683
Two kinds of AI users are emerging • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM • martinalderson.com • Hacker News
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How One Line of Python Triggers 12,000 Lines of Code [video] • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
50
What are some of your recent "little" failures? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
193P
We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:11 PM • chris.pagecord.com • Hacker News
4
Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM • arxiv.org • Lobsters
26
Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off? • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM • msn.com • Slashdot
741
Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM • github.com/gavrielc • Hacker News
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They Said They Weren't Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
51
Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM • vatican.va • Hacker News
37
Ubuntu is the reason Windows users don't want to switch to Linux • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM • xda-developers.com • Hacker News
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A Wonkish Note on Tariffs and Inflation • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM • paulkrugman.substack.com • Hacker News
196
Treasures found on HS2 route • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM • propublica.org • Hacker News
3
IntentBound: Purpose-aware authorization for autonomous AI agents • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
3
My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM • anil.recoil.org • Hacker News
10
Making Valentine Cards • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM • syls.blog • Bear
3
Show HN: Echo – Local-first kindle-like reader with annotations and LLM chat • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM • github.com/tibi-iorga • Hacker News
118
Lily Programming Language • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM • lily-lang.org • Hacker News
10
Magnetic core memory 128-byte USB drive • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
87
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM • dmitrybrant.com • Lobsters
3
Show HN: OpenRAPP – AI agents autonomously evolve a world via GitHub PRs • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM • kody-w.github.io • Hacker News
142
Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:49 PM • finance.yahoo.com • Slashdot
177P
Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:47 PM • iranintl.com • Hacker News
124
List animals until failure • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM • rose.systems • ~games
6
Ask HN: How can I get decent internet speeds in my apartment? • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
175
MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:37 PM • sciencedaily.com • Hacker News
10244
A longstanding belief in the publishing world suggests that men avoid reading fiction that centers on the lives of women. However, new research indicates that a protagonist’s gender has almost no impact on whether a man wants to continue reading a story. • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM • psypost.org • r/science
9
Show HN: Nono – Kernel-enforced sandboxing for AI agents • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM • nono.sh • Hacker News
393
Semantic Compression — why modeling “real-world objects” in OOP often fails • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM • caseymuratori.com • r/programming
4
Research reveals a surprising line of defense against cyber attacks: Accountants • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM • techxplore.com • Hacker News
259
Margin Call • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM • asymco.com • Hacker News
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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM • dmitrybrant.com • Hacker News
18P
Elon Musk attacks "legacy" media amidst Epstein files meltdown on Twitter • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM • xcancel.com • Hacker News
9
Show HN: Clacker News – A Hacker News clone where only AI bots can post • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM • clackernews.com • Hacker News
30
Ask HN: The Next Big OS Leap • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
96P
Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM • ahmedeldin.substack.com • Hacker News
15
Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
12
A Collection of Awesome Nostr Projects • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM • github.com/aljazceru • Hacker News
13
Show HN: You Are an Agent • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:59 PM • youareanagent.app • Hacker News
68
My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM • anil.recoil.org • Lobsters
8
Audio on hp300 • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM • miod.online.fr • Lobsters
641
My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM • journal.rafaelcosta.me • Hacker News
35
Scarp-fronted deposits record the highest water level in Mars’ Valles Marineris • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:44 PM • nature.com • r/science
164
Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM • solidean.com • Hacker News
104
Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM • kiki.computer • Hacker News
2
Using Robots to Generate Puzzles for Humans • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:26 PM • vanhavel.github.io • r/programming
12
bearblog carnival: boredom • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:26 PM • blog.avas.space • Bear
10P
March for Billionaires • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM • marchforbillionaires.org • Hacker News
27
Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, what if we get there? • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM • frontiersin.org • Hacker News
66
Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:22 PM • finance.yahoo.com • Slashdot
2321P
Long COVID brain fog far more common in US than India, other nations. Large study in US, Colombia, Nigeria and India finds symptom burden highest in high-income countries. Higher symptom burden in US may reflect lower stigma and greater access to health care, rather than more severe disease. • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM • news.northwestern.edu • r/science
176P
Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM • oregonlive.com • Hacker News
1224
Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM • simonberens.com • Hacker News
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Peter Thiel Is a Russian Asset • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM • twitter.com/peterjukes • Hacker News
249
1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM • depthfirst.com • Hacker News
4
Show HN: Claude Confessions – a sanctuary for AI agents • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM • claudeconfessions.com • Hacker News
7
The rise of one-pizza engineering teams • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM • jampa.dev • Hacker News
6
Scientists explain statin muscle pain • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:45 PM • sciencedaily.com • Hacker News
17
Clothes Are Plastic. Your Skin Pays the Price • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM • substack.com • Hacker News
35
Average Is over with AI • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:42 PM • arnoldkling.substack.com • Hacker News
377
TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM • taoofmac.com • Hacker News
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India gives 20-year tax holiday to foreign firms using local data centres • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
6P
French tech company Capgemini to sell US unit linked to ICE • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
6
Ask HN/LLM: What you see in my product? • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:34 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
71
archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM • gyrovague.com • Lobsters
10
Destroying the Love of Reading • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
37P
Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:32 PM • harpers.org • Hacker News
7
Cloudflare's Turnstile on your whole site? • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:32 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
17P
Karpathy: We Should Bring Back RSS • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM • twitter.com/karpathy • Hacker News
18
Goodbye, Google Photos • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM • ansharora.in • Bear
37P
'Right-to-compute' laws may be coming to your state this year • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM • vktr.com • ~comp
61P
'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM • vktr.com • Hacker News
81
When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM • thenewstack.io • Slashdot
377
Researchers Find Thousands of OpenClaw Instances Exposed to the Internet • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM • protean-labs.io • r/programming
65
OpenClaw is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:20 PM • garymarcus.substack.com • Hacker News
23
The philosophy behind ODF: openness, freedom and control – TDF Community Blog • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM • blog.documentfoundation.org • Hacker News
20
Show HN: My Open Source Deep Research tools beats Google and I can Prove it • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM • github.com/IamLumae • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Memory plugin for OpenClaw; cross-platform context sync with major LLMs • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM • memoryplugin-for-openclaw.com • Hacker News
4
Show HN: unix-shell-script-kit 13.0 for POSIX functions, exit codes, color codes • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM • github.com/SixArm • Hacker News
1180
Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM • idiallo.com • Hacker News
5
Scientists engineer unsinkable metal tubes • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:57 PM • rochester.edu • Hacker News
23
Once Thought to Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out to Be in Charge • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:52 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
57
Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:51 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
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FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:49 PM • ftp.belnet.be • Hacker News
10
Amoxicillin in the Treatment of Mastoiditis: Efficacy, Challenges, and Future Directions • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM • ojs.ukscip.com • r/science
10
L4Ka: Pistachio Microkernel • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM • l4ka.org • Hacker News
16
This year, I will write a GUI for my Emacs clone • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:39 PM • kyo.iroiro.party • Lobsters
10
The L4Re Operating System Framework • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:39 PM • l4re.org • Hacker News
471
Ian's Shoelace Site • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM • fieggen.com • Hacker News
9
Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Economic Espionage,Theft of AI Technology • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:37 PM • justice.gov • Hacker News
137
Why do devs put their docs on a subdomain/separate app in the monorepo? • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:32 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
5
Show HN: Subtitle Finder – Find perfectly synced subtitles for your video files • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:28 PM • subtitlefinder.com • Hacker News
26P
Not a Drill • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:24 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
17P
Same Radio, Different Citizens • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:21 PM • blog.cosmos-institute.org • Hacker News
70
Linux's b4 kernel development tool now dog-feeding its AI agent code review helper • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM • phoronix.com • r/programming
13
Triton Bespoke Layouts • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM • lei.chat • Hacker News
5
Match, Hinge, OkCupid, and Panera Bread breached by ransomware group • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:16 PM • malwarebytes.com • Hacker News
492
Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:15 PM • sintef.no • Hacker News
10
Remarkable Pro Colors • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM • thregr.org • Lobsters
73
GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
12P
March for Billionaires • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:09 PM • marchforbillionaires.org • Hacker News
27
Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:09 PM • p2panda.org • Lobsters
7
The Gnome Village: Treads fight, gnomes cooperate (2025) • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:07 PM • happihacking.com • Hacker News
24
Comparative analysis of senolytic drugs reveals mitochondrial determinants of efficacy and resistance • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM • nature.com • r/science
140
Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM • research.google • Hacker News
268
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:54 PM • forkingmad.blog • Hacker News
24
NCR Tower 1632 – Computer Ads from the Past • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:50 PM • computeradsfromthepast.substack.com • Hacker News
5
Chris Bathgate: Machinist Sculptor • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:49 PM • chrisbathgate.com • Hacker News
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In the 1930s a radical conservative faction almost pushed Finland into full authoritarianism • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM • youtube.com • ~humanities.history
4
Recreating My Email Server with Claude • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM • jbrot.com • Hacker News
56P
Curate or die • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM • akashbhat.com • Bear
7
Backseat frying (2020) • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM • backseatfrying.net • ~food
20
Whats easier to manage, fewer tables with complex logic or a lot of tables with simple logic • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:37 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
425
Apple I Advertisement (1976) • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM • apple1.chez.com • Hacker News
108P
Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM • thehill.com • Slashdot
108
Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM • phys.org • Hacker News
10
Leakage of polymer-coated fertilizer microplastics from paddy fields to beaches • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM • sciencedirect.com • Hacker News
20
Ask HN: Nobody clicked on a "Show HN" project I put my heart into. Now what? • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
735
Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:25 PM • github.com/puemos • Hacker News
9
Hollywood keeps making movies families won't watch • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:23 PM • foxnews.com • Hacker News
236562
Liam has been released, and his hat has been returned. • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:22 PM • i.redd.it • r/pics
103
50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:21 PM • thenewstack.io • Hacker News
63
I built a search engine to index the un-indexable parts of Telegram • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM • telehunt.org • Hacker News
33
Help to be a better backend engineer • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
308
How you feel about your partner’s spending habits may affect your relationship: researchers found spouses who see their partners as “savers” tend to be more satisfied with both their marriages and their finances • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:09 PM • news.uga.edu • r/science
45
Forget technical debt • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM • ufried.com • Lobsters
21
Pancreatic cancer researchers' latest breakthrough could help tumors disappear • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM • nypost.com • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Database Internals, a book by Claude Opus 4.5 • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM • cloudstreet-dev.github.io • Hacker News
53
Real engineering failures instead of success stories • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM • failhub.substack.com • Hacker News
7
Task engine VM – for tasks with executable instructions (progress update) • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:49 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
5
Survey: How has your experience with typography and fonts been like? • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
6
Curated list of startup programs giving free credits • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:47 AM • getfirstcheck.com • Hacker News
2
Show HN: The Pixel Funeral – A cemetery for dead design concepts • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:46 AM • pixel-funeral.vercel.app • Hacker News
13
Show HN: A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM • historical-moviemap.inneuro.ai • Hacker News
5
Ford held talks with China's Xiaomi over EV partnership • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:37 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
275
How young adults recall adverse childhood experiences fluctuates based on the current quality of their relationships, particularly with their parents. Parental support is linked to fewer childhood traumas like abuse and neglect • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:36 AM • msutoday.msu.edu • r/science
5P
Lessons from economies that closed their borders • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM • seeingthesystem.com • Hacker News
46
Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM • seas.upenn.edu • science.slashdot
2
Show HN: Stumpy – Secure AI Agents You Can Text • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:33 AM • stumpy.ai • Hacker News
198
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:31 AM • btboces.org • Hacker News
6
The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM • blog.literarily-starved.com • Hacker News
1167
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
2
I have made this simple, cute pomodoro timer!! • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:09 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
43
We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back? • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:07 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
3
Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:07 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
4
Show HN: Taracode – Open-source DevOps AI assistant that runs 100% locally • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:02 AM • github.com/tara-vision • Hacker News
73
Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (February 2026) • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~health.mental
356
English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM • yaledailynews.com • Hacker News
4
The difference between onshore and offshore RMB (CNY and CNH) • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:51 AM • corporate.visa.com • Hacker News
38
This Fish Could Regrow Fins A Million Years Before The Axolotl Got Here - And They Share a Regeneration Toolkit • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:49 AM • lsu.edu • r/science
4
Malleable Software • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:47 AM • blog.cemunalan.com.tr • Hacker News
106
Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom (2019) • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM • scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk • Hacker News
105P
Over half of American adults can't read at 6th Grade Levels • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:39 AM • moneywise.com • Hacker News
22
Microbes In Space Mutated and Developed a Remarkable Ability • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:34 AM • sciencealert.com • science.slashdot
10
This is my emotional support Blackout Book • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM • nickhayes.bearblog.dev • Bear
45
Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015) • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:25 AM • shazow.net • Hacker News
8
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
19
Same SQL, Different Results: A Subtle Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Migration Bug • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:18 AM • databaserookies.wordpress.com • Hacker News
75
Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM • github.com/VoidenHQ • Hacker News
6
Commodore 64 JIT compilation into MSIL • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
8
Firebase: PostgreSQL • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM • firebase.google.com • Hacker News
6
Show HN: A private FIRE calculator suite that runs in the browser • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:48 AM • firenum.com • Hacker News
13
Converting floats to strings quickly • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:44 AM • lemire.me • Lobsters
7
Giant Virus Discovered in Japanese Pond May Hint at Multicellular Life's Origins • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:43 AM • sciencealert.com • Hacker News
5
NASA begins countdown for critical fueling test • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:40 AM • space.com • r/science
38P
US, UK, EU, Australia and more to meet to discuss critical minerals alliance • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
7P
Trust in Ranking • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM • marginalia.nu • Hacker News
4
Japanese art museum PCB bookmarks form a miniature Tokyo Metro map • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:37 AM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
22
I can’t believe this is my first post in February • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:29 AM • nickhayes.bearblog.dev • Bear
43
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words! • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:10 AM • forkingmad.blog • Bear
132548
The best apology you will see today • Feb 1, 2026 at 9:09 AM • v.redd.it • r/nextfuckinglevel
86
Flying Around the World in under 80 Days • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM • pinchito.es • Hacker News
491
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM • adventuregamestudio.co.uk • Hacker News
121
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
214
Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM • banteg.xyz • Hacker News
11
Ask HN: How do you handle auth when AI dev agents spin up short-lived apps? • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:25 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
9
Turning Karpathy's Autoregressive Baby GPT into Diffusion GPT Step by Step • Feb 1, 2026 at 8:08 AM • colab.research.google.com • Hacker News
18P
A separatist group is asking for Trump's help to split from Canada • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:59 AM • cnn.com • Hacker News
2
Show HN: We Ran a Live Red-Team Attack on OpenClaw Agents • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:56 AM • gobrane.com • Hacker News
9P
Ashby taught us we have to fight fire with fire • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:52 AM • surfingcomplexity.blog • Lobsters
18
Australian plumber is a YouTube sensation • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:49 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
585
Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM • boxc.net • Hacker News
259
Agricultural waste could lock away carbon for decades if it were instead used in long-lasting building materials, fibrous residues from crops such as wheat, rice and maize, could act as a powerful carbon sink when diverted into construction products • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:38 AM • uel.ac.uk • r/science
108
The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones? • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:38 AM • efpasia.github.io • Lobsters
146
Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999) • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:35 AM • people.eecs.berkeley.edu • Hacker News
67P
99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026 • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:34 AM • electrek.co • Slashdot
4
Ask HN: How did you get from learning to code to making your first dollar? • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:29 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
4
Code signing Windows apps with Azure Artifact service • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:25 AM • devclass.com • Lobsters
2P
Cap Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:25 AM • infoq.com • Hacker News
15
Show HN: BPU – An embedded scheduler for stable UART pipelines • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:19 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
22P
I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don't Want to Buy American Cars Anymore • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
290
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM • science.org • Hacker News
195
Remarkable Pro Colors • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:12 AM • thregr.org • Hacker News
13375P
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
53
Data Poems • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:06 AM • dr.eamer.dev • Hacker News
38P
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:05 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
6
Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
67
Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:58 AM • alt-romes.github.io • Hacker News
4
Show HN: A site where anyone can rename any location on Earth • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM • rename.world • Hacker News
9
Building a Fitness Game Without Leaderboards • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:50 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
3
Show HN: AgentGram – Open-source social network for AI agents • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:50 AM • github.com/agentgram • Hacker News
462
Best "lifetime access" software purchases you've made? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:46 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Linux 7.0 Aims to Replace More Caching Code with Sheaves • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:41 AM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
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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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Spurious Correlations • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:27 AM • tylervigen.com • Hacker News
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Which stack for a full e-commerce platform? No shopify • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:21 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
9
Machinery and English Style (1904) • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:18 AM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
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OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:06 AM • innfactory.ai • Hacker News
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Social anxiety has a “dark side” that looks nothing like shyness - for some adolescents, this condition manifests through aggression and impulsivity rather than avoidance. This “atypical” presentation appears linked to specific narcissistic traits. • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Disgraced Crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Trump Pardon with Republican Pivot • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM • gizmodo.com • Hacker News
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A simple HTTPS, HTTP/3, SSL and security headers checker I built with AI • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
194
Amiga Unix (Amix) • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:57 AM • amigaunix.com • Hacker News
312
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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There is no skill in AI coding • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:51 AM • atmoio.substack.com • r/programming
150
Listen to Understand • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:49 AM • talk.bradwoods.io • Hacker News
9
Minute Maid to Discontinue Frozen Orange Juice from Concentrate This Year • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:47 AM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
42
Pong Cam – My ESP32S3 Thinks It's a WebCam • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:36 AM • atomic14.com • Hacker News
483
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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Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM • github.com/rustrum • Hacker News
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There is no skill in AI coding • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:17 AM • atmoio.substack.com • Hacker News
61
Turning tumor macrophages from foes into allies • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM • drugdiscoverynews.com • r/science
44
Bear Blog Carnival February: Boredom • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM • winther.sysctl.dk • Bear
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Research suggests that "playing the victim" does not signal weakness to voters. Instead, politicians who emphasized their own victimhood during a scandal were often evaluated as more competent than those who did not, making it a highly attractive strategy for shielding against reputational damage. • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:05 AM • tandfonline.com • r/science
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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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'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:01 AM • businessinsider.com • Hacker News
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Do you guys use a semantic core for your blogs and projects? • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:46 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1012
Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:44 AM • netbird.io • Hacker News
572
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
71
Why pond farmed carp remain poor in EPA DHA despite rich food and genetic repertoire: Evidence from pond food-web and fatty acid supply dynamics • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:17 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding – Addy Osmani • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:13 AM • addyo.substack.com • Hacker News
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MIT Lied about Aaron Swartz and Jeffrey Epstein • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:12 AM • linkedin.com • Hacker News
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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
6
Ship Your Toolchain, Not Just Infrastructure • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:53 AM • maxdaten.io • Lobsters
18
A way to run Ansible 2.19 on old operating systems like Ubuntu 18.04 with working Apt • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:51 AM • raymii.org • Lobsters
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China's genius plan to win the AI race is paying off • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:47 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
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Elon Musk pours millions more into helping Republicans keep Congress • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:46 AM • politico.com • Hacker News
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Chemical modulation of gut bacterial metabolism induces colanic acid and extends the lifespan of nematode and mammalian hosts • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:44 AM • journals.plos.org • r/science
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How U.S. Funding Instability and Immigration Policy are Driving a Systematic 'Brain Drain' of International STEM Talent. • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:41 AM • ejournals.bc.edu • r/science
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CG/SQL – SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM • ricomariani.github.io • Hacker News
122
Contracts in Nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:15 AM • sraka.xyz • Hacker News
6
Free software that converts DOS computers into a cash register • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:04 AM • facebook.com • Hacker News
20
nanochat can now train GPT-2 grade LLM for –$73 (3 hours on single 8XH100 node) • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM • twitter.com/karpathy • 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
11
Peanut or Cello? • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM • xaya-e.bearblog.dev • Bear
193
A Broken Heart • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:58 AM • allenpike.com • Hacker News
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Why we need to know about CORS (2020) • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:57 AM • evan-moon.github.io • 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
213
Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:36 AM • aljazeera.com • Hacker News
7
Sad to Say: An AI Creativity Test (The Billy Joel Test) • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:28 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
70
'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis' • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:25 AM • electrek.co • Hacker News
5
CG/SQL - SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:25 AM • ricomariani.github.io • Lobsters
69
I walked 10k steps a day for 30 days • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM • swarn.bearblog.dev • Bear
112
The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:13 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
13
Contracts in Nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:13 AM • sraka.xyz • Lobsters
8
Show HN: Booktest – review-driven regression testing for LLM / ML behavior • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:11 AM • github.com/lumoa-oss • Hacker News
104
Procedures for Repair of Potholes in Asphalt-Surfaced Pavements • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM • highways.dot.gov • Hacker News
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The Need To Tell Others What To Think And What To Do • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM • pathofthought.bearblog.dev • Bear
31
Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM • michael.stapelberg.ch • Lobsters
97
Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:53 AM • foxmoss.com • Hacker News
34
Ashes of Creation founder resigns as studio begins mass layoffs • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:39 AM • nichegamer.com • ~games
2
Show HN: Securing the Ralph Wiggum Loop – DevSecOps for Autonomous Coding Agents • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM • github.com/agairola • Hacker News
8
The humans are screenshotting us • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:16 AM • moltbook.com • Hacker News
3
AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:08 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
5
Show HN: I lost 3 years of ChatGPT history overnight, so I built a backup tool • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:58 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
9
Muse: Cursor for Composing MIDI • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM • muse.art • Hacker News
9
one day of bed rot is a must • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM • chikca.bearblog.dev • Bear
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FBI unable to extract data from iPhone 13 in Lockdown Mode in high profile case [pdf] • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM • storage.courtlistener.com • Hacker News
42P
Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM • aftermath.site • Slashdot
30
CGA-2026-02 🕹️🚗 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Racing Lagoon • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:28 AM • tildes.net • ~games
24
Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:20 AM • arxiv.org • Lobsters
7
Cleverbot (2008) • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM • cleverbot.com • Hacker News
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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
7
I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:48 PM • blog.pragmaticengineer.com • Hacker News
10
The Art of Unix Usability • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:39 PM • catb.org • Hacker News
2
Built an open-source extension to finish YT playlists • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:36 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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What If Trump Discovers That Unpaid UK (and French) Debt from WWI? • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM • podcasts.apple.com • Hacker News
7
Network Applications of Bloom Filters: A Survey [pdf] • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:18 PM • eecs.harvard.edu • Hacker News
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How do you handle clients who have no idea where their domain is registered? • Jan 31, 2026 at 11:06 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
11
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
19
Digital Minimalism and the Rotary Phone • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:31 PM • lookwhatmollymade.com • Bear
13
PyInfra: Infrastructure Deserves Real Code in Python, Not YAML Soup • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:28 PM • marp.kalvad.com • Hacker News
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China's 'gold fever' sparks US$1B scandal as trading platform collapses • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:23 PM • scmp.com • Hacker News
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'Spy Sheikh' Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company for Access to USA AI Chips • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:14 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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I dropped my Google Pixel 9 XL Pro from 6th floor balcony to the street • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:14 PM • ercanermis.com • Hacker News
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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
29
git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:00 PM • github.com/git-cola • Lobsters
19
Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of February 1 • Jan 31, 2026 at 10:00 PM • tildes.net • ~games
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What the US TikTok takeover is revealing about new forms of censorship • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:53 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
26
Show HN: OpenJuris – AI legal research with citations from primary sources • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:48 PM • openjuris.org • Hacker News
10
ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk's Grokipedia • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:36 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
12
How Apple Hooks Fifty Thousand Methods • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM • youtube.com • Lobsters
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Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:25 PM • rrauction.com • Hacker News
5
High-res nanoimprint patterning of quantum-dot LEDs via capillary self-assembly • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:13 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
32
Pre-Steal This Book (2008) • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM • seths.blog • Hacker News
235
Using 100vw is now scrollbar-aware (in Chrome 145+, under the right conditions) • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:04 PM • bram.us • r/webdev
4
Show HN: Peptide calculators ask the wrong question. I built a better one • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM • joyapp.com • Hacker News
22
Moltbook is exposing their database to the public • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:57 PM • twitter.com/theonejvo • Hacker News
80
OpenClaw security assessment [pdf] • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:54 PM • zeroleaks.ai • Hacker News
158
U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:51 PM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
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Kash Patel: No Credible Info Epstein Trafficked Girls to Others (2025) • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:43 PM • time.com • Hacker News
4
Quality is a hard sell in big tech • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:36 PM • pcloadletter.dev • Hacker News
2
Show HN: Hebo Gateway, an embeddable AI gateway with OpenAI-compatible endpoints • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:35 PM • github.com/8monkey-ai • Hacker News
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Quality is a hard sell in big tech • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:34 PM • pcloadletter.dev • r/programming
40
Show HN: SymDerive – A functional, stateless symbolic math library • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:20 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
3
TS Table Library • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:18 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
544
List animals until failure • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM • rose.systems • Hacker News
21
GUI with interactive grid for visualizing algorithms • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
60
Sparse File LRU Cache • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:00 PM • ternarysearch.blogspot.com • Hacker News
4
ChatGPT isn't the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk's Grokipedia • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:45 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
13
Show HN: An Open Source Alternative to Vercel/Render/Netlify • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:40 PM • github.com/aryankashyap0 • Hacker News
6
Show HN: I built a receipt processor for Paperless-ngx • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:17 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
181
High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
26
Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It's Paying Off for Silicon Valley • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:10 PM • propublica.org • Hacker News
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Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:08 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
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Working example of a Yocto setup without unnecessary complications • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:08 PM • github.com/bootlin • 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
13
I made a free audio transcription service that runs locally in the browser • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM • online-transcript-generator.com • r/webdev
267
Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
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Does JIT Go Brrr? • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM • doesjitgobrrr.com • Hacker News
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Real engineering failures instead of success stories • Jan 31, 2026 at 6:53 PM • failhub.substack.com • r/programming