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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues (cnn.com)

×10.34 27 #29 | 1180 points by kotaKat 9 hours ago | 804 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. (twitter.com/lellouchenico)

×5.38 20 #77 | 860 points by bwb 1 day ago | 741 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal (iranintl.com)

×6.54 12 #83 | 850 points by mhb 1 day ago | 652 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand (atmoio.substack.com)

×4.83 19 #89 | 829 points by mobitar 1 day ago | 606 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Television is 100 years old today (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

×2.68 3 #79 | 644 points by qassiov 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability (apple.com)

×3.06 8 #72 | 586 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 (bsky.app)

×3.58 19 | 575 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3-Max-Thinking (qwen.ai)

×2.21 8 #90 | 492 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't (tech.lgbt)

×5.26 46 #53 | 456 points by JadedBlueEyes 7 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model (kimi.com)

×2.67 7 #44 | 450 points by nekofneko 17 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files (simonwillison.net)

×2.08 3 #80 | 434 points by simonw 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format (maplibre.org)

×1.85 15 | 426 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office (science.org)

×7.67 42 #43 | 419 points by j_maffe 4 hours ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse (windowscentral.com)

×2.56 3 #87 | 414 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE (nbcnews.com)

×6.84 9 #12 | 407 points by duxup 5 hours ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only (restofworld.org)

×3.75 26 | 406 points by siev 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries (theguardian.com)

×2.52 5 | 402 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant (github.com/clawdbot)

×3.03 35 | 389 points by KuzeyAbi 1 day ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back (nproject.io)

×1.97 26 #61 | 387 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The browser is the sandbox (simonwillison.net)

×1.76 30 | 343 points by enos_feedler 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There is an AI code review bubble (greptile.com)

×1.70 3 | 335 points by dakshgupta 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE (pride.com)

×9.48 59 | 324 points by saubeidl 13 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe coding kills open source (arxiv.org)

×3.23 20 | 319 points by kgwgk 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I made my own Git (tonystr.net)

×1.55 9 #20 | 315 points by TonyStr 12 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you' (sciencealert.com)

×1.64 40 | 314 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found (nytimes.com)

×1.45 8 #2 | 311 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prism (openai.com)

×2.31 3 #1 | 295 points by meetpateltech 5 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A list of fun destinations for telnet (telnet.org)

×1.71 28 #38 | 283 points by tokyobreakfast 19 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RIP Low-Code 2014-2025 (zackliscio.com)

×1.69 37 #60 | 277 points by zackliscio 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering (visualrambling.space)

×1.38 37 #65 | 247 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month (vjeux.com)

×1.41 40 #75 | 241 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor (alexxcons.github.io)

×1.22 13 #10 | 240 points by pantalaimon 9 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Adolescence of Technology (darioamodei.com)

×1.48 39 #73 | 236 points by jasondavies 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI code and software craft (alexwennerberg.com)

×1.54 13 #85 | 233 points by alexwennerberg 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype (theregister.com)

×3.76 16 | 231 points by CrankyBear 1 day ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores (cnn.com)

×3.01 74 | 229 points by gmays 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen (github.com/quaadgras)

×1.27 38 | 227 points by Splizard 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in (betakit.com)

×5.09 1 | 215 points by TheLegace 23 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews (reddit.com)

×2.43 22 | 214 points by adamnemecek 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
San Francisco Graffiti (walzr.com)

×1.40 36 | 210 points by walz 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals (bbc.com)

×2.60 24 #84 | 209 points by breve 16 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor (msn.com)

×1.78 42 #58 | 206 points by zdw 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks (twitter.com/karpathy)

×2.30 8 #3 | 196 points by bigwheels 5 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The age of Pump and Dump software (medium.com)

×2.11 24 #49 | 195 points by brisky 9 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People who know the formula for WD-40 (wsj.com)

×1.24 26 #82 | 192 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online (arstechnica.com)

×6.70 28 | 186 points by duxup 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company (amutable.com)

×1.93 #6 | 184 points by hornedhob 4 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE tells legal observer, 'We have a database, now you're a domestic terrorist' (reason.com)

×15.51 57 | 179 points by heavyset_go 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone (github.com/kxzk)

×1.10 43 | 175 points by beigebrucewayne 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
India and EU announce landmark trade deal (bbc.com)

×4.80 20 #64 | 173 points by Palmik 11 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs (reclaimthenet.org)

×6.51 52 | 159 points by ubercow13 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TSMC Risk (stratechery.com)

×1.66 49 | 157 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water (sfgate.com)

×2.16 59 | 155 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doing the thing is doing the thing (softwaredesign.ing)

×2.20 1 #11 | 151 points by prakhar897 5 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch (macrumors.com)

×2.97 14 | 147 points by angott 22 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple, What Have You Done? (onlinegoddess.net)

×5.35 53 | 146 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot (github.com/moltbot)

×2.01 8 #24 | 132 points by philip1209 5 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? (wordpress.com)

×3.32 27 | 132 points by xd1936 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House (hollywoodreporter.com)

×11.60 61 | 131 points by camillomiller 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen (llmspy.org)

×1.05 47 | 130 points by mythz 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS: Critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was never recorded (404media.co)

×8.81 72 | 128 points by cf100clunk 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned (haveibeenpwned.com)

×0.99 14 #8 | 128 points by gnabgib 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Government wants DNA and social media from visitors (privacyinternational.org)

×4.27 56 | 126 points by keiferski 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke? (warontherocks.com)

×2.14 42 | 125 points by ryan_j_naughton 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores (yahoo.com)

×1.91 18 #13 | 122 points by trenning 7 hours ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs (tomaszmachnik.pl)

×0.85 66 | 122 points by musculus 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update (windowslatest.com)

×3.00 63 | 121 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s (rte.ie)

×5.15 5 | 120 points by austinallegro 16 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC (emsh.cat)

×2.07 32 #16 | 119 points by embedding-shape 9 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc. (workdaycase.com)

×2.26 37 | 118 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)

×2.78 36 #52 | 108 points by signa11 15 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus (tetrisbench.com)

×0.68 46 #86 | 108 points by ykhli 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The mountain that weighed the Earth (signoregalilei.com)

×0.88 51 | 103 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok disallows DMs with the word "Epstein" (twitter.com/krassenstein)

×13.19 32 | 98 points by crishoj 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What “The Best” Looks Like (kuril.in)

×0.88 54 | 98 points by akurilin 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Video Games as Art (gwern.net)

×1.01 68 | 96 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs (ispreview.co.uk)

×2.23 50 | 95 points by donpott 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI2: Open Coding Agents (allenai.org)

×1.45 15 #9 | 94 points by publicmatt 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say (bloomberg.com)

×2.79 60 | 93 points by ciconia 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin (bbc.com)

×2.18 6 #14 | 90 points by ourmandave 2 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites (lightwaves.io)

×1.11 37 | 90 points by cmkr 9 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Parametric CAD in Rust (campedersen.com)

×1.52 22 #31 | 89 points by ecto 2 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II

×0.73 5 #69 | 89 points by abkt 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heathrow drops the liquids rule (flymag.com)

×2.56 25 | 89 points by lxm 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf] (kwarc.info)

×0.73 58 | 89 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A small programming language where everything is pass-by-value (github.com/Jcparkyn)

×0.88 73 | 88 points by jcparkyn 2 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting (mprnews.org)

×9.21 39 | 86 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Refusing to Use Twitter (korny.info)

×8.25 44 | 84 points by pavel_lishin 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha) (tailscale.com)

×1.33 3 #32 | 82 points by geoffeg 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux (arthur.pizza)

×0.88 70 | 76 points by starkparker 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???