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Article URL: https://cancerhistoryproject.com/article/the-history-of-the-asbestos-cigarette-filters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968004

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Article URL: https://www.govialo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967639

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Hi HN

I built Video Forms: a tool that lets you attach questions to specific timestamps in a video, optionally with branching/skip logic.

Motivation: I kept getting “looks good” feedback on demo/onboarding videos, but the useful feedback was always “at 0:42 I got confused” — and it was hard to collect that in a structured way. Surveys lose context; comments are unstructured.

How it works (high level): - You create a “video form” by placing questions at timestamps (e.g., 0:18, 0:42) - The video can pause to ask the question, then continue - Answers can branch to different follow-up questions based on responses - You get responses tied to the exact moment in the video (and can export/share results)

Use cases I’m aiming at: - UX research on product demos - Onboarding: “did this step make sense?” checks - Training/L&D comprehension checks

I’d love feedback on: 1) What question types would you need first (free text, multiple choice, rating, etc.)? 2) Is “interrupting” the video a deal-breaker, or does pausing at key moments feel acceptable? 3) Any workflows/tools you’d want this to integrate with?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967624

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Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-nature-halt-climate-gains-pace.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967606

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967563

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Article URL: https://gbragafibra.github.io/papers/Polilov2012_wasp_neurons.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967512

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Article URL: https://www.scraplabs3d.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967510

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Article URL: https://collio.chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967500

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Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/patch-tuesday-february-2026-edition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967497

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Hi HN — we recently launched the Berkeley Xcelerator (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/xcelerator), a non-dilutive accelerator program run by Berkeley RDI (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/) for pre-seed and seed-stage teams building in AI and agentic AI. We’d love to get some feedback from the community!

Over the past three years, Berkeley Xcelerator has supported 110+ teams across AI, cybersecurity, and decentralized technologies, whose founders have gone on to raise $650M+ in follow-on funding, spanning 100+ countries.

Some concrete details about the Xcelerator itself:

- The program is non-dilutive (no equity taken)

- Open to pre-seed and seed-stage AI / agentic AI startups

- No UC Berkeley affiliation required

- Selected teams receive support through Berkeley RDI’s research community and ecosystem partners

- Enablement includes cloud, GPU, and API credits from industry partners (including Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Nebius, with more to be announced)

- The program culminates in a Demo Day at the Agentic AI Summit (Aug 1–2, 2026) at UC Berkeley, where we are expecting 5,000+ in-person attendees

Here’s what we’d really like input on:

- If you’ve built or joined an early AI startup, what actually helped you most early on?

- If you’ve done an accelerator, what helped and what was a waste of time?

- For technically deep projects (infra, agentic systems, safety-sensitive work), what kinds of feedback or structure mattered most before product-market fit?

If you’d like to apply to the Berkeley Xcelerator, applications are open through the end of February. (https://forms.gle/KjHiLAHstAvfHdBf7)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967486

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Article URL: https://github.com/flawnn/instantspaces

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967472

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Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-1.26-Released

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967440

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Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/waku-react-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967429

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Article URL: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/the-singularity-is-always-near

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967405

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Article URL: https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-is-building-safer-experiences-for-teens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967404

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Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day” vulnerabilities that attackers are already exploiting in the wild.

Zero-day #1 this month is CVE-2026-21510, a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows Shell wherein a single click on a malicious link can quietly bypass Windows protections and run attacker-controlled content without warning or consent dialogs. CVE-2026-21510 affects all currently supported versions of Windows.

The zero-day flaw CVE-2026-21513 is a security bypass bug targeting MSHTML, the proprietary engine of the default Web browser in Windows. CVE-2026-21514 is a related security feature bypass in Microsoft Word.

The zero-day CVE-2026-21533 allows local attackers to elevate their user privileges to “SYSTEM” level access in Windows Remote Desktop Services. CVE-2026-21519 is a zero-day elevation of privilege flaw in the Desktop Window Manager (DWM), a key component of Windows that organizes windows on a user’s screen. Microsoft fixed a different zero-day in DWM just last month.

The sixth zero-day is CVE-2026-21525, a potentially disruptive denial-of-service vulnerability in the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager, the service responsible for maintaining VPN connections to corporate networks.

Chris Goettl at Ivanti reminds us Microsoft has issued several out-of-band security updates since January’s Patch Tuesday. On January 17, Microsoft pushed a fix that resolved a credential prompt failure when attempting remote desktop or remote application connections. On January 26, Microsoft patched a zero-day security feature bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in Microsoft Office.

Kev Breen at Immersive notes that this month’s Patch Tuesday includes several fixes for remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting GitHub Copilot and multiple integrated development environments (IDEs), including VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains products. The relevant CVEs are CVE-2026-21516, CVE-2026-21523, and CVE-2026-21256.

Breen said the AI vulnerabilities Microsoft patched this month stem from a command injection flaw that can be triggered through prompt injection, or tricking the AI agent into doing something it shouldn’t — like executing malicious code or commands.

“Developers are high-value targets for threat actors, as they often have access to sensitive data such as API keys and secrets that function as keys to critical infrastructure, including privileged AWS or Azure API keys,” Breen said. “When organizations enable developers and automation pipelines to use LLMs and agentic AI, a malicious prompt can have significant impact. This does not mean organizations should stop using AI. It does mean developers should understand the risks, teams should clearly identify which systems and workflows have access to AI agents, and least-privilege principles should be applied to limit the blast radius if developer secrets are compromised.”

The SANS Internet Storm Center has a clickable breakdown of each individual fix this month from Microsoft, indexed by severity and CVSS score. Enterprise Windows admins involved in testing patches before rolling them out should keep an eye on askwoody.com, which often has the skinny on wonky updates. Please don’t neglect to back up your data if it has been a while since you’ve done that, and feel free to sound off in the comments if you experience problems installing any of these fixes.

Is there an alternative to HN out there where I can read threads and see people actually discuss developments in AI in a positive, mature way? I just fired open the GitHub founder's one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345) and the comments are all "I hate they way they said it" or "It's useless" or, of course the opposite "Pff, I do that already". I'm sort of sick of this empty excuse for debate. Is it just /r/LLM or something? Where are the intelligent debaters hannging out?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391

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Hi HN — we recently launched the Berkeley Xcelerator (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/xcelerator), a non-dilutive accelerator program run by Berkeley RDI (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/) for pre-seed and seed-stage teams building in AI and agentic AI.

Over the past three years, Berkeley Xcelerator has supported 110+ teams across AI, cybersecurity, and decentralized technologies, whose founders have gone on to raise $650M+ in follow-on funding, spanning 100+ countries.

Some concrete details about the Xcelerator itself:

- The program is non-dilutive (no equity taken)

- Open to pre-seed and seed-stage AI / agentic AI startups

- No UC Berkeley affiliation required

- Selected teams receive support through Berkeley RDI’s research community and ecosystem partners

- Enablement includes cloud, GPU, and API credits from industry partners (including Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Nebius, with more to be announced)

- The program culminates in a Demo Day at the Agentic AI Summit (Aug 1–2, 2026) at UC Berkeley, where we are expecting 5,000+ in-person attendees

Happy to answer questions here! Your feedback and participation are incredibly valuable to us.

Applications are open through the end of February (https://forms.gle/KjHiLAHstAvfHdBf7)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967390

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Article URL: https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/2205/2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967367

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/world/europe/telegram-throttled-internet-russia.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967365

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