57
I am not an artist • Jan 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM • nobodysblog.bearblog.dev • Bear
173
Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023) • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM • retool.com • Hacker News
219P
Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM • thebignewsletter.com • Hacker News
41
The meek did inherit the Earth, at least among ants • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
41
Show HN: WOLS – Open standard for mushroom cultivation tracking • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:30 PM • github.com/wemush • Hacker News
91
Utopian Scholastic • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM • wol.fm • Hacker News
16
Motorola, Intel, IBM Make a Mainframe in a PC – The PC XT/370 • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM • thechipletter.substack.com • Hacker News
192
I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
288
Sega co-founder David Rosen has died • Jan 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
23
Flu cases are surging and rates will likely get worse, new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM • npr.org • ~health
92
Show HN: Make audio loops online • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM • makeloops.online • Hacker News
73
Show HN: Open-Source 8-Ch BCI Board (ESP32 and ADS1299 and OpenBCI GUI) • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM • github.com/Cerelog-ESP-EEG • Hacker News
22
Calibrating My Turtle • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM • clabs.org • Hacker News
179
A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM • joseph-smith.co.uk • Hacker News
13
Tildes Book Club - A New Year - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bissen • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM • tildes.net • ~books
607
I accidentally applied to a voluntary full stack webdev job. Now I regret it, how do I back out gracefully? • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
766
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM • brave.com • Hacker News
48
Dental hygiene key to predicting mortality, Japanese researchers find • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM • japantimes.co.jp • Hacker News
305
How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM • elbowgreasegames.substack.com • Hacker News
58
The last supported version of HP-UX is no more • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:19 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
190
So, you want to chunk really fast? • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:19 PM • minha.sh • Hacker News
99
Go 1.26 interactive tour • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:10 PM • antonz.org • Lobsters
27
The Dawn of the AI Drone • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
91P
Los Angeles ends strange rite of passage with new fridge law • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
308
Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:47 AM • github.com/Adversis • Hacker News
52
Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:41 AM • ft.com • Slashdot
53P
'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
105
Observability's past, present, and future • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM • blog.sherwoodcallaway.com • Hacker News
45
A field guide to sandboxes for AI • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:32 AM • luiscardoso.dev • Lobsters
83
The eight ways that all the elements in the Universe are made (2021) • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:32 AM • bigthink.com • Hacker News
82
Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type? • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:31 AM • lukefleed.xyz • r/programming
141
How many of you actually do open source contributions? • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:31 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
41
Over 600 job openings at Apple for Vision Pro • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM • jobs.apple.com • Hacker News
31
Anyone building software for wearable tech? • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
198
How wolves became dogs • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
32
The most anticipated web platform features going into 2026 • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM • github.com/web-platform-dx • r/webdev
119
Sandboxing Untrusted Python • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:11 AM • gist.github.com • Hacker News
7
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~food
39
Observability's Past, Present, and Future • Jan 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM • blog.sherwoodcallaway.com • Bear
377
CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022) • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM • idiallo.com • Hacker News
788
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
540P
RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
19
Common Architectures: Monolithic, Distributed, and Serverless • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM • systemdesignbutsimple.com • r/programming
33
Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type? • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM • lukefleed.xyz • Lobsters
100P
People of Dubious Character Are More Likely To Enter Public Service • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:21 AM • economist.com • Slashdot
165
Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM • apmcommunication.com • Hacker News
57
I program without syntax highlighting • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:12 AM • hakon.gylterud.net • Hacker News
510
Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android • Jan 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM • donotnotify.com • Hacker News
71
Solo ASIC tapeout on a budget: detailed write up • Jan 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
198
Dealing with abandonware (2024) • Jan 5, 2026 at 9:53 AM • blog.hris.to • Hacker News
120
Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero • Jan 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM • data.stackexchange.com • Slashdot
96P
How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem • Jan 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM • ploum.net • Hacker News
31
I came back from Cursor to VS Code • Jan 5, 2026 at 9:24 AM • pablomarino.com • Hacker News
25
Show HN: OSS sustain guard – Sustainability signals for OSS dependencies • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:58 AM • onukura.github.io • Hacker News
227
GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:57 AM • gog.com • Hacker News
854
I switched from VSCode to Zed • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM • tenthousandmeters.com • Hacker News
137
Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity' • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:47 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
192
Imagine 130M Washing Machines • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM • scottsumner.substack.com • Hacker News
149
Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden) • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM • github.com/MatheuZSecurity • Hacker News
633
All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025) • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:44 AM • idiallo.com • Hacker News
146
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:41 AM • cekrem.github.io • r/programming
36
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM • cekrem.github.io • Lobsters
151P
How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:25 AM • ploum.net • Lobsters
1845
The paper reports the discovery of a rogue planet with a mass similar to Saturn that is drifting through space without a host star. • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM • science.org • r/science
46
why is every article about checkout abandonment solutions completely generic and useless for developers • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:07 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
778P
Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring • Jan 5, 2026 at 8:02 AM • barchart.com • Hacker News
65P
As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked • Jan 5, 2026 at 7:34 AM • apnews.com • yro.slashdot
10860
Dental hygiene key to predicting mortality, Japanese researchers find • Jan 5, 2026 at 7:29 AM • japantimes.co.jp • r/science
306
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons • Jan 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM • tonsky.me • Lobsters
156
On Getting Hacked • Jan 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM • ahmeto.com • Hacker News
19
Hulu Live table - how? • Jan 5, 2026 at 7:05 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
433
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review • Jan 5, 2026 at 6:54 AM • cs.cmu.edu • r/programming
3381
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons • Jan 5, 2026 at 6:51 AM • tonsky.me • Hacker News
31
Yann LeCun confirms Meta's Llama 4 benchmarks were "fudged a little bit" • Jan 5, 2026 at 6:37 AM • tech.slashdot.org • Hacker News
176
Cigarette smoke effect using shaders • Jan 5, 2026 at 6:32 AM • garden.bradwoods.io • Hacker News
2662
A new study reveals that microplastics are impairing the oceans’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a process scientists find crucial for regulating Earth’s temperature. Microplastics disrupt marine life, weaken the 'biological carbon pump, and even release greenhouse gases as they degrade. • Jan 5, 2026 at 6:19 AM • alphagalileo.org • r/science
38
Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers • Jan 5, 2026 at 6:10 AM • chipsandcheese.com • Hacker News
98
Cookie-Banner on cookieless pages? • Jan 5, 2026 at 5:56 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1016
Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension • Jan 5, 2026 at 5:23 AM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
14
Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Go • Jan 5, 2026 at 5:15 AM • vincent.bernat.ch • Lobsters
81
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review • Jan 5, 2026 at 4:44 AM • cs.cmu.edu • Lobsters
26
How Twitch tamed a million lines of TypeScript • Jan 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM • joshribakoff.com • Hacker News
35
Managing database schema changes for beginners • Jan 5, 2026 at 4:04 AM • medium.com/@tanin_90098 • r/programming
108
Advice on avoiding the hedonic treadmill of endless content? • Jan 5, 2026 at 3:36 AM • tildes.net • ~life
219
Decorative Cryptography • Jan 5, 2026 at 3:29 AM • dlp.rip • Hacker News
617
Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” • Jan 5, 2026 at 3:24 AM • office.com • Hacker News
35
Inducing self-NSFW classification in image models to prevent deepfakes edits • Jan 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
15P
Twenty-nine years of being between somewhere and nowhere • Jan 5, 2026 at 2:41 AM • toska.bearblog.dev • Bear
23
Decorative Cryptography • Jan 5, 2026 at 2:28 AM • dlp.rip • Lobsters
905
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review • Jan 5, 2026 at 2:14 AM • cs.cmu.edu • Hacker News
433
A spider web unlike any seen before • Jan 5, 2026 at 2:06 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
53
LLMs Are Currently Not Helpful at All for Math Research: Hamkins • Jan 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM • officechai.com • Hacker News
137
Workstation Owner Sadly Marks the End-of-Life for HP-UX • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:35 AM • osnews.com • Slashdot
419P
ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
149
Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM • mpaxos.com • Hacker News
18
HN4 – The Post-POSIX Filesystem • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:08 AM • github.com/hn4-dev • Hacker News
56
How Kraft Heinz lost its lock on mac and cheese and American shoppers • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
27
The year of the 3D printed miniature (and other lies we tell ourselves) • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:41 PM • matduggan.com • ~hobbies
52
Moving out soon. Think out loud with me regarding saving money vs. quality of life. • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:28 PM • tildes.net • ~life
86P
Intellectual Junkyards • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM • forester-notes.org • Hacker News
384P
California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM • consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov • Hacker News
33
Ask HN: How is your work making the world a better place? • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:45 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
41
AGI Is Here • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM • robinsloan.com • Hacker News
529
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM • sparkbox.com • Hacker News
24
Agent Orchestration Is Not the Future • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM • moridinamael.github.io • Hacker News
18
The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:18 PM • youtube.com • ~humanities.history
22
KGGen: Extracting Knowledge Graphs from Plain Text with Language Models • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:16 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
140
Looking for a simple, low-cost way to build a personal website again • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
GNU Ddrescue 1.30 Orders of Magnitude Better Working on Drives with a Dead Head • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
19P
Voting for Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up City Doesn't Mean I Approve of It • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM • mcsweeneys.net • Hacker News
52P
North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers' Last Names • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:49 PM • northdakotamonitor.com • yro.slashdot
86
NeXTSTEP on Pa-RISC • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM • openpa.net • Hacker News
15
touchHLE: a high-level emulator for iPhone OS applications • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM • touchhle.org • ~tech
22
French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:16 PM • vajdgxeknfckxznvhmuy.supabase.co • r/programming
41
"HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I'm sad" • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM • osnews.com • Hacker News
406
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM • effectiviology.com • Hacker News
136
Are Hybrid Cars Helping America Transition to Electric Vehicles? • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM • msn.com • Slashdot
88P
Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015) • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM • warontherocks.com • Hacker News
71
Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025) • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM • shreevatsa.net • Hacker News
298
Frontend devs, how do you handle 'Loading' and 'Error' states when the real API is too fast/stable? • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
43
Show HN: Quantum Tunnel • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM • chuanqisun.github.io • Hacker News
130
Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM • soatok.blog • Lobsters
184
OneDrive just deleted all of my files • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM • twitter.com/jasonkpargin • Hacker News
137
My .dev domain expired and not available for registration • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
220
When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM • practical.engineering • Hacker News
27
Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US 'extraordinary' artist visas • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
16P
The Narco-Terrorist Elite • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM • prospect.org • Hacker News
37P
Show HN: H-1B Salary Data Explorer • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
103
Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
41
retired from sad, new career in law • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM • vespertine.bearblog.dev • Bear
62
Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM • soatok.blog • Hacker News
90
LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
15
Dissecting a C64 Autoboot Program • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM • bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com • Hacker News
74
Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update) • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM • traceformer.io • Hacker News
103
Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops? • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
61
The 2025 Steam Awards • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM • store.steampowered.com • ~games
52
Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM • fast.github.io • Lobsters
277P
North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM • bismarcktribune.com • Hacker News
1055
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM • addyosmani.com • r/programming
256
Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM • pentestpartners.com • Hacker News
188
The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM • guille.site • Hacker News
37P
Why RSS Matters • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM • werd.io • Hacker News
17
We traced hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia edits back to UC networks • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM • dailycal-projects.netlify.app • Hacker News
68
'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM • sciencealert.com • science.slashdot
18
Seed of Life • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM • seed-of-life-eight.vercel.app • Hacker News
378
Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM • stats.stackexchange.com • Hacker News
276
Quake Brutalist Jam III • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM • slipseer.com • Hacker News
98
OpenGitOps • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM • opengitops.dev • Hacker News
66
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM • addyosmani.com • Lobsters
48
A ssh server that knows who you are. $ ssh whoami.filippo.io • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM • github.com/FiloSottile • Hacker News
6846
Psychedelics/ psilocybin/ hallucinogen use is rising in the United States; however, emergency and hospital admissions involving hallucinogens remain relatively rare. They account for a small fraction of substance-related hospital admissions, outweighed by alcohol- and opioid-related encounters. • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM • jamanetwork.com • r/science
598
Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM • github.com/huseyinbabal • Hacker News
381
I changed my personality in six weeks • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
138
Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code) • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM • cleoselene.com • Hacker News
851
Claude Code On-the-Go • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM • granda.org • Hacker News
163P
When the Internet Felt Like Freedom • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM • pego.dev • Bear
63
A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025 • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM • newsweek.com • science.slashdot
126
Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023) • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM • afar.com • Hacker News
68
Signals vs. Query-Based Compilers • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:26 PM • marvinh.dev • Hacker News
212
Agentic Patterns • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM • github.com/nibzard • Hacker News
147
GLSL Web CRT Shader • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM • blog.gingerbeardman.com • Hacker News
338
Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM • koreaherald.com • Hacker News
159
Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM • fast.github.io • Hacker News