857
286
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
6 months ago
839
367
I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down
https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down
826
402
Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product
https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
737
281
Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)
https://netbird.io/
572
166
Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
★ 1.1k Elixir AGPL-3.0– 6 months ago
527
224
Show HN: NanoClaw – "Clawdbot" in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
★ 28k TypeScript MIT– 6 months ago
429
217
My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
420
171
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
404
72
Ian's Shoelace Site
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
403
92
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
385
209
Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
https://boxc.net/blog/2026/claude-code-connecting-to-local-models-when-your-quota-runs-out/
361
187
List animals until failure
https://rose.systems/animalist/
357
168
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/
354
339
Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing
https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-kinds-of-ai-users-are-emerging/
270
159
Apple: Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free (1976)
http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
268
238
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/
262
59
Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
https://sqldef.github.io/
252
241
FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
231
150
TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630
226
38
The Book of PF, 4th edition
https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
185
85
Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20260112/
178
1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
https://depthfirst.com/post/1-click-rce-to-steal-your-moltbot-data-and-keys
177
42
Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/1/fela-kuti-becomes-first-african-to-get-grammys-lifetime-achievement-award
173
120
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187
46
Decompiling and rewriting a 2003 game from its binary in two weeks
https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/
164
49
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
160
101
Apple's Q4 2025 margin on Services was 76.5%
https://asymco.com/2026/02/01/margin-call-3/
154
48
A Broken Heart
https://allenpike.com/2026/a-broken-heart/
148
213
English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
https://yaledailynews.com/articles/english-professors-double-down-on-requiring-printed-copies-of-readings
140
61
Amiga Unix (Amix)
https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
137
60
Remarkable Pro Colors
https://www.thregr.org/wavexx/rnd/20260201-remarkable_pro_colors/
133
138
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
76
How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users
https://blog.algomaster.io/p/scaling-a-system-from-0-to-10-million-users
126
31
Listen to Understand
https://talk.bradwoods.io/blog/listen-to-understand/
124
53
MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260121034130.htm
123
58
High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon
https://spectrum.ieee.org/explore-stratosphere-diy-pico-balloon
119
82
Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo
116
32
Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999)
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
114
55
Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++
https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/
109
Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-02-01-coding-agent-microvm-nix/
106
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/
104
18
Contracts in Nix
https://sraka.xyz/posts/contracts.html
100
3
Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/palantir-financed-by-epstein-fueled
89
11
Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy
https://foxmoss.com/blog/kurrat/
86
91
Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602017863
84
26
Programming Patterns: The Story of the Jacquard Loom
https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/jacquard-loom
27
Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sprint-marathon-aging-muscle-stem.html
77
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
74
Lily Programming Language
https://lily-lang.org
8
Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough
https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2026-01-30-from-side-project-to-kickstarter-a-walkthrough.html
71
51
Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code
https://github.com/zuckermanai/zuckerman