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31. A static site generator written in POSIX shell
Notes on writing this site's new, mildly cursed, and fun static site generator in (mostly) POSIX shell.
32. Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux
Getting the Cricut Software to run on Linux, under WINE
33. Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
Learn how to use PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for event-driven systems. Case study from Wayfair showing how to handle failures in Kafka consumers with PostgreSQL for better observability and retry mechanisms.
34. Clinic-in-the-Loop
Clinical trials are engines for scientific discovery. Better drugs require not just more trials, but also improved data collection, to create therapeutic feedback loops.
35. UK Appeals court state RuneScape gold counts as property and can be stolen
The UK Court of Appeals has deemed Old School RuneScape gold as property, and as such something that can be stolen.
36. Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America's AI boom
Southern state becoming ground zero in fight against rapid growth of facilities using huge amounts of energy and water
37. Sonic R: The R&R mod – Hacks the Saturn Racing Game into a Platformer
The ROM hack that takes the racing out of Sonic R (1997)
38. The all new Mecha Comet, live on Kickstarter
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
39. Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
For years, the payments industry was aggressive about cutting off access to websites accused of containing child sexual abuse material. Elon Musk changed that.
40. Guix for Development
41. Emissary, a fast open-source Java messaging library
Emissary is simple, yet 🗲FAST🗲 messaging library for decoupling messages (requests and events) and message handlers 🚀 - joel-jeremy/emissary
42. Clawdbot: Personal AI Assistant
Clawdbot — The AI that actually does things. Your personal assistant on any platform.
43. Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids
Interactive map of 59,000+ active US Coast Guard lighthouses and navigational aids. View light characteristics, flash patterns, ranges, and locations from the 2025 Light List.
44. I was right about ATProto key management
45. A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection. - tldev/posturr
46. Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
47. ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds on Medicaid Data
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
48. The Science of Fermentation (The Food Programme)
Fermented foods are more popular than ever, but what's the science? Dan Saladino reports.
49. Nango (YC W23, Dev Infrastructure) Is Hiring Remotely
Nango Jobs
50. Bitwise conversion of doubles using only FP multiplication and addition (2020)
In the words of Tom Lehrer, "this is completely pointless, but may prove useful to some of you some day, perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances." The problem is as follows: suppose you're working in a programming environment that provides only an IEEE-754 double-precision floating point ("double") type, and no operations that can…
51. This paper has been cited more than 6k times. It's fatally flawed.
52. US Government wants DNA and social media from visitors
Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP).
53. Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Microsoft has posted an online bulletin confirming that the company is investigating reports that state Windows 11's latest security update has rendered some PCs unbootable.
54. SFPark: Interactive map of SF parking regulations
55. I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
Archiving 104K files into tar.gz reduced I/O time by 43x and total processing time by 2.3x. The bottleneck was not disk speed, it was syscall overhead.
56. OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse
57. Doom has been ported to an earbud
58. Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water
59. Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?
Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and will not do. Russia’s use of
60. Building a Real-Time HN Display for $15