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151. List of obsolete occupations
152. Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
153. 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.
154. I was right about ATProto key management
155. Germany issued formal travel advisory for US
Germany has advised citizens demonstrations can lead to clashes with migration and security authorities. 
156. 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
157. Doom has been ported to an earbud
158. Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary.
159. China Targeted Downing Street Phones for Years
160. Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.
Anti-vaccine Kennedy may be "enacting a self-fulfilling prophecy," expert says.
161. 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...
162. Google Books has been effectively killed by the last algorithm update
163. Knapsack Offline Internet Solution (satellite datacasting)
164. 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!
165. History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
166. Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
The 15-day blackout is a test run for Barracks Internet, a system where only regime insiders get full connectivity.
167. What "The Best" Looks Like
A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win.
168. Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
169. 5 Misconceptions about Data Protection
In honour of this year’s Data Protection Day, noyb is clearing up 5 of the most common misconceptions.
170. Pwn2own: Escaping VMware Workstation
On the clock: Escaping VMware Workstation at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025
171. 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.
172. Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees
The following message was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.
173. 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…
174. Amazon to pay $309M to U.S. shoppers in settlement over returns
175. Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear
Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to express opinions in WhatsApp groups.
176. Sony Data Discman
Let's look at this little gizmo Sony produced in the early 1990s.
177. 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.
178. 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.
179. I Stopped Following the News
A personal reflection on the decision to stop following daily news and its impact on my well-being.
180. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users