577
Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:12 PM • xikipedia.org • Hacker News
165
Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) • Feb 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM • samuelhewitt.com • Hacker News
998
32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:53 PM • asiaone.com • r/programming
683
Two kinds of AI users are emerging • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM • martinalderson.com • Hacker News
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What are some of your recent "little" failures? • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
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We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s • Feb 1, 2026 at 6:11 PM • chris.pagecord.com • Hacker News
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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
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
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
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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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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
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
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
109196
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