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241. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
242. Why We Built Our Own Background Agent
The craft of engineering is rapidly changing. We built our own coding agent to accelerate faster.
243. Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
244. On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]
245. EOL hardware should mean open-source software
Read "EOL" on Marciano Planque's blog
246. Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
247. Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
248. Date is out, Temporal is in
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system.
249. Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions
Code, Apps and Thoughts @lawrencegripper
250. FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder for You to Switch Wireless Carriers
Last May we noted how Verizon was lobbying the Trump administration to eliminate rules making it easier to switch mobile providers (and bring your phone with you). And as usual with the pay-to-play Trump administration, the Trump FCC is tripping over itself to give Verizon what it wants.The Trump FCC says it is eliminating rules…
251. Elon Musk's X down for users
Users across the globe are reporting they are unable to access the social media platform.
252. Are two heads better than one?
A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game
253. Woz vs. Wooz
When I was kid, on a road trip with my family, we stopped in Vacaville, California. And there, drawing us off the freeway with a wooden glow, was a brand new roadside attraction: Wooz. The pitch? It was a maze. A big maze. Wooz stood for "Wild Original Object with Zoom" (!), opened in 1988,…
254. Mothers Against Decapentaplegic
255. A deep dive on agent sandboxes
How modern coding agents use OS-level sandboxing with macOS Seatbelt and Linux Landlock to balance powerful tool access with security.
256. We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
257. LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed no sign of reducing in the subsequent centuries, as generations of people worldwide followed in Pascal and Wilhelm’s footsteps, subscribing to their view that offloading mental energy to a machine would be a relief.
258. Show HN: A fast CLI and MCP server for managing Lambda cloud GPU instances
Unofficial CLI and MCP server for Lambda cloud GPU instances - Strand-AI/lambda-cli
259. My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
Thanks HN folks for all the comments. To clarify a bit, the cables are pulled through PVC conduits under the flooring before being buried in cement. Currently the hypothesis for why the cable disintegrated so quickly is hydrolysis. Singapore is extremely humid after all. A second possibility is that I keep the leftover wall paints (Nippon Paint Vinilex 5000) in the same room and have noticed that much of the solvents have evaporated. It is possible that the solvents in the air might have caused the cable to fail in 3 years. The other ends of the cables don’t feel as sticky and crumbly despite being out in the open exposed to the humidity. My guess is that the paint solvent got to it.
260. The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
2.8k words, 13 minutes reading time
261. Apple Creator Studio
Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.
262. Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
263. Text-Based Web Browsers
How do they fare with (not so) recent additions to HTML?
264. The Tulip Creative Computer
The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics - shorepine/tulipcc
265. Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri
Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 as it rolls out updated artificial intelligence features.
266. Open-source iCloud Photos Downloader (AKA escape from iCloud)
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
267. I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
268. LLVM: The Bad Parts
269. Anthropic Made a Big Mistake
270. We rolled our own documentation site
you don't need mintlify