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Based on more than 200,000 births in Southern California between 2006 and 2014, a new study suggests that exposure to wildfire smoke during the third trimester of pregnancy is associated with a higher likelihood of an autism diagnosis in children by age five. • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM • pubs.acs.org • r/science
563
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM • lalitm.com • r/programming
295
A Lament for Aperture • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:35 PM • ikennd.ac • Hacker News
60
HHS Announces New Study of Cellphone Radiation and Health • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:02 PM • usnews.com • science.slashdot
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Microdosing Psilocybin: No Benefit in Cognitive, Affective, or Social Function in Healthy Individuals • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
333
Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM • github.com/davidbeesley • Hacker News
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Reduced blood flow to the brain is thought to be a key factor in many forms of dementia. Scientists have now identified a fat molecule that regulates this flow in mice. • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM • sciencealert.com • r/science
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I hotreload Rust and so can you • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:55 PM • kampffrosch94.github.io • ~comp
30
Open Source Game Clones: A list of open-source or source-available remakes of old games • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM • osgameclones.com • ~games
173
Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix) • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM • xmrcat.org • Hacker News
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California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM • latimes.com • Hacker News
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US Medicaid will only pay for costly new sickle cell treatment if it works • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM • npr.org • ~health
286
What are things that you see and make you say “this guy is a senior” • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
268
Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM • so-long-sucker.vercel.app • Hacker News
270
Text Is King • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:57 PM • experimental-history.com • Hacker News
405
The challenges of soft delete • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM • atlas9.dev • Hacker News
229
The world of Japanese snack bars • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
177
Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM • skills.sh • Hacker News
121
Typography on Pencils (2023) • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:18 PM • presentandcorrect.com • Hacker News
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By stoking the Greenland debate, the US may actually be harming itself. By purchasing Greenland or taking it over via illegal military means, the US would actively harm its own national security, the security of NATO and the overall security of the international, democratic, rules-based order. • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM • uni-konstanz.de • r/science
67
I Made Zig Compute 33 Million Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required. • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM • atempleton.bearblog.dev • Bear
78
Nova Launcher: An update • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM • novalauncher.com • ~tech
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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
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
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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM • politico.com • Hacker News
159
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
419
Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM • novalauncher.com • 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
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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
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Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM • lpeproject.org • Hacker News
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Palantir CEO Says AI To Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM • mercurynews.com • Slashdot
196
Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there? • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM • news.ycombinator.com • 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
675
A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019) • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:16 PM • longnow.org • Hacker News
101
Show HN: Fence – Sandbox CLI commands with network/filesystem restrictions • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:05 PM • github.com/Use-Tusk • Hacker News
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
381
Internet Archive's Storage • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM • blog.dshr.org • Hacker News
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'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
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Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:02 PM • afterbabel.com • Hacker News
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
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Europe Must Invest in Open Source AI or Cede To China, Schmidt Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:44 AM • bloomberg.com • Slashdot
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
23
Cow astonishes scientists with rare use of tools • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:22 AM • bbc.com • ~science
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
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De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025) • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM • jpmorgan.com • Hacker News
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Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:56 AM • entropicthoughts.com • Hacker News
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Rust's standard library on the GPU • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:39 AM • vectorware.com • Lobsters
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
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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
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
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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
10
2025 NFL Post Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Playoffs, Week 2 • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM • tildes.net • ~sports.american_football
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
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Amazon CEO Jassy Says Tariffs Have Started To 'Creep' Into Prices • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:40 AM • cnbc.com • Slashdot
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Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:23 AM • hakibenita.com • Hacker News
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Europe could 'weaponize' $10T of US assets over Greenland • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:17 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
130
Kitty Cards: Create your own Apple Wallet cards (no sign-in) • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:53 AM • kitty.cards • r/webdev
334
IP Addresses Through 2025 • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:51 AM • potaroo.net • Hacker News
168
The Zen of Reticulum • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:34 AM • github.com/markqvist • 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
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
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
912
Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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‘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
601
When employees feel slighted, they work less • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:28 AM • penntoday.upenn.edu • Hacker News
597
Running Claude Code dangerously (safely) • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:58 AM • blog.emilburzo.com • Hacker News
140
Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:38 AM • blog.tansu.io • Hacker News
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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
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
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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
896
I'm addicted to being useful • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:47 AM • seangoedecke.com • Hacker News
143
KISS Launcher – fast launcher for Android • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:02 AM • kisslauncher.com • Hacker News
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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
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
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AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms (2025) • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:44 AM • blog.robbowley.net • Lobsters
166
Things that work (for me) • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM • herman.bearblog.dev • Bear
273
Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM • iqair.com • Hacker News
270
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:01 AM • ploum.net • Lobsters
318
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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The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:35 AM • paulmakeswebsites.com • Hacker News
455
Giving university exams in the age of chatbots • Jan 20, 2026 at 2:32 AM • ploum.net • Hacker News
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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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The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:10 AM • atlasobscura.com • Hacker News
183
X For You Feed Algorithm • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:16 AM • github.com/xai-org • Hacker News
243
Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:52 PM • github.com/velox-apps • Hacker News
148
x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:47 PM • soc.me • Hacker News
429
I decided to make a worse UUID for the pettiest of reasons. • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:33 PM • gitpush--force.com • r/programming
171
F-16 Falcon Strike • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:26 PM • webchrono.pl • Hacker News
112
Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser • Jan 19, 2026 at 10:14 PM • da.nmcardle.com • Hacker News
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Go 1.26 Interactive Tour • Jan 19, 2026 at 8:58 PM • antonz.org • Hacker News