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  1. Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
    ×1.78 4 | 37 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
    ×1.70 1 | 243 points by rocauc 3 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
    ×1.74 6 | 177 points by pavel_lishin 5 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.28 2 | 425 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
    ×2.27 15 | 23 points by sarreph 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
    ×1.27 6 | 79 points by nomaxx117 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. TrueVault (YC W14) is hiring a Growth Lead to test different growth channels (ycombinator.com)
    41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Banned C++ Features in Chromium (googlesource.com)
    ×2.28 17 | 12 points by szmarczak 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public (ycombinator.com)
    ×1.03 30 | 4 points by subsequent 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
    ×0.87 34 | 5 points by hahahacorn 34 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.05 29 | 13 points by janandonly 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
    ×1.38 6 | 144 points by bpierre 7 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
    ×0.82 14 | 48 points by chaz6 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
    ×1.11 12 | 49 points by elpocko 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
    ×1.02 15 | 37 points by avaer 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
    ×1.51 12 | 243 points by yesturi 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Vargai/SDK – JSX for AI video, declarative programming language for Claude Code (varg.ai)
    ×1.08 1 | 25 points by alex_varga 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
    ×1.02 19 | 35 points by mnazzaro 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022) (eliotakira.com)
    ×1.44 8 | 17 points by mifydev 41 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
    ×1.38 12 | 177 points by rvermeulen98 9 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem (dbushell.com)
    ×2.46 3 | 440 points by dbushell 14 hours ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
    ×1.68 1 | 65 points by chmaynard 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions (zsweep.com)
    ×0.54 25 | 51 points by oug-t 6 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Show HN: New 3D Mapping website - Create heli orbits and "playable" map tours. (easy3dmaps.com)
    ×0.42 28 | 22 points by dobodob 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
    ×1.27 11 | 235 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives (anthropic.com)
    ×0.96 21 | 90 points by malshe 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
    ×2.37 8 | 68 points by at1as 6 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Zotero 8 (zotero.org)
    ×3.70 22 | 119 points by bouchard 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)
    ×6.28 21 | 488 points by s_dev 8 hours ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
    ×1.60 12 | 197 points by 01jonny01 12 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: 83 browser-use trajectories, visualized (trails-red.vercel.app)
    ×1.15 42 | 5 points by wayy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
    ×1.02 35 | 9 points by dsrtslnd23 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
    ×2.54 12 | 430 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params) (huggingface.co)
    ×1.09 95 | 122 points by schopra909 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
    ×1.26 14 | 164 points by whiteros_e 12 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Kotlin's Rich Errors: Native, Typed Errors Without Exceptions (cekrem.github.io)
    ×0.61 19 | 27 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Seeeking help to reverse engineer a PCB
    ×0.24 80 | 3 points by Dlg001 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light (anaghmalik.com)
    ×0.41 37 | 31 points by pillars 7 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Three RCEs in Ilias Learning Management System (srlabs.de)
    ×0.37 32 | 22 points by hack223 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Microsoft collects passwords and scans password-protected zip files (2023) (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.85 3 | 5 points by user_account 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate (reclaimthenet.org)
    ×3.83 31 | 72 points by mikece 3 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
    ×7.17 20 | 889 points by nhod 19 hours ago | 441 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed (github.com/anthropics)
    ×2.78 39 | 171 points by nurimamedov 3 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
    ×3.15 29 | 456 points by mefengl 11 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. What has Docker become? (tuananh.net)
    ×2.07 26 | 220 points by tuananh 9 hours ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Presence in Death (rubinmuseum.org)
    ×0.96 12 | 67 points by tock 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users (interfree.ca)
    ×0.94 22 | 82 points by tuukkao 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Isometric NYC (cannoneyed.com)
    ×1.05 61 | 20 points by Dowwie 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.16 16 | 434 points by codetheweb 16 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
    ×1.76 24 | 225 points by benbreen 21 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The lost art of XML (marcosmagueta.com)
    ×2.01 38 | 123 points by Curiositry 17 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months (joshcollinsworth.com)
    ×2.09 28 | 12 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders (aljazeera.com)
    ×1.11 33 | 39 points by Qem 9 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Teemux – Zero-config log multiplexer with built-in MCP server (teemux.com)
    ×0.49 44 | 9 points by gajus 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Obsidian Workflows with Gemini: Inbox Processing and Task Review (github.com/juanpabloaj)
    ×1.37 33 | 7 points by juanpabloaj 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC (cannoneyed.com)
    ×4.96 20 | 1243 points by cannoneyed 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Microsoft mishandling example.com (tinyapps.org)
    ×3.03 40 | 216 points by mrled 8 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware (wordpress.com)
    ×0.63 56 | 69 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
    ×2.47 17 | 286 points by mustaphah 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking (philipotoole.com)
    ×2.21 18 | 142 points by otoolep 17 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store (github.com/s2-streamstore)
    ×0.91 5 | 67 points by shikhar 9 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. The Unexpected Logic of Art Economics: Arts and Inequality in 80s NY (2020) (gothamcenter.org)
    ×0.30 45 | 6 points by hyperific 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)
    ×1.26 49 | 134 points by marklit 22 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) (theatlantic.com)
    ×1.71 41 | 193 points by BoorishBears 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Doubting U.S. resolve, Europe looks to bolster its own nuclear arsenal (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.82 20 | 28 points by saubeidl 4 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Tesla convicted 18 times for failing to help UK police with investigations (lbc.co.uk)
    ×2.85 20 | 12 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. CSS Optical Illusions (alvaromontoro.com)
    ×1.27 44 | 212 points by ulrischa 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
    ×1.74 5 | 375 points by personjerry 1 day ago | 314 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.60 68 | 230 points by CharlesW 2 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
    ×1.16 33 | 142 points by timsneath 22 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? (hugodaniel.com)
    ×3.70 20 | 705 points by hugodan 1 day ago | 610 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Writing First, Tooling Second (susam.net)
    ×0.80 50 | 63 points by blenderob 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? (eieio.games)
    ×3.12 20 | 631 points by eieio 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Launch HN: Constellation Space (YC W26) – AI for satellite mission assurance
    ×0.33 97 | 45 points by kmajid 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation (qwen.ai)
    ×3.06 16 | 706 points by Palmik 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Variation on Iota (toolofthought.com)
    ×0.33 54 | 17 points by aebtebeten 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Our collective obsession with boredom: Interview with a boredom lab researcher (nautil.us)
    ×0.53 49 | 30 points by akakievich 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser (github.com/browseros-ai)
    ×0.84 68 | 81 points by felarof 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance (science.org)
    ×1.05 46 | 139 points by colincooke 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies (sciencealert.com)
    ×1.05 48 | 126 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update (valueaddedresource.net)
    ×2.15 59 | 324 points by bdcravens 2 days ago | 346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017) (pbs.org)
    ×1.56 49 | 282 points by kaycebasques 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Stunnel (stunnel.org)
    ×1.25 33 | 112 points by firesteelrain 21 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss (pdfa.org)
    ×1.17 57 | 160 points by whizzx 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Ask HN: Do you "micro-manage" your agents?
    ×0.93 36 | 3 points by xinbenlv 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers (lambdaland.org)
    ×1.50 27 | 250 points by ashton314 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Dismantling dark patterns using TDD via discovery and injunctions
    ×0.78 15 | 4 points by marc_litchfield 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes" (shreevatsa.net)
    ×2.78 16 | 534 points by speckx 1 day ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Your app subscription is now my weekend project (rselbach.com)
    ×3.39 24 | 524 points by robteix 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes a Security Issue Present Since 1996 (phoronix.com)
    ×1.18 26 | 12 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???