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No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change
This is the latest front in the battle over climate lawsuits.
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The science of how fireflies stay in sync
Engineers have uncovered the mathematical rules fireflies follow to sync up their flashes.
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The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind
Article URL: https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390609 Points: 13 # Comments: 14
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A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites
"I realized that if something went wrong up there, things might go very badly down here."
Nango (YC W23, API Access for Agents and Apps) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Nango Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397842 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
Article URL: https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397822 Points: 43 # Comments: 7
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Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397593 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind (2025)
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251027023816.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397528 Points: 22 # Comments: 9
Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
How has the curriculum changed? What are the professors telling their students to explain why the course they enrolled in deserves the rigorous study? Are the students buying it - and is it matching reality at the end of the course? It’s hard to get
The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books
Article URL: https://www.alexerhardt.com/en/enshittification-amazon-paperback-books/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385576 Points: 161 # Comments: 124
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SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files
Article URL: https://github.com/jtsylve/spice-crypt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385011 Points: 42 # Comments: 5
Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points
Article URL: https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CSDS-00-table-of-contents.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385579 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
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The billionaires made a promise — now some want out
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world’s wealthiest people, to give away more than half their fortune during their lifetime or upon their dea
ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007)
Article URL: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395147 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-r... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392084 Points: 578 # Comments: 157