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FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
apnews.com

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

FAA Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
nytimes.com
A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
astro.theoj.org

Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Weibel, Yijia Li, Jorryt Matthee, John Chisolm, Clara L. Pollock, Kasper E. Heintz, Benjamin D. Johnson, Xuejian Shan, Raphael E. Hviding, Joel Leja, Sandro Tacchella, Arpita Ganguly, Callum Witten, Hakim Atek, Siro Belli, Sownak Bose, Rychard Bouwens, Pratika Dayal, Roberto Decarli, Anna de Graaff, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Emma Giovinazzo, Jenny E. Greene, Garth Il - By Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch & 44 more. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a bright galaxy, MoM-z14, located 280 million years post-Big Bang, challenging previous models and suggesting a rising star-formation history.

The AI Vampire
steve-yegge.medium.com
Communities Are Not Fungible
joanwestenberg.com

There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
cve.org
A simpler way to remove explicit images from Search
blog.google

There’s a new, simpler way for people to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search.

YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push
bbc.com

YouTube's total revenue last year surpassed that of rival streamer Netflix as it seeks to dominate TVs.

End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
kraxel.org

Gerd Hoffmann - Ok, it is over. End of an era for me. No more self-hosted git. I had a public git server running since 2011, and a public cvs server before that. AI scrapers have hammered the poor, little server to death by flooding the cgit frontend with tons of pointless² requests. Actually a few months ago already. Now I finally decided to not try rebuild the server, be it with or without cgit web frontend. I don't feel like taki

FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
arstechnica.com

The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.

CEO 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
404media.co

"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
rivian.com

Discover the Rivian R2 — a bold, electric 5-seat SUV designed for the adventurous. Explore pricing, experience mid-size EV innovation and reserve yours today.

Fun With Pinball
funwithpinball.com

Fun With Pinball small board assembly instructions explanations flipper solenoid stepper video

GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2
github.com/openai

What version of Codex CLI is running? codex-cli 0.99.0-alpha.10 What subscription do you have? ChatGPT Pro Which model were you using? gpt-5.3-codex What platform is your computer? Darwin 25.2.0 ar...

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
nbcnews.com

Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

The Day the Telnet Died
labs.greynoise.io

hrbrmstr & 🔮Orbie✨ - On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.

The Falkirk Wheel
scottishcanals.co.uk
Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams
github.com/getclawe
show

Multi-agent coordination system powered by OpenClaw. Good for automating weekly SEO review, editing, and publishing workflows for agencies. - getclawe/clawe

Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components
github.com/tambo-ai

Generative UI SDK for React. Contribute to tambo-ai/tambo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser
intervolz.com
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Go 1.26 Release Notes
go.dev
Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)
airuniversity.af.edu
How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
devblogs.microsoft.com

Raymond Chen - Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.

Show HN: Multimodal perception system for real-time conversation
raven.tavuslabs.org
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Experience Raven-1, Tavus's multimodal perception model that understands not just what you say, but how you say it. See real-time tone, expression, and intent analysis.

Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – An AI-native notebook for data analysis
livedocs.com
launch

Livedocs is your AI data scientist—a collaborative workspace combining the power of notebooks with the simplicity of app builders, designed for modern teams

The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey
hazemkrimi.tech

How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
simonwillison.net
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Simon Willison - A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests—we need artifacts …

Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
github.com/taf2

cli based Markdown viewer. Contribute to taf2/mdvi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number
theintercept.com

Jessica Washington - Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

ClawHub
clawhub.ai

ClawHub — a fast skill registry for agents, with vector search.

London's most controversial cyclist
the-londoner.co.uk

How Cycling Mikey's quest for road safety divided London

Show HN: Stripe-no-webhooks – Sync your Stripe data to your Postgres DB
github.com/pretzelai
show

Contribute to pretzelai/stripe-no-webhooks development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
campedersen.com

src={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
londoncentric.media

Jim Waterson - Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?

Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
paperboat.website
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Welcome to paperboat.website!

Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss
cell.com
Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)
github.com/rowboatlabs
show

Open-source AI coworker, with memory. Contribute to rowboatlabs/rowboat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
infinitelymore.xyz

Joel David Hamkins - I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.

Competition is not market validation
ablg.io

How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit

Obsidian Introduces Obsidian CLI
help.obsidian.md

Obsidian CLI - Obsidian Help

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
entire.io

Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.

Bazzite Post-Mortem
ba.antheas.dev
Disruption with Some GitHub Services
githubstatus.com
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
jamesdrandall.com

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
bloomberg.com
Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'
threads.com

Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' as it has become the number 1 site for tracking the Epstein files

Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
lexi-lambda.github.io
Redefining Go Functions
pboyd.io
Oxide raises $200M Series C
oxide.computer

Raising our Series C round of financing

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
techxplore.com
America's $1T AI Gamble
apricitas.io

Joseph Politano - US AI-Related Investment Keeps Breaking Records, With Total Software, Computer, & Data Center Spending Now Exceeding $1T Per Year

Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
khronos.org

When those of us in the Vulkan® working group want to modify the API—whether it’s a new hardware feature to expose, a new use case we want to address, or even just a gap in the spec we want to address—we have one invaluable tool that we make heavy use of: extensions! Extensions are a wonderful way for us to get improvements to the Vulkan API out to developers without waiting for a new core version. They let vendors e

Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds
bbc.com

The author's erotic novel featured an 18-year-old protagonist who role-played as a toddler.

Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)
npr.org

Westerners tend to be more individualistic than Easterners. Did our ancestors plant these cultural differences hundreds of years ago when they chose which grains to grow?

Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
github.com/distr-sh
show

The Open Source control plane for self-managed, BYOC, and on-prem deployments. Everything you need to distribute applications to self-managed customers out of the box. - distr-sh/distr

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
europeanbusinessmagazine.com

A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

RLHF from Scratch
github.com/ashworks1706

A theoretical and practical deep dive into Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and it’s applications in Large Language Models from scratch. - ashworks1706/rlhf-from-scratch

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
code.idtech.space

fn - Rad-Therapy II - port of Half-Life 2 to Nuclide.

The Epstein Network Visualizer
epsteinvisualizer.com
Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
qwen.ai
Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
netviews.app
show

NetViews is a modern macOS network scanning and diagnostic tool for IT and network professionals.

AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …

The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt
andonlabs.com

We gave our AI agent full autonomy and watched what happened

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
arxiv.org

As autonomous AI agents are increasingly deployed in high-stakes environments, ensuring their safety and alignment with human values has become a paramount concern. Current safety benchmarks primarily evaluate whether agents refuse explicitly harmful instructions or whether they can maintain procedural compliance in complex tasks. However, there is a lack of benchmarks designed to capture emergent forms of outcome-dr

Why "just prompt better" doesn't work
bicameral-ai.com
Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
wallstreetraider.com
show

A 40-year odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam. How the most comprehensive financial simulator ever made was born, nearly died, and was resurrected.

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
newrepublic.com

Logan McMillen - In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
github.com/TrevorS

Contribute to TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model
github.com/antirez

Pure C inference of Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model - antirez/voxtral.c

Zulip.com Values
zulip.com

Learn about the values that are behind everything we do as we work to build the world’s best organized team chat software.

What functional programmers get wrong about systems
iankduncan.com

Type systems verify properties of programs. Production correctness is a property of systems. The gap between these is where the interesting failures live.

Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
quantamagazine.org

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
jamanetwork.com
The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
bbc.com

A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
chainlift.io

LiftKit by Chainlift is an open-source design system based on the golden ratio available for React/Next.js, Webflow, and Figma.

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs
arstechnica.com

Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs.

A brief history of oral peptides
seangeiger.substack.com

Sean Geiger - Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.

Is AI the Paperclip?
newcartographies.com

Nicholas Carr - Scale at all costs.

America has a tungsten problem
noleary.com
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
truthout.org

Sharon Zhang - Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
blog.prosody.im

On 11th February, Let’s Encrypt will be rolling out a change to the certificates they issue to servers by default. Although there is generally nothing that Prosody operators need to do, servers using the new certificates may experience problems connecting to some other XMPP servers on the network.

Game Theory Patterns at Work
daeus.blog

Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…

MIT Living Wage Calculator
livingwage.mit.edu
A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers
capnfabs.net

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good set of drawers, must be in want of a good organization system. Neat. Last year, I bought a Bisley chest of drawers on wheels (it also doubles as a handy pull-out seat if you slap a cushion on top), and it’s been drawer chaos since then. Absolute mayhem; cables getting tangled with old keyrings, snacks sitting uncomfortably close to strong glue

An articulated archer automaton [video]
youtube.com
Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)
sneak.berlin
Luce: First Electric Ferrari
ferrari.com
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
taggart-tech.com

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

Another GitHub outage in the same day
githubstatus.com
US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses
theguardian.com

While AI is having an impact on the workplace, experts suggest tariffs, overhiring during the pandemic and simply maximising profits may be bigger factors

Testing Ads in ChatGPT
openai.com
This Whistle Fights Fascists
theverge.com

Sean Hollister - I print whistles now. You can too.

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
theguardian.com

Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work

The Markets of Old London (2024)
spitalfieldslife.com
Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy
cbsnews.com

Eddie Bauer, a 106-year-old retailer, points to declining sales and "tariff certainty" as factors behind its latest move to seek bankruptcy protection.

Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them
omnara.com

Omnara - Use Claude Code on mobile with voice support. Code anywhere - local or remote environments with seamless handoff between phone and desktop.

From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
thejournal.ie

Jeff Jarvis - Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
jsgroth.dev
Ice Kid Prisons
propublica.org

Mica Rosenberg - ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

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