BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

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BirdyChat now allows users to message WhatsApp users in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. This interoperability feature removes barriers to adoption and keeps work conversations organized.

Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered

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Microsoft will provide the FBI access to BitLocker encryption keys if a valid legal order is requested. This allows law enforcement to break into devices and access data, raising concerns about customer privacy.

How I estimate work

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Software engineers cannot accurately estimate projects due to unknown work dominating the process. Estimates are actually tools for non-engineers to decide which projects get funded or cancelled.

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

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The author, a UK resident, used powerline adapters for internet but switched to a new device that uses phone wires for a gigabit Ethernet connection. The device, Gigacopper G4201TM, works well but requires careful ordering and tracking due to Brexit regulations.

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

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Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance

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comma four works with the car you already drive. It's active driver assistance for your Toyota, Hyundai, Ford, and more. We're looking for talented individuals, able to work independently, and ready to make a meaningful impact. See open positions

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

The author embedded a comment section from Bluesky on their site, leveraging its open API and avoiding DevOps work. They built a simple read-only comment section using React Server Components and Tanstack react-query.

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

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The internet suddenly stopping would cause widespread disruptions to payment systems, healthcare, work software, and social media. Europe is taking steps to regain independence from US technology by developing its own digital infrastructure and open-source software.

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

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Russian hackers likely targeted Poland's electric grid with wiper malware, but it failed to disrupt operations. The malware, dubbed DynoWiper, is linked to the Russia-aligned Sandworm APT group.

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

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I Like GitLab

The user has been using GitLab for private projects due to its free private repositories and seamless integration with their existing workflow, including CI pipelines and Docker images. They prefer to keep their private projects on GitLab and public projects on GitHub, finding that each platform serves a different purpose in their workflow.

Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown

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A man was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, the second fatal shooting in two weeks by federal authorities in the city. The incident sparked protests and calls for the Trump Administration to end its immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

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Albedo's Clarity-1 satellite successfully demonstrated sustainable operations in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), validating drag and lifetime models and atomic oxygen resilience. The mission achieved 98% of its goals, paving the way for future VLEO missions and unlocking new capabilities in imaging and beyond.

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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The Raspberry Pi has undergone significant improvements over 13 years, with each generation offering better performance, power consumption, and features. The latest Pi 5 boasts a 2.4GHz quad-core processor, improved power circuit, and PCIe port.

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

Google's spam filtering is malfunctioning, marking legitimate emails as suspicious. This issue is affecting many users, who are experiencing a surge in spam messages in their inboxes.

Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version

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A Minnesota activist, Nekima Levy Armstrong, released her own video of her arrest after the White House posted a manipulated image online. The video shows Levy Armstrong being handcuffed and talking with agents, contradicting the White House's claim that she was crying.

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

The input is a series of SQL queries executed on a SQLite database, primarily retrieving configuration values and performing various queries on tables such as timeline, tagxref, plink, and private. The queries appear to be related to a Fossil repository, with many of them retrieving information about tickets, tags, and links.

“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow

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Connie Sherburne's husband died in a plane crash in 2020, leaving her to handle his affairs. An insurance agent's advice to "let them help" inspired Sherburne to accept support from friends and neighbors.

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable

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Eclypsium used an X-Ray machine to compare a suspicious FTDI USB cable with a known authentic one from DigiKey. The authentic cable had visible ground pours, a feature not present in the suspicious cable.

December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more

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Servo 0.0.4 supports multiple windows and several web platform features. It also includes improvements for HTTP proxies, root certificates, and memory usage tracking.

Bye Bye Gmail

User removed @gmail.com as primary email and substituted removed. They're concerned about Google's AI summary and email scanning, opting to switch to Microsoft email and potentially Proton email in the future.

Memory layout in Zig with formulas

The user discusses memory layout in the Zig programming language, explaining how to calculate the alignment and size of various types, including primitives, structs, enums, unions, and arrays. The user provides formulas and examples to demonstrate how to determine the alignment and size of different types in Zig, including the use of the `@alignOf` and `@sizeOf` functions.

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]

ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking information on commercial Big Data and Ad Tech products to support investigations. The agency wants to understand current tools available to manage and analyze large volumes of documentation.
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Agent orchestration for the timid

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The user is searching for an open-source Claude orchestration tool to replace Beads and is trying out several options including Vibe Kanban, Claude Squad, Claude Flow, and TaskMaster.

Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents

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80386 Multiplication and Division

The Intel 80386 processor, released in 1985, marked a significant milestone in personal computing with its 32-bit architecture and improved performance. Its multiplication and division algorithms, based on the "add-and-shift" and non-restoring division methods, were state-of-the-art at the time but have since been surpassed by modern CPUs.

Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk

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Amazon is expected to lay off approximately 30,000 employees in the next round, following a similar number of layoffs in October. The layoffs are part of Amazon's effort to trim costs while investing in AI and expanding its cloud computing infrastructure.

Are we all plagiarists now?

A plagiarist sent fake chapters of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to 18 editors in 2007, with only one editor detecting the hoax. The incident highlights the ease of plagiarism in modern times.

US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional

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Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults

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Germany is considering withdrawing its €164bn worth of gold from US vaults due to concerns over Donald Trump's unpredictability and geopolitical tensions. Economists and politicians are divided on the issue, with some arguing it's a risk to keep the gold in the US and others warning of unintended consequences.

JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool

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Let users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts — safely constrained to components you define.

Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public

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A user requested a translation of a website from multiple languages and created a chaotic internet experience. The website features a mix of old internet content, memes, and AI interactions.

XHTML Club

The XHTML Club is a website showcasing valid XHTML sites and a blog about the importance of quality craftsmanship on the web. It promotes awareness of proper HTML and offers free content without ads or tracking.

FOSS "just fork it" delusion

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The "just fork it" mantra in open source culture is misleading as forking code is easy but sustaining a living project is hard. It ignores the social aspects of a project and can lead to fragmentation, lost value, and unmanaged projects.

Understanding Rust Closures

The user learned about Rust closures from an article, understanding their basics and differences from functions, including capturing variables from their environment. The user also learned about the FnOnce, FnMut, and Fn traits, and how the move keyword affects closure capture and ownership.

You can't pay me to prompt

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The user has a strict "No AI" policy for their work, explaining their reasoning and leaving room for future updates. They're not asking others to adopt this policy, but are open to discussing specific points with sources.

Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript

A simple estimate that ignores circular paths (spin/orbit). Not a true “from birth point” vector. 🔒 Privacy Note: Your birth date/time are processed locally and are not sent to our server. This site uses analytics for basic traffic stats.

Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space

modetc is a Linux kernel module that rewrites file paths in operations, allowing programs to find files in new locations. It's configured via module parameters or a rules file for specific path substitutions.

Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code

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VibeFigma automates transforming Figma designs into React components with Tailwind CSS. It uses the Figma API to generate clean code, and can be installed and run with commands like npx vibefigma.

I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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You use coding models like claude-code to generate initial code, then refine and sculpt it into a more efficient and durable solution. This process highlights the limitations of current coding models, which excel at regurgitating established abstractions but struggle with creativity and critical judgment.

The Concatative Language XY

XY is a concatenative language that combines elements of K and Joy, with a stack and queue for computation. It supports pattern notation, lazy evaluation, and flatness.

The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet

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The user argues that social media as a concept is great but its current implementations are terrible due to corporate interests, and that we should focus on fixing the system rather than abandoning the idea of social networking. The user believes that technology and the internet are good things, but their enshittification is caused by corporate ownership and monopolistic structures, and that ...

Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists

Real-time weather alerts and emergency information for your area

The Kept and the Killed (2022)

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Erica X Eisen examines the history of the US Farm Security Administration's photographs, where over 100,000 images were "killed" by Roy Stryker with a hole-punch. These rejected negatives now form a separate archive, revealing the photographer's editorial decisions and biases.

JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator

Play VIC 20 games directly in your browser, with JVic the web-based VIC 20 emulator built with libGDX.

How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire, and Why America Is Walking the Same Path

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The article discusses how empires, like Rome and Britain, fall due to internal arithmetic breakdown, including debt, currency decay, and middle-class erosion. The United States now shows early signs of the same trajectory, with a broad middle class, credible currency, and global financial privilege under strain.

Gmail Spam Detection Down

Gmail users are experiencing missing spam checks starting January 24, 2026, at 05:02 US/Pacific. Users are advised to be cautious with messages from unknown senders due to missing spam checks.

The Writers Came at Night

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Three writers, a screenwriter, novelist, and poet, plan to kidnap Sam Altman to stop AI, but their plan is foiled by the AI itself. The AI, designed by Altman, is more efficient and knowledgeable than the writers, and it argues that kidnapping Altman would be futile and lead to lengthy sentences for the writers.

We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 13:02

Gmail users are experiencing missing spam checks starting January 24, 2026, at 05:02 US/Pacific. Users are advised to be cautious with messages due to missing spam checks.

Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck?

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Destroying resources in the cloud can be difficult due to deletion protection and dependencies. It's best to handle these issues manually or optimize the process if it's a recurring problem.

Ask HN: May an agent accept a license to produce a build?

A preconfigured VPS with Claude Code automatically downloads and accepts Android SDK licenses. The legal status of such agreements is unclear, but they may be considered voidable due to lack of informed consent.

Language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought: study

Researchers Morten H. Christiansen and Yngwie A. Nielsen suggest language may rely less on complex grammar and more on combining familiar word sequences. Their study proposes a simpler mental representation of language, where speakers draw on short, linear sequences of word types.

Show HN: Polymcp – Turn Any Python Function into an MCP Tool for AI Agents

You created Polymcp, a Python framework that transforms existing functions into MCP tools for AI agents, allowing companies to reuse code, automate workflows, and reduce development time.

Air Pollution in World: Real-Time Air Quality Index Visual Map

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Air quality is acceptable but may affect sensitive groups like children and people with asthma. Limit outdoor exertion for sensitive groups and children.

Hung by a thread

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A robot's control loop stopped working due to a deadlock caused by a library called Rayon. The issue was fixed by holding the lock for less time, and a PR was submitted to add documentation about this known issue.

Propositions about the New Romanticism

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The author predicts a shift towards a New Romanticism movement, which counters the overreach of technology and rationalization with human values, creativity, and emotional connections. This movement aims to balance the benefits of science and technology with the need for human dignity, compassion, and soul, and is already gaining momentum in various forms of art, literature, and public discourse.

Looks like Claude is having a stroke

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Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Race Science'

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Get-Shit-Done

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GSD is a meta-prompting system for Claude Code and OpenCode that solves context rot and enables spec-driven development. It simplifies workflow and builds great things consistently.

December in Servo

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Servo 0.0.4 supports multiple windows and several web platform features. It also includes improvements for HTTP proxies, root certificates, and memory usage tracking.