846
284
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
2 days ago
828
362
I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down
https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down
733
279
Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)
https://netbird.io/
518
222
Show HN: NanoClaw – "Clawdbot" in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
427
210
My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
417
197
Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product
https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
406
171
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
399
91
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
397
73
Ian's Shoelace Site
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
358
187
List animals until failure
https://rose.systems/animalist/
3 days ago
347
335
Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-kinds-of-ai-users-are-emerging/
342
153
Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
268
157
Apple: Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free (1976)
http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
256
226
Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed
https://www.sintef.no/en/latest-news/2026/pretty-soon-heat-pumps-will-be-able-to-store-and-distribute-heat-as-needed/
252
237
FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
228
150
TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630
37
The Book of PF, 4th edition
https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
184
85
Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20260112/
177
72
1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
https://depthfirst.com/post/1-click-rce-to-steal-your-moltbot-data-and-keys
159
100
Apple's Q4 2025 margin on Services was 76.5%
https://asymco.com/2026/02/01/margin-call-3/
155
18
Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
147
209
English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
https://yaledailynews.com/articles/english-professors-double-down-on-requiring-printed-copies-of-readings
145
96
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187
137
58
Amiga Unix (Amix)
https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
133
75
How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users
https://blog.algomaster.io/p/scaling-a-system-from-0-to-10-million-users
132
135
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
123
52
MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260121034130.htm
118
77
Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo
114
51
Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/
104
36
Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work
https://research.google/blog/towards-a-science-of-scaling-agent-systems-when-and-why-agent-systems-work/
Contracts in Nix
https://sraka.xyz/posts/contracts.html
95
3
Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/palantir-financed-by-epstein-fueled
86
Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602017863
83
25
Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sprint-marathon-aging-muscle-stem.html
76
Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Here's what happened
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/01/oregon-tried-giving-homeless-youth-1000-a-month-with-no-strings-attached-heres-what-happened.html
71
50
Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code
https://github.com/zuckermanai/zuckerman
68
125
We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s
https://chris.pagecord.com/we-as-a-society-peaked-in-the-90s
65
27
New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s
https://www.politico.eu/article/d66-cda-vvd-dutch-government-aims-to-keep-under-15s-off-social-media/
64
6
'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis'
https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/tesla-is-still-trying-to-deceive-investors-into-thinking-it-has-sf-robotaxis/
29
Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/350902407346003-apple-1-computer-prototype-board-0-the-celebration-board-representing-the-earliest-known-fiberglass-apple-1-prototype/
Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed