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121. The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.
122. Kubernetes Remote Code Execution via Nodes/Proxy Get Permission
An authorization bypass in Kubernetes RBAC allows for nodes/proxy GET permissions to execute commands in any Pod in the cluster.
123. Doom has been ported to an earbud
124. Cyclic Subgroup Sum
125. Study is stolen, sold, published. Now the victim is accused of plagiarism
The year 2026 did not start off kindly for Vijayalakshmi S, an economics researcher at RV University in Bengaluru, India. She received a rejection letter from a journal noting that a paper of hers was highly similar to another published study by other researchers.  S couldn’t understand why that was — until she realised someone…
126. TikTok removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.
127. 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…
128. Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)
What looks like a tablet/ PDA device can be seen on the lefthand side of Nedry's desk. My closest guess is that it is a Motorola Envoy PDA. But, according...
129. Mistral Launches Vibe 2.0
130. Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
If you are a customer of Deutsche Telekom and some websites just won't load, then we might have the solution to your problem!
131. China hacked Downing Street phones for years
132. Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - moltbot/moltbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
133. Notice of Collective Action Lawsuit Against Workday, INC
Workday Case Website
134. Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications
TUI for managing XDG default applications. Contribute to mitjafelicijan/xdgctl development by creating an account on GitHub.
135. House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs
Last week saw the House of Lords pass a vote that would, if approved by the Government, introduce an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools
136. The Science of Fermentation (The Food Programme)
Fermented foods are more popular than ever, but what's the science? Dan Saladino reports.
137. Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
Y Combinator has revised its deal terms to exclude Canada, implying that Canadian startups aspiring to join will have to incorporate elsewhere.
138. 150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
150,000 lines of production Elixir, written entirely by AI. Here's what worked and what didn't.
139. Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp
In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect, while keeping the core experiences free. 
140. Sony Data Discman
Let's look at this little gizmo Sony produced in the early 1990s.
141. OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse
142. David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2601.05047: Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware
143. CedarDB: The fastest database you've never heard of
How CedarDB reimagined every piece of the relational database like code generation, a SOTA query optimizer, and design for modern hardware.
144. 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.
145. ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors
Our latest ANN release supports scales of 100+ billion vectors in a single search index, with 200ms p99 query latency at 1k QPS and 92% recall.
146. You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers
147. 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
148. Vibe Coding Kills Open Source
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2601.15494: Vibe Coding Kills Open Source
149. Windows 11 January Update Breaks Notepad
Microsoft's January 2026 security update has broken Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, introducing dual bugs affecting app launches and cloud storage
150. Dockerhub for Skill.md
The official registry for AI skills and agent tools. Discover, share, and install skills.md files for Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants. Find the perfect skill for your AI agent.