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Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM • v.redd.it • r/interestingasfuck
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32 year old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:31 AM • asiaone.com • r/programming
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Postgres Postmaster does not scale • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:30 AM • recall.ai • Hacker News
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Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM • blog.cleancoder.com • Hacker News
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Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:08 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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Actual footage from another world: Mars right now, 225 million miles away. Truly mind-blowing rover view • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:02 AM • v.redd.it • r/nextfuckinglevel
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~comp
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Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:50 AM • divergent-desktop.org • Hacker News
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The F Word • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:34 AM • muratbuffalo.blogspot.com • Hacker News
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Voxtral Transcribe 2 • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM • mistral.ai • Hacker News
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Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:57 AM • rabbitear.org • Hacker News
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A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:46 AM • pdfa.org • Hacker News
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Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:33 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM • 404media.co • Hacker News
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Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM • medicalxpress.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Mmdr – 1000x faster Mermaid rendering in pure Rust (no browser) • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM • github.com/1jehuang • Hacker News
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Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM • optical.toys • Hacker News
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Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:57 AM • sir68k.re • Hacker News
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I made a word game • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:52 AM • pivotthegame.com • ~games
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Tessellation Kit (2016) • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM • sciencevsmagic.net • Hacker News
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Sukr: A minimal static site compiler in Rust with zero-JS output • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:05 AM • sukr.io • Lobsters
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I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:02 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Hacker News
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Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM • garryslist.org • Hacker News
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Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM • smithsonianmag.com • Hacker News
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Michigan anti-trust lawsuit alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:27 AM • levernews.com • ~enviro
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Claude is a space to think • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:08 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression) • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:13 AM • bitsnbites.eu • Hacker News
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Sex is associated with lower stress on the day it occurs, but benefits do not persist into the following day. Motivation behind sexual encounter plays an important role in its emotional aftermath, as sex initiated to avoid relationship conflict was linked to increased stress levels 24 hours later. • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:02 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Finally a blockbuster • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:22 AM • i.redd.it • r/memes
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Senior Vibe Coder dealing with security • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:55 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:24 AM • twitter.com/karpathy • Hacker News
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Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back. • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM • xakpc.dev • r/programming
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Broken Proofs and Broken Provers • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM • lawrencecpaulson.github.io • Hacker News
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Is it true they say there is a ceiling when you understand how frontend and backend communicate, databases, and APIs, most projects are basically the same pattern but with diffrent busniess logic. • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:35 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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I miss thinking hard • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:35 AM • jernesto.com • Lobsters
71
BearBlog meta is unique • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM • briefly-here-to-unstuck.bearblog.dev • Bear
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I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:17 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Lobsters
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Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM • xakpc.dev • Lobsters
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TIL: Browsers don't respect your device selection in the permission dialog • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:51 AM • github.com/bethington • Hacker News
115
The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:22 AM • xakpc.dev • Hacker News
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Competence as Tragedy • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM • crowprose.com • Lobsters
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This award-winning bookstore looks like a portal to outer space • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM • yankodesign.com • ~design
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A Love Letter to Teslas • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:58 AM • boogerdiary.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:55 AM • an.dywa.ng • Lobsters
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Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM • experimental-history.com • ~misc
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february 3 qed • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM • combatdavey.net • Bear
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Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:46 PM • openpetition.de • Hacker News
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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
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I miss thinking hard • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:54 PM • jernesto.com • Hacker News
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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
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Why poor countries stopped catching up • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM • davidoks.blog • Hacker News
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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
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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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How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:47 PM • hackaday.com • r/programming
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"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
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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
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China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting 2027 • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM • apnews.com • ~transport
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StartingAMagazine.psd • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM • library.xandra.cc • Bear
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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
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Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM • securelist.com • Hacker News
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Women who experience high levels of anxiety regarding their declining health tend to age faster at a molecular level compared to those who do not. • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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
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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
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Dreamweaver? • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Experimenting with CSS and HTML • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
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AI and Trust (2023) • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM • schneier.com • Hacker News
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When Did We All Get So Boring? • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM • zevvdaily.bearblog.dev • Bear
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Google Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas • Feb 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM • tech.slashdot.org • Slashdot
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DHS is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
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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
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AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM • github.com/alibaba • Hacker News
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Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM • fortune.com • Hacker News
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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
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Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM • apple.com • Hacker News
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'Vibe Coding Kills Open Source' • Feb 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM • arxiv.org • Slashdot
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Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM • jsnover.com • Hacker News
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I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM • nikolak.com • Hacker News
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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
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Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:35 PM • blog.senko.net • Hacker News
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Deno Sandbox • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM • deno.com • Hacker News
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No-baggage field report: Full circle (2010) • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM • rtwblog.com • ~travel
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Take the stairs. It could help you live longer. • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM • washingtonpost.com • ~health
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GDPR Enforcement Is Broken • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM • nikolak.com • Lobsters
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Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM • internationaljournalofwellbeing.org • Hacker News
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Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM • octosphere.social • Hacker News
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java sucks (2000) • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:10 PM • jwz.org • Lobsters
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2025 NFL Post Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Freetalk • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM • tildes.net • ~sports.american_football
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YouTube Kills Background Playback on Third-Party Mobile Browsers • Feb 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM • androidauthority.com • Slashdot
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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
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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM • waspdev.com • Hacker News