Hacker News on Wednesday, 4 February 2026

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Voxtral Transcribe 2(mistral.ai)

961 points by meetpateltech 8 months ago | 232 comments

Mistral AI announcement page for Voxtral Transcribe 2, its speech-to-text transcription model.

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)(rhodesmill.org)

628 points by theblazehen 8 months ago | 227 comments

Brandon Rhodes' 2009 blog post suggesting prefixing personal shell script names with a comma to avoid collisions with system commands.

FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled(404media.co)

522 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 436 comments

404 Media article reporting the FBI was unable to access a Washington Post reporter's iPhone because Apple's Lockdown Mode was enabled.

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments(neosmart.net)

497 points by ComputerGuru 8 months ago | 183 comments

A NeoSmart Technologies blog post on reconstructing original PDFs from raw encoded email attachments in the DoJ's Epstein archive release.

AI is killing B2B SaaS(nmn.gl)

462 points by namanyayg 8 months ago | 688 comments

Blog post by Namanyay Goel arguing that agentic AI is threatening the B2B SaaS business model, based on conversations with SF founders.

Claude is a space to think(anthropic.com)

446 points by meetpateltech 8 months ago | 238 comments

Anthropic announcement post titled "Claude is a space to think," dated Feb 4, 2026, describing its positioning of the Claude assistant.

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs(pdfa.org)

374 points by DuffJohnson 8 months ago | 211 comments

PDF Association article analyzing the released Epstein PDF files forensically, covering file validity, versions, incremental updates, Bates numbering, metadata and photographs.

The Great Unwind(occupywallst.com)

286 points by jart 8 months ago | 272 comments

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025(arstechnica.com)

275 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 124 comments

Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems(wsj.com)

268 points by fortran77 8 months ago | 322 comments

Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering(github.com)

268 points by xerzes 8 months ago | 63 comments

Claude Code for Infrastructure(fluid.sh)

256 points by aspectrr 8 months ago | 169 comments

Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it(derekyan.com)

194 points by zhyan7109 8 months ago | 61 comments

Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees(longevity.stanford.edu)

191 points by andsoitis 8 months ago | 86 comments

Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch(scd31.com)

188 points by evakhoury 8 months ago | 54 comments

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post(newyorker.com)

171 points by thm 8 months ago | 154 comments

Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany(openpetition.de)

160 points by numeri 8 months ago | 25 comments

Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation(arxiv.org)

158 points by fheinsen 8 months ago | 87 comments

French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel(twitter.com)

153 points by hocuspocus 8 months ago | 45 comments

Postgres Postmaster does not scale(recall.ai)

119 points by davidgu 8 months ago | 66 comments

The F Word(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

113 points by zdw 8 months ago | 56 comments

RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code(github.com)

111 points by evakhoury 8 months ago | 42 comments

F# 10(devblogs.microsoft.com)

110 points by tosh 8 months ago | 20 comments

Claude Composer(josh.ing)

108 points by coloneltcb 8 months ago | 69 comments

Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser(rabbitear.org)

108 points by molszanski 8 months ago | 4 comments

LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation(github.com)

106 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 16 comments

Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws(capitolnewsillinois.com)

93 points by doener 8 months ago | 28 comments

Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell(cia.gov)

90 points by mxfh 8 months ago | 79 comments

Thought-Terminating Cliché(en.wikipedia.org)

86 points by walterbell 8 months ago | 79 comments

Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam

84 points by Philpax 8 months ago | 38 comments

Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing(sir68k.re)

76 points by jimbauwens 8 months ago | 19 comments

As Rocks May Think(evjang.com)

73 points by modeless 8 months ago | 59 comments

Technocracy 2.0(brooklynrail.org)

72 points by antonomon 8 months ago | 37 comments

In Tehran(lrb.co.uk)

71 points by mitchbob 8 months ago | 83 comments

The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs(benshoemaker.us)

66 points by straydusk 8 months ago | 145 comments

Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety(news.uark.edu)

63 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago | 67 comments

Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original(smithsonianmag.com)

62 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 45 comments

Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web(divergent-desktop.org)

56 points by ingenieroariel 8 months ago | 15 comments

Broken Proofs and Broken Provers(lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

52 points by RebelPotato 8 months ago | 9 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)(bitsnbites.eu)

52 points by mbitsnbites 8 months ago | 7 comments

AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed(theguardian.com)

49 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 27 comments

The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025)(ejpe.org)

48 points by cainxinth 8 months ago | 10 comments

"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours(twitter.com)

48 points by tosh 8 months ago | 7 comments

Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away(phoronix.com)

48 points by cuechan 8 months ago | 4 comments

The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today(xakpc.dev)

46 points by thunderbong 8 months ago | 17 comments

Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function(medicalxpress.com)

45 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 29 comments

A real-world benchmark for AI code review(qodo.ai)

44 points by benocodes 8 months ago | 20 comments

Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative(blog.codinghorror.com)

42 points by d4ft 8 months ago | 38 comments

Tessellation Kit (2016)(sciencevsmagic.net)

41 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 3 comments

Why poor countries stopped catching up(davidoks.blog)

41 points by j-bos 8 months ago | 34 comments

Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation(optical.toys)

41 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 13 comments

Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections(github.com)

40 points by cfinke 8 months ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)(california-budget.com)

36 points by sberens 8 months ago | 16 comments

I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input(utcc.utoronto.ca)

36 points by ingve 8 months ago | 19 comments

Intel will start making GPUs(techcrunch.com)

35 points by SunshineTheCat 8 months ago | 39 comments

Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017)(blog.cleancoder.com)

33 points by andrewjf 8 months ago | 58 comments

Turn any website into a live, structured data feed(meter.sh)

32 points by chadwebscraper 8 months ago | 25 comments

2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025(mybooklist.club)

32 points by BigBalli 8 months ago | 38 comments

GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster(twitter.com)

29 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 9 comments