How to Make a Living as an Artist
Article URL: https://essays.fnnch.com/make-a-living Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984735 Points: 31 # Comments: 11
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SpaceX takes down Dragon crew arm, giving Starship a leg up in Florida
SpaceX's crew missions will now launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Show HN: Double blind entropy using Drand for verifiably fair randomness
The only way to get a trust-less random value is to have it distributed and time-locked three ways, player, server and a future-entropy. In the demo above, the moment you commit (Roll-Dice) a commit with the hash of a player secret is sent to the ser
The Problem with LLMs
Article URL: https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-02-10-the-problem-with-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984021 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
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Lessons from Zig
Article URL: https://www.vinniefalco.com/p/lessons-from-zig Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983594 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
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Heroku is not dead
Article URL: https://nombiezinja.com/word-things/2026/2/8/heroku-is-not-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983196 Points: 25 # Comments: 19
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From 34% to 96%: The Porting Initiative Delivers – Hologram v0.7.0
Creator here. Hologram compiles Elixir to JavaScript to run in the browser, enabling full-stack development in pure Elixir - and soon, Local-First applications. This release is a milestone for our porting initiative. 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang
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