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  1. 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found (www.nytimes.com)
    210 points • by bookofjoe • today at 3:46 PM • 123 comments
  2. Prism (openai.com)
    59 points • by meetpateltech • today at 6:03 PM • 17 comments
  3. SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned (haveibeenpwned.com)
    78 points • by gnabgib • today at 5:11 PM • 27 comments
  4. Doing the thing is doing the thing (www.softwaredesign.ing)
    49 points • by prakhar897 • today at 6:17 AM • 9 comments
  5. OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing (openssl-library.org)
    49 points • by MagerValp • today at 4:56 PM • 27 comments
  6. U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office (www.science.org)
    252 points • by j_maffe • today at 6:35 PM • 160 comments
  7. Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow (doi.org)
    43 points • by PlaceboGazebo • last Wednesday at 8:33 PM • 8 comments
  8. Hypercubic (YC F25) Is Hiring a Founding SWE and COBOL Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by sai18 • today at 6:50 PM • 0 comments
  9. I made my own Git (tonystr.net)
    285 points • by TonyStr • today at 10:55 AM • 124 comments
  10. Bassoontracker, Tracking in the Browser (www.stef.be)
    16 points • by jdboyd • today at 9:01 AM • 1 comment
  11. Arm's Cortex A725 Ft. Dell's Pro Max with GB10 (chipsandcheese.com)
    7 points • by pixelpoet • today at 6:59 PM • 0 comments
  12. Heathrow scraps liquid container limit (www.bbc.com)
    575 points • by robotsliketea • last Friday at 7:38 PM • 738 comments
  13. Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot (github.com)
    11 points • by philip1209 • today at 6:08 PM • 1 comment
  14. AI2: Open Coding Agents (allenai.org)
    25 points • by publicmatt • today at 5:17 PM • 5 comments
  15. Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor (alexxcons.github.io)
    209 points • by pantalaimon • today at 1:25 PM • 160 comments
  16. Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't (tech.lgbt)
    386 points • by JadedBlueEyes • today at 3:45 PM • 149 comments
  17. A simulation where life unfolds in real time (soupof.life)
    76 points • by maybe-tomorrow • last Wednesday at 9:01 AM • 38 comments
  18. A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha) (tailscale.com)
    61 points • by geoffeg • today at 4:23 PM • 23 comments
  19. One Human and One Agent = One Browser from Scratch (simonwillison.net)
    22 points • by pretext • today at 5:18 PM • 9 comments
  20. Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle (www.quantamagazine.org)
    38 points • by tzury • yesterday at 8:12 PM • 2 comments
  21. Snow Simulation Toy (potch.me)
    148 points • by surprisetalk • 01/20/2026 • 39 comments
  22. TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues (www.cnn.com)
    972 points • by kotaKat • today at 1:44 PM • 680 comments
  23. The threat eating away at museum treasures (www.scientificamerican.com)
    4 points • by sohkamyung • last Friday at 12:05 PM • 2 comments
  24. Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza (github.com)
    160 points • by wahnfrieden • 01/20/2026 • 68 comments
  25. A list of fun destinations for telnet (telnet.org)
    262 points • by tokyobreakfast • today at 3:24 AM • 88 comments
  26. Vargai/SDK – JSX for AI video, declarative programming language for Claude Code (varg.ai)
    40 points • by alex_varga • last Thursday at 8:24 PM • 18 comments
  27. The age of Pump and Dump software (tautvilas.medium.com)
    171 points • by brisky • today at 2:05 PM • 61 comments
  28. The Enchiridion by Epictetus (www.gutenberg.org)
    76 points • by atropoles • last Friday at 6:07 PM • 32 comments
  29. Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model (www.kimi.com)
    423 points • by nekofneko • today at 5:42 AM • 199 comments
  30. Handling Long Branches (maskray.me)
    26 points • by ingve • yesterday at 7:31 AM • 3 comments
  31. ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files (simonwillison.net)
    432 points • by simonw • yesterday at 7:19 PM • 305 comments
  32. Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores (www.cnn.com)
    222 points • by gmays • today at 3:58 PM • 213 comments
  33. The hidden engineering of runways (practical.engineering)
    403 points • by crescit_eundo • 01/20/2026 • 100 comments
  34. A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks (twitter.com)
    61 points • by bigwheels • yesterday at 9:09 PM • 81 comments
  35. The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology (2013) (www.quantamagazine.org)
    127 points • by kerim-ca • last Friday at 5:49 AM • 46 comments
  36. We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025) (consciousdigital.org)
    67 points • by mefengl • today at 9:35 AM • 32 comments
  37. There is an AI code review bubble (www.greptile.com)
    332 points • by dakshgupta • yesterday at 3:38 PM • 223 comments
  38. Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company (amutable.com)
    73 points • by hornedhob • today at 6:57 PM • 58 comments
  39. Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI (www.oneusefulthing.org)
    50 points • by swolpers • today at 5:04 PM • 67 comments
  40. Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE (www.wired.com)
    19 points • by jaredwiener • today at 6:33 PM • 6 comments
  41. I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor (www.msn.com)
    200 points • by zdw • yesterday at 10:29 PM • 201 comments
  42. RIP Low-Code 2014-2025 (www.zackliscio.com)
    273 points • by zackliscio • yesterday at 4:11 PM • 142 comments
  43. Ask HN: How to avoid skill atrophy in LLM-assisted programming era? (self)
    10 points • by py4 • today at 5:59 PM • 10 comments
  44. JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back (nproject.io)
    383 points • by jandeboevrie • yesterday at 5:46 PM • 159 comments
  45. Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering (visualrambling.space)
    244 points • by ChrisArchitect • yesterday at 7:23 PM • 33 comments
  46. Refinement Without Specification (buttondown.com)
    27 points • by BerislavLopac • 01/20/2026 • 1 comment
  47. DHS: Critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was never recorded (www.404media.co)
    100 points • by cf100clunk • today at 5:26 PM • 13 comments
  48. Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision (www.alilleybrinker.com)
    8 points • by birdculture • today at 5:24 PM • 2 comments
  49. Clawdbot is a security nightmare [video] (www.youtube.com)
    12 points • by carlos-menezes • today at 5:53 PM • 2 comments
  50. New York Times games are hard: A computational perspective (arxiv.org)
    65 points • by PaulHoule • last Friday at 3:31 AM • 25 comments