MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm
Article URL: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224 Points: 47 # Comments: 22
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Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars
If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.
New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
Article URL: https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999117 Points: 24 # Comments: 5
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The Wonder of Modern Drywall
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998606 Points: 19 # Comments: 18
Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC. Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contribut
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Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case
Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.ai/evaluating-multilingual-context-aware-guardrails-evidence-from-a-humanitarian-llm-use-case/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996258 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
In a recent interview with The Pragmatic Engineer, Steve Yegge said he feels "sorry for people" who merely "use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully, and then check it in." Instead, he recommends engineers integrate LL
Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2026/02/12/inside-epsteins-network Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997658 Points: 53 # Comments: 54
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For $1M, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer
The longevity-obsessed investor Bryan Johnson is charging $1 million to sign up for his "Immortals" program.
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When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket delivered
This was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.
What 1.4M emails reveal about America's most notorious sex offender
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2026/02/12/inside-epsteins-network Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997658 Points: 24 # Comments: 4
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Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
Article URL: https://skipthe.tips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519 Points: 34 # Comments: 7
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AWS Adds support for nested virtualization
Article URL: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/3dca5e45d5ad05460b93410087833cbaa624754e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997133 Points: 70 # Comments: 28
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
Article URL: https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008 Points: 150 # Comments: 89
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For $1 million, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer
The longevity-obsessed investor Bryan Johnson is charging $1 million to sign up for his "Immortals" program.