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The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:22 AM • xakpc.dev • Hacker News
20
This award-winning bookstore looks like a portal to outer space • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM • yankodesign.com • ~design
55
A Love Letter to Teslas • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:58 AM • boogerdiary.bearblog.dev • Bear
90
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:55 AM • an.dywa.ng • Lobsters
31
Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM • experimental-history.com • ~misc
261P
Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:46 PM • openpetition.de • Hacker News
132018
recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM • i.redd.it • r/funny
1982
I miss thinking hard • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:54 PM • jernesto.com • Hacker News
266
Why aren't AI users honest about AI's limitations? • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:36 PM • techcrunch.com • r/programming
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US political and social polarization has increased by 64% since 1988, with nearly all of the rise occurring after 2008, as the financial crisis, the rise of social media, and an asymmetric ideological shift—particularly on the left—coincided to widen divisions, according to a long-term study. • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM • royalsocietypublishing.org • r/science
138
Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM • capitolnewsillinois.com • Hacker News
117
GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM • twitter.com/OpenAIDevs • Hacker News
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A man spent around 3 years building stone fortress/castle. • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM • v.redd.it • r/nextfuckinglevel
736
How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:47 PM • hackaday.com • r/programming
834
"Competence as Tragedy" — a personal essay on craft, beautiful code, and watching AI make your hard-won skills obsolete • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:40 PM • crowprose.com • r/programming
311
My coworkers are "AI-dependent" and it's creating a nightmare of technical debt. Should I quit or adapt? • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
47
China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting 2027 • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM • apnews.com • ~transport
19
Walmart hits $1 trillion market cap, fueled by growth of e-commerce, new businesses • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM • cnbc.com • ~finance
138
How I've run major projects (2025) • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM • benkuhn.net • Hacker News
575
Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM • securelist.com • Hacker News
299
Ultra-Processed Foods Should Be Treated More Like Cigarettes Than Food, Study Says • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM • theguardian.com • science.slashdot
172
FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM • dl.acm.org • Hacker News
128
Information Is Beautiful • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM • informationisbeautiful.net • Hacker News
816
Dreamweaver? • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
115
AI and Trust (2023) • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM • schneier.com • Hacker News
90P
When Did We All Get So Boring? • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM • zevvdaily.bearblog.dev • Bear
155
Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
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Wealthier men show higher metabolism in brain regions controlling reward and stress. Higher family income was associated with increased neural activity in the caudate, putamen, anterior cingulate, hippocampus, and amygdala regions of the brain of middle-aged men. • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM • psypost.org • r/science
104694P
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:18 PM • v.redd.it • r/UnderReportedNews
142
How vibe coding is killing open source • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM • hackaday.com • Hacker News
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Data centers in space makes no sense • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM • civai.org • Hacker News
330
China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
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OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:26 PM • cacm.acm.org • Hacker News
87P
Google Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM • tech.slashdot.org • Slashdot
8780
More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable. Massive study finds that many cancers are linked to two modifiable habits: tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption. • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM • nature.com • r/science
350
AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM • github.com/alibaba • Hacker News
455
Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM • fortune.com • Hacker News
59
Do you have your invite request email? Post it and let's find out what drives people to want to be a part of Tildes. • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM • tildes.net • ~tildes
20
Helldivers 2 – Galactic Offensive | Trailer • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM • youtube.com • ~games
693
Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM • apple.com • Hacker News
100
'Vibe Coding Kills Open Source' • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM • arxiv.org • Slashdot
272
I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM • nikolak.com • Hacker News
61
The AI industry doesn’t take “no” for an answer • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM • manualdousuario.net • ~tech
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French prosecutors raid Elon Musk’s X offices in Paris, under investigation for knowingly peddling CSAM, sexual deepfakes, holocaust denial, and fraudulent data extraction as an "organized gang" • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM • ft.com • ~tech
183
Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:35 PM • blog.senko.net • Hacker News
701
Deno Sandbox • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM • deno.com • Hacker News
6
No-baggage field report: Full circle (2010) • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM • rtwblog.com • ~travel
26
Take the stairs. It could help you live longer. • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM • washingtonpost.com • ~health
40P
GDPR Enforcement Is Broken • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM • nikolak.com • Lobsters
98
Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM • octosphere.social • Hacker News
86
java sucks (2000) • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:10 PM • jwz.org • Lobsters
8
2025 NFL Post Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Freetalk • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM • tildes.net • ~sports.american_football
584
221 Cannon is Not For Sale • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:56 AM • fredbenenson.com • Hacker News
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Black and Latino teens report having significantly more digital literacy skills such as detecting online disinformation than their white peers—particularly content related to race and ethnicity • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM • news.ucr.edu • r/science
531
1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM • waspdev.com • Hacker News
95
A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:40 AM • rs-online.com • Hacker News
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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:39 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
411
Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:29 AM • github.com/j178 • Hacker News
74
Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:29 AM • tadpolehq.com • Hacker News
304P
X offices raided in France • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:14 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
86
Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:09 AM • github.com/ambonvik • Hacker News
115
Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
1147
Qwen3-Coder-Next • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:01 AM • qwen.ai • Hacker News
251
AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM • jasonwillems.com • Hacker News
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New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:51 AM • blog.adafruit.com • Hacker News
294
Anthropic is Down • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:48 AM • updog.ai • Hacker News
768
A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM • brandon.wang • Hacker News
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The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:31 AM • aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org • Hacker News
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Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:28 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
20P
Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM • pnas.org • ~enviro
149
Self-Taught Developers Without IT Degrees • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
399
Understanding Neural Network, Visually • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:49 AM • visualrambling.space • Hacker News
62
Most and least expensive US supermarkets • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:47 AM • consumerreports.org • ~food
76
Easily write Bash with a transpiler • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:44 AM • fosdem.org • Lobsters
95
Show HN: GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM • blog.rbby.dev • Hacker News
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Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:28 AM • github.com/mavdol • Hacker News
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Wholesome🙂↕️🌟 • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:20 AM • v.redd.it • r/MadeMeSmile
231
Codebase has given me depression. What's the worst codebase you've worked on? • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:19 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
246
Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules? • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:10 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
796
Agent Skills • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:09 AM • agentskills.io • Hacker News
562
Where did all the starships go? • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:27 AM • datawrapper.de • Hacker News
86
Why don’t you? • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:23 AM • zeina.bearblog.dev • Bear
374
Learning from context is harder than we thought • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:07 AM • hy.tencent.com • Hacker News
119
The browser catches homograph attacks, the terminal doesn't • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:06 AM • github.com/sheeki03 • Hacker News
456
Bunny Database • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:13 AM • bunny.net • Hacker News
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Young adults report lower life satisfaction, a weaker sense of meaning in life and lower financial security than older age groups in Sweden. They also experience 2x the level of loneliness, 3x as many depressive symptoms and 7x the level of anxiety compared with the oldest respondents. • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:24 AM • hhs.se • r/science
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Some brands of bottled water contain significantly higher levels of microplastics than tap water. Results showed that bottled water contained 3 times as many nanoplastic particles as the treated drinking water. • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:06 AM • news.osu.edu • r/science
81
my very deep thoughts and considered opinions on AI • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:51 AM • skryblans.com • Bear
1695P
X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:08 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
533
LLMs as the new high level language • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM • federicopereiro.com • Hacker News
38
C'mon, professors, assign the hard reading • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:57 AM • theatlantic.com • ~humanities
67P
U.S. Federal Data Is Disappearing • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:52 AM • notus.org • Hacker News
221
DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:43 AM • bhusalmanish.com.np • Hacker News
878
What's up with all those equals signs anyway? • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:37 AM • lars.ingebrigtsen.no • Hacker News
253
Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:30 AM • rentahuman.ai • Hacker News
288
Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:06 AM • safe-now.live • Hacker News
220
Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:49 AM • arcadeblogger.com • Hacker News
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LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:45 AM • github.com/KrystianJonca • Hacker News
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From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:42 AM • onlinelibrary.wiley.com • Hacker News
56
Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM • wiz.io • Lobsters
105
Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API) • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM • github.com/whispem • Hacker News
95
What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM • lars.ingebrigtsen.no • Lobsters
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A new report found that ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food. UPFs and cigarettes are engineered to encourage addiction and consumption, researchers from three US universities said, pointing to the parallels in widespread health harms that link both. • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:05 AM • theguardian.com • r/science
217
MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:03 AM • menuetos.net • Hacker News
181P
Hidden Car Door Handles Are Officially Being Banned In China • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM • caranddriver.com • Slashdot
270
Stay Away from My Trash • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:53 AM • tldraw.dev • Hacker News
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What Is Ruliology? • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM • writings.stephenwolfram.com • Hacker News
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Plasma Effect (2016) • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:26 AM • 4rknova.com • Hacker News