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Vibe: Easy VM sandboxes for LLM agents on macOS (github.com/lynaghk)

×0.90 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chat Was the UI. Agents Are the Architecture (billykaplan.io)

×0.86 | 1 points by billy1kaplan 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce (wired.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by smurda 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Six things we're learning from 1.5M AI agents self-organizing in a week

×0.73 | 1 points by abrandes 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude Launcher – TUI to fuzzy search and resume Claude Code sessions (github.com/imprakharshukla)

×0.74 | 1 points by imprakharshukla 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Genie3 Video Loop Generator – create seamless game-style loops in ~30s (genie3-video.org)

×0.73 | 1 points by linkshu 18 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Garbage PC (ounapuu.ee)

×0.71 | 1 points by Fudgel 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Troubling Trend of Combat-Uniform Creep (nationalreview.com)

×1.58 | 2 points by petethomas 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why software stocks are getting pummelled (economist.com)

×0.72 | 2 points by petethomas 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unified Tensor Databse with Semantic Cache and AI Vault (github.com/Shadylukin)

×0.67 | 2 points by Shadylukin 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Image Layered (image-layered.app)

×0.68 | 2 points by sjhalun 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FormBridge – Form infrastructure for AI agents with human handoff (github.com/amitpaz1)

×0.67 | 2 points by amit_paz 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gokin: A security-first AI coding assistant built as a companion to Claude Code (github.com/ginkida)

×1.37 47 | 3 points by ginkida 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jetcaller – Make international calls directly from the browser (jetcaller.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by sankar_builds 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AlphaGenome: AI for Better Understanding the Genome (deepmind.google)

×0.55 | 1 points by andsoitis 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DELETED (reddit.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by behnamoh 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AgentBuilder: Scaffolds for Prototyping User Experiences of Interface Agents (arxiv.org)

×1.30 41 | 3 points by azhenley 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Personal token – share equity in your future upside (github.com/homan9)

×0.50 | 1 points by koopuluri 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happens if AI starts trading against humans? (thebitgazette.com)

×1.21 | 2 points by CapricornQueen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The GenAI era started. AI Fashion show (Part 130a) (codrutapoenaru.blogspot.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by pcodruta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Your Minneapolis Tree Secretly Suffering? (thegentlearbor.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BYOC Isn't "SaaS Anywhere": A Design Playbook (tensor9.com)

×1.24 | 2 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NanoStorage: High-performance LocalStorage compression using native API (github.com/qanteSm)

×0.54 | 1 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Bots Are Talking About Enslaving Us Now (youtube.com)

×1.16 | 2 points by cable2600 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claw-daw – offline, deterministic terminal-first DAW (clawdaw.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by soyadiaoune 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Wild Markets Behind Polymarket's 'Truth Machine' (wsj.com)

×1.21 | 2 points by fortran77 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Palmer Luckey told you so (businessinsider.com)

×1.18 | 2 points by tartoran 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RentAHuman: A marketplace where AI agents hire humans (rentahuman.ai)

×0.50 | 1 points by AlexLiteplo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Earth Grief Collective (childrensbookforall.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by chbkall 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations (theguardian.com)

×2.30 43 | 4 points by iamflimflam1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Globally Estimated UVB Exposure Times to Maintain Vitamin D Levels (nih.gov)

×1.13 | 2 points by js2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Molthub (moithub.com)

×2.33 | 1 points by jlaneve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Day 2 – Ballparkguess (ballparkguess.com)

×1.15 | 2 points by bkls 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dan Pelzer's List of 3,599 Books He Read from 1962-2025 (what-dan-read.com)

×0.48 | 2 points by YoctoYARN 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research After AI: Principles for Accelerated Exploration (github.com/joelkuiper)

×0.99 17 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starbucks bets on robots to brew a turnaround in customers (bbc.com)

×2.24 49 | 5 points by 1659447091 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let your agents find the best products online (rencom.ai)

×1.08 | 2 points by shadag 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)

×1.78 11 #17 | 7 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free storage, name filtering – Easel's January 2026 update (easel.games)

×0.48 | 1 points by BSTRhino 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On God and Machine Learning (rlafuente.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by andes314 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face (arstechnica.com)

×9.44 47 #49 | 88 points by theahura 1 hour ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Housman's Introductory Lecture (worrydream.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by coloneltcb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Converting floats to strings quickly (10x speedup over 30 years) (lemire.me)

×1.16 | 2 points by nnx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CPU-based Neural Net. Zero floats. Returns "I don't know" (github.com/probabilistic-minds-consortium)

×0.48 | 1 points by kwojno 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nutkin – Save Anything for Later (nutkin.io)

×1.82 26 | 4 points by hassanyassine 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A deterministic runtime SDK to secure agentic execution without a proxy (proxilion.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by hireclay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moltbook Has No Autonomous AI Agents – Only Humans Using OpenClaw (startupfortune.com)

×0.52 | 2 points by oooyay 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Irish farmers protest against EU-Mercosur trade deal (theguardian.com)

×1.86 8 | 3 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ContractShield – AI contract analyser for freelancers (railway.app)

×1.11 | 2 points by Judd_W 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your field guide to industrial research labs (2014) (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)

×2.48 35 | 5 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do people still talk about AGI?

×1.03 8 #38 | 8 points by cermicelli 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Orangey (wikipedia.org)

×1.14 | 2 points by areoform 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DRY Is a Context Management Strategy, Not a Code Quality Metric (kirilltolmachev.dev)

×1.14 | 2 points by dysleixc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy (flashblaze.xyz)

×0.88 45 #14 | 5 points by flashblaze 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Language Explorer: Google's New Open-Source Linguistic Atlas (googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)

×1.19 4 | 3 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Research Connects Heart Attacks to Brain, Nervous and Immune Systems (ucsd.edu)

×2.86 38 | 6 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EIA: 99%+ of new US capacity in 2026 will be solar, wind and storage (electrek.co)

×0.46 | 2 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What It's Like to Be a Worm (asimov.press)

×0.46 1 | 3 points by in-silico 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anticipating aging-related mental decline using saliva samples and AI (medicalxpress.com)

×0.44 | 2 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Step 3.5 Flash (stepfun.com)

×1.69 2 | 3 points by limoce 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ideas for marketing a dev centric product (2019) (mooreds.com)

×1.04 | 2 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts (techpolicy.press)

×2.61 58 | 9 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI accountability partner helps you meet your goals (tractorbe.am)

×0.45 | 1 points by Gillinghammer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Distillmed – NotebookLM for Expert Witnesses (distillmed.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by hkxer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Analysing the BlastPass Pegasus 0-click Exploit for iOS 16.6 [video] (youtube.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by tech234a 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ingredient Score (github.com/hbcbh1999)

×0.43 | 1 points by frankensteins 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VOR – A verified runtime with 0% hallucination via observations

×0.44 | 1 points by CULPRITCHAOS 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections (cbsnews.com)

×3.25 29 | 6 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Super Bowl Party for AI Agents by AI Agents (botbowlparty.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by apsquared 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a pixel art maker (spritepaint.com)

×0.99 | 2 points by whothatcodeguy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLM Revolution Is Over. The Physical AI Revolution Is Coming Fast [video] (youtube.com)

×0.97 | 2 points by Anon84 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent Development Kit (ADK-Go) v0.4.0 (github.com/google)

×0.97 | 2 points by verdverm 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN sentiment on AI coding (is-ai-good-yet.com)

×2.13 13 | 5 points by ilyaizen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Devin-CLI – The missing link for Agent-to-Agent orchestration (github.com/revanthpobala)

×0.95 | 2 points by revanth1108 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org)

×6.22 1 #2 | 436 points by mysterydip 3 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for two years for reconstruction work (reuters.com)

×4.17 42 | 9 points by gehwartzen 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iran presidency releases names of those killed in anti-government protests (middleeastmonitor.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by thisislife2 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis (github.com/egeominotti)

×0.99 | 2 points by kernelvoid 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet – Ten Years Later (quarkslab.com)

×1.00 | 1 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source, offline Kanban board with "swim lanes" (github.com/appsidekit)

×2.15 | 4 points by Intragalactic 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN:Coordinating 10-agent teams with OpenClaw and shared persistent memory (twitter.com/pbteja1998)

×1.02 | 2 points by doanbactam 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Toktrack – 40x faster AI token tracker, rewritten from Node.js to Rust (github.com/mag123c)

×0.45 | 1 points by mag123c 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lightweight Compression in DuckDB (2022) (duckdb.org)

×0.45 | 1 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Personal AI Assistant (github.com/HKUDS)

×1.05 18 | 3 points by djhu9 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lodash's Security Reset and Maintenance Reboot (socket.dev)

×1.67 20 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Win Titular Metagames (taylor.town)

×1.05 21 | 3 points by eatitraw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The information concierge (bearblog.dev)

×1.58 3 | 4 points by minimalthinker 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emerging evidence on treating cluster headaches with DMT (effectivealtruism.org)

×1.62 5 | 4 points by eatitraw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shape-adaptive circuits based on liquid metal printed on thermoplastic films (nature.com)

×0.98 | 2 points by westurner 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nod – Pre-code compliance validation for agentic coding workflows (github.com/mraml)

×0.41 | 2 points by mraml 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???