11
Designing a service with IndieAuth and email-based login • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM • jamesg.blog • Lobsters
63
A scammer's blueprint: How cybercriminals plot to rob a target in a week • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:23 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
73
I Made Zig Compute 33 Million Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM • atempleton.bearblog.dev • Lobsters
11
Google Meet Reactions: How I Reverse Engineered the WebRTC Channel for Emoji • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:13 PM • agilesoftwaredevelopment.com • r/webdev
8
On coding with LLMs • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:13 PM • abareplace.com • Lobsters
176
New research identifies method of extracting rare earth elements from mining waste product that is two to three times more efficient than previous approaches • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM • news.northeastern.edu • r/science
15
Pale Moon v34.0.0 – a new milestone release • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM • palemoon.org • Hacker News
32
Google Meet Reactions: Reverse Engineering the WebRTC Channel for Emoji • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM • agilesoftwaredevelopment.com • Hacker News
11
Optimizing satellite position calculations with SIMD and Zig • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:03 PM • atempleton.bearblog.dev • r/programming
45P
Anthropic CEO Says Government Should Help Ensure AI's Economic Upside Is Shared • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM • msn.com • Slashdot
64P
Tech workers ask their bosses to pressure Trump over ICE crackdowns • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:45 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
10
Kasper Høgh scored twice as Norwegian debutants FK Bodø/Glimt claimed one of the biggest upsets in UEFA Champions League history by stunning Manchester City • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:43 PM • bbc.com • ~sports.football
347
Our approach to age prediction • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
145
The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:32 PM • weirdmedievalguys.substack.com • Hacker News
137P
Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM • politico.com • Hacker News
28
Intrinsically stretchable 2D MoS2 transistors • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
159
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
17
The State of WebAssembly 2025-2026 • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM • platform.uno • r/programming
419
Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM • novalauncher.com • Hacker News
104
Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM • e360.yale.edu • Hacker News
21
Show HN: Armour – A secure stdio MCP proxy, written in Go • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM • github.com/fuushyn • Hacker News
47P
Reliable Signals of Honest Intent • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM • zanlib.dev • Hacker News
866
IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM • johnmaguire.me • Hacker News
289
Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM • karllorey.com • Hacker News
55P
This could have been an email • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM • futureperfect.bearblog.dev • Bear
293
Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:01 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
195
Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:01 PM • press.stripe.com • Hacker News
26P
The Old World Order Is Dead • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:58 PM • musgrave.substack.com • Hacker News
66
Turbopack: Building faster by building less • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM • nextjs.org • Hacker News
124
University of Michigan and University of Illinois study finds that fairness and respect for property shape social trust more strongly than other moral behaviors • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM • news.umich.edu • r/science
26
The fix for a segfault that never shipped • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM • recall.ai • Hacker News
8
Krazam: Rare Data Hunters [video] • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
111P
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM • lpeproject.org • Hacker News
81P
When "likers'' go private: Engagement with reputationally risky content on X • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
183P
Palantir CEO Says AI To Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM • mercurynews.com • Slashdot
4
Blueprint vs LLM: would you trust a maintained Go architecture more than generated code? • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:34 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
19
Web-based video editor powered by WebGPU • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:33 PM • subformer.com • Hacker News
49
How Hightouch built their long-running agent harness • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM • amplifypartners.com • Hacker News
196
Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there? • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
50P
Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:28 PM • theglobeandmail.com • Hacker News
7
The Void (2025) • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:27 PM • github.com/nostalgebraist • Hacker News
219
Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM • yahoo.com • Hacker News
376
LLVM adopts "human in the loop" policy for AI/tool-assisted contributions • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:19 PM • phoronix.com • r/programming
59
Everyone's a Gangster, Till You Get Bundled in G-Suite • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:19 PM • twitter.com/keropillay • Hacker News
34
Little Sound Dj • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:18 PM • littlesounddj.com • Lobsters
12
Second stage interview advice • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:18 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
675
A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019) • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:16 PM • longnow.org • Hacker News
10
Ask HN: Should you combine your personal website and blog or keep them separate? • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:12 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
16
Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:08 PM • htmx.org • Lobsters
23
Where I'm at with AI • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM • paulosman.me • Lobsters
101
Show HN: Fence – Sandbox CLI commands with network/filesystem restrictions • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:05 PM • github.com/Use-Tusk • Hacker News
8P
AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM • pluralistic.net • Hacker News
4
I built a simple site to track credit card + bank bonuses and would love feedback • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:03 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
178
Electricity use of AI coding agents • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:02 PM • simonpcouch.com • Hacker News
149P
Reliable Signals of Honest Intent • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM • zanlib.dev • Lobsters
14
The hidden engineering of runways • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:56 PM • youtube.com • ~engineering
237P
'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
36
Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller? • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:33 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
7P
Shingles vaccine linked to slower biological aging in older adults • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM • medicalxpress.com • Hacker News
89
Model Market Fit • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:24 PM • nicolasbustamante.com • Hacker News
381
Internet Archive's Storage • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM • blog.dshr.org • Hacker News
340
Women tend to downplay their gender in workplaces with masculinity contest cultures. Study suggests that when organizational norms glorify masculine traits, women tend to feel that their social identity is less valued. As a coping mechanism, they may hide or downplay their gender to fit in. • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:14 PM • psypost.org • r/science
7
Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:09 PM • solidean.com • Lobsters
548P
'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
10
Short AIM-style interviews with technologists who helped create the internet • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:07 PM • aiminterviews.com • Hacker News
211
Consuming an unprocessed diet reduces energy intake: a post-hoc analysis of an randomized controlled trial reveals a role for human “nutritional intelligence” • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:05 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
475P
Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:02 PM • afterbabel.com • Hacker News
11P
Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:59 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
112
What are your favorite home remedies or comforts when you're sick? • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:53 AM • tildes.net • ~health
510
The hidden engineering of runways • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:52 AM • practical.engineering • Hacker News
336
The Unix Pipe Card Game • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM • punkx.org • Hacker News
59P
Europe Must Invest in Open Source AI or Cede To China, Schmidt Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:44 AM • bloomberg.com • Slashdot
11P
Canada's Military Has Modeled Hypothetical US Invasion • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:43 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
60
Ask HN: How do you keep system context from rotting over time? • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:40 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
1436
A simple blood test can help detect cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, pain or weight loss, thanks to a protein signature that could be linked to a cancer diagnosis • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:40 AM • news.ki.se • r/science
283
Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:38 AM • github.com/mastra-ai • Hacker News
110
The Startup Graveyard • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:31 AM • loot-drop.io • Hacker News
50
As Hitman 3 turns five years old, we surely have enough hindsight to declare it – this is one of the greatest of all time, right? • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM • eurogamer.net • ~games
90
Cloudflare zero-day: Accessing any host globally • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM • fearsoff.org • Hacker News
23
Cow astonishes scientists with rare use of tools • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:22 AM • bbc.com • ~science
54
Pharos: The Lighthouse at Alexandria • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:22 AM • penelope.uchicago.edu • Hacker News
274
I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM • modulovalue.com • Hacker News
24P
'AI' is a dick move, redux • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:09 AM • baldurbjarnason.com • Hacker News
12
The Electrum Archive is Prescription Medication • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM • valerialoves.com • Bear
53P
Ukraine To Share Wartime Combat Data With Allies To Help Train AI • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:05 AM • reuters.com • Slashdot
1459P
De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025) • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM • jpmorgan.com • Hacker News
8
The Successor to Research Unix Was Plan 9 from Bell Labs • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
819
Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:56 AM • entropicthoughts.com • Hacker News
12
Ask HN: Clipboard overflows causing system crashes in macOS Tahoe 26.3 beta 2? • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:45 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
64
Claude Code is the ChatGPT moment repeated and awful news for software stocks • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:44 AM • sherwood.news • Hacker News
10
Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation (2022) • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:43 AM • ianthehenry.com • Lobsters
62
Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:41 AM • theverge.com • ~tech
39
Rust's standard library on the GPU • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:39 AM • vectorware.com • Lobsters
241
Researchers who use AI tools in their science publish more papers and advance more quickly in their careers, but AI-heavy research clusters around the same data-rich problems, narrowing the scope of science as a whole • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:37 AM • spectrum.ieee.org • r/science
67P
It's Sundowning in America • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM • paulkrugman.substack.com • Hacker News
56P
Energy Costs Will Decide Which Countries Win the AI Race, Microsoft's Nadella Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM • cnbc.com • Slashdot
14P
Norway's approach to getting kids reading has much to teach us this year – from government support, to innovation with libraries themselves • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM • thebookseller.com • ~books
14
Will AI Pet My Dog for Me • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:26 AM • eieio.games • Hacker News
118
Accidentally making $1000 for finding Security Bugs as a Backend Developer • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:23 AM • not-afraid.medium.com • r/programming
74
Dockerhub for Skill.md • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:19 AM • skillregistry.io • Hacker News
12
wanting to be a kid again • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:18 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
9
Venus v5 released: Modern OO standard library (and more) for Perl 5 • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:14 AM • reddit.com • Lobsters
35
Type-safe eval in Grace • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:12 AM • haskellforall.com • Lobsters
1548P
Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:11 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
74
What small thing made a big impact on you? • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:10 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
78P
Martin Luther King was talking about a universal basic income before it was cool • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:10 AM • businessinsider.com • Hacker News
10
2025 NFL Post Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Playoffs, Week 2 • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM • tildes.net • ~sports.american_football
68
Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
19
Show HN: AxonFlow, governing LLM and agent workflows • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:03 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
20
Putting Rocks on the Moon • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM • ahwoo.com • Hacker News
394
Is DJANGO still a good choice in 2026 for modern web apps? (real-world experience) • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:58 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
Ask HN: What are the recommender systems papers from 2024-2025? • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
44
Show HN: TopicRadar – Track trending topics across HN, GitHub, ArXiv, and more • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:47 AM • apify.com • Hacker News
6P
Tech titans lined up for Trump's second inauguration. Now they're even richer • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:47 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
21
Vibe coding is a hobby. Let me explain • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:41 AM • medium.com/@wob • Hacker News
101P
Amazon CEO Jassy Says Tariffs Have Started To 'Creep' Into Prices • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:40 AM • cnbc.com • Slashdot
10
Scheme implementation as O'Reilly book via Claude Code • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:39 AM • ezzeriesa.notion.site • Hacker News
7P
Tell HN: What's Happening in Minnesota • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:33 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
97
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM • hakibenita.com • r/programming
486
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:23 AM • hakibenita.com • Hacker News
237P
Europe could 'weaponize' $10T of US assets over Greenland • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:17 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
23
The Temporal Consistency Challenge in Video Restoration • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:07 AM • blog.videowatermarkremove.com • Hacker News
49
Sony Is Ceding Control of TV Hardware Business To China's TCL • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM • sony.co.jp • Slashdot
31
What freelance platforms are you using? • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
130
Kitty Cards: Create your own Apple Wallet cards (no sign-in) • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:53 AM • kitty.cards • r/webdev
242
Penguins May Be Adapting to a Rapidly Warming Climate, Study suggests several species of penguin have shifted their breeding seasons, allowing them to cope with a decade of rapid warming despite the potential costs of changing such a carefully scheduled event. • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:53 AM • sciencealert.com • r/science
334
IP Addresses Through 2025 • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:51 AM • potaroo.net • Hacker News
19
IP Addresses Through 2025 • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:38 AM • potaroo.net • Lobsters
168
The Zen of Reticulum • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:34 AM • github.com/markqvist • Hacker News
39P
Trump Shares Map of US Including Greenland, Canada, Venezuela • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM • newsweek.com • Hacker News
66
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:24 AM • hakibenita.com • Lobsters
238
LLMs look great on benchmarks, then fall apart on real code, why do we keep pretending otherwise? • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:21 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
208
Snow Simulation Toy • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:21 AM • potch.me • Hacker News
9
Australian Decacorns • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:19 AM • sohum.com • Hacker News
17P
Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:16 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
11
Par Language Update: Crazy `if`, implicit generics, and a new runtime • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM • github.com/faiface • r/programming
134
Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:10 AM • github.com/majcheradam • Hacker News
10
Stop separating learning from building • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:04 AM • blog.42futures.com • r/programming
59
'Just Because Linus Torvalds Vibe Codes Doesn't Mean It's a Good Idea' • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM • theregister.com • Slashdot
97
Why ALTER TABLE is such a problem for SQLite • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:48 AM • sqlite.org • Lobsters
7P
Corporate media is missing the moment. We need independent news • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:46 AM • usatoday.com • Hacker News
912
Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
2706P
‘Meat tax’ could have significant impact on environmental footprint, study finds. Ending tax breaks on meat could rapidly lower the environmental footprint of food in the EU, reducing emissions and biodiversity loss by up to 6% at a cost of about €26 per household per year, researchers report. • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • nature.com • r/science
24
Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed? • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:42 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
11
Show HN: I was burnt out, failing so I built AI that give shit about me • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:40 AM • zropi.com • Hacker News
15
Min första elbil och frustrationen över en alldeles för stel app • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:40 AM • melange.bearblog.dev • Bear
68
Publishing on the ATmosphere • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:33 AM • tynanistyping.offprint.app • Hacker News
43
Hackable personal news reader in bash pipes • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:30 AM • github.com/haron • Hacker News
601
When employees feel slighted, they work less • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:28 AM • penntoday.upenn.edu • Hacker News
42P
The problem is culture • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM • deadsimpletech.com • Lobsters
32
My week with opencode • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM • deadsimpletech.com • Lobsters
89
The Only Two Markup Languages • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:11 AM • gingerbill.org • r/programming
29
Ask HN: What non-fiction do you read? • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:04 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
597
Running Claude Code dangerously (safely) • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:58 AM • blog.emilburzo.com • Hacker News
4
0-RTT Replay: The High-Speed Flaw in HTTP/3 That Bypasses Idempotency • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:49 AM • instatunnel.my • r/programming
140
Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:38 AM • blog.tansu.io • Hacker News
21
What is the real impact of ai referrals on website traffic? • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:27 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
15410
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows. Brown Swiss cow in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways (using both ends of a brush counts as multi-purpose tool use) – something extraordinarily rare only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees. • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:23 AM • theguardian.com • r/science
36
The Jule Programming Language • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:23 AM • jule.dev • Lobsters
16
I’m working on a small writing interface with a strict short text limit (144 chars) • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:18 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
198
Guix for Development • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:15 AM • dthompson.us • Hacker News
85
The lost art of XML • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:12 AM • marcosmagueta.com • Lobsters
105
IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999) • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:06 AM • rfc-editor.org • Hacker News
6065P
Shingles vaccine linked to slower biological aging in older adults: Along with protecting against the painful illness, shingles vaccination correlates with lower inflammation, slower epigenetic and transcriptomic aging, and slower overall biological aging in Americans age 70 and older. • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:05 AM • gero.usc.edu • r/science
7P
Confronted over Greenland Europe is ditching its softly-softly approach to Trump • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:00 AM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
115
A static site generator written in POSIX shell • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:56 AM • aashvik.com • Hacker News
22P
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:55 AM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
896
I'm addicted to being useful • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:47 AM • seangoedecke.com • Hacker News
17
Sony's TV business is being taken over by Tcl • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:42 AM • theverge.com • Hacker News
111P
UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:35 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
21
When grammar allows speakers a choice—such as alternative placements of negation—variation is not random: the study reports education as a recurring predictor, while sex/gender shows weak effects and age patterns remain inconsistent, a pattern seen across many languages. • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:34 AM • doi.org • r/science
15
Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8B chip plant purchase • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:31 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
120
String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy? • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:30 AM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
41
Why do so many websites look good but fail to convert? • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:22 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
28P
The Tech Billionaires Behind Trump's Greenland Push • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:08 AM • znetwork.org • Hacker News
143
KISS Launcher – fast launcher for Android • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:02 AM • kisslauncher.com • Hacker News
47
A static site generator written in POSIX shell • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:54 AM • aashvik.com • Lobsters
23
All In – a small tool to check real buyin after decisions • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:45 AM • cognu.app • Hacker News
16P
UK ministers launch consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:41 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
44
Optimizing GPU Programs from Java Using Babylon and Hat • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:41 AM • openjdk.org • Hacker News
30
Workspaces and Monorepos in Package Managers • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:33 AM • nesbitt.io • Hacker News
11
Austrian cow shows first case of flexible, multi-purpose tool use in cattle • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:26 AM • phys.org • Hacker News
306P
Decades of suffering: Long-term mental health outcomes of Kurdish chemical gas attacks. Research shows how trauma doesn’t simply fade with time. It evolves. It embeds itself in the body as headaches and back pain, manifests as panic when something triggers a memory • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:26 AM • frontiersin.org • r/science
849
A hacker is making a list of vibecoded apps, 198 scanned 196 with vulnerabilities • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:09 AM • firehound.covertlabs.io • r/programming
163
Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:08 AM • bloomberg.github.io • Hacker News
19
Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast (Floating Point Formatting, Part 3) • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:04 AM • research.swtch.com • r/programming
96
Optimizing PHP code to process 50,000 lines per second instead of 30 • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:03 AM • stitcher.io • r/webdev
178P
Scientific Reports study finds conspiracy beliefs are linked to perceptions of unfairness in social systems • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:00 AM • doi.org • r/science
53
Scientists have developed a method to "tune" catalysts remotely, enabling ultra-thin platinum layers to be precisely controlled by altering only the core's composition and structure. This breakthrough paves the way for highly efficient catalytic systems with drastically reduced platinum content. • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:46 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
32
AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms (2025) • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:44 AM • blog.robbowley.net • Lobsters
4
Building Faster Data Pipelines in Python with Apache Arrow • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:37 AM • python.plainenglish.io • r/programming
56
6 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:34 AM • mux.com • Hacker News
166
Things that work (for me) • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM • herman.bearblog.dev • Bear
30
QMD - Quick Markdown Search • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:29 AM • github.com/tobi • Hacker News
273
Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM • iqair.com • Hacker News
101P
America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:05 AM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
270
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:01 AM • ploum.net • Lobsters
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不会编程的人能靠 AI 独立开发应用吗？ • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM • blog.solazy.me • Bear
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Show HN: LangGraph architecture that scales (hexagonal pattern, 110 tests) • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:56 AM • github.com/cleverhoods • Hacker News
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The First Triple Radio Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ongoing Galaxy Merger • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:51 AM • iopscience.iop.org • r/science
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Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:51 AM • github.com/cakehonolulu • Hacker News
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Apple's "Protect Mail Activity" Doesn't Work • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:48 AM • grepular.com • Lobsters
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Ask HN: How to introduce Claude Code to a team? • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:44 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:35 AM • paulmakeswebsites.com • Hacker News
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Giving university exams in the age of chatbots • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:32 AM • ploum.net • Hacker News
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Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:31 AM • lwn.net • Lobsters
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Lapce: A Rust-Based Native Code Editor Lighter Than VSCode and Zed • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:20 AM • levelup.gitconnected.com • r/programming
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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:04 AM • androidauthority.com • Hacker News
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You Didn't Vote for Him, but You Helped Him Win • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:01 AM • eurodivergent.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens' • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:00 AM • msn.com • yro.slashdot
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Trump threatens tariffs on French wines to get Macron to join Board of Peace • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:29 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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AI Californication • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:26 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Scientists spends 20 years studying Japanese tits • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:20 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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KAOS – The Kubernetes Agent Orchestration System • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:19 AM • github.com/axsaucedo • Hacker News
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Open source's new mission: Rebuild the EU tech stack • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:14 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
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The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:10 AM • atlasobscura.com • Hacker News
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Some C habits I employ for the modern day • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:01 AM • unix.dog • Hacker News
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rediscovering the joy in deliberate communication • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:53 AM • midnight.bearblog.dev • Bear
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A Canadian's Call to Arms, Being Pissed Off at the State of Computing • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:39 AM • aaron.vegh.ca • Hacker News
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The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting (2021) • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:27 AM • knowingless.com • Hacker News
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C++26 Reflection loves QRangeModel • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:19 AM • qt.io • Hacker News
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X For You Feed Algorithm • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:16 AM • github.com/xai-org • Hacker News
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Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf] • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:10 AM • med.unc.edu • Hacker News
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Chrome does not save anything into the logs - why? • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:10 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Chatbot Psychosis • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:08 AM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
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3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:08 AM • ntietz.com • Lobsters
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Stevey's Birthday Blog • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:06 AM • steve-yegge.medium.com • Hacker News
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january 19 mlk • Jan 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM • combatdavey.net • Bear
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Selecting a forum software (Discourse, xenforo) • Jan 19, 2026 at 11:35 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Japan's 40-year bond yield hits 4% record on fiscal jitters • Jan 19, 2026 at 11:29 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
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RCS for Business • Jan 19, 2026 at 11:14 PM • developers.google.com • Hacker News
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Some tattoo inks sold in Australia contain toxic metals and carcinogenic compounds at levels that would be illegal in the European Union, revealing a gap in regulations • Jan 19, 2026 at 11:09 PM • unsw.edu.au • r/science
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What came first: the CNAME or the A record? • Jan 19, 2026 at 11:08 PM • blog.cloudflare.com • Lobsters
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Discussion: GitHub Copilot litigation highlights structural conflict of interest in code hosting & training — proposal for neutrality charter • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:54 PM • saverilawfirm.com • r/programming
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thoughts on digital hoarding • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:53 PM • blahg.online • Bear
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Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:52 PM • github.com/velox-apps • Hacker News
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x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:47 PM • soc.me • Hacker News
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I decided to make a worse UUID for the pettiest of reasons. • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:33 PM • gitpush--force.com • r/programming
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The Fastest Human Spaceflight Mission In History Crawls Closer To Liftoff • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:30 PM • arstechnica.com • science.slashdot
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Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:28 PM • anaghmalik.com • Hacker News
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F-16 Falcon Strike • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:26 PM • webchrono.pl • Hacker News
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How long should a custom Shopify theme take? • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:22 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:14 PM • da.nmcardle.com • Hacker News
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LLMs and your career • Jan 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM • notes.eatonphil.com • Lobsters
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Hackers disrupt Iran state TV to support exiled crown prince • Jan 19, 2026 at 9:37 PM • politico.com • Hacker News
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The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old • Jan 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM • sciencealert.com • science.slashdot
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DeepSeek kicked off 2026 with a new AI training method for scaling • Jan 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM • businessinsider.com • Hacker News
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Firefox extension's background script not running • Jan 19, 2026 at 9:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Go 1.26 Interactive Tour • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:58 PM • antonz.org • Hacker News
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Germany's EV Subsidies Will Include Chinese Brands • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:50 PM • cnevpost.com • Slashdot
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Legal Structures for Latin American Startups (2021) • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM • latamlist.com • Hacker News
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Gene therapy advances as scientists guide jumping DNA to target faulty genes • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:09 PM • medicalxpress.com • Hacker News
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Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM • lemdro.id • Hacker News
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Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM • newsroom.porsche.com • Hacker News
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Starting big react project with tanstack-start (SSR via CF) & shadcn. What other important react libraries i shouldn’t miss out on in 2026? • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025) • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:55 PM • harvardmagazine.com • Hacker News
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A rapid rise in atmospheric CO₂ 56 million years ago led to widespread forest loss, increased wildfires, and major soil erosion within a few centuries, based on high-resolution marine sediment records, showing how quickly land ecosystems can destabilize under abrupt global warming. • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:51 PM • sciencesources.eurekalert.org • r/science
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OpenAI CFO Says Annualized Revenue Crosses $20 Billion In 2025 • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:50 PM • devices.slashdot.org • devices.slashdot
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Uber Pushes to Cap Personal Injury “Billboard” Lawyer Payouts A.G. 25-0022 [pdf] • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:39 PM • oag.ca.gov • Hacker News
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SearchGuard: How Google detects bots and what the SerpAPI lawsuit reveals • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:36 PM • searchengineland.com • Hacker News
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Bank of England 'must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens' • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:25 PM • msn.com • Hacker News
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Prediction: Within 15 years Microsoft will discontinue Windows in favor of a Windows themed Linux distribution • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM • gamesbymason.com • Lobsters
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Scaling long-running autonomous coding • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM • simonwillison.net • Hacker News
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AI is a horse (2024) • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:20 PM • kconner.com • Hacker News
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like death warmed over • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:20 PM • vespertine.bearblog.dev • Bear
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like death warmed over • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:20 PM • vespertine.bearblog.dev • Bear
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We've Turned Off AI‑Assisted Answers • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:10 PM • noai.duckduckgo.com • Hacker News
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Why Walmart still doesn't support Apple Pay • Jan 19, 2026 at 7:03 PM • 9to5mac.com • Hacker News
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Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM • github.com/markqvist • Hacker News
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Ask HN: How worried should I be about running LLM code on my machine? • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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I learned jQuery before JavaScript, and I’d do it again • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:54 PM • medium.com/@jpcaparas • r/webdev
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Recreate HP card from D&D BEYOND • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:46 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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American Closed Source vs. Chinese Open Source: A False Dichotomy • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:46 PM • senteguard.com • Hacker News
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3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:39 PM • ntietz.com • Hacker News
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The difference between work vs. building on a own project. No wonder work can burn developers out. • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Trying to emulate the look and feel of an early 2000's barebones blog for a movie • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools • Jan 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM • cassidoo.co • Hacker News
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The average 50-something American is now worth $1.4M • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM • usatoday.com • Hacker News
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The US is buying icebreakers from Finland • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
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What Have Unions Done for Us? • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:22 PM • whathaveunionsdoneforus.uk • Hacker News
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Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To Big Tech • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:22 PM • yro.slashdot.org • yro.slashdot
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Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM • research.swtch.com • Hacker News
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Trying to solve a Category and Tag problem. Use unlimited tags? This is a download website with 10k+ items, that will grow fast. • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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GoQuery Error: "open stack of elements exceeds 512 nodes" while parsing an image page • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:14 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Theme reset? • Jan 19, 2026 at 5:13 PM • tildes.net • ~tildes
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Show HN: Txt2plotter – True centerline vectors from Flux.2 for pen plotters • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:57 PM • github.com/malvarezcastillo • Hacker News
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Xenia, the transfemme foxgirl mascot that Linux could have gotten • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:57 PM • kami.bearblog.dev • Bear
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What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong? • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM • newscientist.com • Hacker News
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Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM • github.com/jordanhubbard • Hacker News
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Use social media mindfully • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM • danielleheberling.xyz • Hacker News
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Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:35 PM • seanmuirhead.com • Hacker News
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Nanotimetamps: Time-Stamped Data on Nano Block Lattice • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM • github.com/SerJaimeLannister • Hacker News
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Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM • twitter.com/cryps1s • Hacker News
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Rackspace Customers Grapple With 'Devastating' Email Hosting Price Hike • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:30 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
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Study: Cannabis Provides Sustained Relief for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:29 PM • norml.org • r/science
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The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:25 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
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Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM • research.swtch.com • Lobsters
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Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not? • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:19 PM • denmarkification.com • Hacker News
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Animation libraries that I should learn • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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S4 (Severe) Solar Radiation Storm in Progress • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:12 PM • swpc.noaa.gov • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Why is opening a new window in OS26 Safari so slow this week? • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Personal infrastructure setup 2026 • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM • linderud.dev • Lobsters
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Read the Texts Between Trump and Norway's Prime Minister About Greenland • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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The Unexpected Logic of Art Economics: Arts and Inequality in 80s NY (2020) • Jan 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM • gothamcenter.org • Hacker News
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Past research shows people with lower levels of education are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. But with narcissists, education is no longer protective. Highly educated people who had narcissistic traits were more accepting of conspiracy theories and misinformation. • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM • theconversation.com • r/science
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Show HN: Lite Bible – A fast, minimalist Bible reader • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM • litebible.org • Hacker News
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf] • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM • cia.gov • Hacker News
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The community voted to turn this website into GeoCities 1999. Before and after. • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Joe Armstrong and Jeremy Ruston – Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang [video] • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM • wsj.com • Slashdot
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Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech? • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: GitClassic.com, GitHub circa 2015 without JS & AI • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM • gitclassic.com • Hacker News
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Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months of the Elixir programming language • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM • elixir-lang.org • ~comp
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Our collective obsession with boredom: Interview with a boredom lab researcher • Jan 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM • nautil.us • Hacker News