East Germany balloon escape

295 robertvc 2026-01-16 20:36:28 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 97

Two East German families, the Strelzyks and the Wetzels, escaped to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon on September 16, 1979, after over a year and a half of preparations. They successfully crossed the heavily fortified inner German border and the Berlin Wall, landing safely in West Germany.

Cloudflare acquires Astro

704 todotask2 2026-01-16 14:36:28 UTC astro.build Llama Share 327

The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare, allowing them to focus on the Astro web framework without distractions. With Cloudflare's support, Astro will remain free, open-source, and continue to improve as a platform-agnostic framework for content-driven websites.

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

70 linolevan 2026-01-16 22:36:28 UTC cloud.google.com Llama Share 39

Mandiant is releasing a dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to highlight the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol. The tables can be used to recover keys in under 12 hours using consumer hardware.

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

99 vitaelabitur 2026-01-16 21:36:28 UTC nanonets.com Llama Share 22

Developers face issues with LLMs' probabilistic nature causing occasional output failures. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to ensure structured LLM outputs for tasks like data extraction and code generation.

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

334 jaas 2026-01-16 16:36:28 UTC letsencrypt.org Llama Share 202

Let's Encrypt now offers short-lived and IP address certificates, improving security by requiring more frequent validation. These certificates are valid for 160 hours and 45 days respectively, with IP address certificates being short-lived by default.

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

394 embedding-shape 2026-01-16 15:36:28 UTC embedding-shapes.github.io Llama Share 168

Cursor published a blog post on scaling autonomous coding, where they ran agents for weeks to build a web browser from scratch, producing 1 million lines of code, but the project failed to compile and is considered "AI slop". The post creates an impression of success but lacks reproducibility markers and evidence of the project's functionality.

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

301 bookofjoe 2026-01-16 14:36:28 UTC openculture.com Llama Share 156

A painting attributed to young Michelangelo, The Torment of Saint Anthony, was initially doubted but later confirmed through infrared analysis and expert opinion. However, some still disagree with its attribution to Michelangelo, suggesting Francesco Granacci as the more likely artist.

Just the Browser

487 cl3misch 2026-01-16 12:36:28 UTC justthebrowser.com Llama Share 236

Just the Browser removes AI features, telemetry, and sponsored content from popular web browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. It uses hidden settings and group policies to customize browsers, making them more tolerable without modifying applications.

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

125 cebert 2026-01-16 17:36:28 UTC dell.com Full Share 167

You don't have permission to access "http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories" on this server.

Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

50 todsacerdoti 2026-01-16 21:36:28 UTC raulnegron.me Llama Share 15

The user modified the Nintendo Wii's News Channel to display local news by patching the hardcoded URL to point to an S3 storage bucket and rewriting the binary file to use a custom URL. They also created a Go utility to generate news binaries for the News Channel using the WiiLink team's NewsChannel project and uploaded the files to an S3 storage bucket.

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

11 GaggiX 2026-01-17 00:36:28 UTC bfl.ai Llama Share 1

We release FLUX.2 [klein], a compact image model that unifies generation and editing, delivering state-of-the-art quality in under a second. It runs on consumer hardware with 13GB VRAM, ideal for real-time image generation and editing.

Lock-Picking Robot

259 p44v9n 2026-01-16 13:36:28 UTC github.com/etinaude Llama Share 120

An open source lock-picking robot uses a hollow key and wire to brute force combinations, making it vulnerable to security pins and high entropy locks. The robot is intended for locksmiths and lock sports, but raises security concerns due to potential misuse.

STFU

629 tanelpoder 2026-01-16 17:36:28 UTC github.com/pankajtanwarbanna Llama Share 432

User created an app that plays back delayed audio to silence loud people, worked with Claude to build it, and named it STFU after seeing a similar project. The app uses auditory feedback loop to make people stop being loud.

Reading across books with Claude Code

59 gmays 2026-01-16 19:36:28 UTC pieterma.es Llama Share 18

The user used Claude Code to mine a library of 100 non-fiction books, creating trails of connected excerpts and a hierarchical topic tree. This allowed the user to focus on creative aspects of the work, automating tedious tasks and exploring novel ideas with the help of Claude.

Elasticsearch was never a database

99 jamesgresql 2026-01-16 16:36:28 UTC paradedb.com Llama Share 77

Elasticsearch was designed as a search engine, not a database, and using it as a primary database can lead to unexpected results. It lacks key features like atomic transactions, predictable updates, and schema evolution, making it brittle as a database.

HTTP RateLimit Headers

27 zdw 2026-01-16 22:36:28 UTC dotat.at Llama Share 10

The IETF draft for RateLimit header fields in HTTP can be adapted to use linear rate limit algorithms like GCRA, which encourage clients to smooth out their requests and avoid cyclic burst-pause behavior. A server can use a linear rate limit algorithm with HTTP RateLimit headers by calculating the quota and window based on the client's not-before timestamp and request rate.

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

214 tosh 2026-01-16 11:36:28 UTC robinlinacre.com Llama Share 79

The user prefers DuckDB for data processing due to its simplicity, speed, and ergonomic design, making it ideal for analytics queries and batch processing of large datasets. DuckDB's features, such as its in-process design, optimized SQL dialect, and support for user-defined functions, make it a suitable replacement for other data processing engines like Spark and Postgres.

Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see

191 speckx 2026-01-16 20:36:28 UTC fromjason.xyz Llama Share 99

The For You Page on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram creates an illusion of infinite content, leading to overconsumption and the proliferation of low-quality, AI-generated content known as "slop." To avoid this, users can rediscover the lost art of surfing the web, a mindful form of internet consumption that allows for discovery of high-quality, human-created content on one's own terms.

Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity

3 indigodaddy 2026-01-17 00:36:28 UTC github.com/trasta298 Prefix Share 0

keifu (系譜, /keːɸɯ/) is a terminal UI tool that visualizes Git commit graphs. It shows a colored commit graph, commit details, and a summary of changed files, and lets you perform basic branch operations. Readable commit graph — git log --graph is hard to read; keifu renders a cleaner, color-coded graph Fast branch switching — With AI-assisted coding, working on multiple branches in parallel ...

Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

29 npmipg 2026-01-16 22:36:28 UTC mintlify.com Llama Share 51

Mintlify proposes install.md to standardize installation instructions for AI agents. This human-readable file guides LLMs through autonomous execution.

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

48 giuliomagnifico 2026-01-16 18:36:28 UTC jamanetwork.com Llama Share 44

A study analyzed 218 million electronic health record notes and found that emojis were used in 4162 notes, mostly in patient portal messages and telephone encounters. Emoji use increased in 2025, with 58.5% representing emotions and 24.3% of notes containing more than one emoji.

Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

66 christalwang 2026-01-16 16:36:28 UTC shimmer.care Full Share 75

Built from lessons learned after 80,000+ ADHD coaching sessions, Indy gives you the structure you need, daily support that keeps you accountable, and momentum you can actually sustain.

Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

0 2026-01-16 17:36:28 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Zep provides personalized and fast support with sub-200ms retrieval, used by startups to Fortune 500s. The company offers a fulfilling work environment with genuine ownership and opportunities to grow as an engineer.

Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender

8 rishikeshs 2026-01-16 23:36:28 UTC github.com/openfunkhq Prefix Share 2

Official documentation for the re:Mix kitchen mixer, maintained by Open Funk. This repository contains a technical description, an assembly guide, a Bill of Materials, as well as STEPs for the CNC milled parts and STLs for the 3D printed parts. The license "CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal" applies to all parts of the documentation in the repository. re:Mix ...

An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg

14 featherless 2026-01-16 23:36:28 UTC jeffverkoeyen.com Llama Share 10

The author remembers the 90's internet era where anyone could create websites using WYSIWYG tools like Frontpage and Flash, making it accessible to non-coders. Now, AI tools like Claude Code are enabling non-coders to create websites by describing what they want, opening doors to more people making various types of content.

Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language

52 ImJasonH 2026-01-16 20:36:28 UTC github.com/imjasonh Full Share 34

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Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

107 rbanffy 2026-01-16 14:36:28 UTC dl.acm.org Full Share 138

CLI's completion should know what options you've typed

14 dahlia 2026-01-16 21:36:28 UTC hackers.pub Llama Share 7

Optique 0.10.0 introduces a dependency system that allows CLI options to be aware of each other for validation and shell completion. The system uses a three-phase parsing strategy and provides async variants for real-world dependency resolution, enabling tools to interact with external systems with context-dependent completion choices.

Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code

51 Bunas 2026-01-16 17:36:28 UTC github.com/21st-dev Llama Share 29

To set up Claude, install Bun and run 'bun install', then download the Claude CLI binary with 'bun run claude:download'.

Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

110 todsacerdoti 2026-01-16 15:36:28 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 33

The Linux kernel's READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are being considered for Rust versions, but the Rust community prefers a different approach to concurrent data access using the Atomic crate. The discussion has implications for both Rust and C code in the kernel, highlighting the need for clear and intuitive APIs for concurrent programming.