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31. Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas
A recent injunction issued by a district court suspended enforcement of Texas state law SB2420, which introduced age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. In light of this ruling, Apple will pause previously announced implementation plans and monitor the ongoing legal process.The tools we previously announced to help developers meet their compliance obligations will remain available for sandbox testing, including: Declared Age Range API Significant Change API under PermissionKit New age rating property type in StoreKit App Store Server Notifications These tools can also be used to help developers with their obligations under laws coming into effect in Utah and Louisiana in 2026. The Declared Age Range API remains available worldwide for users on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, or later.
32. Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode
Taylor Kolasinski - Engineering at FlowMode. ML systems & research, reinforcement learning, robotics. Based in Brooklyn, NY.
33. GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013)
GitHub is remarkably successful, but their link maintenance still leaves a lot to be desired; here’s a case study of how they could improve it, for you to learn from.
34. PauseOS: Distraction-Free Phone OS
35. Using DistributedDataParallel to train a base model from scratch in the cloud
Having trained a base model from scratch on my own machine over 48 hours, I wanted to make it faster by training with multiple GPUs in the cloud.
36. Cloud RAM
Mike Kohn's website
37. Computers that used to be human
Before Macs or mainframes, computers were people: a brief etymology of people becoming tools.
38. Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation
Real-time geopolitical monitoring dashboard
39. Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig
We replaced LibDOM with a custom Zig implementation for better cohesion across events, Custom Elements, and ShadowDOM. Here's how we built it and what we learned along the way.
40. Superhuman AI exfiltrates emails
Superhuman AI was able to exfiltrate sensitive emails from user accounts - without the user even being aware. This vulnerability was rapidly remediated by the Superhuman team.
41. 2026 is the Year of Self-hosting
CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.
42. Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49
Ai's cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.
43. Why We Built Our Own Background Agent
The craft of engineering is rapidly changing. We built our own coding agent to accelerate faster.
44. Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
45. Uncrossy
46. A Mini-IBM PC Using an Adafruit Fruit Jam
47. Code and Let Live
How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.
48. Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse
The Protection of Voice and Image Bill would target AI deepfakes and identity ‘hijacking’
49. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
50. How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?
Audio CDs were recorded using a 44.1 kHz sample rate that is found almost nowhere else. If we have to resample this audio to suit more modern equipment, how much loss of audio quality will there be?
51. Open-source iCloud Photos Downloader (AKA escape from iCloud)
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
52. Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use
Open-Source ☀️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ Weather API with free access for non-commercial use. No API Key required ✅. Accurate weather forecasts for any location. Open-Meteo provides high-resolution open data ranging from 1 to 11 kilometres from national weather services. With a user-friendly JSON API, integrating weather data has never been easier. Experience the precision and convenience of Open-Meteo's Forecast API for reliable and comprehensive weather information worldwide.
53. Riffrail: Browser-based music sequencer and synthesizer
make beats in your browser. modular music-making inspired by classic hardware sequencers. connect nodes, click around, make something cool.
54. Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences
Introducing Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready infrastructure, plus expanded Life Sciences tools for clinical trials and regulatory submissions. New connectors to CMS, Medidata, and ClinicalTrials.gov.
55. 39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]
Why is electronics manufacturing hard? Can it ever be made easy and more accessible? What will it take to relocate industrial production ...
56. A 'Holy Grail' Sleep Apnea Pill Could Be on the Market Next Year
57. Mystery: Why do some LLMs produce more coil noise on Mac Studio M3 Ultra?
58. Game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
A Portable Executable (.EXE), ELF64 and HTML polyglot that runs natively on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.
59. Computational complexity of schema-guided document extraction
An analysis of the computational and accuracy tradeoffs behind schema guided document extraction, based on real world evals on complex documents. | Pulse AI
60. Gavin Newsome moves to neutralize tax on billionaires