398
JPEG XL Test Page • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:38 AM • tildeweb.nl • Hacker News
952
Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:14 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
1271P
Claude's new constitution • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:04 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
53
What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~comp
63
Lobsters Blog Carnival Announcement • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
731
Skip is now free and open source • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:20 AM • skip.dev • Hacker News
52
i'm avoiding the responsibility of my own life • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:19 AM • tala.bearblog.dev • Bear
320P
Two Catastrophic Failures Caused by "Obvious" Assumptions • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:56 AM • open.substack.com • r/programming
876
Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps) • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:54 AM • github.com/ChartGPU • Hacker News
42
Skip Is Now Free and Open Source • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:22 AM • skip.dev • Lobsters
62
Fun fact: running navigator.permissions.query({ name: 'local-network-access' }) in chrome <137 crashes the browser without possibility of try/catch • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:18 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
288
Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:12 AM • 404media.co • Hacker News
65
CEOs Say AI is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:01 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
121
So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations? • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:58 AM • blister.zip • Lobsters
330P
Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:52 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
215
Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:49 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
569P
How AI destroys institutions • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:42 AM • cyberlaw.stanford.edu • Hacker News
266P
Canada Announces Divorce from America • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:25 AM • charlotteclymer.substack.com • Hacker News
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Single adults who engage in casual sex report higher sexual satisfaction and a stronger sense of their own desirability compared to those who are sexually inactive. Findings challenge earlier assumptions that casual sexual encounters are linked to negative psychological outcomes for single people. • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:15 AM • psypost.org • r/science
383
Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:13 AM • di.se • Hacker News
397P
Just to clarify: they are not tools that will help us but that will replace us • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:08 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
342
Nested code fences in Markdown • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:08 AM • susam.net • Hacker News
86
Verizon Wastes No Time Switching Device Unlock Policy To 365 Days • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM • droid-life.com • Slashdot
259
Vibecoding #2 • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:46 AM • matklad.github.io • 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
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
193P
Parliament tells Dutch government to keep DigiD data out of American hands • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:06 AM • nltimes.nl • Hacker News
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
142P
EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant' • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:32 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
28
Snap Settles Social media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of Landmark Trial • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM • bbc.com • yro.slashdot
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
137
A simulation where life unfolds in real time • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:01 AM • soupof.life • Hacker News
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
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
347
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:48 AM • nibzard.com • Hacker News
683
cURL removes bug bounties • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:07 AM • etn.se • 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
268
Disaster planning for regular folks (2015) • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:38 PM • lcamtuf.coredump.cx • Hacker News
112P
Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here, UN Report Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM • theguardian.com • Slashdot
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
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
35P
Tips on getting an op-ed published? • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM • tildes.net • ~life
32
This is a quiet reason a lot of software projects fail • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:57 PM • affiliate.notion.so • r/programming
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
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
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
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
333
Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal • Jan 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM • github.com/davidbeesley • Hacker News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
78
Nova Launcher: An update • Jan 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM • novalauncher.com • ~tech
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
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
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
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
111P
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts • Jan 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM • lpeproject.org • Hacker News
183P
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
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
475P
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
59P
Europe Must Invest in Open Source AI or Cede To China, Schmidt Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:44 AM • bloomberg.com • Slashdot