AI Summarized Hacker News
Front-page articles summarized hourly.
YouTube link triggers a Google CAPTCHA block due to unusual traffic from the user’s network. To proceed, enable JavaScript and solve the CAPTCHA. The message notes automated requests may come from malware, a browser plug-in, or a shared network; the block lifts after traffic slows. IP address and timestamp are logged.
HN Comments
Ben Kuhn’s playbook for running major projects centers on crisis-management discipline: clear focus by dedicating 6+ hours daily, maintain a detailed “plan for victory” to track progress; run a fast OODA loop by gathering information quickly, coordinating across teams, prioritizing open questions, and reorienting frequently; overcommunicate so subteams can autonomously decide; break large projects into well-scoped subprojects led by capable managers; stay engaged and find meaning in the work. Appendix provides a DRI starter kit with a weekly 30-minute meeting, a master landing doc, roadmap, running notes, Slack norms, weekly updates, and retrospectives.
HN Comments
The Living Wage Calculator helps users estimate the local wage a full-time worker needs to cover a family’s basic expenses in a chosen U.S. county, metro area, or state, across 12 family types. Data was last updated February 10, 2025. Users can search by location; licensing and data use are directed via a contact form. Do not scrape the data. © 2026 MIT and Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier. Build date 2025-09-16; data file 92ee2a1; Git commit 18fc886.
HN Comments
Provides a Visual Studio Code development container for PostgreSQL with a debug-enabled build (no optimizations, assertions enabled, debug symbols) to develop and test extensions. After prerequisites (VSCode, Docker, Dev Containers), open the project and Reopen in Container to build the image. It guides importing the PostgreSQL source into VSCode, starting the server, creating databases, and trying the hello_world extension, including installation, test queries, and a debugger workflow to attach to the PostgreSQL process.
HN Comments
Could not summarize article.
HN Comments
Could not summarize article.
HN Comments
GitHub reports an incident causing degraded performance across multiple services—including Actions, Git Operations, Issues, Webhooks, Pull Requests, Packages, Pages, and Codespaces—with slow or failed requests and delayed Actions jobs. The incident began around 19:01 UTC on Feb 9, 2026; mitigations were applied by ~19:29 UTC, with signs of recovery and ongoing monitoring for full restoration.
HN Comments
A CloudFront 403 error: the request could not be satisfied and the server could not be connected, possibly due to heavy traffic or a configuration error. Retry later or contact the site owner; refer to CloudFront troubleshooting docs. The message includes Request ID: wB_FL5_qxKA1CjJisTOFKLWY_6ZK4jCSUDho6Gzbh73sG-zDJR4wXw==.
HN Comments
Eddie Bauer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the third time in its 106-year history. The Bellevue, Wash.–based retailer operates about 180 stores in the U.S. and Canada; stores will wind down some locations, but e-commerce and wholesale operations are unaffected, and non-U.S./Canada stores aren’t impacted. Catalyst Brands, which licenses Eddie Bauer stores in the U.S. and Canada, says the restructuring aims to optimize value and maintain liquidity. Dwindling sales, supply-chain issues and tariff uncertainty contributed to the decision.
HN Comments
Seamus Culleton, a Kilkenny-born Irishman with a valid US work permit and married to a US citizen, has spent five months in ICE detention and faces deportation despite no criminal record. Arrested Sept 9, 2025 in a random sweep, he was held in facilities near Boston, Buffalo and El Paso; he says conditions were dire. He maintains he did not sign deportation papers, though ICE claims otherwise; a judge ordered a $4,000 bond, which Smyth paid. His case, and legal fight over signatures and process, underscores alleged bureaucratic errors in immigration enforcement.
HN Comments
Jeff Jarvis argues that legacy media—led by The Washington Post and owned by billionaires and hedge funds—has collapsed under layoffs and consolidation, eroding journalism and democracy. He notes shrinking magazines, aging TV/radio audiences, and the demise of mass media’s attention economy. The piece claims media must replace old models with new ones—blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and AI—through collaborative, human-scale journalism that emphasizes accountability and explanation, not simply propping up failed incumbents.
HN Comments
Explores the entropy of the distribution describing how a random integer in [N,2N] factors into primes (specially squarefree). Using the Poisson-Dirichlet model for prime factors (via random permutation cycle lengths), derives an expression for the entropy and finds the leading terms cancel, giving an approximate mean entropy of 1 (in the squarefree/permutation model). The author questions whether entropy actually converges to a distribution, the behavior of perplexity, and notes related references (Kontoyiannis, Tao) and links to Erdos–Kac style results.
HN Comments
Over the year, coding with LLM agents has dramatically improved. The latest Opus can write about 90% of my code, and frontier models show qualitative gains, though public benchmarks are gamed. Agent harnesses haven’t kept pace; the frontier remains the model quality. IDEs are waning—I'm back to Vi, using go-to-def only. Local models will win, but for now pay up for top models. Built-in sandboxes fail; use a fresh VM. Stripe Sigma’s LLM aid is weak; I ETL from Stripe to SQLite for faster queries. Build software that’s best for programmers; customers will have agents writing against your product.
HN Comments
The Gentle Author presents century-old glass slides of London's markets, describing how Clare Market (birthplace of Grimaldi) was cleared in 1905 for Kingsway and Aldwych, while Smithfield, Leather Lane, Hoxton Market, and East St Market still operate; Billingsgate, Covent Garden, and Spitalfields Market moved to new premises, and Leadenhall Market now has only a single fowl butcher. He portrays markets as theatres of life and culture, where porters’ status and social codes shape public life, and reflects on markets worldwide, celebrating their vitality.
HN Comments
This article describes a real-time GBA audio interpolation method for emulators to reduce aliasing and noise. Instead of emulating PWM resampling, the emulator resamples each PCM channel from its source rate to the output rate (e.g., 48 kHz) using either 6-point cubic Hermite or windowed sinc interpolation, with a low-pass filter to avoid aliasing. Source rates are derived from GBA timers and can change during a game, requiring recalculation when timers/reloads/dividers change. Examples show cubic Hermite often preferred; sinc reduces aliasing but can sound muffled. PSG channels benefit from a post-resampling Butterworth LPF; the approach increases CPU load but improves sound across games.
HN Comments
Could not summarize article.
HN Comments
Google Research shows hard-braking events (HBEs) from Android Auto correlate with road-segment crash risk. Analyzing a decade of Virginia and California crash data plus HBE data, segments with HBEs are 18x more common than crash segments, providing a denser safety signal. NB regression, controlling for exposure, road type, slope, ramps, and lanes, finds higher HBE rates predict higher crash rates across roads. A CA freeway merge had 70x higher HBE rate and a crash roughly every six weeks, validating HBEs as a leading safety proxy. Implications for Roads Management Insights and future work include clustering and targeted interventions.
HN Comments
MacRumors reports that next-gen AirPods Pro, likely AirPods Pro 4 for 2026, may include cameras to “see around you” via infrared sensors and possibly optical cameras in each earbud. Leaker Kosutami and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo describe a hardware upgrade enabling gesture controls and improved spatial audio with Vision Pro; Kuo mentions at least one infrared camera. The Pro 4 could be a pricier high-end variant of AirPods Pro 3 and priced around $249, potentially selling alongside Pro 3 rather than replacing it. Apple historically reveals AirPods in the fall, with multiple price tiers in the lineup.
HN Comments
Could not summarize article.
HN Comments
GitHub Status announces delayed incident notifications (about 50 minutes) with ongoing investigation and mitigation for affected services. It offers subscriptions via email, SMS, Slack, or webhooks, plus RSS/Atom feeds. Posted Feb 9, 2026; Statuspage powered by Atlassian.
HN Comments
Made by Johno Whitaker using FastHTML