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Half of all men over 60 have prostate cancer – an AI diagnostic tool could identify which need followup. Examinations have detected prostate cancer in 10 per cent of 50-year-olds, 50 per cent of 60-year-olds and approximately 70 per cent of men over the age of 80. • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM • norwegianscitechnews.com • r/science
14
Web Builders in 2026 • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM • app.webjourney.pro • Hacker News
278
The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM • benshoemaker.us • Hacker News
7849
Common bacteria discovered in the eye linked to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s: Study shows for first time that Chlamydia pneumoniae (common cause of pneumonia and sinus infection) can reach retina where it triggers immune responses linked to inflammation, nerve cell death and cognitive decline. • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM • cedars-sinai.org • r/science
33
A site explaining every known juggling trick • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM • libraryofjuggling.com • ~creative
51
Website works on every device except one MacBook – images not loading • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
149P
Technocracy 2.0 • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM • brooklynrail.org • Hacker News
52
SanDisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
885
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM • rhodesmill.org • Hacker News
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Cosmo’s ✨transformation✨ • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM • reddit.com • r/cats
16
ClickHouse Agent Skills • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM • github.com/ClickHouse • Hacker News
11
Anthropic's new AI tool: Next black stock market day for the software industry • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM • heise.de • Hacker News
17
IndieWebify.Me? Yes please • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM • blog.rickardlindberg.me • Lobsters
100
Mean People Fail (2014) • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM • paulgraham.com • Hacker News
74P
I'm annoyed with mundane revisionist history • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:40 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
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Many people have no mental imagery. What's going on in their brains? • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
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Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance' • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:26 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
103P
Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM • github.com/cfinke • Hacker News
74P
Women rejecting the hijab have doomed Iran's brutal regime • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM • telegraph.co.uk • Hacker News
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Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM • neosmart.net • Hacker News
6
Show HN: Viberails – Easy AI Audit and Control • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM • viberails.io • Hacker News
6
Introduction of the Atari 400/800 in 1979 • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM • goto10retro.com • Hacker News
67
Turn any website into a live, structured data feed • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM • meter.sh • Hacker News
181
'Everyone is Stealing TV' • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM • theverge.com • Slashdot
22P
'It's an absolute bloodbath': Washington Post lays off workers • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:59 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
501P
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM • newyorker.com • Hacker News
103P
ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
9P
A Trump 'Blockade' Is Stalling Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
9
Does AI have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
80P
We're Being Evicted • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
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Study in U.S. Veterans Identifies Agent Orange Exposure as a Risk Factor for Rare Skin Cancer • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM • massgeneralbrigham.org • r/science
18
Learning Low-Level Computing and C++ by Making a Game Boy Emulator • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:37 PM • byteofmelon.com • Hacker News
77
The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM • ejpe.org • Hacker News
16
JetBrains drops X11 for Wayland as default in IntelliJ-based IDEs • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM • neowin.net • Hacker News
18
Stack Overflow Launches (2008) • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM • joelonsoftware.com • Lobsters
9
Show HN: LIAM – email and calendar assistant that drafts replies and schedules • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:34 PM • doitliam.com • Hacker News
141
LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:34 PM • github.com/naver • Hacker News
448
Claude Code for Infrastructure • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:34 PM • fluid.sh • Hacker News
12
Wayland by Default in 2026.1 EAP (Jetbrains) • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM • blog.jetbrains.com • Hacker News
21P
Washington Post cuts a third of its staff in a blow to a legendary news brand • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
19
User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
10P
Jeffrey Epstein made lucrative investment in crypto exchange Coinbase • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
110P
Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM • neosmart.net • Lobsters
12
Workspace Studio- Automate your work with Gemini • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:17 PM • studio.workspace.google.com • Hacker News
135
AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
20P
ICE has offices in 5 Canadian cities • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:05 PM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
132
2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025 • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:05 PM • mybooklist.club • Hacker News
15P
EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM • politico.eu • Hacker News
23
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
10
Show HN: Tabstack Research – An API for verified web research (by Mozilla) • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:57 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
102P
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:55 PM • newrepublic.com • Hacker News
24
I made an open-source juypter alternative • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM • github.com/DannyMang • Hacker News
16P
Map Shows 21 States Where Deaths Now Outnumber Births (2025) • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM • newsweek.com • Hacker News
665P
The Great Unwind • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM • occupywallst.com • Hacker News
15
Cracking the Clit (2017) • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM • logicmag.io • Hacker News
230
Violence linked to depression in adolescent girls but not boys. Although males are more likely to be exposed to or witness violence, females tend to show higher levels of depression during adolescence. • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:47 PM • psypost.org • r/science
38P
University of Michigan study: Greenwashing Marine Conservation: The Use of Artificial Reefs for Fisheries and Coral Restoration Needs Oversight • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:44 PM • conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com • r/science
15
Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models? • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:43 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
122
Intel will start making GPUs • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
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Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:36 PM • newsweek.com • Hacker News
265
Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:35 PM • scd31.com • Hacker News
19P
The Murder of the Washington Post • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
26
A few CPU hardware bugs • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM • taricorp.net • Lobsters
9P
Ending 15 years of subprocess polling • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM • gmpy.dev • Hacker News
168
Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:16 PM • news.uark.edu • Hacker News
17P
Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being ‚woke' • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
5P
Epstein Broke the Internet • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:10 PM • garbageday.email • Hacker News
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Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:10 PM • perl.com • Hacker News
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Pink noise—often used to promote sleep—may reduce restorative REM sleep and interfere with sleep recovery, while earplugs are significantly more effective in protecting sleep against traffic noise. The findings challenge the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM • pennmedicine.org • r/science
1238
AI is killing B2B SaaS • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM • nmn.gl • Hacker News
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French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM • twitter.com/Ced_haurus • Hacker News
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Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM • blog.codinghorror.com • Hacker News
16P
Majority of Trump voters back solar power, poll finds • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
18
AI Agents as Autonomous Founders • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
120
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022) • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:59 AM • currentaffairs.org • Hacker News
274
Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM • derekyan.com • Hacker News
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The risk for being bitten by a tick infected with bacteria that cause Lyme disease is as high in Ohio as it is for those living in Northeast states that have dealt with Lyme disease for over 50 years, according to a new study – and the risk is present even in winter weather. • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:52 AM • news.osu.edu • r/science
16
What Every Programmer Needs to Know about Quantum Safe Cryptography and Hidden Number Problems • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM • leetarxiv.substack.com • r/programming
164
RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM • github.com/MaxBittker • Hacker News
11
The Muppets are horny and weird again (just like Jim Henson intended) • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM • polygon.com • Hacker News
14
China bans hidden car door handles • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM • text.npr.org • Hacker News
195
Researchers quantify role of reducing obesity in preventing common conditions: reducing BMI lower risk of 61 out of 71 commonly co-occurring conditions analyzed • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM • news.exeter.ac.uk • r/science
108877
Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM • v.redd.it • r/interestingasfuck
314
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
217
Postgres Postmaster does not scale • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:30 AM • recall.ai • Hacker News
32
The internet wasn't built for live sports • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:27 AM • youtube.com • ~tech
16P
Bear’s medium is the message • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM • blaser.blog • Bear
109
Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM • blog.cleancoder.com • Hacker News
664
Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:08 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
11
Native UI toolkit Slint 1.15 released 🎉 • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:07 AM • slint.dev • r/programming
133272
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
7
Show HN: Orpheus, An Agent runtime that scales on queue depth and not CPU • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM • github.com/arpitnath • Hacker News
3
What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~comp
31
Anthropic Pledges To Keep Claude Ad-free, Calls AI Conversations a 'Space To Think' • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM • anthropic.com • Slashdot
41P
Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females for allies • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:54 AM • expression.fire.org • Hacker News
585
High-skill migration from Asia to the United States since 1990 to work in the tech sector has substantially boosted US innovation. It has also facilitated a "brain gain" in the sending countries, leading to net increases in human capital. • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM • aeaweb.org • r/science
88P
Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:50 AM • divergent-desktop.org • Hacker News
216P
The countries with highest labor productivity will see declines in the labor force while Africa will account for most of the labor growth. Creating legal pathways for people to move from low productivity places to labor scarce places would enable gains on the order of trillions of dollars. • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:36 AM • aeaweb.org • r/science
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Japan is considering nuclear subs. But are they worth the costs? • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:35 AM • japantimes.co.jp • Hacker News
197P
The F Word • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:34 AM • muratbuffalo.blogspot.com • Hacker News
13
中文流博主与其他语言流博主之间，存在有壁吗？ • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM • onelastme.bearblog.dev • Bear
14
Anthropic says 'Claude will remain ad-free,' unlike ChatGPT • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:17 AM • theverge.com • Hacker News
11
How Containers Work: Building Container Networking from Scratch • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:10 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
1249P
Voxtral Transcribe 2 • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM • mistral.ai • Hacker News
22
in 2026, Do Senior Full Stack SWE need to also know Kubernetes and Terraform or IaC? • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:06 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
389
Targeting the immune system may help treat a specific subtype of depression. Study found that when patients are selected based on elevated inflammation markers, certain drugs reduce both general depressive symptoms and the inability to feel pleasure. • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM • psypost.org • r/science
36
Faster, cheaper, messier: lessons from our switch to self-hosted GitHub Actions • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:02 AM • theguardian.engineering • r/programming
74
Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:01 AM • bbc.com • Slashdot
136
Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:57 AM • rabbitear.org • Hacker News
641P
A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:46 AM • pdfa.org • Hacker News
18
photo apps I use • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM • mrmr.bearblog.dev • Bear
17
photo apps I use • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM • mrmr.bearblog.dev • Bear
257
Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:33 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
1123P
FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM • 404media.co • Hacker News
464
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
128
What website can I use to check domain availability without the risk of that website buys the domain to sell me it for x100 the price? • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:26 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
209
Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM • medicalxpress.com • Hacker News
36P
Washington Post Begins Layoffs • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:18 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
9P
Ask HN: Are ISPs "evil" and who runs the Internet? • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:09 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
12
Show HN: Two-week creative lab for developers building with real-time AI video • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:02 AM • daydream.live • Hacker News
53
Why Google's Android for PC Launch May Be Messy and Controversial • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:02 AM • theverge.com • Slashdot
54
Show HN: Mmdr – 1000x faster Mermaid rendering in pure Rust (no browser) • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM • github.com/1jehuang • Hacker News
74P
Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM • optical.toys • Hacker News
7
Show HN: Teaching AI agents to write better GraphQL • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM • skills.sh • Hacker News
109
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:57 AM • sir68k.re • Hacker News
162
I made a word game • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:52 AM • pivotthegame.com • ~games
8
A $957 Tube of Cream • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM • wysr.xyz • Hacker News
12
How do you manage context/memory across multiple AI tools? • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:45 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
15P
Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:43 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
202
I Am Not a Functional Programmer • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:36 AM • blog.daniel-beskin.com • r/programming
22P
Beg Bounties • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:36 AM • troyhunt.com • Hacker News
9P
Crazy German Tax Law: Fünftelregelung (or how to pay 116% in income tax) • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:34 AM • vormals.substack.com • Hacker News
57
Tessellation Kit (2016) • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM • sciencevsmagic.net • Hacker News
17P
China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting in 2027 • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:11 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
61
Sukr: A minimal static site compiler in Rust with zero-JS output • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:05 AM • sukr.io • Lobsters
86
I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:02 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Hacker News
107P
Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM • garryslist.org • Hacker News
30P
US Gen-X is definitely feeling the pressure • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM • sciencedaily.com • Hacker News
14
Xikipedia Algorithm • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:55 AM • github.com/rebane2001 • Lobsters
142
Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM • smithsonianmag.com • Hacker News
10
Show HN: Webhook Skills – Agent skills for webhook providers and best practices • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:32 AM • github.com/hookdeck • Hacker News
46
If your web app is running workers it has a backend • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:27 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
21P
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
7
Show HN: Zerobrew – Alternative to Homebrew • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:25 AM • github.com/lucasgelfond • Hacker News
9
Introducing Bunny Database: The SQLite-Compatible Edge DB • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:18 AM • bunny.net • Lobsters
743
Claude is a space to think • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:08 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
6
Show HN: OpenShears – I built an uninstaller because OpenClaw refuses to die • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:06 AM • github.com/oswarld • Hacker News
601P
Exposure to low-credibility online health content is limited and concentrated among older adults in the US. Low-credibility website exposure was also found to be greatest among conservatives and those who consume more right-leaning news. • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:04 AM • nature.com • r/science
106
Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:36 AM • newsletter.jantegze.com • Hacker News
24P
EU rejects 'nonsense' censorship charge from Trump allies • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:31 AM • lemonde.fr • Hacker News
21P
Wirth's Revenge • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:22 AM • jmoiron.net • Lobsters
19
raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:22 AM • fosdem.org • Lobsters
46
Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780 • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:21 AM • gist.github.com • Hacker News
13
GitHub Ponders Kill Switch for Pull Requests to Stop AI Slop • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:21 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
71
Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression) • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:13 AM • bitsnbites.eu • Hacker News
1804
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
35
Broken proofs and broken provers • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:56 AM • lawrencecpaulson.github.io • Lobsters
33P
Trump's Profiteering Hits $4B • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:42 AM • newyorker.com • Hacker News
15
Free AI video clipper using scene and speech-based segmentation • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:33 AM • crabcut.ai • Hacker News
11
Speculative Sampling Explained • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:26 AM • saibo-creator.github.io • Hacker News
22
Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:25 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
102619
Finally a blockbuster • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:22 AM • i.redd.it • r/memes
1061
New solution for moderate-to-severe sleep apnoea. Researchers seen significant improvements in breathing in 93% of participants, with airflow increases comparable to CPAP therapy, even when the upper airway was completely closed • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:05 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
3318
Senior Vibe Coder dealing with security • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:55 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
16
AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:51 AM • github.com/alibaba • r/programming
9
How not to program in Dyalog APL • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM • toolofthought.com • Lobsters
5
Cancer Immunotherapy Works Better Before 3pm, Study Finds • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:30 AM • nature.com • Hacker News
93
"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:24 AM • twitter.com/karpathy • Hacker News
132
Researchers identified the worst crop shock every country experienced since 1961: the global average was −29%, with Botswana losing 80% in a single year. Climate—especially drought—was the leading cause, and the frequency of climate-driven shocks has doubled since the 1960s. • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM • esd.copernicus.org • r/science
749
Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back. • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM • xakpc.dev • r/programming
19
The era of AI only social media will free us all • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:06 AM • kkc.bearblog.dev • Bear
20
My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM • mtlynch.io • Hacker News
77
Broken Proofs and Broken Provers • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM • lawrencecpaulson.github.io • Hacker News
28
Ktkit: A Kotlin toolkit for building server applications with Ktor • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:56 AM • github.com/smyrgeorge • Hacker News
173
From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM • 1password.com • r/programming
36
writing an RSS reader in 80 lines of bash • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:50 AM • yobibyte.github.io • Lobsters
260
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
4
Introducing Deno Sandbox | Deno • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:22 AM • deno.com • r/programming
32
Say Hello To GoogleSQL • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:01 AM • nerds.xyz • Slashdot
49
The €10 Mirror: Why Enterprise Security Looks Like a Kid's Toy • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM • labs.itresit.es • Hacker News
30
LFS/BLFS will no longer be developing the System V versions • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM • lists.linuxfromscratch.org • Lobsters
11P
Melinda French Gates Appears to Confirm Divorce Was Related to Epstein • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:43 AM • gizmodo.com • Hacker News
11
Show HN: Sentinel – a Pingora-based reverse proxy (inspired by River) • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:40 AM • sentinel.raskell.io • Hacker News
17P
Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe's key satellites • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
73
I miss thinking hard • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:35 AM • jernesto.com • Lobsters
97P
The world is more equal than you think • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:33 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
8
How to squeeze a lexicon (2001) [pdf] • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM • marcinciura.wordpress.com • Hacker News
17
Early AWS reduction strategy before traffic spikes and outages and im stuck with leaderships • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:22 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
71
BearBlog meta is unique • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM • briefly-here-to-unstuck.bearblog.dev • Bear
44
I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:17 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Lobsters
35
Cheapest Stack for Clinic Dashboard (DB + Auth + API) — Needs Managed Auth, Tight Budget • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:16 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
11
"Superhuman": A 13 year old boy swims 2.5 miles to save family swept out to sea • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:06 AM • cbsnews.com • Hacker News
62
Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:04 AM • marketwatch.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
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Competence as Tragedy • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM • crowprose.com • Lobsters
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Embedded Vector and Graph Database in Pure Go • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:19 AM • github.com/liliang-cn • Hacker News
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A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:17 AM • twitter.com/davidmarcus • Hacker News
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rust-dlopen: A dynamic linker fully implemented in Rust • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM • github.com/weizhiao • 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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PWA shenanigans have saved my soul • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:51 AM • digiwha-labs.com • r/webdev
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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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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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Ask HN: Tech Debt War Stories • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:25 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM • news.ycombinator.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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Using awake fMRI, researchers found that 2 month old infants already have structured visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex, resembling adult patterns. This shows the brain organizes complex visual information far earlier than previously believed. • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM • nature.com • r/science
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36 Years in Making, GNU's Own Kernel Project Hurd Is Anything but Dead • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:20 PM • itsfoss.com • Hacker News
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In the wake of the Epstein files – will there be an analog resurgence? • Feb 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist? • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM • lord.io • Hacker News
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"Yes, It's Happening. Yes, it's real." March For Billionaires, SF, 02/07/2026 • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM • marchforbillionaires.org • Hacker News
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Walmart Joins $1 Trillion Club • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM • finance.yahoo.com • Slashdot
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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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Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
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Alphabet plots big expansion in India as US restricts visas • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM • bloomberg.com • ~tech
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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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Anthropic Plans Employee Tender Offer at $350B Valuation • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:47 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
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Why Vibe First Development Collapses Under Its Own Freedom • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:27 PM • techyall.com • r/programming
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Show HN: Ec – a terminal Git conflict resolver inspired by IntelliJ • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM • github.com/chojs23 • Hacker News
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Vibe Coding is the new RAD • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM • techleader.pro • Hacker News
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A Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime (2018) • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM • miamiherald.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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Show HN: Mementomori.club – We All Die. Don't Lose Track • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:03 PM • mementomori.club • Hacker News
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FDA approves first eye drop for age-related vision loss • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM • newatlas.com • 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
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Adobe Just Killed My Career [video] • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam – Camo Studio with OBS • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
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Seven million cancers a year are preventable, says report • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM • bbc.com • ~health
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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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Valve wants to hold [patent troll] Leigh Rothschild personally liable • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:40 PM • reporterbyte.com • Hacker News
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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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Google Home Finally Adds Support For Buttons • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM • theverge.com • Slashdot
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A new study has found that high-precision brain training can help novice meditators learn the practice more effectively • Feb 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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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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Walmart hits $1 trillion market cap, fueled by growth of e-commerce, new businesses • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM • cnbc.com • ~finance
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Walmart hits $1T market cap • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing) • Feb 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM • news.ycombinator.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
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Use "\A \z", not "^ $" with Python regular expressions – Seth Larson • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM • sethmlarson.dev • Hacker News
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Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox? • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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Mesh: A compacting memory allocator for C/C++ • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:42 PM • github.com/plasma-umass • Hacker News
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Chrome rolling out WebGPU for Linux, starting with support for Intel Gen12 GPUs • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM • issues.chromium.org • Hacker News
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SBA cuts off non-US citizens from primary loan program • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:32 PM • politico.com • Hacker News
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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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Humble Choice - February 2026 • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM • tildes.net • ~games
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State of the (Jelly)Fin 2026-01-06, free software for streaming media • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM • jellyfin.org • ~tech
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Microsoft Campus Library Closes • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM • geekwire.com • Hacker News
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Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention • Feb 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM • dl.acm.org • Hacker News
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Dreamweaver? • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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FERC: Renewables made up 88% of new US power generating capacity to Nov 2025 • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
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Taming the Flat AST: Ergonomics in the Age of Zero Allocations • Feb 3, 2026 at 3:35 PM • modern-c.blogspot.com • Lobsters
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