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Two kinds of AI users are emerging • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM • martinalderson.com • Hacker News
50
What are some of your recent "little" failures? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
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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
196
Treasures found on HS2 route • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
118
Lily Programming Language • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM • lily-lang.org • Hacker News
87
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM • dmitrybrant.com • Lobsters
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
175
MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:37 PM • sciencedaily.com • Hacker News
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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
259
Margin Call • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM • asymco.com • Hacker News
1139
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM • dmitrybrant.com • Hacker News
96P
Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM • ahmedeldin.substack.com • Hacker News
68
My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM • anil.recoil.org • 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
164
Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM • solidean.com • Hacker News
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
249
1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM • depthfirst.com • Hacker News
377
TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM • taoofmac.com • Hacker News
71
archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM • gyrovague.com • Lobsters
37P
'Right-to-compute' laws may be coming to your state this year • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM • vktr.com • ~comp
377
Researchers Find Thousands of OpenClaw Instances Exposed to the Internet • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM • protean-labs.io • r/programming
1180
Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM • idiallo.com • Hacker News
471
Ian's Shoelace Site • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM • fieggen.com • 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
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
27
Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:09 PM • p2panda.org • Lobsters
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
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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
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
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
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
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Liam has been released, and his hat has been returned. • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:22 PM • i.redd.it • r/pics
45
Forget technical debt • Feb 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM • ufried.com • Lobsters
46
Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM • seas.upenn.edu • science.slashdot
198
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] • Feb 1, 2026 at 11:31 AM • btboces.org • Hacker News
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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
356
English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM • yaledailynews.com • Hacker News
106
Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom (2019) • Feb 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM • scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk • Hacker News
43
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
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
585
Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM • boxc.net • Hacker News
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
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
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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
462
Best "lifetime access" software purchases you've made? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:46 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
207
How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:35 AM • blog.algomaster.io • Hacker News
82
Which stack for a full e-commerce platform? No shopify • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:21 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
90
OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:06 AM • innfactory.ai • 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
150
Listen to Understand • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:49 AM • talk.bradwoods.io • Hacker News
483
FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:30 AM • gyptazy.com • Hacker News
44
Bear Blog Carnival February: Boredom • Feb 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM • winther.sysctl.dk • Bear
3690
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
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
92P
New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s • Feb 1, 2026 at 4:01 AM • politico.eu • Hacker News
122
Contracts in Nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:15 AM • sraka.xyz • Hacker News
154
Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix • Feb 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM • michael.stapelberg.ch • Hacker News
193
A Broken Heart • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:58 AM • allenpike.com • Hacker News
257P
The Book of PF, 4th edition • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM • nostarch.com • Hacker News
8P
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
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
69
I walked 10k steps a day for 30 days • Feb 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM • swarn.bearblog.dev • Bear
97
Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy • Feb 1, 2026 at 1:53 AM • foxmoss.com • Hacker News
523
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
75
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
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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
93
Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M • Jan 31, 2026 at 9:25 PM • rrauction.com • 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
80
OpenClaw security assessment [pdf] • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:54 PM • zeroleaks.ai • Hacker News
514
Quality is a hard sell in big tech • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:34 PM • pcloadletter.dev • r/programming
544
List animals until failure • Jan 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM • rose.systems • Hacker News
181
High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon • Jan 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
6139P
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