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ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds on Medicaid Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
7 months ago
813
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First, Make Me Care
https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
715
372
This paper has been cited more than 6k times. It's fatally flawed.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/
687
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A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
https://github.com/tldev/posturr
★ 2.3k Swift MIT– 7 months ago
676
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Yes, It's Fascism
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/
634
311
Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
https://netzbremse.de/en/
598
638
Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-study-finds/
464
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OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Oneplus_phone_update_introduces_hardware_anti-rollback
438
135
Doom has been ported to an earbud
https://doombuds.com
342
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White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/white-house-posts-altered-arrest-photo-to-make-it-appear-ice-critic-was-sobbing/
327
16
Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes
https://dlt.github.io/blog/posts/introduction-to-postgresql-indexes/
316
230
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
174
Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials
https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/
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FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/faa-drone-no-fly-zone-ice-dhs
279
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Palantir has no place in UK public services
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/zarah-sutlana-palantir-no-place-uk-public-services-ministry-of-defence/
266
97
Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
https://mecha.so/comet
265
138
The future of software engineering is SRE
https://swizec.com/blog/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre/
257
80
Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
30
Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
244
33
Show HN: Bonsplit – tabs and splits for native macOS apps
https://bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com
221
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Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-second-emergency-out-of-band-update-kb5078127-released-address-outlook-bugs
220
Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m77dmxlvlo
212
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LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6
200
51
nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971
194
49
Two Weeks Until Tapeout
https://essenceia.github.io/projects/two_weeks_until_tapeout/
181
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I was right about ATProto key management
https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
168
78
Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/jurassic-park-tablet-device-on-nedrys-desk.169883/
158
140
Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/taiwan-alex-honnold-climb-taipei-101-01-25-26-intl-hnk
157
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Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
https://www.lr.org/en/knowledge/press-room/press-listing/press-release/2026/alarm-overload-is-undermining-safety-at-sea-as-new-research-shows-crews-face-tens-of-thousands-of-daily-alerts/
145
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Canada
https://www.jenn.site/on-canada/
144
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German economists push for gold repatriation from U.S. vaults
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4542254-german-economists-push-for-gold-repatriation-from-us-vaults
137
44
Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications
https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/xdgctl
134
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UN Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/united-nations-declares-that-the-world-has-entered-an-era-of-global-water-bankruptcy-180988045/
131
Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.1
122
Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs
https://tomaszmachnik.pl/case-study-math-en.html
23
David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05047
118
27
Implementing a Tiny CPU Rasterizer
https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/implementing-a-tiny-cpu-rasterizer-part-1.html
110
37
Sony Data Discman
https://huguesjohnson.com/random/sony-ebook/
102
Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids
https://www.lighthouses.app/
Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-149-million-passwords-exposed-infostealer-database/
96
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150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
https://getboothiq.com/blog/150k-lines-vibe-coded-elixir-good-bad-ugly
95
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The behavioral cost of personalized pricing
https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-behavioral-cost-of-personalized-pricing
93
43
National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man
https://apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates-1-24-2026
91
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Show HN: A small programming language where everything is a value
https://github.com/Jcparkyn/herd
87
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The Value of Things
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/the-value-of-things/
86
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Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
https://xmake.io/
85
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Like digging 'your own grave': The translators grappling with losing work to AI
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/tech/translation-language-jobs-ai-automation-intl