there. Just a single payment to the company in a sea of thousands and thousands of normal, every day purchases.

nixosbestos•30m ago
who. fucking. cares. systematic child abuse has been covered up for decades, across multiple administrations. THE PRESIDENT IS NAMED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES.

LET ME REPEAT. WHO CARES. I don't blame a single god damn person for getting wrapped up in conspiracies.

janalsncm•9m ago
There is a book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible” which you might want to consider before deciding truth doesn’t matter anymore. It describes an explicit strategy by the Kremlin to poison the information landscape with lies, half truths, and conspiracies. And amplify conflicting narratives.

Eventually people stop caring about what is true anymore.

nixosbestos•28m ago
Glad you spent more time whining about people getting wrapped in conspiracies (you know, at the edges of a multi-decade LITERAL CONSPIRACY involving countless (yet unknown!) billionaires abusing children)...

you know, than remarking on the fact that once again, nothing will happen.

But damn, those people outraged sure are annoying, huh?

also, give me a fucking break. "They're eating dogs and cats". Literally all they fucking do is churn out illiterate, illogical, conspiratorial bullshit. But it's the norm, and everyone just expects it from them.

Dare I say "pizzagate"!? Or is that woke now?

What a fucking joke. This site is a joke. This discourse is a joke. The entire pretense of these bullshit conversations are a joke.

RajT88•15m ago
> What a fucking joke. This site is a joke. This discourse is a joke. The entire pretense of these bullshit conversations are a joke.

Don't take it out on me. I am outraged. I can't be outraged every minute of every day, and certainly not at the very-unlikely-to-be-true worst theories from the files. I am so sorry my post did not live up to your expectations.

You're right about something:

> you know, than remarking on the fact that once again, nothing will happen.

Any kind of pretense that justice ever got served to Epstein and his co-conspirators is a joke. We all know it. The system is a joke - a joke that's on us.

nixosbestos•7m ago
Sorry, I regretted this pretty much after I wrote it. I'm upset, didn't need to be at you. I'm having a bit of a hard time compartmentalizing? all of this, despite my default cynic attitude.

Time for an extended break from things.

jrflowers•5m ago
> (example: cannibalism) which people are now taking as the truth

I haven’t seen any indication of “people that didn’t previously believe in cannibal elites now believe in cannibal elites after reading the emails” being a phenomenon that actually exists.

I’ve yet to interact with anyone that has seriously said “I didn’t believe they ate babies on Tuesday but it is Thursday and now I believe they were eating babies.” but people are posting like that’s a thing that happens frequently now. It’s almost like the tinfoil hat theory I’ve seen the most isn’t “pedophile cannibals” but rather “reading the emails will make you go crazy and start believing in cannibal pedophiles” like they are an actual real-life Lovecraftian hazard, which is a much more outlandish idea than… kooks and hucksters continuing to be kooks and hucksters.

blululu•1h ago
That's an interesting point in general. On this particular topic I would go so far as to say that the citizen journalists are far more than what professional journalists are producing. I would guess that this is more a function of the idiosyncrasies of this particular data source. Most journalists are experts in tracking down hearsay and getting specific people to talk. The house Epstein email releases are just a massive pile of open data where someone with a more data-centric background can walk in and apply their skills.
OgsyedIE•1h ago
Massive piles of documents, released erratically and possessing apparently random and sloppy redactions with inconsistent formatting rules are a common tactic in some corporate cases as well, since they intend to wear down opposing counsel through exploitation of reptile theory.

AFAICT it's not well considered by DoJ that this works roughly in proportion to the technical aptitude of opposing counsel. The public has excellent technical aptitude when motivated and none otherwise and this is clearly a situation of motivation.

chatmasta•1h ago
Hmm, maybe, but who’s really in control here?

1) The slow and steady institutional journalists who are reporting on the government

2) The fast and loose citizen journalists who are reporting on the government

3) The government who is saturating the attention of both of them while they look for something that exists in the 98% portion of unreleased documentation about government wrongdoing

I mean who’s the idiot? Maybe it’s the government interns who need to read 100% to release 2%.

kevin_thibedeau•51m ago
Institutional journalism has done everything in its power to kill this story for 7 years. You don't need a fast turnaround time when the fourth estate is also busy protecting the wealthy. Note how we have all the goods on Matt Gaetz and everyone just conveniently forgot about him because daddy knows who to buy off. DOJ has all the time to pursue rinky dink charges against Letitia James for what would be at best a losing civil case by her lender but we can't go after a known sex trafficker with good connections.
mitchbob•1h ago
https://archive.ph/yk80x
rachel-ftw•1h ago
Doing god’s work over here.
siavosh•1h ago
dropsitenews has been doing much better reporting than most outlets.
O1111OOO•6m ago
> dropsitenews has been doing much better reporting than most outlets.

Never heard of them, started browsing the site just now. Very impressed so far.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/

thrance•1h ago
Not a single mention of Trump. Really fucking impressive journalism.
iterateoften•1h ago
Honestly I’ve been sick to my stomach these past few days. I wasn’t even looking for the files and saw some in my feed on Reddit.

Basically take the most sad and disturbing Eastern European horror and put it in email form.

I had to stop my Seinfeld rewatch because I saw one email were he just happened to be boating by and stopped by the island for lemonade.

The richest people and political elite were openly trading prices on children, leaving rave reviews on child services and how great that torture film was that was sent

Its sick

delichon•1h ago
Your distress may be related to your low standard of alarm. There's no evidence that Seinfeld replied let alone accepted.
iterateoften•57m ago
Go look at the photos and tell me that everyone is overreacting. If anything people are under reacting.

After the 3-4th blacked out little girl showing her genitals so they can be sold, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if someone is connected to the island they need to be thoroughly investigated. That’s not a stretch.

Replies like yours are what’s sick downplaying the most prolific industrial child rape in modern America and only one person is sitting in prison. And none of the customers.

gowthamgts12•50m ago
How low we have become to do nothing about it? No arrests no convictions?
asdff•45m ago
Pam Bondi said if the DOJ went after everyone the whole system would collapse is why.
deadbolt•43m ago
If that's the case, the system deserves to.
colecut•33m ago
Actually, no she didn't, but a lot of people are saying she did.
clipsy•27m ago
Snopes confirms this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system...

But everyone knows Snopes is leftist propaganda, so it's probably false. /s

datsci_est_2015•24m ago
Which is a weird thing to make up given that there’s already so many horrible bytes to choose from that aren’t fabricated.
O1111OOO•28m ago
> Pam Bondi said if the DOJ went after everyone the whole system would collapse is why.

This is a criminally colluding Pam Bondi saying this. I guarantee that every single person on the Epstein list is replaceable many times over. There is not a single person on that list that is indispensable in any role they play in society. Full stop. Don't fall for it.

It's just the way the system is built. Even Pam Bondi is replaceable (and should be replaced) by many, many actual qualified people.

bdangubic•4m ago
she, like every other member of the administration is a DEI hire
doodlebugging•23m ago
She is more worried about her own exposure. She can picture the ship sinking but doesn't want to drown with the other rats she helped protect.
BLKNSLVR•6m ago
So she admitted that the whole system is corrupt?
bdangubic•5m ago
that was a shock to us all
delichon•37m ago
I have a lot of sympathy for this man:

https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/bio/e/jeffery-epstein

notjulianjaynes•28m ago
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/geoffrey-epstein-is...
timcobb•30m ago
I can't even imagine being such a prolific emailer, even just one liners. Damn