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  1. Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires (thehftguy.com)
    ×2.02 8 | 305 points by user5994461 7 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. How I Became a Quant [pdf] (nyu.edu)
    ×2.03 18 | 25 points by sonabinu 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Maze Algorithms (2017) (jamisbuck.org)
    ×1.47 12 | 22 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (github.com/nrrb)
    ×3.54 | 40 points by andsoitis 48 minutes ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Are we all plagiarists now? (economist.com)
    ×1.46 2 | 58 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms (twitter.com/NicerInPerson)
    ×3.10 5 | 62 points by AffableSpatula 3 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.39 5 | 227 points by mattjhall 7 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security eng to harden healthcare data infra (ycombinator.com)
    49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked (windowscentral.com)
    ×4.29 4 | 206 points by blacktulip 4 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite (sqlite.org)
    ×1.52 7 | 111 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Internet Archive's Storage (dshr.org)
    ×1.58 15 | 240 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. I Like GitLab (whileforloop.com)
    ×2.12 4 | 135 points by lukas346 7 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
    ×1.93 16 | 412 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. When employees feel slighted, they work less (upenn.edu)
    ×3.67 1 | 176 points by consumer451 6 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
    ×1.99 18 | 443 points by rocauc 23 hours ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. 6 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over (mux.com)
    ×0.70 20 | 20 points by bolp 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator (vic20.games)
    ×0.52 34 | 21 points by lance_ewing 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. 80386 Multiplication and Division (nand2mario.github.io)
    ×0.92 27 | 81 points by nand2mario 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Gmail Spam Detection Down (google.com)
    ×3.68 5 | 8 points by Abimelex 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. “Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow (npr.org)
    ×2.11 24 | 124 points by NaOH 14 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg (bloomberg.github.io)
    ×1.27 34 | 100 points by clarus 14 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue
    ×2.38 | 159 points by io_eric 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
    ×1.91 24 | 371 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)
    ×1.50 28 | 198 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf] (unc.edu)
    ×0.84 21 | 38 points by rintrah 7 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Banned C++ features in Chromium (googlesource.com)
    ×1.63 32 | 215 points by szmarczak 21 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Traintrackr – Live LED Maps (traintrackr.co.uk)
    ×1.06 23 | 82 points by recursion 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space (eurofusion.eu)
    ×0.74 40 | 40 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.98 27 | 96 points by written-beyond 1 hour ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
    ×1.72 37 | 221 points by dsrtslnd23 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
    ×1.64 48 | 338 points by yesturi 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.45 13 | 971 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 608 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.78 7 | 285 points by sarreph 21 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
    ×2.52 32 | 535 points by dbushell 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
    ×1.09 57 | 119 points by hahahacorn 20 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance (comma.ai)
    ×2.82 11 | 324 points by JumpCrisscross 16 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
    ×1.54 45 | 252 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Objective-S (objective.st)
    ×1.58 58 | 12 points by tosh 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.10 54 | 159 points by nomaxx117 23 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.14 44 | 221 points by at1as 1 day ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
    ×1.49 48 | 262 points by rvermeulen98 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The fix for a segfault that never shipped (recall.ai)
    ×0.70 | 21 points by davidgu 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents (nytimes.com)
    ×13.73 36 | 32 points by mickle00 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The GNU C Library version 2.43 released (sourceware.org)
    ×1.28 5 | 9 points by edelsohn 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Air traffic control: the IBM 9020 (computer.rip)
    ×1.00 53 | 51 points by pinewurst 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build?
    ×0.87 23 | 22 points by athrowaway3z 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The strange case of the underestimated Merge Join node (dalibo.com)
    ×0.93 53 | 23 points by daamien 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.87 58 | 76 points by janandonly 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Kotlin's rich errors: Native, typed errors without exceptions (cekrem.github.io)
    ×0.74 74 | 55 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives (anthropic.com)
    ×1.01 57 | 132 points by malshe 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
    ×0.97 58 | 92 points by mnazzaro 23 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
    ×0.77 60 | 86 points by chaz6 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
    ×7.21 14 | 1026 points by nhod 1 day ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
    ×1.55 43 | 224 points by 01jonny01 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
    ×0.86 58 | 81 points by avaer 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains (nature.com)
    ×9.59 50 | 25 points by Anon84 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
    ×1.02 47 | 101 points by elpocko 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)
    ×6.78 28 | 736 points by s_dev 1 day ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
    ×1.20 43 | 115 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions (zsweep.com)
    ×0.58 60 | 76 points by oug-t 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
    ×2.57 11 | 464 points by zdw 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript (cosmic-odometer.vercel.app)
    ×1.10 28 | 51 points by captainnemo729 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
    ×1.38 18 | 277 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Cap'n Proto (capnproto.org)
    ×2.20 71 | 30 points by tosh 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go (tbray.org)
    ×1.44 18 | 94 points by moks 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The lost art of XML (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×1.95 55 | 157 points by Curiositry 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC (cannoneyed.com)
    ×5.08 14 | 1294 points by cannoneyed 2 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents (simonwillison.net)
    ×1.24 33 | 68 points by lumpa 19 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 13:02 (google.com)
    ×3.45 59 | 21 points by donutshop 59 minutes ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
    ×1.23 35 | 177 points by whiteros_e 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
    ×2.50 39 | 322 points by mustaphah 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Unveiling Firestore Pipeline operations – Firestore's powerful new query engine (firebase.blog)
    ×0.23 76 | 6 points by reimertz 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×2.11 51 | 57 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Workspaces and Monorepos in Package Managers (nesbitt.io)
    ×0.65 59 | 27 points by Couto 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.24 5 | 464 points by codetheweb 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users (interfree.ca)
    ×0.96 50 | 98 points by tuukkao 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update (valueaddedresource.net)
    ×2.13 72 | 331 points by bdcravens 2 days ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders (aljazeera.com)
    ×1.22 65 | 63 points by Qem 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Certificate Transparency Log Explorer (swerdlow.dev)
    ×0.62 58 | 31 points by benswerd 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
    ×3.17 20 | 495 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params) (huggingface.co)
    ×1.15 64 | 153 points by schopra909 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The SIM-to-real problem isn't about simulators – it's about behavior robustness (medium.com)
    ×0.55 62 | 24 points by fabotelli 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.56 59 | 287 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. CSS Optical Illusions (alvaromontoro.com)
    ×1.29 46 | 221 points by ulrischa 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
    ×1.22 56 | 138 points by marklit 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.69 43 | 203 points by BoorishBears 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking (philipotoole.com)
    ×2.27 31 | 173 points by otoolep 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? (hugodaniel.com)
    ×3.76 3 | 733 points by hugodan 1 day ago | 628 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. TI-99/4A: Leaning more on the firmware (wordpress.com)
    ×0.64 63 | 75 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Zotero 8 (zotero.org)
    ×3.93 21 | 236 points by bouchard 23 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???