765
726
EU–INC – One Europe. One Standard. – Pan-European Legal Entity
https://www.eu-inc.org/
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709
509
Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
667
213
Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
638
374
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578
700
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573
137
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532
152
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https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
513
224
Skip Is Now Free and Open Source
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
482
257
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https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
470
504
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434
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https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html
413
103
Linux from Scratch
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/
340
353
eBay Explicitly Bans AI "Buy for Me" Agents in User Agreement Update
https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-bans-ai-agents-updates-arbitration-user-agreement-feb-2026/
306
96
Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260120000333.htm
305
280
AI Destroys Institutions
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/how-ai-destroys-institutions/
276
136
SETI Home Is in Hiberation
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
263
345
Can you slim macOS down?
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/21/can-you-slim-macos-down/
262
80
Nested Code Fences in Markdown
https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html
260
56
RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web
https://rss.social/
256
183
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https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals
243
55
A Lament for Aperture
https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
242
159
JPEG XL Demo Page
https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/jxl/
236
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https://snubi.net/posts/Show-HN/
230
105
Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/ireland_wants_to_give_police/
209
180
Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds
https://www.di.se/nyheter/di-avslojar-alecta-har-dumpat-amerikanska-statspapper/
208
145
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns
https://www.nibzard.com/agentic-handbook
207
114
Show HN: Rails UI
https://railsui.com/
200
66
AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source – meet TrustTunnel
https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/adguard-vpn-protocol-goes-open-source-meet-trusttunnel.html
192
156
Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/annas-archive-said-spotify-scrape-didnt-cause-domain-suspension-it-was-wrong/
188
19
I Made Zig Compute 33M Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required
https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/i-made-zig-compute-33-million-satellite-positions-in-3-seconds-no-gpu-required/
89
SmartOS
https://docs.smartos.org/
Take potentially dangerous PDFs, and convert them to safe PDFs
https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone
110
Canada Announces Divorce from America
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/canada-announces-divorce-from-america
155
118
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https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
150
116
Vibecoding #2
https://matklad.github.io/2026/01/20/vibecoding-2.html
148
88
Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB
https://terabytedeals.com
147
46
Parliament tells Dutch gov't to keep DigiD data out of American hands
https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/21/parliament-tells-dutch-govt-keep-digid-data-american-hands
141
57
Lix – universal version control system for binary files
https://lix.dev/blog/introducing-lix/
79
Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705676
411
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https://www.thefabricator.com/thefabricator/blog/testingmeasuring/the-super-slow-conversion-of-the-us-to-metric
109
TeraWave Satellite Communications Network
https://www.blueorigin.com/terawave
128
164
Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/
117
EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/20/eu-parliament-freezes-us-trade-deal-after-trump-s-tariff-threats-over-greenland_6749625_4.html
28
PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts
https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/
Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty
https://nukeproof.org/
108
ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors
https://turbopuffer.com/blog/ann-v3
67
FreeBSD
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/
106
65
Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga
https://github.com/ef1500/libbbf
21
illumos
https://illumos.org/
72
European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/european-lawmakers-suspend-us-trade-deal-amid-greenland-tariff-tensions.html
100
125
Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/verizon-starts-requiring-365-days-of-paid-service-before-it-will-unlock-phones/
99
129
GenAI, the Snake Eating Its Own Tail
https://www.ybrikman.com/blog/2026/01/21/gen-ai-snake-eating-its-own-tail/
93
1
EU inc: a new European company structure
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/speech_26_150
92
51
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https://soupof.life
90
52
EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/21/europe-donald-trump-davos-speech-greenland-denmark-latest-updates
14
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.059
87
16
Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/
86
20
Blade Runner Costume Design (2020)
https://costumedesignarchive.blogspot.com/2020/12/blade-runner-1982.html
84
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Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
https://blog.urara.pl/hate-is-a-strong-word-but-i-really-really-really-don%27t-like-windows-11
83
82
How are you automating your coding work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710108
81
25
Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres
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76
Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account. No idea how to move forward
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709409
Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store
https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2
75
5
Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them
https://modal.com/llm-almanac/workloads
73
7
Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs
https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4
13
OpenFlexure Microscope
https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
70
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