101370
Wholesome inclusion • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM • i.redd.it • r/MadeMeSmile
431
Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM • longevity.stanford.edu • Hacker News
35
Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started? • Feb 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM • tildes.net • ~books
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Thought-Terminating Cliché • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
166
As Rocks May Think • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:50 PM • evjang.com • Hacker News
23P
I loved my teaching job. But as a trans man in Texas, quitting was the only way to get my dignity back. • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM • theguardian.com • ~lgbt
172
Striking a Balance: Working Fully Remote for Nearly a Decade • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM • rion.io • r/programming
91
Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
76P
I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM • twitter.com/lizziejohnsonnn • Hacker News
128
Any software engineers considering a career switch due to AI? • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM • tildes.net • ~engineering
198
I understand code, but I cannot "think" code • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
574
What web dev trend is clearly disappearing right now? • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:28 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
333P
Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:08 PM • cia.gov • Hacker News
201
Claude Composer • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM • josh.ing • Hacker News
85P
Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM • arstechnica.com • science.slashdot
88P
Everyone Online Is Lying • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM • zevvdaily.bearblog.dev • Bear
3398
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
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
149P
Technocracy 2.0 • Feb 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM • brooklynrail.org • Hacker News
885
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM • rhodesmill.org • Hacker News
128177
Cosmo’s ✨transformation✨ • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM • reddit.com • r/cats
74P
I'm annoyed with mundane revisionist history • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:40 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
116P
Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance' • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
159
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
741P
Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM • neosmart.net • Hacker News
181
'Everyone is Stealing TV' • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM • theverge.com • Slashdot
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
80P
We're Being Evicted • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
77
The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM • ejpe.org • 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
110P
Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM • neosmart.net • Lobsters
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
23
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
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
665P
The Great Unwind • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM • occupywallst.com • Hacker News
122
Intel will start making GPUs • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
229P
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
168
Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:16 PM • news.uark.edu • Hacker News
103
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
294P
French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM • twitter.com/Ced_haurus • Hacker News
142P
Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative • Feb 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM • blog.codinghorror.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
1155
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
164
RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM • github.com/MaxBittker • Hacker News
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
664
Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:08 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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
3
What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Feb 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~comp
88P
Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:50 AM • divergent-desktop.org • Hacker News
197P
The F Word • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:34 AM • muratbuffalo.blogspot.com • Hacker News
1249P
Voxtral Transcribe 2 • Feb 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM • mistral.ai • Hacker News
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
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
209
Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function • Feb 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM • medicalxpress.com • 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
202
I Am Not a Functional Programmer • Feb 4, 2026 at 8:36 AM • blog.daniel-beskin.com • r/programming
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
142
Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM • smithsonianmag.com • Hacker News
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
743
Claude is a space to think • Feb 4, 2026 at 7:08 AM • anthropic.com • 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
102619
Finally a blockbuster • Feb 4, 2026 at 5:22 AM • i.redd.it • r/memes
3318
Senior Vibe Coder dealing with security • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:55 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
93
"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:24 AM • twitter.com/karpathy • Hacker News
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
77
Broken Proofs and Broken Provers • Feb 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM • lawrencecpaulson.github.io • Hacker News
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
73
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
44
I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input • Feb 4, 2026 at 2:17 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Lobsters
66
Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM • xakpc.dev • Lobsters
123
TIL: Browsers don't respect your device selection in the permission dialog • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
360
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
151P
Competence as Tragedy • Feb 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM • crowprose.com • Lobsters
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
26
february 3 qed • Feb 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM • combatdavey.net • Bear
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
55
Walmart Joins $1 Trillion Club • Feb 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM • finance.yahoo.com • Slashdot
11072P
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
207P
Why poor countries stopped catching up • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM • davidoks.blog • Hacker News
29P
Alphabet plots big expansion in India as US restricts visas • Feb 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM • bloomberg.com • ~tech
138
Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study • Feb 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
188P
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