GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6155012 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982792 Points: 195 # Comments: 142
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Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated
Article URL: https://www.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980355 Points: 63 # Comments: 16
Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/apple-s-ios-26-4-siri-update-runs-into-snags-in-internal-testing-ios-26-5-27 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980039 Points: 40 # Comments: 54
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OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company.
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Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants
The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality.
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El Paso airport closed after military used new anti-drone laser to zap party balloon
"I want to be very, very clear that this should’ve never happened."
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Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-increases Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981058 Points: 29 # Comments: 7
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Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Article URL: https://www.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980355 Points: 43 # Comments: 12
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Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents
I've been building a tool that changes how LLM coding agents explore codebases, and I wanted to share it along with some early observations. Typically claude code globs directories, greps for patterns, and reads files with minimal guidance. It works
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xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.
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AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.
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Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist
ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."
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Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.
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Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it's not a big deal, CEO says.
"We are in the part of the program where we are doing very nasty things to the engine."
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Did seabird poop fuel rise of Chincha in Peru?
Guano dramatically boosted the production of maize, and the surplus helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy.