Hacker News on Thursday, 5 February 2026

Claude Opus 4.6(anthropic.com)

2277 points by HellsMaddy 8 months ago | 982 comments

Anthropic's announcement post introducing Claude Opus 4.6, a new version of its flagship AI model, dated February 5, 2026.

GPT-5.3-Codex(openai.com)

1442 points by meetpateltech 8 months ago | 567 comments

OpenAI announcement introducing GPT-5.3-Codex, a model expanding Codex across a wider range of professional computer work.

Don't rent the cloud, own instead(blog.comma.ai)

1144 points by Torq_boi 8 months ago | 471 comments

A comma.ai blog post describing how the company runs its own $5M in-office data center for model training, metrics, and data instead of renting cloud.

My AI Adoption Journey(mitchellh.com)

867 points by anurag 8 months ago | 350 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing his step-by-step journey adopting AI coding agents, from dropping chatbots to always having an agent running.

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler(anthropic.com)

690 points by modeless 8 months ago | 664 comments

Anthropic engineering blog post describing how teams of parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents built a C compiler with minimal human involvement.

Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video](youtube.com)

565 points by cdrnsf 8 months ago | 391 comments

A 1:33 YouTube video from Hex Studios showing Flock Safety's CEO calling the anti-surveillance group Deflock a "terrorist organization."

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions(github.com)

459 points by mdp 8 months ago | 215 comments

GitHub repository documenting how LinkedIn probes for nearly 3,000 Chrome extensions to fingerprint users, with extension ID lists and scripts.

OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been(jakequist.com)

454 points by jakequist 8 months ago | 382 comments

Blog post arguing that OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework driving Mac Mini sales, is what Apple Intelligence should have been.

It's 2026, Just Use Postgres(tigerdata.com)

452 points by turtles3 8 months ago | 256 comments

A Tiger Data blog post by Raja Rao DV arguing that teams should use PostgreSQL for most workloads instead of adding specialized databases, especially in the AI era.

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown(rachelbythebay.com)

425 points by zdw 8 months ago | 228 comments

A rachelbythebay blog post about internal network hostnames, apparently from a NAS device, being leaked to outside cloud services.

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions(code.claude.com)

371 points by davidbarker 8 months ago | 202 comments

Claude Code documentation page explaining experimental agent teams, which coordinate multiple Claude Code sessions with shared tasks, inter-agent messaging, and a team lead.

The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein(scottaaronson.blog)

353 points by pfdietz 8 months ago | 488 comments

Scott Aaronson's blog post explaining why his name appears in the Epstein Files despite never meeting Epstein, involving a proposed 2010 research funding meeting.

The RCE that AMD won't fix(mrbruh.com)

343 points by MrBruh 8 months ago | 144 comments

Blog post describing a remote code execution vulnerability found by decompiling AMD's AutoUpdate software, which AMD declined to fix.

CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook(simonwillison.net)

305 points by ck2 8 months ago | 128 comments

CIA to Sunset the World Factbook(abc.net.au)

286 points by kshahkshah 8 months ago | 209 comments

European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams(euractiv.com)

275 points by Arathorn 8 months ago | 141 comments

Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware(1password.com)

262 points by pelario 8 months ago | 120 comments

Company as Code(blog.42futures.com)

252 points by ahamez 8 months ago | 121 comments

Ardour 9.0(ardour.org)

250 points by PaulDavisThe1st 8 months ago | 57 comments

Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw(github.com)

227 points by ms7892 8 months ago | 115 comments

ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use(biometricupdate.com)

215 points by WaitWaitWha 8 months ago | 180 comments

Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"(techoversight.org)

200 points by Shamar 8 months ago | 101 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo(support.claude.com)

187 points by rob 8 months ago | 61 comments

Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code(axios.com)

185 points by speckx 8 months ago | 110 comments

The New Collabora Office for Desktop(collaboraonline.com)

178 points by mfld 8 months ago | 109 comments

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)(newworker.org)

175 points by doruk101 8 months ago | 112 comments

Wirth's Revenge(jmoiron.net)

167 points by signa11 8 months ago | 74 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes(floedb.ai)

155 points by matheusalmeida 8 months ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp(github.com)

141 points by vkazanov 8 months ago | 37 comments

Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6(claude.com)

133 points by da_grift_shift 8 months ago | 33 comments

GB Renewables Map(renewables-map.robinhawkes.com)

122 points by RobinL 8 months ago | 48 comments

Stop using icons in data tables(medium.com)

112 points by ctward 8 months ago | 49 comments

Child prodigies rarely become elite performers(economist.com)

106 points by i7l 8 months ago | 83 comments

A few CPU hardware bugs(taricorp.net)

100 points by signa11 8 months ago | 33 comments

Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025)(atlasobscura.com)

100 points by IgorPartola 8 months ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents(github.com)

90 points by nwparker 8 months ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents(docs.smooth.sh)

89 points by antves 8 months ago | 66 comments

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World(quantamagazine.org)

87 points by sohkamyung 8 months ago | 4 comments

What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)(blog.janestreet.com)

87 points by ryanhn 8 months ago | 33 comments

Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data(blog.sturdystatistics.com)

73 points by mkmccjr 8 months ago | 5 comments

OpenAI Frontier(openai.com)

63 points by nycdatasci 8 months ago | 68 comments

Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

62 points by Rygian 8 months ago | 31 comments

Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)

62 points by chirau 8 months ago | 9 comments

Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear(durham.ac.uk)

62 points by andsoitis 8 months ago | 12 comments

Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table(lwn.net)

61 points by chmaynard 8 months ago | 58 comments

If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)(jacquesmattheij.com)

58 points by jacquesm 8 months ago | 51 comments

Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign(twitter.com)

57 points by gradus_ad 8 months ago | 33 comments

Animated Engines(animatedengines.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 4 comments

Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models(arxiv.org)

54 points by toomuchtodo 8 months ago | 46 comments

.Beat Swatch Internet Time(beats.wiki)

51 points by Deprogrammer9 8 months ago | 37 comments

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs(store.steampowered.com)

49 points by Philpax 8 months ago | 21 comments

India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI(theguardian.com)

48 points by thisislife2 8 months ago | 32 comments

Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate(apnews.com)

48 points by petethomas 8 months ago | 35 comments

PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library(github.com)

47 points by recrush 8 months ago | 4 comments

BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair(ifixit.com)

47 points by gnabgib 8 months ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Total Recall – write-gated memory for Claude Code(github.com)

46 points by davegoldblatt 8 months ago | 18 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days(red.anthropic.com)

45 points by lebovic 8 months ago | 14 comments

The Missing Layer(yagmin.com)

44 points by lubujackson 8 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev(github.com)

44 points by sandGorgon 8 months ago | 18 comments

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?(quomodocumque.wordpress.com)

40 points by sebg 8 months ago | 9 comments