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74% of European firms would fail without access to U.S. technology

Article URL: https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/trumps-power-switch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959764 Points: 6 # Comments: 4

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Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time

Article URL: https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959418 Points: 21 # Comments: 2

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Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/08/310477497/rice-theory-why-eastern-cultures-are-more-cooperative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958890 Points: 34 # Comments: 36

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Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments

A year ago, we launched Distr here to help software vendors manage customer deployments remotely. We had agents that pulled updates, a hub with a GUI, and a lot of assumptions about what on-prem deployment needed. It turned out things get messy when

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RLHF from Scratch

Article URL: https://github.com/ashworks1706/rlhf-from-scratch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958378 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

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Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine

Article URL: https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958231 Points: 101 # Comments: 11

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YouTube rolls out an AI playlist generator for Premium users

YouTube Music is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist-generation feature that allows Premium users on iOS and Android to use text prompts to create playlists.

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Show HN: Pipelock – All-in-one security harness for AI coding agents

I'm a plumber who taught himself to code. I run a plumbing company during the day and mess with my homelab at night. About a year ago I started running AI agents with full shell access and API keys to help manage my business. Scheduling, invoicing, m

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Corruption Perceptions Index 2025

Article URL: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957794 Points: 21 # Comments: 2

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Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app

Article URL: https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/09/grindr-trials-premium-500-per-month-plan-to-become-ai-first-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957360 Points: 8 # Comments: 10

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Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957198 Points: 38 # Comments: 13

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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

Original article: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955703 Points: 24 # Comments: 3

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The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most

Because employees could do more, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees' to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

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Zulip.com Values

Article URL: https://zulip.com/values/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953815 Points: 23 # Comments: 0

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Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard-20260126/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953136 Points: 74 # Comments: 116