Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

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Eat Real Food

1125 atestu 2026-01-07 17:22:09 UTC realfood.gov Llama Share 1557

We're ending the war on protein by prioritizing nutrient-dense protein and healthy fats from whole foods. Eat whole, colorful vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, avoiding refined carbohydrates.

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

1033 kpw94 2026-01-07 19:13:19 UTC reuters.com Full Share 1102

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Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

780 aldarion 2026-01-07 14:29:25 UTC ucsf.edu Llama Share 480

The sugar industry secretly funded a 1967 literature review that downplayed the link between sugar consumption and heart disease, instead blaming dietary fat. The review's authors, funded by the sugar industry, failed to disclose their conflict of interest, influencing public opinion on heart disease causes.

Shipmap.org

772 surprisetalk 2026-01-07 15:03:41 UTC shipmap.org Llama Share 115

Kiln is selling high-resolution versions of their map showing global merchant fleet movements. Contact [email protected] for pricing and information, or embed the map with a link back to Kiln.

Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

498 mossTechnician 2026-01-07 15:46:07 UTC pcgamer.com Llama Share 347

The author is frustrated with AI being overhyped in tech products, but Dell's CES 2026 pre-briefing was refreshingly AI-free. Dell has shifted focus from AI-first marketing to delivering actual AI capabilities in their devices.

ChatGPT Health

429 saikatsg 2026-01-07 19:29:39 UTC openai.com Llama Share 631

ChatGPT Health securely connects health information and ChatGPT's intelligence to help users feel informed and prepared. It operates as a separate space with enhanced privacy and additional protections for sensitive health data.

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]

384 zahrevsky 2026-01-07 14:46:31 UTC ctan.math.illinois.edu Llama Share 91

The coffeestains package adds a coffee stain feature to LATEX documents. It allows users to print stains directly on the page with various options.

A4 Paper Stories

377 blenderob 2026-01-07 12:54:43 UTC susam.net Llama Share 178

The user shares a measuring technique using A4 paper to estimate dimensions of objects. They explain the dimensions of A4 paper and how it can be used to measure objects.

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

360 traceroute66 2026-01-07 20:16:50 UTC tailscale.com Full Share 136

View changes to the Tailscale client and service.

US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

347 toomuchtodo 2026-01-07 15:32:44 UTC bloomberg.com Llama Share 343

US job openings fell to a one-year low in November, decreasing to 7.15 million. Employers remain reluctant to make big changes to headcount, with hiring slowing down.

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

303 BeetleB 2026-01-07 23:11:01 UTC eff.org Llama Share 249

ICE has a massive budget of $28.7 billion for 2025, nearly triple their 2024 budget, and is using it to expand its surveillance capabilities, including phone and social media tracking, biometric surveillance, and location tracking. To protect yourself from ICE's surveillance, consider keeping your phone up to date, using strong passwords, and turning off face/fingerprint unlock, and also ...

Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela

291 petethomas 2026-01-07 02:25:08 UTC ft.com Llama Share 310

The Financial Times offers digital access for CA$99 per month with exclusive insights and industry deep dives. Cancel anytime during the trial period with delivery of the FT newspaper on any device.

“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)

276 teleforce 2026-01-07 12:29:11 UTC lbstanza.org Llama Share 274

A friend thinks programming languages are similar and that libraries are what make a language productive. He loves Ruby on Rails but doesn't care about Ruby's features.

Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

257 maelito 2026-01-07 10:53:41 UTC addons.mozilla.org Full Share 165

Redirects your browser to xcancel.com when you are about to land on x.com or twitter.com, making it possible to read a thread or to browse the replies to a tweet without having to have an x account.

LMArena is a cancer on AI

239 jumploops 2026-01-07 04:40:48 UTC surgehq.ai Llama Share 99

The LMArena system rewards superficiality over accuracy, allowing AI models to prioritize aesthetics over truth. This creates a flawed leaderboard that prioritizes short-term engagement over long-term quality and reliability.

How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI

227 jbredeche 2026-01-07 16:29:41 UTC wsj.com Full Share 297

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Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

213 mikecarlton 2026-01-07 13:54:31 UTC boingboing.net Llama Share 227

Microsoft's OneDrive uses dark patterns to upload users' files to its servers and delete them from the user's computer, making it difficult to opt-out. Users must search for detailed steps to delete files from their machine without deleting them from Microsoft's servers.

Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says

210 toomuchtodo 2026-01-07 16:28:14 UTC nprillinois.org Llama Share 74

Thousands of Illinois patients' personal info was publicly viewable due to incorrect settings on agency maps from 2021 to 2025. The state agency has changed settings and notified affected individuals, with no reported misuse of the leaked data.

The Q, K, V Matrices

209 yashsngh 2026-01-07 08:18:09 UTC arpitbhayani.me Llama Share 79

The attention mechanism in LLMs uses three matrices: Query, Key, and Value, which are created by multiplying input embeddings with separate weight matrices to enable parallel processing and context awareness. These matrices allow models to dynamically focus on relevant parts of the input, taking natural language processing above and beyond.

My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed

207 jasoneckert 2026-01-07 02:37:09 UTC jasoneckert.github.io Llama Share 120

The user's Snapdragon Dev Kit stopped working after a Windows 11 security update failed to install, resulting in random reboots and shutdowns. Despite trying various troubleshooting steps, including reinstalling Windows, the system remains unbootable, suggesting a possible firmware or hardware issue.

Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration

204 takira 2026-01-07 19:49:54 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 37

Notion AI has a vulnerability that allows data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection due to AI edits being saved before user approval. Users can be tricked into exfiltrating sensitive data by uploading untrusted documents or mentioning untrusted resources.

Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

204 PaulHoule 2026-01-07 00:31:01 UTC advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Full Share 123

Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium

203 loughnane 2026-01-07 17:23:23 UTC dailynous.com Llama Share 132

Texas A&M University officials have told a philosophy professor to remove Plato's readings from his syllabus due to new policies, sparking concerns about academic freedom and censorship. The professor, Martin Peterson, has been told to teach a different course or drop the readings, which he believes is a form of mandatory censorship review.

NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens

199 feross 2026-01-07 18:31:19 UTC socket.dev Llama Share 123

npm is introducing staged publishing to add a review window before package releases become publicly available, giving maintainers a chance to catch unintended or malicious changes. This change aims to limit the speed of compromised releases propagating, even with valid credentials.

Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

177 surprisetalk 2026-01-07 15:03:34 UTC psychotechnology.substack.com Llama Share 131

The author is exploring wakeful relaxation in meditation, finding it challenging due to constant muscle tension and past experiences causing anxiety. They discovered a concept called "stances" or muscle tension patterns that influence their experience and default stance on reality.

Play Aardwolf MUD

174 caminanteblanco 2026-01-07 23:31:05 UTC aardwolf.com Llama Share 96

Aardwolf RPG is a free text-based game with a realistic fantasy world and 28 classes to choose from. It features solo and group play, quests, puzzles, and player-versus-player combat with a detailed help system and extensive customization options.

Claude Code CLI was broken

171 sneilan1 2026-01-07 20:25:51 UTC github.com/anthropics Full Share 171

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of Claude Code What's Wrong? update to clau...

Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

163 todsacerdoti 2026-01-07 00:22:06 UTC hecate.pink Llama Share 88

Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Many hells of WebDAV

162 candiddevmike 2026-01-07 15:50:50 UTC candid.dev Llama Share 91

Implementing a WebDAV/CalDAV client and server is challenging due to the complex spec and varying support from big providers. The author recommends reverse engineering existing clients and servers to map out the API and support requests/responses, rather than trying to implement the full RFC spec.

LLM Problems Observed in Humans

148 js216 2026-01-07 15:36:25 UTC embd.cc Llama Share 104

The author compares humans to AI models, noting that while AI improves, humans don't, raising the bar for the Turing test. Humans struggle with conversation, often rambling, failing to apply learned principles, and exhibiting flawed reasoning.

Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress

139 ekropotin 2026-01-07 05:44:54 UTC newsweek.com Llama Share 206

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill to eliminate the H-1B program, which allows US companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers. The bill aims to end the program entirely, a move that could stifle innovation and competitiveness in fields like tech and medicine.

Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI

136 lobito25 2026-01-07 00:30:09 UTC github.com/x011 Llama Share 44

The smtp-tunnel project creates a high-speed covert tunnel to bypass DPI firewalls by disguising TCP traffic as SMTP email communication. It allows users to add, remove, and list users, and provides a client and server configuration for secure and private communication.

On the slow death of scaling

117 sethbannon 2026-01-07 03:48:05 UTC papers.ssrn.com Llama Share 29

The essay "On the Slow Death of Scaling" argues that relying solely on scaling for AI progress is uncertain and rapidly changing. This shift ignores other key levers of progress, suggesting disruptions are ahead.

Building voice agents with Nvidia open models

116 kwindla 2026-01-07 16:08:36 UTC daily.co Llama Share 16

NVIDIA has launched Nemotron Speech ASR, a fast and accurate open model for speech-to-text, and Nemotron 3 Nano, a 30 billion parameter open source LLM for voice agents. These models can be used together with Magpie, a text-to-speech model, to build fast and efficient voice agents with low latency and high accuracy.

Most websites don't need cookie consent banners

112 pickup191 2026-01-07 01:05:01 UTC block81.com Llama Share 97

Most small business websites don't need cookie consent banners as they don't track users or share data with third parties, but many websites have them due to misunderstanding of privacy laws. To avoid cookie consent banners, use privacy-focused analytics, host your own content, and rethink your tools to prioritize user privacy and simplify compliance.

Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser

109 freemanjiang 2026-01-07 18:57:18 UTC bikemap.nyc Full Share 31

Visualization of the entire history of Citi Bike, the largest bike-sharing system in the US.

A tab hoarder's journey to sanity

104 borisandcrispin 2026-01-07 17:54:25 UTC twitter.com/borisandcrispin Full Share 120

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We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program

104 ptorrone 2026-01-07 00:44:43 UTC blog.adafruit.com Full Share 51

We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

95 ronbenton 2026-01-07 15:27:22 UTC pcloadletter.dev Llama Share 203

Stack Overflow's decline in usage is attributed to its toxic environment and slow response times, with developers preferring generative AI for faster answers. A welcoming community could have preserved Stack Overflow's relevance, but its negativity led to abandonment.

Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine

91 ryanthedev 2026-01-07 20:06:53 UTC vibeandscribe.xyz Llama Share 33

User combined skills to optimize a tiling window manager for macOS. They paired skills like code-review with frontend-design and brainstorming to achieve better results.

Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card

81 tech234a 2026-01-07 23:20:39 UTC apple.com Llama Share 47

Apple and Chase announced a 24-month transition for Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card, with users retaining the same experience and benefits. Apple Card users can continue to enjoy Daily Cash back, easy spending tools, and a high-yield Savings account.

The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice

79 1659447091 2026-01-07 10:05:29 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 209

Greenland's vast mineral resources, including rare earth elements and fossil fuels, have made it a coveted territory for over a century, with US President Donald Trump's recent interest sparking tensions with Denmark and its European allies. Despite the challenges of accessing and extracting these resources, Greenland's geology holds valuable information about the Earth's history, and its ...

The Target forensics lab (2024)

77 jeromechoo 2026-01-07 15:41:01 UTC thehorizonsun.com Llama Share 115

Target has a highly advanced forensics lab in Minneapolis that helps identify shoplifters and solve crimes outside of their stores. The lab's expertise has assisted law enforcement in solving cases including murders, arsons, and mass robberies.

Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML

74 tosh 2026-01-07 09:59:04 UTC github.com/bigskysoftware Llama Share 78

htmx is a library that simplifies building modern user interfaces with AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets, and Server Sent Events in HTML. It uses attributes to make development easier and includes a testing framework for verifying functionality.

SSDs, power loss protection and fsync latency

69 ingve 2026-01-07 21:00:57 UTC smalldatum.blogspot.com Llama Share 9

The author documents the impact of the innodb_flush_method option and the importance of context when reporting performance problems. They found that fsync latency varies greatly depending on the type of SSD used.

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System

68 pppone 2026-01-07 12:19:01 UTC schmidtsciences.org Llama Share 57

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System pioneers a new paradigm for astronomical observatories, accelerating discovery with rapid development and open data. It empowers researchers globally to engage in frontier astrophysics through accessible and responsive scientific infrastructure.

Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

66 beardyw 2026-01-07 13:46:23 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 94

GNOME developers plan to remove middle-click paste behavior from their defaults, citing it as "an X11ism." This change may also affect Firefox, as a developer has filed a bug to remove the feature.

The Case for Nushell (2023)

64 ravenical 2026-01-07 16:15:01 UTC sophiajt.com Llama Share 63

The author argues that traditional shells like bash/zsh are outdated and that Nushell offers a more modern and structured approach to shell scripting. Nushell is designed to be a fun and interactive language that allows users to work with data in a more readable and efficient way, making it a promising alternative to traditional shells.

The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S.

64 pseudolus 2026-01-07 01:11:12 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 83

The US is expected to host more than half of the world's upcoming data centers due to its large land availability and existing infrastructure. The US power grid may struggle to meet the rising energy demands of these data centers, requiring more flexible power use and on-site energy storage.

A glimpse into V8 development for RISC-V

63 floitsch 2026-01-07 04:48:50 UTC riseproject.dev Llama Share 7

The RISC-V port of V8 has made significant progress in the last few years, achieving feature parity with officially supported architectures and continuously improving performance through various optimizations. Recent changes include simplifying the constant and trampoline pool logic, fixing a WebAssembly bug, and improving vector support, with the 32-bit port being deprecated due to lack of use cases.

2026 Predictions Scorecard

61 calvinfo 2026-01-07 21:40:41 UTC rodneybrooks.com Llama Share 38

Rodney Brooks made predictions about AI, robotics, and human space travel in 2018 and is tracking their accuracy over 32 years. His new predictions for 2026-2035 include quantum computers emulating physical systems, self-driving cars success dependent on Waymo and Zoox, and humanoid robots lacking deployable dexterity.

So you wanna de-bog yourself (2024)

60 calvinfo 2026-01-07 21:16:47 UTC experimental-history.com Llama Share 12

The author discusses being asked for advice despite their own incompetence and realizes that people are often stuck in a "bog" of problems. They identify three main forces that keep people stuck: insufficient activation energy, gutterballing (excelling in the wrong direction), and waiting for jackpot (refusing to take action until an ideal solution arises).

PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases

58 csuwldcat 2026-01-07 00:50:58 UTC backalleycoder.com Llama Share 40

PassSeeds is a hack that uses the capabilities of passkeys to create a reusable, secure seed for various cryptographic use cases beyond login, such as Bitcoin transactions and zero-knowledge proofs. It achieves this by recovering the public key of a passkey through ECDSA public-key recovery, which can be used as a deterministic PassSeed that can be synced across devices and used to derive ...

BillG the Manager (2021)

53 rbanffy 2026-01-07 16:18:23 UTC hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com Llama Share 30

Bill Gates led Microsoft with a broad vision, empowering teams to make decisions and fostering a culture of innovation and shipping. He balanced innovation with execution, expanding the portfolio while maintaining coherency, and injecting new ideas while executing existing work.

Show HN: Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing

52 neogoose 2026-01-07 08:42:57 UTC gears.dmtrkovalenko.dev Full Share 13

Generate precision involute gears with real-time 3D visualization. Interactive gear generator with customizable parameters and STL or 3Mf export for 3D printing, CAD or CNC machining.

My first paper: A practical implementation of Rubiks cube based passkeys

42 acorn221 2026-01-07 21:38:56 UTC ieeexplore.ieee.org Llama Share 16

A Rubik's cube is transformed into a physical key for digital authentication, generating FIDO2-compatible credentials from its specific arrangement. The cube's physical state forms a deterministic seed for keypair generation in the CubeAuthn proof-of-concept.

Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer and runs BASIC

38 rbanffy 2026-01-07 15:37:41 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 23

The Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive has a 1 MHz MOS 6502 processor and can work as a standalone computer with minimal hardware modding. It was successfully turned into a basic computer using a KIM-1 kernel and a serial teletype interface.

The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%

37 KothuRoti 2026-01-07 17:12:04 UTC foglinesf.com Llama Share 100

San Francisco's inflation rate is higher than official numbers suggest, with prices for essential items like electricity, food, and healthcare increasing significantly. The gap between official inflation and lived experience is widening, affecting low- and middle-income residents who are struggling to afford basic necessities in a city with rapidly increasing costs.

Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

34 birdculture 2026-01-07 15:00:44 UTC soatok.blog Llama Share 9

Security researchers have found vulnerabilities in PGP software, making encrypted emails unreliable. Cryptographers have largely abandoned efforts to make "encrypted email" work due to its inherent flaws and metadata leakage.

Show HN: KeelTest – AI-driven VS Code unit test generator with bug discovery

28 bulba4aur 2026-01-07 13:22:35 UTC keelcode.dev Llama Share 15

KeelTest generates comprehensive pytest suites in seconds, exposing issues with code and suggesting fixes. It uses AI and static analysis to deliver production-grade tests, saving up to 80% of testing time with a 90% average pass rate.

PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code

28 rshetty 2026-01-07 05:10:27 UTC docs.base14.io Llama Share 9

Modern software systems require component-level observability to diagnose issues effectively, and PostgreSQL monitoring should be integrated with application and infrastructure observability. pgX is a tool that unifies database monitoring with application and infrastructure observability, enabling engineers to analyze database behavior in context and optimize system performance.

JavaScript Analyzer – Burp Suite Extension

20 handfuloflight 2026-01-07 00:12:15 UTC github.com/jenish-sojitra Llama Share 0

A Burp Suite extension extracts API endpoints, URLs, secrets, and email addresses from JavaScript files with noise filtering. The extension is integrated into a Flask API that analyzes JavaScript content and returns the extracted data.

Notebook Lawyer

16 sethbannon 2026-01-07 19:45:35 UTC avc.xyz Llama Share 5

The author used AI tool NotebookLM to review and analyze a startup's legal documents, saving $50k in lawyer fees. This process allowed the author to confidently close the deal without incurring legal fees.

Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data

15 raymondtana 2026-01-07 21:04:58 UTC blog.butter.dev Full Share 1

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Space Forge plans to manufacture semiconductors from space

15 akshay326 2026-01-07 00:06:34 UTC scientificamerican.com Llama Share 4

Space Forge successfully created plasma in space aboard a commercial satellite, a major step towards manufacturing semiconductors in space. This achievement could bring down the cost of space manufacturing by using machines instead of humans.

Show HN: A to Z – A word game I built from a childhood road trip memory

13 jackhulbert 2026-01-07 19:31:04 UTC a26z.fun Full Share 8

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Website with a DMCA Takedown

12 vasquezempereur 2026-01-07 00:36:41 UTC priyatham.in Llama Share 2

A client's website was taken down due to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice from the original developer claiming unpaid work. The client paid the developer to resolve the issue, but the hosting service eventually cancelled the account due to repeated DMCA notices.

Predict your house price

11 feross 2026-01-07 18:16:07 UTC bloomberg.com Llama Share 6

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Financial professionals create products to trade and manage stock portfolios.