152
I'll pass on your zoom call • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:34 PM • operand.online • Hacker News
584
Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:12 PM • jamf.com • Hacker News
197
Lix – universal version control system for binary files • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:55 PM • lix.dev • Hacker News
682
Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:22 PM • huggingface.co • Hacker News
244
Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM • github.com/freedomofpress • Hacker News
1194
Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:41 PM • media.mit.edu • Hacker News
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HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM • 404media.co • yro.slashdot
66
A global explosion of absurdly spicy foods • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM • bloomberg.com • ~food
112
Ozempic is Reshaping the Fast Food Industry • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM • philippdubach.com • science.slashdot
230
TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM • terabytedeals.com • Hacker News
690
eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM • valueaddedresource.net • Hacker News
333
Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
103
Half of World's CO2 Emissions Come From Just 32 Fossil Fuel Firms, Study Shows • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM • theguardian.com • Slashdot
95
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM • doi.org • Hacker News
20
Enjoying Sims 4 Again • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:23 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
278P
Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss | Davos 2026 • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM • theguardian.com • r/programming
153
ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM • turbopuffer.com • Hacker News
699
Generative AI Use and Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults: Daily use is associated with depression • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:36 PM • jamanetwork.com • r/science
1107
Bird retinas work without oxygen from blood vessels, instead they power themselves with a flood of glucose that feeds glycolysis • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM • newscientist.com • r/science
80P
The Gold Plating of American Water • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:22 PM • worksinprogress.co • Slashdot
162
Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work? • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
507
Linux from Scratch • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:44 PM • linuxfromscratch.org • Hacker News
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How North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5 million people • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:39 PM • npr.org • ~health
242
TeraWave Satellite Communications Network • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:31 PM • blueorigin.com • Hacker News
315
Show HN: Rails UI • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:31 PM • railsui.com • Hacker News
197
Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11 • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:29 PM • blog.urara.pl • Hacker News
106
Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM • rendiment.io • Hacker News
226
GenAI, the snake eating its own tail • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:14 PM • ybrikman.com • Hacker News
705
Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:11 PM • jampa.dev • Hacker News
391
Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:05 PM • sciencedaily.com • Hacker News
27
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
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Collective narcissism fueled the pro-Trump "Stop the Steal" movement on Twitter. Study finds that messages expressing an exaggerated sense of group importance combined with victimhood were more likely to go viral. • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:49 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967) • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:36 PM • saturdayeveningpost.com • Hacker News
729
Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM • blog.kagi.com • Hacker News
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Ireland Wants To Give Its Cops Spyware, Ability To Crack Encrypted Messages • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM • theregister.com • yro.slashdot
265
TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:21 PM • adguard-vpn.com • Hacker News
402P
Some shady websites are sponsoring Axios • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:05 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
102
Hate is a strong word, but I really really really don’t like Windows 11 • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:03 PM • blog.urara.pl • Lobsters
143
PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM • yyzkevin.com • Hacker News
174P
European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:40 AM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
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
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Claude's new constitution • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:04 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~comp
8
Opta removes all advanced statistical data from fbref.com • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:58 AM • sports-reference.com • ~sports.football
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
94
Who offers the best transactional email api out there? • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
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
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How AI destroys institutions • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:42 AM • cyberlaw.stanford.edu • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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EU inc: a new European company structure • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:02 AM • ec.europa.eu • Hacker News
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EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:49 AM • eu-inc.org • Hacker News
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EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant' • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:32 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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
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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
46
CGA-2026-01 🕹️⛵🛡️ REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:05 AM • tildes.net • ~games
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
30
january 20 rpg • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM • combatdavey.net • Bear
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
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Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here, UN Report Says • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM • theguardian.com • Slashdot
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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
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
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US Democrats successfully strip all anti-trans riders from final appropriations bills • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:29 PM • erininthemorning.com • ~lgbt
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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
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Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:37 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News