61
kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM • github.com/joom • Lobsters
6
[Showoff Saturday] Built a color palette generator with OKLCH support (perceptually uniform colors) • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
Vibe coding is a blight on open-source • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
29
Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022) • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM • thereader.mitpress.mit.edu • Hacker News
30
Reality Is Breaking the "AI Revolution" • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:41 AM • planetearthandbeyond.co • Hacker News
16P
Trump Sets Fraudster Free from Prison for a Second Time • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:27 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
94
Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:20 AM • eugeneyan.com • Hacker News
35
Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026 • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM • blog.emojipedia.org • Lobsters
12
AWS Duvet: a bidirectional link between implementation and specification • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:02 AM • awslabs.github.io • Hacker News
51
Why should anyone care about low-level programming? • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:53 PM • bvisness.me • ~comp
55
Someone I used to love died • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM • zuma9pt5.com • Bear
6
Show HN: An opinionated fork of micro, built for vibe coders who enjoy code • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM • github.com/elleryfamilia • Hacker News
16
How ClickHouse handles strings • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM • rushter.com • Lobsters
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Germany's shut down of nuclear plants a 'huge mistake', says Merz • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:10 PM • brusselssignal.eu • Hacker News
17
GitHub Space Shooter 🚀 • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:03 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
100
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM • sfgate.com • Hacker News
13P
China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:40 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
14
I skipped Japan's university exam to write a "computational metaphysics" exam • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
31
Artisanal Code • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM • sunnyamrat.com • Hacker News
8
GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM • github.blog • Hacker News
117
Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM • seangoedecke.com • Hacker News
8
Show HN: Making Claude Code sessions link-shareable • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:50 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Why everyone is suddenly in a ‘very Chinese time’ in their lives • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM • wired.com • ~tech
10P
Nearly 5M Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
7
Matthew McConaughey trademarks catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:39 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
179
Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:35 PM • neodyme.io • Hacker News
98
Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
416
Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup? • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:28 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
5
GitHub Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won't Explain Why • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:22 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
25
[Showoff Saturday] itshover-vue - 211 animated icons that bring your app to live! • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
9
Officials showed off a robo-bus in DC. It got hit by a Tesla driver • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM • msn.com • Hacker News
10
GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:12 PM • github.blog • Lobsters
65
convolutional neural network from scratch using js & webgl • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:12 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
26P
Judge Orders Anna's Archive To Delete Scraped Data • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:02 PM • torrentfreak.com • yro.slashdot
27
How do you handle API rate limiting in production web apps? • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
36
I'm Being Prosecuted for the Opposite of Insider Trading • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:46 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
772
Singapore scientists disarm antibiotic-resistant bacteria and restore healing in chronic wounds | Team discovers Bacteria, E. faecalis, produces a metabolic product called reactive oxygen species (ROS) that impairs the healing process of human skin cells. • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM • eurekalert.org • r/science
23
Researchers highlight role of alternative RNA splicing in schizophrenia: Using splicing quantitative trait locus (sQTL) analyses of human postmortem brain tissues, more than 17,000 schizophrenia-associated sQTLs across the genome are identified. • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM • eurekalert.org • r/science
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Civilian or military? China turns to merchant fleet to boost military power • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM • japantimes.co.jp • Hacker News
59
Patch Tuesday Update Makes Windows PCs Refuse To Shut Down • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM • theregister.com • Slashdot
11P
American hybrid warfare against Greenland during the second Trump administration • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
12
Three Secure Coding Lessons from A Log Injection Bug in Django • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:14 PM • secdim.com • r/programming
86
Study assessed brain activity in adolescents with and without a history of depression, and how it relates to everyday emotional expression in text messages. Using EEG, they identified patterns of brain connectivity that were linked to negative language and to later increases in depressive symptoms. • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM • nature.com • r/science
72P
Trump Wants Tech Companies To Foot the Bill For New Power Plants • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM • hardware.slashdot.org • yro.slashdot
10
Rate Limiting, Cells, and GCRA • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM • brandur.org • Hacker News
82
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:32 PM • github.com/trasta298 • Hacker News
25
Acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism, ADHD or IDs • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM • medicalxpress.com • Hacker News
37
I hate my current work assignment • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
301
Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM • nature.com • r/science
7012
A systematic review of 43 studies confirms prenatal acetaminophen does not increase autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability risks. By using sibling comparisons to control for genetics and family history, researchers found earlier associations were likely due to confounding factors, not the drug. • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM • thelancet.com • r/science
519
Is jQuery still a thing in 2026? • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:53 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
26
China have a new sixty-centimeter dome Terahertz telescope in Antarctica, a two week trek from their station • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM • science.org • ~science
282
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:46 PM • bfl.ai • Hacker News
13
Caliper: Right-size your CI runners • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM • attune.inc • Hacker News
176
Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM • binghamton.edu • Hacker News
8
At the phase 'build a startup cause I can't get hired, and maybe I'll get hired' • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
38
Building a Quake PC • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM • fabiensanglard.net • Hacker News
68
The Dilbert Afterlife • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM • astralcodexten.com • Hacker News
7
Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:59 PM • embedding-shapes.github.io • Lobsters
32P
FTC Finalizes Order Banning GM from Sharing Driver Data • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM • pcmag.com • Hacker News
11
Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling? • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
58
Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM • github.com/openfunkHQ • Hacker News
89P
Canada Reverses Tariff On Chinese EVs • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM • washingtontimes.com • Slashdot
29P
US moves to strip sovereign wealth investors of US tax perks • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
5641P
88% of Americans view opioid overdose deaths as a very serious problem. More conservatives and moderates thought that people who use opioids should be responsible for reducing overdose deaths. In contrast, more liberals felt pharmaceutical companies should be liable for reducing overdose deaths. • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM • news.weill.cornell.edu • r/science
51P
Fix the two-party system with proportional representation • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM • agrarianparty.org • Hacker News
277
Tildes Minecraft Weekly • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM • tildes.net • ~games
221
Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM • mintlify.com • Hacker News
40
Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025) • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM • atredis.com • Hacker News
8P
Iran, 200 hours of a nationwide internet and telecommunications blackout • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM • dw.com • Hacker News
11
Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working on Linux with Patched Wine • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
44
TSMC Says AI Demand Is 'Endless' After Record Q4 Earnings • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
12
The cardinal sin of software architecture • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:48 PM • functional.computer • Hacker News
317
I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:48 PM • evanhahn.com • Hacker News
248
Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM • cloud.google.com • Hacker News
31P
We’re more patient with AI than with each other • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:39 PM • uxtopian.com • Hacker News
57
Fast Concordance: Instant concordance on a corpus of >1,200 books • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM • iafisher.com • Hacker News
21
OpenAI Introduces Ads to ChatGPT • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM • twitter.com/sama • Hacker News
149
How to shake off constant fear of being devaluated or replaced by AI • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1173
Men who think they are attractive are more likely to infer sexual interest from women. Findings suggested that men’s self-perceptions and women’s appearance may bias men’s sexual judgment • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM • psypost.org • r/science
46P
The truth Elon left out • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
22
The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:13 PM • refactoring.fm • Hacker News
23P
White House seeks emergency power auction for largest US electric grid • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:11 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
11
Ask HN: Who's using DuckDB in production? • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
213
Letting Claude play text adventures • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM • borretti.me • Hacker News
19
Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do? • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
11
Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
109
ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.' • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM • businessinsider.com • Hacker News
125
I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM • evanhahn.com • Lobsters
24
Microplastics From Washing Clothes Could Be Hurting Your Tomatoes • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM • washingtonpost.com • science.slashdot
9P
Trump Bought Netflix and Warner Bros. Bonds in Days After Megadeal Was Announced • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM • hollywoodreporter.com • Hacker News
324
LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM • social.kernel.org • Hacker News
6
Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM • theconversation.com • Hacker News
16
OpenAI Asking Contractors to Upload Work from Past Jobs to Evaluate AI Agents • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
83
Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
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Jonathan Haidt Brings New Evidence to the Battle Against Social Media • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
8
Open Source Alternatives to Cloudflare Products • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM • oneuptime.com • Hacker News
6
Medium Was Built for an Internet That No Longer Exists • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM • medium.com/@gp2030 • Hacker News
77
Cardiff University team helps find mysterious iron bar in space • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:16 PM • bbc.com • r/science
31
Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM • community.cloudflare.com • Hacker News
9
Astro joins Cloudflare • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM • astro.build • r/webdev
445
Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM • fromjason.xyz • Hacker News
12
Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux? • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:59 PM • twitter.com/LundukeJournal • Hacker News
1398
Here is the 15 sec coding test to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants by JOSE ZARAZUA • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM • josezarazua.com • r/programming
73
DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM • duckduckgo.com • Hacker News
39P
US says Canada will regret decision to allow Chinese EVs into their market • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
95
Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM • aljamal.substack.com • Hacker News
87P
The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52T (2025) • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:17 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
6P
Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
8P
Trump wants tech companies to foot the bill for new power plants because of AI • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
49
Squishy Go • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM • puyogo.app • Hacker News
15
What Is Control Flow Analysis for Lambda Calculus? – Iowa Type Theory Commute • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM • rss.buzzsprout.com • Hacker News
161
Docker Releases Hardened Images For Free - What Does It Do Differently? • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM • i-programmer.info • r/programming
47
Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM • yogthos.net • Lobsters
1207
Cursor Implied Success Without Evidence | Not one of 100 selected commits even built • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM • embedding-shapes.github.io • r/programming
53
What's the benefit of avoiding the debugger? • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM • softwareengineering.stackexchange.com • ~comp
5P
When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:53 PM • statnews.com • Hacker News
191
Reading across books with Claude Code • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM • pieterma.es • Hacker News
25P
The Toxic Modernity Narrative • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM • theargumentmag.com • Hacker News
82
Ads Are Coming To ChatGPT in the Coming Weeks • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM • openai.com • Slashdot
49
All ears: New study pinpoints what determines ear length in dogs • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM • news.uga.edu • r/science
88
The Enshittification of Everything • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
67P
Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:36 PM • npr.org • ~transport
7P
Chinese Fishing Boats Form Sea Barriers • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:33 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
5P
Show HN: Flag AI Slop in PRs • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM • haystackeditor.com • Hacker News
18
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM • arxiv.org • Lobsters
68
Creating a 48GB Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU – Brother Zhang's Repair Shop (Ft. 张哥) [video] • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
32
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
13P
What Success actually looks like • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:25 PM • zevvdaily.bearblog.dev • Bear
8
ChatGPT ads are coming, a bellwether for free AI services • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
57
smalloc: a simple memory allocator • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:20 PM • github.com/zooko • Lobsters
149
RTS for Agents • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:20 PM • getagentcraft.com • Hacker News
30
Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM • esa.int • Hacker News
24
SkyVM: Instant desktop VMs from memory snapshots • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM • skyvm.dev • Hacker News
143
Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM • labs.iximiuz.com • Hacker News
102
Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video] • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
8
Claude Cowork Is Now Available to Pro Subscribers • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM • twitter.com/claudeai • Hacker News
99
Seattle is Building Light Rail Like It's 1999 • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM • msn.com • Slashdot
7
OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
10
OpenAI to Begin Testing Ads in ChatGPT in Push for Fresh Revenue • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
182
OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S. • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
11
Show HN: Web PWA unifying translate/FSRS Anki/conjugations • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:03 PM • lekalearning.com • Hacker News
505
Our approach to advertising • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
38
What are your favorite drawing libraries? • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
25P
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7P
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196
Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM • jamanetwork.com • Hacker News
58
Genetic relationships between the gut microbiota and prostate cancer: Mendelian randomization combined with bioinformatics analysis • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM • pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov • r/science
47
Help with 1bed, WFH apartment layout! • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM • tildes.net • ~life.home_improvement
85
Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:34 PM • sherwood.news • Hacker News
156P
ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
12
NetOps Visualizer + mapcn • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
9
Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:18 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
1020P
East Germany balloon escape • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
78
Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day? • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
642
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM • dell.com • Hacker News
1024P
Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:05 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
4
i just ported kube's liquid glass demo to pure HTML/CSS/JS • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
23
Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs? • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
53P
Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump • Jan 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
23
Resume Feedback Request (I'll return the favor) • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
46
AI Has Made Salesforce Engineers More Productive, So the Company Has Stopped Hiring Them, CEO Says • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:49 AM • itpro.com • Slashdot
2146
Father's warmth and supportive behavior toward infant at 10 months can positively impact child's heart and metabolic health at age 7 • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM • psu.edu • r/science
7P
AI Weiwei: 'You in the West Can't Compete with China' • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:36 AM • thetimes.com • Hacker News
5
Ask HN: Resources for learning visual design as a developer? • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
176
Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:20 AM • shimmer.care • Hacker News
39
Elon Musk's X down for users • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:09 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
32P
Chinese EVs inch closer to the US as Canada slashes tariffs • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:06 AM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
44
Ruby on Rails Creator Says AI Coding Tools Still Can't Match Most Junior Programmers • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:06 AM • youtube.com • Slashdot
56P
White House Insists Trump Is 'Joking' About Canceling Midterm Elections • Jan 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM • time.com • Hacker News
66
Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM • coywolf.com • Hacker News
26P
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54P
Judge: ICE violated Liberian man's rights by bursting through front door • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:41 AM • fox9.com • Hacker News
780
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:37 AM • letsencrypt.org • Hacker News
76
The GDB JIT Interface • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:27 AM • bernsteinbear.com • Hacker News
34P
China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:26 AM • finance.yahoo.com • Slashdot
40
X (Twitter) Is Down • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM • downforeveryoneorjustme.com • Hacker News
62
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM • undeadly.org • Lobsters
43
Twitter Down? • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM • x.com • Hacker News
225
The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare | Astro • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM • astro.build • r/programming
7
Show HN: Claude Quest – Pixel-art visualization for Claude Code sessions • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:07 AM • github.com/Michaelliv • Hacker News
23
2026: is there any unsaturated solo web dev business left that’s worth starting? • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:06 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
170
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM • lwn.net • Hacker News
54
6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:03 AM • letsencrypt.org • Lobsters
169P
Cyberattack in Venezuela demonstrated precision of U.S. capabilities • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:02 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
4
What did you do this week (and weekend)? • Jan 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
28
Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20 • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:57 AM • mropert.github.io • Lobsters
467P
America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM • abio.substack.com • Hacker News
211
Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe? • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM • eclecticlight.co • Hacker News
16
Ask HN: How can you instantly tell something was written by AI? • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:54 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
242P
A study of 2,801 Germans finds that learning about widespread support for climate action corrects perceptions of public opinion but fails to change personal beliefs or behaviors. These findings challenge the strategy of using social consensus messaging to drive individual climate action. • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
44
Benchmarking a Baseline Fully-in-Place Functional Language Compiler [pdf] • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM • trendsfp.github.io • Hacker News
469
Astro is joining Cloudflare • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:46 AM • blog.cloudflare.com • r/webdev
43
Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:40 AM • tomshardware.com • Slashdot
32
If You Have Ever Seen Beautiful CGI Simulations Of Realistic Flocking Behaviour With Birds, You Might Wonder How It Is Done - This Is How: • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:38 AM • youtube.com • r/programming
1019
Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:37 AM • embedding-shapes.github.io • Hacker News
94P
Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:33 AM • startribune.com • Hacker News
36P
Judge orders release of man arrested in Minneapolis by ICE with a battering RAM • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
1344
Cloudflare acquires Astro • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM • astro.build • Hacker News
41
how i brew tea • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM • woolgathering.bearblog.dev • Bear
8
Mother of Elon Musk's child sues xAI over Grok deepfakes • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
916
The Dilbert Afterlife • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:09 AM • astralcodexten.com • Hacker News
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READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:01 AM • lwn.net • Lobsters
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The Antarctic Snow Cruiser • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:01 AM • amusingplanet.com • Hacker News
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Code.org: Use AI In an Interview Without Our OK and You're Dead To Us • Jan 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM • news.slashdot.org • Slashdot
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The way I run standup meetings by Marc G Gauthier • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:58 AM • marcgg.com • r/programming
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New meta-analysis shows that pirfenidone in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) may provide dual protection: (1) slowing fibrosis progression, and (2) reducing lung cancer risk. Pirfenidone's impact on cough as a key symptom in patients with IPF is yet to be measured objectively. • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:46 AM • tandfonline.com • r/science
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Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:44 AM • openculture.com • Hacker News
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The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM • astro.build • Lobsters
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Many college players among dozens charged in point-shaving plot • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM • espn.com • Hacker News
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All Return Is Return to the Womb • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM • metanomad.blog • Bear
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Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf] • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:40 AM • github.com/philMarcus • Hacker News
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Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM • dl.acm.org • Hacker News
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FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder for You to Switch Wireless Carriers • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:37 AM • techdirt.com • Hacker News
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A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video] • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:33 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Face as a QR Code • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:33 AM • bookofjoe2.blogspot.com • Hacker News
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psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:20 AM • github.com/loresuso • Hacker News
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Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:19 AM • git.qt.io • Hacker News
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Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM • theweek.com • Hacker News
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Amazon Is Buying America's First New Copper Output In More Than a Decade • Jan 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM • wsj.com • Slashdot
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Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:58 AM • mdto.page • Hacker News
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Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:58 AM • raulnegron.me • Hacker News
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Show HN: Context-Aware AI Assistant for macOS [Open Source] • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:54 AM • thequickfox.ai • Hacker News
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UK High Court judgment on whether the Theft Act applies to Runescape gold pieces • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:53 AM • caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk • Hacker News
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Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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How ClickHouse handles strings • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:48 AM • rushter.com • r/programming
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Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:48 AM • labs.iximiuz.com • r/programming
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Ergonomic abstractions for numerical computing: My story so far • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM • ocramz.github.io • Lobsters
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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:27 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Just the Browser • Jan 16, 2026 at 7:03 AM • justthebrowser.com • Hacker News
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Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:55 AM • raulnegron.me • Lobsters
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Tell HN: The way I do simple data management for new prototypes • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:55 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:50 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:43 AM • glasgow-embedded.org • Lobsters
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I replaced Intercom with a 5KB custom chat widget and got my Lighthouse score back to 100 • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:42 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:36 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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I found a Bear sticker in Thailand • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:11 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
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Grief over pet death can be as strong as that for family member. About a fifth of people who had experienced a pet and human loss said the former was worse. Symptoms of severe grief for a pet matched identically with that for a human, and there was no difference in how people experienced losses. • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:05 AM • theguardian.com • r/science
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Neuroscientists find evidence meditation changes how fluid moves in the brain. Findings suggest that focused attention meditation can induce changes in cerebrospinal fluid dynamics that are similar to those observed during sleep. • Jan 16, 2026 at 6:03 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM • robinlinacre.com • Hacker News
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I think I'm done with coding • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:50 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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New map reveals landscape beneath Antarctica in unprecedented detail • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:45 AM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
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Research found diets high in fiber, healthy unsaturated fats and micronutrients such as: Vitamins A and E, magnesium and potassium with better brain health and memory. It also showed that refined grains was negatively associated with cognitive function and memory. • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:40 AM • sdstate.edu • r/science
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So You've Decided to Become Dead to the World: On Becoming an Anchoress • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:39 AM • medievalmarginalia.substack.com • Hacker News
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How do you handle “one small change” requests without killing your weekend? • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:37 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Show HN: Free AI Image Upscaler (100% local, private, and free) • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:23 AM • freeaitoolforthat.com • Hacker News
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On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf] • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:19 AM • web.cs.ucdavis.edu • Hacker News
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'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm • Jan 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM • apnews.com • Slashdot
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AI Destroys Institutions • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:48 AM • papers.ssrn.com • Hacker News
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Modern Java • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:34 AM • javabook.mccue.dev • Lobsters
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The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:27 AM • buildsoftwaresystems.com • Hacker News
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I Made Adobe CC Installers Work on Linux • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:24 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
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Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:23 AM • aws.amazon.com • Hacker News
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pf: Make af-to less magical • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:06 AM • undeadly.org • Hacker News
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The Magic of the Better Software Conference • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:01 AM • rfleury.com • Lobsters
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Show HN: GitHub – Burn – Rust tensor library and deep learning framework • Jan 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM • github.com/tracel-ai • Hacker News
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59% of Republicans favor use of force immigration raids despite risk of deaths • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:29 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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What are you doing this weekend? • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
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Search function on web sites, is it a "must have" anymore? • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Show HN: Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM • github.com/alessandrocarminati • Hacker News
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Interactive eBPF • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM • ebpf.party • Hacker News
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How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster • Jan 16, 2026 at 3:00 AM • iscinumpy.dev • Hacker News
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Cursor CEO Built a Browser using AI, but Does It Really Work? • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:50 AM • finalroundai.com • r/webdev
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Irrational betting craze signals we're on the cusp of a crash • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:02 AM • thetimes.com • Hacker News
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US Carbon Pollution Rose In 2025, a Reversal From Prior Years • Jan 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM • nbcnews.com • Slashdot
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How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025) • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:54 AM • domainlanguage.com • Hacker News
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Building a better Bugbot • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM • cursor.com • Hacker News
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Playing daily games at work? Timdle just launched work mode • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:51 AM • timdle.com • Hacker News
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Local-only Marstek Venus e-battery integration with Home Assistant • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:46 AM • du.nkel.dev • Hacker News
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Researchers developed a rapid and highly efficient tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV)-induced gene silencing system based on vacuum infiltration and tenoxicam co-cultivation in melon • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM • doi.org • r/science
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Dynamic Programming • Jan 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM • youtube.com • r/programming