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Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16
Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.
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RFK may replace entire panel of CDC vaccine advisors again, ally lets slip
Robert Malone made the claim, then retracted it, as HHS denied it.
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NASA wants to know how the launch industry's chic new rocket fuel explodes
"We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is."
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Time to Dump Windows?
Article URL: https://dennisforbes.ca/blog/microblog/2026/02/time_to_dump_windows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459969 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Attention Residuals
Article URL: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Attention-Residuals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458595 Points: 31 # Comments: 6
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Why scientists can’t get a laugh
Humor is hard to pull off in front of a cold audience, full stop.
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A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by logging his run on Strava
A French naval officer went on a run around the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, inadvertently leaking the warship's location when he uploaded the workout to Strava.
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WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more
New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game
"Project Sunrise" would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.
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US accuses Iran’s government of operating hacktivist group that hacked Stryker
The U.S. Justice Department said an Iranian security ministry operates the fake activist persona known as Handala, which claimed responsibility for the destructive hack targeting medical tech giant Stryker.
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Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars
There may be a river delta hidden under the obvious delta in a Martian crater.
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NASA is blowing stuff up to study the explosive potential of methalox rockets
"We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is."
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Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone
Amazon's second smartphone could forego an app store.
Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-191342187 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458310 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility
Hi HN! We're Vincent and Jochen from sitefire ( https://sitefire.ai ). Our platform makes it easy for brands to improve their visibility in AI search. We’ve been working together for years and have backgrounds in RL/optimization at Stanford and softw