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Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel
twitter.com
iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
macrumors.com

Apple today released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, all of which largely focus on bug fixes and security improvements. Apple says that the updates address dozens of vulnerabilities, including one that is known to have been actively exploited.

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
cell.com
How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
lifehacker.com

The FBI produced footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell, despite it being disconnected.

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
theverge.com

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy - Is it just for the dogs?

Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
symmetrybreak.ing
NetNewsWire Turns 23
netnewswire.blog
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
thehill.com
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
z.ai
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
reuters.com
Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine
fluorite.game
U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025
nbcnews.com

The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

Railway (PaaS) global outage
status.railway.com

Railway Status

Why Vampires Live Forever
machielreyneke.com

The modern longevity movement's obsession with blood transfusions makes perfect sense — if you accept that Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson are vampires.

AI-First Company Memos
the-ai-native.company

Every major CEO AI-first memo and mandate, collected. Shopify, Box, Duolingo, Fiverr, Meta, Klarna, Alibaba, Notion, and more.

Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer
nytimes.com
Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world
pluralistic.net
Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way
github.com/mogenius
show

Operator to streamline renovate executions in Kubernetes - mogenius/renovate-operator

Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com

Richard Feynman's FBI file contains one very pointed, personal, anonymous attack. But can we figure out who wrote it from the context?

GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform
chat.z.ai
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.

Exposure Simulator
andersenimages.com
Do not apologize for replying late to my email
ploum.net
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data
qcontinuum.substack.com

Q Continuum - Summary

Something Big Is Happening
shumer.dev

Matt Shumer - A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

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
Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV
news.ycombinator.com
show
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005)
stevejobsarchive.com

Marking the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech with a digitally enhanced version of the video as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how it came to be: from firsthand accounts from people who were connected to the commencement to Steve’s personal drafts.

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.

NetBSD 11.0 RC1
netbsd.org
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.

We rendered and embedded one million CAD files
cad-search-three.vercel.app
Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source)
itsyhome.app
show

Nick Ustinov - A free macOS menu bar app for controlling your HomeKit smart home devices. Cameras, lights, thermostats, locks, fans, blinds, and more — always one click away.

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
show
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
show

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.

World's first fully Client-Side Webmail Client
mail.cock.li
Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
simonwillison.net
show

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
show

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.

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