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151. SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI
152. AI on Australian travel company website sent tourists to nonexistent hot springs
An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they were looking for — after it emerged the “tranquil” northern Tasmania hot springs it recommended don’t actually exist.
153. I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor
154. Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection
155. Surfel-based global illumination on the web
Can we use WebGPU to compute real-time global illumination with surface patches called surfels? Does it look good enough? Is it fast enough? And can we finally construct viable compute-heavy rendering pipelines right here on the open web? Join me on this journey and let's find out!
156. Doing the thing is doing the thing
Thinking, planning, talking, and consuming content about the thing is not doing the thing. A short reminder to just start.
157. Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?
Ben Taub investigates the death of Tariq Jamieson and the claim by the Canadian toxicologist Gideon (Gidi) Koren that he died from a breast-milk morphine overdose from codeine contained in Tylenol prescribed to his mother.
158. Show HN: Shelvy Books
A beautiful, shareable bookshelf to track what you're reading, want to read, and have read.
159. Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary
160. Show HN: Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base
Open source macOS video transcriber that builds a self-organizing knowledge base 🐝 - itsfabioroma/transcribee
161. Amazon Closing Fresh and Go Stores
Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores will close, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday, with some locations converted into Whole Foods Market stores. “While we’ve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven’t yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion,” Amazon said. Since the surprise opening of a physical bookstore in 2015, Amazon has tried and failed to establish a foothold under its own brand in categories from groceries to fashion, often with technological flourishes such as digital price tags or novel checkout methods.
162. Litestream Writable VFS
Lightning fast Litestream VFS, but now with writes!
163. TikTok users flock to UpScrolled in response to new U.S. owners
TikTok competitor UpScrolled has shot up the app store rankings after TikTok was handed over to new U.S. owners this week.
164. UK Government to Create 'British FBI', Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition
The opposition Conservatives’ shadow Home secretary, Chris Philp, criticized the plan, saying it would create forces that would be too big.
165. Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
Kimi K2.5 defines Visual Agentic Intelligence. Trained on 15T tokens, it introduces SOTA visual coding and autonomous agent swarm. Read the full tech report.
166. Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
167. Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
168. Trying to craft AI images that are worth displaying to end users
169. Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Apple today unveiled the new AirTag, now with an expanded finding range and a louder speaker.
170. I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
In which I give you yet another reason to ignore the naysayers
171. OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing
172. That's Not How Email Works, HSBC
A confusing letter from HSBC informed me that I've not been receiving their emails, and I have to change the email address they use to contact me. Except I've been receiving all of their emails just fine! The problem, it turns out, is that surveillance capitalism is now so-widespread that the bank cannot conceive that their own attempts to spy on their customers might not be 100% reliable...
173. Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI
Thriving in a world of agents
174. 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico
Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade.”
175. The state of Linux music players in 2026
176. Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
Free EU independence check for websites. Analyzes Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs and more. Score from 0-100 for GDPR compliance.
177. The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
178. Project Genie: Interactive worlds generated in real-time
Stay up to date with the latest Google AI experiments, innovative tools, and technology. Explore the future of AI responsibly with Google Labs.
179. Amazon Found 'High Volume' of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data
180. EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown
On January 30, EFF will be closed as part of the national shutdown in opposition to ICE, CBP, and the brutality and terror they and other federal agencies continue to inflict on immigrant communities and any who stand with them.