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Avoiding fan traps in database design and system diagrams • Jan 18, 2026 at 7:34 AM • ilograph.com • Hacker News
28
€5k Swiss cameras with zero electronics • Jan 18, 2026 at 7:26 AM • alpa.swiss • Hacker News
35
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006) • Jan 18, 2026 at 6:59 AM • craphound.com • Hacker News
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Not Broken, Just Different • Jan 18, 2026 at 6:56 AM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
199
Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer • Jan 18, 2026 at 6:39 AM • tuned.org.uk • Hacker News
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Throwing it all away over the Mercator projection • Jan 18, 2026 at 6:31 AM • danieldrezner.substack.com • Hacker News
445
The 7 deadly sins of software engineers productivity • Jan 18, 2026 at 6:27 AM • strategizeyourcareer.com • r/programming
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Trump supporters and insecure men more likely to value a large penis, according to new research. For some men, the penis serves as a symbol of status and dominance, and the desire for a larger one is partly driven by feelings of humiliation regarding failures to meet social expectations of manhood. • Jan 18, 2026 at 6:07 AM • psypost.org • r/science
140
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? • Jan 18, 2026 at 6:04 AM • lucumr.pocoo.org • Hacker News
115
Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine • Jan 18, 2026 at 5:39 AM • github.com/Loretta1982 • Hacker News
77
Overlapping Markup • Jan 18, 2026 at 5:37 AM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
13
I made an AI manual for Teenage Engineering devices • Jan 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM • observer.bearblog.dev • Bear
282P
EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal • Jan 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM • dw.com • Hacker News
284
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? • Jan 18, 2026 at 5:02 AM • lucumr.pocoo.org • Lobsters
255
A free and open-source rootkit for Linux • Jan 18, 2026 at 4:36 AM • lwn.net • Hacker News
287P
Consent-O-Matic • Jan 18, 2026 at 4:35 AM • github.com/cavi-au • Hacker News
133P
Pentagon readies 1,500 troops to possibly deploy to Minnesota, US media say • Jan 18, 2026 at 4:24 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
88
How do you deal with constant interruptions (Slack, Jira questions, ad‑hoc calls) as a senior engineer? • Jan 18, 2026 at 4:21 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
301
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:59 AM • alexharri.com • r/programming
680
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014) • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:58 AM • adamdrake.com • Hacker News
70
Retailers Rush to Implement AI-Assisted Shopping and Orders • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:54 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
473
The A in AGI stands for Ads • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:42 AM • ossa-ma.github.io • r/programming
390
200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:41 AM • vermaden.wordpress.com • Hacker News
160
The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM • planetearthandbeyond.co • Hacker News
735
A Social Filesystem • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:18 AM • overreacted.io • Hacker News
216
Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human | Spotify Engineering • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:10 AM • engineering.atspotify.com • r/programming
28
The Gnome Village • Jan 18, 2026 at 3:08 AM • happihacking.com • Lobsters
92
Hypnosis with Aphantasia • Jan 18, 2026 at 2:59 AM • aphantasia.com • Hacker News
85
A Social Filesystem • Jan 18, 2026 at 2:18 AM • overreacted.io • Lobsters
101
Launching the Handmade Software Foundation • Jan 18, 2026 at 2:01 AM • handmade.network • Hacker News
626
Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons • Jan 18, 2026 at 1:53 AM • icon-sets.iconify.design • Hacker News
22
No electricity, no problem • Jan 18, 2026 at 1:49 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
69
Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval • Jan 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM • github.com/gibram-io • Hacker News
390
ThinkNext Design • Jan 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM • thinknextdesign.com • Hacker News
104
Preload or Lazyload? • Jan 18, 2026 at 1:23 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1032
MySQL’s popularity as ranked by DB-Engines started to tank hard, a trend that will likely accelerate in 2026. • Jan 18, 2026 at 1:04 AM • optimizedbyotto.com • r/programming
43
53% of Crypto Tokens Launched Since 2021 Have Failed, Most in 2025 • Jan 18, 2026 at 12:59 AM • coindesk.com • Slashdot
29P
Trump 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US • Jan 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
149
Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents • Jan 18, 2026 at 12:55 AM • github.com/dannote • Hacker News
468
Do People Really Just Create An Entire App just Vibe Coding? • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:56 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
36
Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:49 PM • bsky.app • Hacker News
1309
vibe coding is in the wild, and the outcome should surprise nobody. • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
199P
U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
278
The longest Greek word • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
595
Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:48 PM • twitter.com/neelsomani • Hacker News
57
So I started a clothing brand • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM • apostlethreads.com • ~design
612
jQuery 4.0 released • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:31 PM • blog.jquery.com • r/programming
5
Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Trailer • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:27 PM • youtube.com • ~arts
113
jQuery 4.0.0 Released • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM • blog.jquery.com • Lobsters
197
How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
121
How Much Do AI Models Resemble a Brain? • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:34 PM • foommagazine.org • Slashdot
253
Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957) • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM • abelard.org • Hacker News
39
Musk Seeks Up to $134B Damages from OpenAI, Microsoft • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
143
Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better? • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM • nngroup.com • Hacker News
103
Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM • elliotarledge.com • Hacker News
16
REPLACED | Release date trailer • Jan 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM • youtube.com • ~games
26
Data Activation Thoughts • Jan 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM • galsapir.github.io • Hacker News
52
How do I stop participating? • Jan 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM • geohot.github.io • Hacker News
138
Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024 • Jan 17, 2026 at 7:09 PM • css.csail.mit.edu • Hacker News
53
IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator • Jan 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM • polysoftit.co.uk • Hacker News
162
OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 • Jan 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
1158
If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design • Jan 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM • mastodon.social • Hacker News
60
2026's Breakthrough Technologies? MIT Technology Review Chooses Sodium-ion Batteries, Commercial Space Stations • Jan 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM • technologyreview.com • science.slashdot
206
No knives, only cook knives • Jan 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM • kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com • Hacker News
9
Second Isar Aerospace Spectrum flight set for 21 to 23 January • Jan 17, 2026 at 6:34 PM • europeanspaceflight.com • ~space
30
Vulnerable WhisperPair Devices – Hijack Bluetooth Accessories Using Fast Pair • Jan 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM • whisperpair.eu • Hacker News
93
Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly • Jan 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM • eli.thegreenplace.net • Hacker News
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EU Set to Halt US Trade Deal over Trump's New Tariff Threat • Jan 17, 2026 at 5:57 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
71P
Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology" • Jan 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM • lithub.com • Hacker News
385
Light Mode InFFFFFFlation • Jan 17, 2026 at 5:19 PM • willhbr.net • Hacker News
25P
Too old to be presidenting • Jan 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM • blog.mattglassman.net • Bear
255
EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM • afska.github.io • Hacker News
146P
Congress wants to hand your parenting to big tech • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:54 PM • eff.org • Hacker News
55
Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM • speedminers.fun • Hacker News
35
Show HN: E80: an 8-bit CPU in structural VHDL • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM • github.com/Stokpan • Hacker News
46
Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM • caimito.net • Lobsters
62
11% of vibe-coded apps are leaking Supabase keys • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM • supaexplorer.com • Hacker News
191
The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM • github.com/soegaard • Hacker News
23
I made a site to experiment with shaders right in your browser • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
19
2025 was a dumpster fire, so I made it into a model | Light-up flaming dumpster sculpture • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM • youtube.com • ~hobbies
66
Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM • variety.com • Hacker News
143
Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases • Jan 17, 2026 at 4:03 PM • github.com/chunkhound • Hacker News
224
A Year of 3D Printing • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM • brookehatton.com • Hacker News
57
The death of software development • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM • mike.tech • Hacker News
314
Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM • github.com/kip-dili • Hacker News
74
Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:41 PM • reuters.com • yro.slashdot
28P
Should Reward Credit Cards Be Banned? • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM • nominalnews.com • Hacker News
4718P
A fast-spreading strain of influenza A (H3N2), known as subclade K, has fuelled headlines warning of a possible “superflu”. Study suggests that this year’s vaccine reduces risk of flu severe enough to require medical attention by 32-39% in adults, and by 72-75% in children and adolescents. • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM • gavi.org • r/science
64
Simulating the Ladybug Clock Puzzle • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM • austinhenley.com • Hacker News
92
Docker.how – Docker command cheat sheet • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM • docker.how • Hacker News
66
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM • blog.popey.com • Lobsters
43
Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (2014) • Jan 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM • randomascii.wordpress.com • Hacker News
858
I built the anti-LinkedIn. It's just a room where devs wait until they find work. • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
111
A Minimal Email Signature Generator • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
68
Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM • github.com/whispem • Hacker News
136
Dozens of US Colleges Close as Falling Birth Rate Pushes Them Off Enrollment Cliff • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:34 PM • bloomberg.com • Slashdot
166
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
419P
Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
74
How Many Pixels Do You Really Need? • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:26 PM • rldane.space • Lobsters
158
Our aha moment is on step 3 but everyone quits at step 1 • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
145
My first year in sales as technical founder • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM • fabiandietrich.com • Hacker News
236
What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM • honeycomb.io • Hacker News
5
Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets • Jan 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~life.pets
159
The thing that brought me joy • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM • stephenlewis.me • Hacker News
62
NASA Livestreams the Rocket That Will Carry Four Astronauts Around the Moon • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM • bbc.com • science.slashdot
516
Raising money fucked me up • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM • blog.yakkomajuri.com • Hacker News
48
So this is 2nd grade subtraction • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:25 PM • youtube.com • ~science
131
Engineering a Columnar Database in Rust: Lessons on io_uring, SIMD, and why I avoided Async/Await • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:16 PM • github.com/Frigatebird-db • r/programming
18
A faceless hacker stole my therapy notes – Meri-Tuuli was one of 33,000 Vastaamo patients held to ransom in October 2020 by a Finnish hacker • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:16 PM • bbc.com • ~health.mental
10
GitHub Space Shooter turns your GitHub contribution graph into a playable space shooter • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:10 PM • github.com/czl9707 • ~games
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Moderate video gaming appears harmless, but heavy use takes a toll. Researchers found students gaming 10+ hours weekly had worse diets, higher weight, and poorer sleep than lighter gamers. Below that level, outcomes were similar. The findings suggest balance, not abstinence, is key. • Jan 17, 2026 at 1:09 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
86
Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM • alilleybrinker.com • Lobsters
246
Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024) • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
8930
People readily spot gender and race bias but often overlook discrimination based on attractiveness • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM • psypost.org • r/science
75
For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:41 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
66
Show HN: Differentiable Quantum Chemistry • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM • github.com/lowdanie • Hacker News
109
Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM • extrabar.app • Hacker News
407
2025 was the third hottest year on record • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
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NATO members face tariffs increasing to 25% until Greenland purchase deal struck • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
163P
Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM • dw.com • Hacker News
605P
Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
60
TTY and Buffering • Jan 17, 2026 at 12:01 PM • mattrighetti.com • Hacker News
361
An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
50
Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM • systemstack.dev • Hacker News
95
The Resonant Computing Manifesto • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:43 AM • resonantcomputing.org • Hacker News
30
Claude Code with Anthropic API Compatibility [ollama blog] • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM • ollama.com • Hacker News
148
There's no single best way to store information • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
199P
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM • disconnect.blog • Hacker News
290
A web app I probably overengineered (on purpose), and a question about jobs • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
29
I made a calm, personal space on the web • Jan 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM • kindlebox.app • r/webdev
147
Gathering Linux Syscall Numbers in a C Table • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM • t-cadet.github.io • Hacker News
22
The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:36 AM • publicdomainreview.org • Hacker News
14
Collecting Domain Names • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM • forkingmad.blog • Bear
2251P
Terror attacks make people overestimate the share of Muslims in the country, with largest effect among low-educated and in low-immigrant regions, new study finds • Jan 17, 2026 at 10:29 AM • doi.org • r/science
78
Job spam is out of control — I built an extension to combat it (now live on Firefox) • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
41
I hotreload Rust and so can you • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:32 AM • kampffrosch94.github.io • Lobsters
1136
The recurring dream of replacing developers • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:31 AM • caimito.net • Hacker News
15
Our blogging history • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:15 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
249P
What life is like in Minneapolis now • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:13 AM • donmoynihan.substack.com • Hacker News
181
Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:03 AM • ratatui-ruby.dev • Hacker News
148
Binary fuse filters: Fast and smaller than xor filters (2022) • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:02 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
230
LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review • Jan 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
165
Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
75
Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist's Toolkit (2024) • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:42 AM • spinoff.nasa.gov • Hacker News
94
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:34 AM • alexharri.com • Lobsters
648
Built an open-source, subscription-free Geoguessr alternative • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:33 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
92P
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:02 AM • vechron.com • Hacker News
42
How do you handle client hour estimates when technical unknowns cause constant overruns? • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:01 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
66P
Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban • Jan 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM • nytimes.com • Slashdot
186
The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says • Jan 17, 2026 at 7:59 AM • npr.org • Hacker News