| 241. | Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) | () |
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| 30 points by david927 5 days ago | 75 comments |
| 242. | Why We Built Our Own Background Agent | (builders.ramp.com) |
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The craft of engineering is rapidly changing. We built our own coding agent to accelerate faster. | |
| 8 points by jrsj 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 243. | Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? | () |
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| 4 points by nico 2 days ago | 9 comments |
| 244. | On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf] | (web.cs.ucdavis.edu) |
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| 4 points by barishnamazov 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 245. | EOL hardware should mean open-source software | (marcia.no) |
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Read "EOL" on Marciano Planque's blog | |
| 4 points by Marciplan 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 246. | Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well | (garymarcus.substack.com) |
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A sampling of recent news | |
| 33 points by 7777777phil 3 days ago | 5 comments |
| 247. | Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? | () |
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| 11 points by krishadi 1 day ago | 26 comments |
| 248. | Date is out, Temporal is in | (piccalil.li) |
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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. | |
| 12 points by alexanderameye 4 days ago | 3 comments |
| 249. | Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions | (blog.gripdev.xyz) |
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Code, Apps and Thoughts @lawrencegripper | |
| 10 points by martinpeck 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 250. | FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder for You to Switch Wireless Carriers | (techdirt.com) |
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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… | |
| 4 points by beardyw 21 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 251. | Elon Musk's X down for users | (bbc.com) |
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Users across the globe are reporting they are unable to access the social media platform. | |
| 5 points by ndsipa_pomu 18 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 252. | Are two heads better than one? | (eieio.games) |
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A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game | |
| 6 points by evakhoury 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 253. | Woz vs. Wooz | (cabel.com) |
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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,… | |
| 3 points by latexr 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 254. | Mothers Against Decapentaplegic | (en.wikipedia.org) |
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| 4 points by md224 11 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 255. | A deep dive on agent sandboxes | (pierce.dev) |
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How modern coding agents use OS-level sandboxing with macOS Seatbelt and Linux Landlock to balance powerful tool access with security. | |
| 5 points by icyfox 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 256. | We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers | (blog.metabrainz.org) |
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| 33 points by LorenDB 3 days ago | 12 comments |
| 257. | LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick | (tomrenner.com) |
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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. | |
| 8 points by Growtika 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 258. | Show HN: A fast CLI and MCP server for managing Lambda cloud GPU instances | (github.com) |
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Unofficial CLI and MCP server for Lambda cloud GPU instances - Strand-AI/lambda-cli | |
| 3 points by odedfalik 2 days ago | 2 comments |
| 259. | My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated | (alienchow.dev) |
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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. | |
| 3 points by alienchow 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 260. | The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference | (owlposting.com) |
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2.8k words, 13 minutes reading time | |
| 3 points by abhishaike 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 261. | Apple Creator Studio | (apple.com) |
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Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity. | |
| 16 points by lemonlime227 3 days ago | 3 comments |
| 262. | Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode | (cy.md) |
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| 24 points by CyberShadow 5 days ago | 1 comments |
| 263. | Text-Based Web Browsers | (cssence.com) |
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How do they fare with (not so) recent additions to HTML? | |
| 3 points by pabs3 4 days ago | 1 comments |
| 264. | The Tulip Creative Computer | (github.com) |
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The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics - shorepine/tulipcc | |
| 19 points by apitman 3 days ago | 3 comments |
| 265. | Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri | (cnbc.com) |
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Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 as it rolls out updated artificial intelligence features. | |
| 10 points by stygiansonic 4 days ago | 4 comments |
| 266. | Open-source iCloud Photos Downloader (AKA escape from iCloud) | (github.com) |
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A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader | |
| 17 points by reconnecting 5 days ago | 5 comments |
| 267. | I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows | (theverge.com) |
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One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows. | |
| 6 points by speckx 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 268. | LLVM: The Bad Parts | (npopov.com) |
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| 9 points by vitaut 4 days ago | 0 comments |
| 269. | Anthropic Made a Big Mistake | (archaeologist.dev) |
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| 3 points by codesparkle 4 days ago | 1 comments |
| 270. | We rolled our own documentation site | (blog.tangled.org) |
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you don't need mintlify | |
| 4 points by nerdypepper 4 days ago | 1 comments |