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Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM • seas.upenn.edu • science.slashdot
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:31 AM • btboces.org • Hacker News
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A new study suggests that Canada could offset at least five times its current annual carbon emissions through targeted tree planting along the northern edge of the boreal forest. Establishing forests across 6.4 million hectares in this region could remove approximately 3.9 gigatonnes of CO₂ by 2100. • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:16 AM • nature.com • r/science
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (February 2026) • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~health.mental
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English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM • yaledailynews.com • Hacker News
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Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom (2019) • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM • scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk • Hacker News
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A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words! • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:10 AM • forkingmad.blog • Bear
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The best apology you will see today • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:09 AM • v.redd.it • r/nextfuckinglevel
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Flying Around the World in under 80 Days • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM • pinchito.es • Hacker News
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Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM • adventuregamestudio.co.uk • Hacker News
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Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:50 AM • github.com/zuckermanai • Hacker News
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Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM • banteg.xyz • Hacker News
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Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM • boxc.net • Hacker News
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The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones? • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:38 AM • efpasia.github.io • Lobsters
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Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999) • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:35 AM • people.eecs.berkeley.edu • Hacker News
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99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026 • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:34 AM • electrek.co • Slashdot
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Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM • science.org • Hacker News
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Remarkable Pro Colors • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:12 AM • thregr.org • Hacker News
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New research shows that after body’s defenses kill virus behind COVID-19, leftover digested chunks of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can target specific immune cells based on their shape. “Zombie” coronavirus fragments can imitate activity of molecules from body’s own immune system to drive inflammation. • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:09 AM • newsroom.ucla.edu • r/science
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Best "lifetime access" software purchases you've made? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:46 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:35 AM • blog.algomaster.io • Hacker News
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Amiga Unix (Amix) • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:57 AM • amigaunix.com • Hacker News
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Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:56 AM • sqldef.github.io • Hacker News
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Listen to Understand • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:49 AM • talk.bradwoods.io • Hacker News
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:30 AM • gyptazy.com • Hacker News
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Bear Blog Carnival February: Boredom • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM • winther.sysctl.dk • Bear
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Women's libido drops during a specific phase of the menstrual cycle. This reduction in desire may serve an evolutionary function by lowering the risk of infection during a time when the body’s immune system is naturally suppressed. • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:44 AM • netbird.io • Hacker News
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:33 AM • mariozechner.at • Hacker News
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I put a pinecone in my shower. It closes when I shower and opens again when it dries. • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:20 AM • i.redd.it • r/mildlyinteresting
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New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:01 AM • politico.eu • Hacker News
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Contracts in Nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:15 AM • sraka.xyz • Hacker News
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Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM • michael.stapelberg.ch • Hacker News
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A Broken Heart • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:58 AM • allenpike.com • Hacker News
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The Book of PF, 4th edition • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM • nostarch.com • Hacker News
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Greensand Future plan to pump thousands of tonnes of climate-warming CO2 into an old oil field 250km from Denmark's west coast • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:49 AM • bbc.com • ~enviro
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Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:36 AM • aljazeera.com • Hacker News
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I walked 10k steps a day for 30 days • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM • swarn.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM • michael.stapelberg.ch • Lobsters
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Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:53 AM • foxmoss.com • Hacker News
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Ashes of Creation founder resigns as studio begins mass layoffs • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:39 AM • nichegamer.com • ~games
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Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog? • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:11 AM • gyrovague.com • Hacker News
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While the infertile tawny owl was away from her nest, caretakers swapped her unviable eggs for orphaned chicks. • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:48 PM • v.redd.it • r/interesting
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George Hackenschmidt - Strongman, wrestler, philosopher • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:00 PM • youtube.com • ~health
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He's not going to eat these porkchops. 😐 • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:39 PM • i.redd.it • r/mildlyinfuriating
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US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:11 PM • finance.yahoo.com • yro.slashdot
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Using 100vw is now scrollbar-aware (in Chrome 145+, under the right conditions) • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:04 PM • bram.us • r/webdev
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Quality is a hard sell in big tech • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:34 PM • pcloadletter.dev • r/programming
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List animals until failure • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM • rose.systems • Hacker News
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High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
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COVID-19 did not simply bring forward inevitable deaths as an analysis of mortality data from 34 high-income countries shows a sustained rise in excess deaths years after the pandemic, challenging the mortality displacement hypothesis. • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:06 PM • jamanetwork.com • r/science
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Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
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AI Use at Work Has Increased, Gallup Poll Finds • Jan 31, 2026 at 6:46 PM • apnews.com • Slashdot
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In Praise of –dry-run • Jan 31, 2026 at 6:28 PM • henrikwarne.com • Lobsters
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150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation • Jan 31, 2026 at 6:15 PM • vermaden.wordpress.com • Hacker News
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My family always sent me tiktok links, so I developed a site to watch them without an account. • Jan 31, 2026 at 5:36 PM • savett.xyz • r/webdev
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Nearly half of the world’s population—about 3.79 billion people—is projected to face extreme heat by 2050 if global warming reaches 2.0 °C above pre-industrial levels, a scenario climate scientists see as increasingly likely as the world surpasses the 1.5 °C Paris Agreement threshold. • Jan 31, 2026 at 5:09 PM • nature.com • r/science
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Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) • Jan 31, 2026 at 5:05 PM • nmn.sh • Hacker News
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JUST SCREAM! playlists (2020) • Jan 31, 2026 at 4:49 PM • justscream.baby • ~humanities
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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding | Addy Osmani • Jan 31, 2026 at 4:31 PM • addyo.substack.com • r/programming
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Best of Moltbook • Jan 31, 2026 at 4:16 PM • astralcodexten.com • Hacker News
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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 • Jan 31, 2026 at 4:14 PM • wikiedu.org • Hacker News
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Outsourcing thinking • Jan 31, 2026 at 4:06 PM • erikjohannes.no • Hacker News
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In Praise of –dry-run • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:57 PM • henrikwarne.com • r/programming
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Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:50 PM • github.com/zupat • Hacker News
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Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:48 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
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This year in LLVM (2025) • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM • npopov.com • Lobsters
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In praise of –dry-run • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM • henrikwarne.com • Hacker News
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Long-term antidepressant effects of psilocybin linked to functional brain changes - a single dose of psilocybin altered the electrical properties of brain cells in rats for months, even after physical changes to the neurons had disappeared. • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:41 PM • nature.com • r/science
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Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:35 PM • saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud • Hacker News
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Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf] • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:02 PM • usenix.org • Hacker News
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A brief history of men's underwear • Jan 31, 2026 at 3:01 PM • vam.ac.uk • ~life.style
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Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland • Jan 31, 2026 at 2:58 PM • github.com/noctalia-dev • Hacker News
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Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images • Jan 31, 2026 at 2:58 PM • github.com/rtvkiz • Hacker News
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I spent 4 months building a website that lets you turn a Discord server into a discoverable forum • Jan 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes • Jan 31, 2026 at 2:15 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011) • Jan 31, 2026 at 2:11 PM • gwern.net • Hacker News
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets • Jan 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~life.pets
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How Norway accomplished a near-total electric vehicle transition – almost 100 percent of new cars registered in November were electric • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:44 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • ~transport
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The photographer capturing the US South from Waffle House booths • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:44 PM • atlasobscura.com • ~travel
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Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:41 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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I work in a warehouse • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:29 PM • youtube.com • ~life
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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM • crl.io • Hacker News
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Sweden's ruling class is flirting with the idea of adopting the EU's single currency, seeking safety in numbers to insulate itself against geopolitical tension from both sides of the Atlantic • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM • politico.eu • ~finance
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Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:03 PM • genode.org • Hacker News
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Just Breathe and Let It Go • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:02 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
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Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? • Jan 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:48 PM • lucumr.pocoo.org • Lobsters
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Finland looks to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with Australia-style ban on social media • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:39 PM • yle.fi • ~tech
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Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018 • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:26 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
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US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:25 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:21 PM • an.dywa.ng • Hacker News
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The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:07 PM • lalitm.com • Lobsters
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Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:06 PM • yle.fi • Hacker News
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The corporate web does not represent the entirety of the internet • Jan 31, 2026 at 12:02 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev