950
639
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/
6 months ago
759
354
Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking
https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
708
99
Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
683
113
We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
673
323
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
560
342
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
557
161
Best Gas Masks
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks
520
196
Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills
https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
482
787
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hits-a-child-near-an-elementary-school-in-santa-monica/
441
203
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessing-courthouse-security/
435
38
US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/us-cybersecurity-chief-leaked-sensitive-government-files-to-chatgpt-report-3311462/
418
66
Beautiful Mermaid
https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
401
325
A lot of population numbers are fake
https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
398
130
Grid: Forever free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
https://grid.space/stem/
317
440
Tesla is committing automotive suicide
https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/tesla-committing-automotive-suicide/
313
220
The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
https://bayramovanar.substack.com/p/tech-market-is-fucked-up
311
111
The WiFi only works when it's raining
https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
299
413
Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
281
Flameshot
https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
271
150
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer
https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/192714/drug-trio-found-to-block-tumour-resistance-in-pancreatic-cancer/
255
119
MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android-like-user-experience-on-microcontrollers/
244
71
Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker
https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/
238
147
My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
235
61
Virginia Oliver, Maine 'Lobster Lady' who fished for nearly a century, has died
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/maine-lobster-lady-dies-aged-105
226
Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?
https://www.fourplex.net/2026/01/29/is-the-ram-shortage-killing-small-vps-hosts/
211
107
Backseat Software
https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
191
145
Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"
https://kerkour.com/turso-sqlite
188
How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications
https://blog.xoria.org/terminal-colors/
181
120
TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tuev-report-2026-tesla-model-y-has-the-worst-reliability-among-all-20222023-cars-261596.html
169
168
Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812608
155
84
A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev
https://somehowmanage.com/2026/01/22/a-step-behind-the-bleeding-edge-monarchs-philosophy-on-ai-in-dev/
146
93
The Largest Zip Tie Is Nearly 4 Feet Long and $75
https://www.thedrive.com/news/youll-have-that-on-those-big-jobs-the-worlds-largest-zip-tie-is-nearly-4-feet-long-and-75
144
80
OTelBench: AI struggles with simple SRE tasks (Opus 4.5 scores only 29%)
https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-otel-bench/
143
31
Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden
https://kolibrinkpg.com/
136
151
Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-building-an-ai-rebel-alliance-to-take-on-openai-anthropic-.html
134
15
pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL
https://github.com/DataDog/pg_tracing
131
48
Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/apple-buys-israeli-startup-q-ai-as-the-ai-race-heats-up/
126
221
AI's Impact on Engineering Jobs May Be Different Than Expected
https://semiengineering.com/ais-impact-on-engineering-jobs-may-be-different-than-initial-projections/
124
28
Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server
http://128.237.157.9/pub/
117
91
The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala
https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2026/01/27/sta-invests-in-scala.html
116
45
A web server on a single floppy disk
http://floppy.ddns.net/
58
AI on Australian travel company website sent tourists to nonexistent hot springs
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/travel/ai-tourism-nonexistent-hotsprings-intl-scli
114
33
Reid Hoffman: Silicon Valley can't be neutral any longer
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/01/29/reid-hoffman-silicon-valley-can-t-neutral-any-longer/
Ratchets in Software Development
https://qntm.org/ratchet
112
39
Founding Is a Snowball
https://blog.bawolf.com/p/founding-is-a-snowball
105
14
Slopaganda: AI images posted by the White House and what they teach us
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us
98
103
Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications
https://soapstone.mradford.com/employers-use-letters-for-job-applications/
94
Software Survival 3.0
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/software-survival-3-0-97a2a6255f7b
87
74
SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI
https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-planned-ipo-source-says-2026-01-29/
62
EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-close-friday-solidarity-national-shutdown
82
104
US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-trade-deficit-widens-most-144236696.html
78
21
How to explain Generative AI in the classroom
https://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=5847
76
22
Astrological CPU Scheduler
https://github.com/zampierilucas/scx_horoscope
29
Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/heating-homes-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator
Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report
https://bsky.social/about/blog/01-29-2026-transparency-report-2025
73
Microsoft stock plummets as investors fret on AI spend
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-q2-earnings-beat-but-stock-plummets-as-investors-fret-on-ai-spend-cloud-growth-154618162.html
72
1
Why do RSS readers look like email clients?
https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
70
12
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4M followers reports TikTok ban
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/palestinian-journalist-bisan-owda-with-1-4m-followers-reports-tiktok-ban
69
8
Building docs like a product
https://emschwartz.me/building-docs-like-a-product/
68
23
OpenAI's In-House Data Agent
https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent
67
100
iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/iphone-16-worlds-best-selling-smartphone-in-2025-apple-takes-7-spots-in-top-10-models
109
Microsoft's Azure Linux
https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
65
51
The Only Moat Left Is Knowing Things
https://growtika.com/blog/authenticity-edge