6
PTP Is the New NTP: How Data Centers Achieve Real-Time Precision • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:57 PM • datacenterknowledge.com • Hacker News
8
Steam Machine: Not So Hot If Priced at 1000 USD • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:43 PM • boilingsteam.com • Hacker News
11
Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period? • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:36 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
152
I'll pass on your zoom call • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:34 PM • operand.online • Hacker News
6
Ask HN: Vibe-coded prototypes: what happens when they go into production? • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
584
Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:12 PM • jamf.com • Hacker News
48
Show HN: Dotenv Mask Editor: No more embarrassing screen leaks of your .env • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:04 PM • marketplace.visualstudio.com • Hacker News
289P
From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM • kentik.com • Hacker News
8P
1 in 35,385 US immigrants are in MN+criminal+undocumented • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:59 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
197
Lix – universal version control system for binary files • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:55 PM • lix.dev • Hacker News
8
Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link – it's a scam • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:47 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
165
University of Queensland researchers say the discovery of a new stress reduction role for a naturally occurring molecule in the body could lead to new drugs and treatment for metabolic disorders and ageing. • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:38 PM • news.uq.edu.au • r/science
736
Use of ADHD medication in UK more than tripled in 13 years. UK had highest relative increase of five countries in study, with 20-fold rise in women over 25 using it. While it is true that not everyone with ADHD required medication, findings suggest a substantial proportion may not be doing so. • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:37 PM • theguardian.com • r/science
682
Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:22 PM • huggingface.co • Hacker News
40
Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:20 PM • 9to5mac.com • Slashdot
5
How Animals Build a Sense of Direction • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
244
Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM • github.com/freedomofpress • Hacker News
19
Where I find free game assets (compiled my go-to sources) • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:52 PM • assethoard.com • Hacker News
22
Affordable Age Verification service • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:51 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
42
Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM • go.dev • Lobsters
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
29
Nova Launcher Gets a New Owner and Ads • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM • androidauthority.com • Slashdot
74
Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation [video] • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
4
Inside StarRocks: Why Joins Are Faster Than You’d Expect • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM • starrocks.io • Lobsters
11
👿 Bearblog Rage Bait • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:27 PM • so.axodys.com • Bear
10
The Future of Development: Running Firecracker MicroVMs on Your MacBook Pro M3 • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:19 PM • u3n.medium.com • Hacker News
6
After 40 years, Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe is retiring • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM • hanafuda.report • Hacker News
8P
Shiseido's Fall and Did You Know China Has an Industrial Policy for Lipstick? • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM • governance.fyi • Hacker News
77P
Immigration officers assert power to enter homes without a warrant • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
75P
HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM • 404media.co • yro.slashdot
20
What all details do you include in website project proposals? • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:58 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
Ask HN: When does changing pricing models break user trust? • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:49 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
32
Show HN: Grov – Multiplayer for AI coding agents • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM • github.com/TonyStef • Hacker News
66
A global explosion of absurdly spicy foods • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM • bloomberg.com • ~food
9
Tell HN: ChatGPT needs a persistent workspace layer • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:24 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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
120
What if AI is both good and not that disruptive? • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:11 PM • deadneurons.substack.com • Hacker News
39
Grok exposes detailed account suppression information • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM • twitter.com/realstewpeters • Hacker News
67P
Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:09 PM • cognition.ai • 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
3
A lightweight, client-only spreadsheet web application. All data persists in the URL hash for instant sharing, No backend required. Optional AES-GCM password protection keeps shared links locked without a server • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:54 PM • github.com/supunlakmal • r/webdev
333
Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
39
Deaths Linked to AI Chatbots • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:47 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
20
Tell HN: Claude helped me maintain my old open source project • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:46 PM • news.ycombinator.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
19
L∃AN together – live stream schedule • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:34 PM • leanprover-community.github.io • Hacker News
95
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM • doi.org • Hacker News
29P
Judge blocks government from searching data seized from Washington Post reporter • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
47
FSNotes 7 - Remarkable fast plain text notes • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM • fsnot.es • Lobsters
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
30
Clinic-in-the-loop • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM • asimov.press • Hacker News
7
Ask HN: Which Matrix and Mastodon servers are you using and why? • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:15 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Trump Always Chickens Out • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:09 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
131
Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome in infants: Study finds microbial transmission within nursery groups even after only 1 month of nursery attendance that continued to grow over the nursery year, in an increasingly intricate transmission network. • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:06 PM • nature.com • r/science
5
Text Is King • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:06 PM • experimental-history.com • Hacker News
8
AMD Ryzen AI Halo for AI Developers • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM • amd.com • Hacker News
6P
The world entered a new era of 'water bankruptcy' with irreversible consequences • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM • cnn.com • Hacker News
61
Show HN: Retain – A unified knowledge base for all your AI coding conversations • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM • github.com/BayramAnnakov • Hacker News
153
ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM • turbopuffer.com • Hacker News
9
Show HN: Automatically build sales playbook. For founders doing sales • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:53 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
12
Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
5
LegalEagle: Elon Built a Child Porn Factory [video] • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
64
OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched data exfiltration • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM • promptarmor.com • Hacker News
28P
Trump says reached Greenland deal framework with NATO, backs off Europe tariffs • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
33
Magnetic remote control of biology • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:44 PM • bsky.app • Hacker News
13
Bear Is Emo • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM • bear.borb.blog • Bear
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
40
Ask HN: How locked down are your work machines? • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
5
Using the BusyBox trick to turn AI prompts into "native" executables • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:32 PM • tgalal.com • Hacker News
26
Tesla cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
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
14
Microsoft CEO warns AI must 'do something useful' or lose 'social permission' • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM • pcgamer.com • Hacker News
30
DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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
64
World’s oldest known artwork: Research of rock art in Sulawesi dates it to at least 67,800 years ago; 1.1 kyr older than a hand stencil from Spain attributed to Neanderthals (previously known as the oldest art). • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM • nature.com • r/science
96
Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM • kenkoonwong.com • Hacker News
10
Claude’s Constitution: Our vision for Claude's character • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
5
Show HN: What I learned building a local-only password manager (PassForgePro) • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:52 PM • github.com/can-deliktas • Hacker News
507
Linux from Scratch • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:44 PM • linuxfromscratch.org • Hacker News
16
AI Company Eightfold Sued For Helping Companies Secretly Score Job Seekers • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:44 PM • reuters.com • yro.slashdot
12P
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
2
I kept forgetting when anime episodes air, so I built a small open source calendar • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:26 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
152
Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:20 PM • news.ycombinator.com • 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
12
Navy ditches touchscreens for knob and dial controls after fatal crash (2019) • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:06 PM • techcrunch.com • 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
39
Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:53 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
29P
HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
51
Show HN: Company hiring trends and insights from job postings • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM • jobswithgpt.com • Hacker News
7085P
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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You're Living in the Chinese Century • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:41 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
6
Apple's product plans stolen in Luxshare cyberattack • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:40 PM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
102P
Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967) • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:36 PM • saturdayeveningpost.com • Hacker News
10
How do you keep AI-generated applications consistent as they evolve over time? • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:34 PM • news.ycombinator.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
195
Medications change our gut microbiome in predictable ways • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM • news.stanford.edu • r/science
13
How do you talk to your users? (to conduct user interviews and such) • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
450
A longitudinal study finds that young adults who remain consistently single report higher loneliness and lower life satisfaction over time compared to those who later enter relationships • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM • doi.org • r/science
37P
Ireland Wants To Give Its Cops Spyware, Ability To Crack Encrypted Messages • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM • theregister.com • yro.slashdot
6
Show HN: Rowboat – Open-Source Claude Cowork with an Obsidian Vault • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:22 PM • rowboatlabs.com • Hacker News
42P
We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is how they start • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:21 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
265
TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:21 PM • adguard-vpn.com • Hacker News
71
Open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM • github.com/clockworklabs • Hacker News
5
How Binary Dependencies Work Across Different Languages • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:18 PM • vlad.website • Lobsters
39P
How North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5M people • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:10 PM • npr.org • Hacker News
12
libcurl memory use some years later • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:10 PM • daniel.haxx.se • Lobsters
402P
Some shady websites are sponsoring Axios • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:05 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
87
Challenges in join optimization • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:03 PM • starrocks.io • Hacker News
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
16
Facebook API Graph without company • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:45 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
143
PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM • yyzkevin.com • Hacker News
137
People make sense of disturbing places together, not alone: visit to prison museums and other dark heritage sites are shaped less by labels, displays or audio guides, and more by how people experience them together • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM • kcl.ac.uk • r/science
174P
European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:40 AM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
96
Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:40 AM • github.com/s2-streamstore • Hacker News
398
JPEG XL Test Page • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:38 AM • tildeweb.nl • Hacker News
2
I made a tool to model the gap between early retirement and 401k access - would love feedback • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
48
Tell HN: Avoid Cerebras if you are a founder • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:29 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
11
Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year? • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:21 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
79
Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:15 AM • modal.com • 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
23P
Zillow Removed Climate Risk Scores Under Pressure from Real Estate Agents • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM • insideclimatenews.org • Hacker News
8P
The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:09 AM • newrepublic.com • Hacker News
48
Japan Restarts World's Largest Nuclear Plant as Fukushima Memories Loom Large • Jan 21, 2026 at 11:05 AM • bbc.com • Slashdot
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
23P
DOGE improperly shared sensitive social security data, DOJ court filing reveals • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:59 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
8
Opta removes all advanced statistical data from fbref.com • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:58 AM • sports-reference.com • ~sports.football
20
pandas 3.0.0 released • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:56 AM • github.com/pandas-dev • Lobsters
16
Show HN: I built a chess explorer that explains strategy instead of just stats • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:56 AM • atlaschess.me • Hacker News
63
Lobsters Blog Carnival Announcement • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
17
Show HN: SpeechOS – Wispr Flow-inspired voice input for any web app • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:52 AM • speechos.ai • Hacker News
16
Ask HN: Are you going to meetups/conferences? • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:52 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
12
movies and tv aren't made for people like me anymore • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:51 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
6
Ask HN: Is it even possible to stop Google Calendar Spam? • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:40 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
6
I built an in-memory rate limiter in a Next.js project • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:34 AM • freecodecamp.org • Hacker News
35P
Social Dynamics at Arm's Length • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM • jenn.site • Hacker News
20
Antithesis - The Deterministic Computer • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM • mack.work • r/programming
44
Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM • 404media.co • Slashdot
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
133
Show HN: yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:13 AM • github.com/borenstein • Hacker News
24
Making an LSP for great good • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:13 AM • thunderseethe.dev • Lobsters
7
Show HN: I made a roguelike game playable over SSH • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:12 AM • dev-dungeon.com • Hacker News
17P
Scott Bessent calls Denmark "irrelevant", is not concerned by Treasury sell-off • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:12 AM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
12
libcurl memory use some years later • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:09 AM • daniel.haxx.se • Hacker News
8P
The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:08 AM • newrepublic.com • Hacker News
97
Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code • Jan 21, 2026 at 10:04 AM • dashboard.infracost.io • Hacker News
36
A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:56 AM • sentienceapi.com • Hacker News
320P
Two Catastrophic Failures Caused by "Obvious" Assumptions • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:56 AM • open.substack.com • r/programming
10
Show HN: PicoFlow – a tiny DSL-style Python library for LLM agent workflows • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:55 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
23
DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:55 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
876
Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps) • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:54 AM • github.com/ChartGPU • Hacker News
41
Show HN: UltraContext – A simple context API for AI agents with auto-versioning • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM • ultracontext.ai • Hacker News
7
Hemostasis in 1 Second. Boosting Survival Rates for Soldiers • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:43 AM • news.kaist.ac.kr • Hacker News
10
Meditation makes me boring • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:41 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
53
YouTube CEO Acknowledges 'AI Slop' Problem, Says Platform Will Curb Low-Quality AI Content • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:40 AM • blog.youtube • Slashdot
6
What is egoless programming? • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM • shiftmag.dev • r/programming
16
Ask HN: What are good resources to get familiar with AI code editors? • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:25 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
30
I scanned 2,500 Hugging Face models for malware/issues. Here is the data • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:22 AM • github.com/ArseniiBrazhnyk • Hacker News
42
Skip Is Now Free and Open Source • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:22 AM • skip.dev • Lobsters
12
Ask HN: Why does SOC 2 feel so hard for early-stage startups? • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:21 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
29
Vibecoding #2 • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:19 AM • matklad.github.io • 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
26
Ask HN: Does "Zapier for payment automation" exist? • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:16 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
22
USB Gadget Mode in Raspberry Pi OS: SSH over USB • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:15 AM • raspberrypi.com • Hacker News
288
Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:12 AM • 404media.co • Hacker News
72
The world’s mountains are warming faster than expected. Rising temperatures turn snow into rain, shrink glaciers, and intensify erratic mountain weather—reshaping water supplies, ecosystems, and risks for billions who depend on highlands downstream. • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:12 AM • nature.com • r/science
5
Show HN: Abuse URL shorteners to host throwaway webpages • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:08 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
104
Uber Faces Growing Pressure over Sexual Assault Record • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:05 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
54
Show HN: Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie • Jan 21, 2026 at 9:01 AM • ghibli-search.anini.workers.dev • 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
6
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns? (2023) • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:47 AM • weirdmedievalguys.substack.com • Hacker News
8
Good climate news: thawing permafrost turns out to be a methane sink • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:47 AM • nature.com • Hacker News
10P
Denmark is 'irrelevant,' says US Treasury Secretary • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:46 AM • politico.eu • Hacker News
569P
How AI destroys institutions • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:42 AM • cyberlaw.stanford.edu • Hacker News
28
Show HN: I made AI earphones remember everything (auto-sync to Obsidian) • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:41 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
9
Show HN: I built a narrative game about running a thrift shop • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:41 AM • store.steampowered.com • Hacker News
19
The first 100 days as a Renovate maintainer • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:35 AM • jvt.me • Hacker News
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Europe has a lot to learn from Mark Carney • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:26 AM • newstatesman.com • Hacker News
266P
Canada Announces Divorce from America • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:25 AM • charlotteclymer.substack.com • Hacker News
13
Integrating WebView with Nature Programming Language • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:20 AM • nature-lang.org • Hacker News
8613
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
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Microservices for the Benefits, Not the Hustle (2023) • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM • wolfoliver.medium.com • Hacker News
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Swedish pension fund Alecta cuts US Treasury holdings citing US politics • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
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Verizon Wastes No Time Switching Device Unlock Policy To 365 Days • Jan 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM • droid-life.com • Slashdot
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Confused by SVG path stroke-dashoffset direction appearing to be inverted • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:52 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Show HN: Should I kill my side project? • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:52 AM • naeemnur.com • Hacker News
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Vibecoding #2 • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:46 AM • matklad.github.io • Hacker News
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Before & After Stream • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:36 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Unsealed: Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:34 AM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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How to optimize memory usage of the React App? • Jan 21, 2026 at 7:06 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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maintaining backward compatibility for 4 year old api clients is effed up • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:58 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Ask HN: Why don't tech companies provide housing? • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:58 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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The Art of Craftsmanship (Monozukuri) in the Age of AI • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:54 AM • rapha.land • Lobsters
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I built a new type of erasure code using Bloom filters • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:50 AM • lumramabaja.com • r/programming
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Nested Code Fences in Markdown • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:47 AM • susam.net • Lobsters
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Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:44 AM • nukeproof.org • Hacker News
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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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Nvidia: Natural Conversational AI with Any Role and Voice • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:34 AM • research.nvidia.com • Hacker News
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Australia Passes New Hate Speech Law, Raising Free Speech Fears • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:25 AM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
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6 Things I Learned About OpenTelemetry Contribution (That the Docs Won't Tell You) • Jan 21, 2026 at 6:15 AM • newsletter.signoz.io • r/programming
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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
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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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EmuDevz: A game about building emulators • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:52 AM • github.com/afska • Lobsters
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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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Building a Multi-Tenant Metrics Pipeline for Thousands of Clients (with Thanos) • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:47 AM • jamesrobb.ca • r/programming
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Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:39 AM • steanlab.medium.com • 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
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For Russia, Greenland offers an 'ideal solution' to its Ukraine problemX • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:06 AM • politico.eu • Hacker News
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Snap Settles Social media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of Landmark Trial • Jan 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM • bbc.com • yro.slashdot
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RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:53 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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New research reveals that complex building blocks of life form spontaneously in space • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:52 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
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I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:51 AM • atempleton.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
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SETI@home is in hiberation • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:49 AM • setiathome.berkeley.edu • Hacker News
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Full Stack Developer Challange • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Leave X – Protect Democracy • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:41 AM • leavex.eu • Hacker News
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KRAZAM - Rare Data Hunters [video] • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:34 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:09 AM • pcgamer.com • Hacker News
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Building a Blog in Gleam • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:07 AM • gearsco.de • Lobsters
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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
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A simulation where life unfolds in real time • Jan 21, 2026 at 4:01 AM • soupof.life • Hacker News
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CBD-Rich Cannabis Extracts Reduce ADHD Symptoms in Children With Autism • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:54 AM • norml.org • r/science
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Real programming vs. interviews: A dyslexic perspective • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:50 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
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Mark Carney's Full Speech at the World Economic Forum • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:45 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Crates.io: Development Update • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:04 AM • blog.rust-lang.org • Hacker News
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Faster horses, not trains • Jan 21, 2026 at 3:00 AM • blog.robbowley.net • Lobsters
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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
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Show HN: Hyve – Parallel isolated workspaces for coding agents, multi-repo dev • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:31 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Educators who rely on AI don't deserve to be in academia • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:22 AM • noor.bearblog.dev • Bear
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yet another blog post about overconsumption • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:20 AM • blahg.online • Bear
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WSL Dashboard v0.1.0 Released,A modern, high-performance, and lightweight WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) instance management dashboard. • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:10 AM • github.com/owu • r/programming
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The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:09 AM • snubi.net • Hacker News
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CGA-2026-01 🕹️⛵🛡️ REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker • Jan 21, 2026 at 2:05 AM • tildes.net • ~games
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The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:48 AM • nibzard.com • Hacker News
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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
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cURL removes bug bounties • Jan 21, 2026 at 1:07 AM • etn.se • Hacker News
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88x31 badge for gen-AI free, 100% human-made works • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:58 AM • aspiz.uk • Hacker News
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Show HN: Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range • Jan 21, 2026 at 12:08 AM • github.com/simondorfman • Hacker News
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january 20 rpg • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM • combatdavey.net • Bear
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Germany Forces Lexus to Remotely Kill Car Heating in Dead of Winter • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:46 PM • gadgetreview.com • Hacker News
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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney's Full Speech at Davos • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:32 PM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
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Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:27 PM • github.com/ef1500 • Hacker News
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OpenFlexure Microscope • Jan 20, 2026 at 11:16 PM • openflexure.org • Hacker News
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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
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Shingles vaccine may help keep older people biologically younger • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:40 PM • thetimes.com • Hacker News
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Disaster planning for regular folks (2015) • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:38 PM • lcamtuf.coredump.cx • Hacker News
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DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:36 PM • axios.com • 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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Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot' • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:19 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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I Burned $160k Trying to Solve "Online Tailoring" • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM • indiehackers.com • Hacker News
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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
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I Turned Into the Odd into a Story Game • Jan 20, 2026 at 10:08 PM • dungeonmecha.bearblog.dev • Bear
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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
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Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM • github.com/anthropics • Hacker News
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RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:36 PM • rss.social • Hacker News
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Carney says old world order 'is not coming back' • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:34 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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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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How long do you think? I give it 3 years • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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"AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings" • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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High-bandwidth flash progress and future • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM • blocksandfiles.com • Hacker News
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Rust's Standard Library on the GPU • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:15 PM • vectorware.com • Hacker News
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Your Brain Might Not Be Full of Microplastics After All • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM • insidehook.com • Hacker News
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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
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Tips on getting an op-ed published? • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM • tildes.net • ~life
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cURL Removes Bug Bounties • Jan 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM • etn.se • Slashdot
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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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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
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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
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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
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Full Transcript of Carney's Speech to World Economic Forum • Jan 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM • globalnews.ca • Hacker News