4
Before & After Stream • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:36 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
9
Unsealed: Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:34 AM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
1884
Doing a mix of exercise could be the key to longer life: active people who did the greatest variety of exercise were 19% less likely to die during that time than those who focused on one activity. That effect was greater than for individual sports like walking, tennis, rowing and jogging. • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:28 AM • bbc.com • r/science
320
What’s the point of AI if software quality keeps getting worse? • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:26 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
146P
FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:11 AM • more-magic.net • Lobsters
434
Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time (2024) • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:11 AM • github.com/vitoplantamura • Hacker News
17
maintaining backward compatibility for 4 year old api clients is effed up • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:58 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
15
Ask HN: Why don't tech companies provide housing? • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:58 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
15
The Art of Craftsmanship (Monozukuri) in the Age of AI • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:54 AM • rapha.land • Lobsters
30
I built a new type of erasure code using Bloom filters • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:50 AM • lumramabaja.com • r/programming
37
Nested Code Fences in Markdown • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:47 AM • susam.net • Lobsters
163P
Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:44 AM • nukeproof.org • Hacker News
534P
The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025) • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:36 AM • thefabricator.com • Hacker News
12
Nvidia: Natural Conversational AI with Any Role and Voice • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:34 AM • research.nvidia.com • Hacker News
10P
Australia Passes New Hate Speech Law, Raising Free Speech Fears • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:25 AM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
193P
Parliament tells Dutch government to keep DigiD data out of American hands • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:06 AM • nltimes.nl • Hacker News
699
Community water fluoridation not linked to lower birth weight, a widely accepted indicator of infant health and predictor of later-life outcomes, large US study finds (11 million births over 21 years). The findings provide reassurance about the safety of fluoridated drinking water during pregnancy. • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:05 AM • publichealth.columbia.edu • r/science
94P
EU inc: a new European company structure • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:02 AM • ec.europa.eu • Hacker News
1479P
EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:49 AM • eu-inc.org • Hacker News
6
Building a Multi-Tenant Metrics Pipeline for Thousands of Clients (with Thanos) • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:47 AM • jamesrobb.ca • r/programming
64P
Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:39 AM • steanlab.medium.com • Hacker News
142P
EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant' • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:32 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
9P
For Russia, Greenland offers an 'ideal solution' to its Ukraine problemX • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:06 AM • politico.eu • Hacker News
28
Snap Settles Social media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of Landmark Trial • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM • bbc.com • yro.slashdot
21
RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:53 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
199
New research reveals that complex building blocks of life form spontaneously in space • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:52 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
204
I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:51 AM • atempleton.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
408
SETI@home is in hiberation • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:49 AM • setiathome.berkeley.edu • Hacker News
17
Full Stack Developer Challange • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
33P
Leave X – Protect Democracy • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:41 AM • leavex.eu • Hacker News
8
KRAZAM - Rare Data Hunters [video] • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:34 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
111
Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:09 AM • pcgamer.com • Hacker News
20
Building a Blog in Gleam • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:07 AM • gearsco.de • Lobsters
41
I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:04 AM • hugues.betakappaphi.com • Hacker News
137
A simulation where life unfolds in real time • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:01 AM • soupof.life • Hacker News
409
CBD-Rich Cannabis Extracts Reduce ADHD Symptoms in Children With Autism • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:54 AM • norml.org • r/science
18
Real programming vs. interviews: A dyslexic perspective • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:50 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
5P
Mark Carney's Full Speech at the World Economic Forum • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:45 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
6
Crates.io: Development Update • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:04 AM • blog.rust-lang.org • Hacker News
7
Faster horses, not trains • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:00 AM • blog.robbowley.net • Lobsters
602
Can you slim macOS down? • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:48 AM • eclecticlight.co • Hacker News
241P
EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:32 AM • lemonde.fr • Hacker News
13
Show HN: Hyve – Parallel isolated workspaces for coding agents, multi-repo dev • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:31 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
390
The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:09 AM • snubi.net • Hacker News
45P
Researchers discovered that Vaccinia virus mRNAs often lack the standard 5' cap, instead using long 5'-poly(A) leaders to hijack cellular machinery and maintain viral protein synthesis. • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:00 AM • nature.com • r/science
347
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:48 AM • nibzard.com • Hacker News
15
Amthropic CEO claims we are 1yr away where AI can do everything SWEs • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:20 AM • twitter.com/i • Hacker News
683
cURL removes bug bounties • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:07 AM • etn.se • Hacker News
28
88x31 badge for gen-AI free, 100% human-made works • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:58 AM • aspiz.uk • Hacker News
8
Show HN: Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:08 AM • github.com/simondorfman • Hacker News
30
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49
Germany Forces Lexus to Remotely Kill Car Heating in Dead of Winter • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:46 PM • gadgetreview.com • Hacker News
10P
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney's Full Speech at Davos • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:32 PM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
170
Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:27 PM • github.com/ef1500 • Hacker News
85
OpenFlexure Microscope • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:16 PM • openflexure.org • Hacker News
6
I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:11 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
11P
Shingles vaccine may help keep older people biologically younger • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:40 PM • thetimes.com • Hacker News
268
Disaster planning for regular folks (2015) • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:38 PM • lcamtuf.coredump.cx • Hacker News
10P
DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:36 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
112P
Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here, UN Report Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM • theguardian.com • Slashdot
14
Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot' • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:19 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
13
I Burned $160k Trying to Solve "Online Tailoring" • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM • indiehackers.com • Hacker News
1216
Engineers set world efficiency record for emerging solar cell material, antimony chalcogenide, achieving an efficiency of 10.7%, the highest independently verified performance to date • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:09 PM • unsw.edu.au • r/science
12
I Turned Into the Odd into a Story Game • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:08 PM • dungeonmecha.bearblog.dev • Bear
80
I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:58 PM • reddit.com • Lobsters
978
Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM • github.com/anthropics • Hacker News
313
RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:36 PM • rss.social • Hacker News
48P
Carney says old world order 'is not coming back' • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:34 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
105
Blade Runner Costume Design (2020) • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:34 PM • costumedesignarchive.blogspot.com • Hacker News
106P
US Democrats successfully strip all anti-trans riders from final appropriations bills • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:29 PM • erininthemorning.com • ~lgbt
12P
How long do you think? I give it 3 years • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
"AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings" • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
48
High-bandwidth flash progress and future • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM • blocksandfiles.com • Hacker News
8
Rust's Standard Library on the GPU • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:15 PM • vectorware.com • Hacker News
22
Your Brain Might Not Be Full of Microplastics After All • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM • insidehook.com • Hacker News
6
Ask HN: Do you protect your client-side JavaScript? Why or why not? • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
35P
Tips on getting an op-ed published? • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM • tildes.net • ~life
39
cURL Removes Bug Bounties • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM • etn.se • Slashdot
32
This is a quiet reason a lot of software projects fail • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:57 PM • affiliate.notion.so • r/programming
40P
US science after a year of Trump. A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce. • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:48 PM • nature.com • r/science
220
Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:37 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
277
A new pilot study suggests MDMA-assisted therapy may offer durable relief for major depressive disorder, with many patients maintaining reduced symptoms and improved daily functioning months after treatment in a controlled hospital setting, while underscoring the need for larger controlled trial. • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:16 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
70P
Full Transcript of Carney's Speech to World Economic Forum • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM • globalnews.ca • Hacker News
23
Why not tail recursion? • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:09 PM • futhark-lang.org • Lobsters
2067
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
50
Building a javascript runtime in one month • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM • s.tail.so • Lobsters
6P
US science after a year of Trump • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:52 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
26
Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns AI boom could falter without wider adoption • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:49 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
295
A Lament for Aperture • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:35 PM • ikennd.ac • Hacker News
6
Show HN: Generative UIs for the Web (Experimental) • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM • github.com/puffinsoft • Hacker News
65
Who owns Rudolph's nose? • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:21 PM • creativelawcenter.com • Hacker News
12
Windows 11 had 20 major update problems in 2025 and and 2026 started badly too • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:19 PM • windowslatest.com • Hacker News
31P
Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
55
Ask HN: Is Linux Safe to Daily drive in 2026? • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:11 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
11
Designing Forms That Don't Get in the Way • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:11 PM • souravinsights.com • Hacker News
6
Rzweb: A complete browser-based reverse engineering platform • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:08 PM • github.com/IndAlok • Hacker News
48
Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:05 PM • scratchtrackaudio.com • Hacker News
60
HHS Announces New Study of Cellphone Radiation and Health • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:02 PM • usnews.com • science.slashdot
13P
digital is not real • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM • reesamarris.bearblog.dev • Bear
5P
Pentagon moves to cut U.S. participation in some NATO groups • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:57 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
50
Ask HN: Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution? • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:52 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
33
Show HN: I figured out how to get consistent UI from Claude Code • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM • interface-design.dev • Hacker News
4467
Microdosing Psilocybin: No Benefit in Cognitive, Affective, or Social Function in Healthy Individuals • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
13
Ask HN: What have you built/shipped with Claude Code? • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:38 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
31P
Penn Calls Government's Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff 'Disconcerting' • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:37 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
9
Hacker Lists Vibecoded Apps: 198 Scanned, 196 Found Vulnerable • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:28 PM • firehound.covertlabs.io • Hacker News
333
Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM • github.com/davidbeesley • Hacker News
24P
UK Mulls Australia-Like Social Media Ban For Users Under 16 • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM • engadget.com • Slashdot
25
When buttons were the hottest new thing in radio • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM • paleofuture.com • ~tech
1458
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
5P
Amnesty urges halt to execution of 19-year-old Iranian protester • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM • iranintl.com • Hacker News
8
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
71P
DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
173
Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix) • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM • xmrcat.org • Hacker News
12
Show HN: Parallel Agentic Search on the Twitter Algorithm • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:42 PM • morphllm.com • Hacker News
53
Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:40 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
706
California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM • latimes.com • Hacker News
38P
US Medicaid will only pay for costly new sickle cell treatment if it works • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM • npr.org • ~health
73
Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
5
Solving the Pendulum Problem • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM • ethansteere.net • Hacker News
36
Driver killed and several injured after second train derails near Barcelona • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:27 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
8
RyanAir Launches "Big Idiot Seat Sale" for Elon Musk • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:27 PM • liveandletsfly.com • Hacker News
51
Provably unmasking malicious behavior through execution traces • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
29P
Refinement Without Specification • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM • buttondown.com • Hacker News
8P
EU Parliament freezes US trade deal after Trump's tariff threats over Greenland • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:17 PM • lemonde.fr • Hacker News
70
Wind Chime Length Calculator (2022) • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:17 PM • snyderfamily.com • Hacker News
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
24
Meta's Oversight Board Takes Up Permanent Bans In Landmark Case • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM • techcrunch.com • Slashdot
35
Ask HN: Did past "bubbles" have so many people claiming we were in a bubble? • Jan 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8P
Bessent tells banks deregulation makes up for 10% rate cap • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:59 PM • americanbanker.com • Hacker News
270
Text Is King • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:57 PM • experimental-history.com • Hacker News
35
🐻 Hello Bear Blog • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:51 PM • jamesbaker.uk • Bear
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
5P
Renault to team up with French defence group to make drones for Ukraine • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:26 PM • defensenews.com • Hacker News
177
Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM • skills.sh • Hacker News
42
56% of Companies Have Seen Zero Financial Return From AI Investments, PwC Survey Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
121
Typography on Pencils (2023) • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:18 PM • presentandcorrect.com • Hacker News
9
The end of OnePlus: Oppo rumored to retire smartphone brand due to less sales • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:15 PM • notebookcheck.net • Hacker News
50
Ask HN: Revive a mostly dead Discord server • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:05 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
21P
Citizen says ICE took him at gunpoint in underwear despite cold and no warrant • Jan 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
25973P
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
9
US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky had cocktail of drugs in system at death • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM • nypost.com • Hacker News
6
Crypto criminals stole $700M from people – often using age-old tricks • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:47 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
22
Show HN: On-device browser agent (Qwen) running locally in Chrome • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM • github.com/RunanywhereAI • Hacker News
15P
Amazon CEO says Trump tariffs are driving prices up • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:37 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
78
Nova Launcher: An update • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM • novalauncher.com • ~tech
46
GameSir Pocket Taco Kickstarter has been launched • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM • kickstarter.com • ~games
19
Article on the History of Spot Instances: Analyzing Spot Instance Pricing Change • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:32 PM • spot.rackspace.com • Hacker News
11
Designing a service with IndieAuth and email-based login • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM • jamesg.blog • Lobsters
20P
'It's Now Happening'–Urgent U.S. Dollar 'Collapse' Warning Issued • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:23 PM • forbes.com • Hacker News
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
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
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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
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Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:08 PM • htmx.org • Lobsters
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Show HN: Typing Tennis • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM • typingtennis.com • Hacker News
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Where I'm at with AI • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM • paulosman.me • Lobsters
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Show HN: Fence – Sandbox CLI commands with network/filesystem restrictions • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:05 PM • github.com/Use-Tusk • Hacker News
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AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM • pluralistic.net • Hacker News
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Electricity use of AI coding agents • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:02 PM • simonpcouch.com • Hacker News
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Crypto News Outlet Cointelegraph Loses 80% of Traffic After Google Penalty For Parasitic Blackhat SEO Deal • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:02 PM • acjr.substack.com • Slashdot
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Reliable Signals of Honest Intent • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM • zanlib.dev • Lobsters
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The hidden engineering of runways • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:56 PM • youtube.com • ~engineering
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'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller? • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:33 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:09 PM • solidean.com • Lobsters
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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
10
Short AIM-style interviews with technologists who helped create the internet • Jan 20, 2026 at 12:07 PM • aiminterviews.com • Hacker News
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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
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Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:59 AM • bloomberg.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
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Canada's Military Has Modeled Hypothetical US Invasion • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:43 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
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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
10
Treating anxiety as a bug in legacy code (engineering approach) • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:29 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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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
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'AI' is a dick move, redux • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:09 AM • baldurbjarnason.com • Hacker News
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The Electrum Archive is Prescription Medication • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM • valerialoves.com • Bear
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Ukraine To Share Wartime Combat Data With Allies To Help Train AI • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:05 AM • reuters.com • Slashdot
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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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The Successor to Research Unix Was Plan 9 from Bell Labs • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM • theregister.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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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
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Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:41 AM • theverge.com • ~tech
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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
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First commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:31 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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It's Sundowning in America • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM • paulkrugman.substack.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:11 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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What small thing made a big impact on you? • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:10 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
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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
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Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: AxonFlow, governing LLM and agent workflows • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:03 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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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
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Ask HN: What are the recommender systems papers from 2024-2025? • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: TopicRadar – Track trending topics across HN, GitHub, ArXiv, and more • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:47 AM • apify.com • Hacker News
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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
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Vibe coding is a hobby. Let me explain • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:41 AM • medium.com/@wob • Hacker News
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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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Scheme implementation as O'Reilly book via Claude Code • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:39 AM • ezzeriesa.notion.site • Hacker News
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Tell HN: What's Happening in Minnesota • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:33 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM • hakibenita.com • r/programming
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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
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The Temporal Consistency Challenge in Video Restoration • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:07 AM • blog.videowatermarkremove.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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Trump Shares Map of US Including Greenland, Canada, Venezuela • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM • newsweek.com • Hacker News
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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
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Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:16 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Par Language Update: Crazy `if`, implicit generics, and a new runtime • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM • github.com/faiface • r/programming
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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
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'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
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Corporate media is missing the moment. We need independent news • Jan 20, 2026 at 7:46 AM • usatoday.com • Hacker News
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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