East Germany balloon escape

242 robertvc 2026-01-16 20:13:40 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 75

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.

Left in the cold: Study finds most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades

24 hhs 2026-01-16 23:36:40 UTC binghamton.edu Llama Share 13

New research from Binghamton University reveals renters are missing out on energy efficiency improvements due to a "split incentive" issue where landlords don't reap financial benefits. This leads to substandard dwellings, higher bills, and health problems for renters.

Cloudflare acquires Astro

674 todotask2 2026-01-16 15:13:40 UTC astro.build Llama Share 320

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

50 linolevan 2026-01-16 22:13:40 UTC cloud.google.com Llama Share 25

Mandiant is releasing a dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to highlight the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol.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

61 vitaelabitur 2026-01-16 21:13:40 UTC nanonets.com Llama Share 13

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

313 jaas 2026-01-16 16:13:40 UTC letsencrypt.org Llama Share 192

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

354 embedding-shape 2026-01-16 15:13:40 UTC embedding-shapes.github.io Llama Share 157

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

285 bookofjoe 2026-01-16 14:13:40 UTC openculture.com Llama Share 154

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

469 cl3misch 2026-01-16 12:13:40 UTC justthebrowser.com Llama Share 233

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.

HTTP RateLimit Headers

20 zdw 2026-01-16 22:13:40 UTC dotat.at Llama Share 6

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.

Lock-Picking Robot

241 p44v9n 2026-01-16 13:13:40 UTC github.com/etinaude Llama Share 114

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.

Reading across books with Claude Code

49 gmays 2026-01-16 19:13:40 UTC pieterma.es Llama Share 17

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.

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

35 todsacerdoti 2026-01-16 22:13:40 UTC raulnegron.me Llama Share 6

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.

STFU

590 tanelpoder 2026-01-16 18:13:40 UTC github.com/pankajtanwarbanna Llama Share 414

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.

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

197 tosh 2026-01-16 11:13:40 UTC robinlinacre.com Llama Share 71

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.

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

63 christalwang 2026-01-16 17:13:40 UTC shimmer.care Full Share 72

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.

Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see

155 speckx 2026-01-16 20:13:40 UTC fromjason.xyz Llama Share 87

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.

An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg

6 featherless 2026-01-16 23:13:40 UTC jeffverkoeyen.com Prefix Share 2

When I was around 10 in the late 90’s, I vividly remember one specific sleepover. We had sat down at my friend’s computer and he turns to me and says “want to see something cool?”. With a couple clicks, we were looking at the source code for the website. He then saved the page to his computer, made some edits, and suddenly the background of the website was a blinding pink. This moment burned ...

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

103 rbanffy 2026-01-16 14:13:40 UTC dl.acm.org Full Share 134

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

0 2026-01-16 17:13:40 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.

Elasticsearch was never a database

91 jamesgresql 2026-01-16 17:13:40 UTC paradedb.com Llama Share 73

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.

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

11 dahlia 2026-01-16 22:13:40 UTC hackers.pub Llama Share 4

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

47 Bunas 2026-01-16 17:13:40 UTC github.com/21st-dev Llama Share 25

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

Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

16 notmine1337 2026-01-16 22:13:40 UTC atredis.com Llama Share 4

The user disassembled a children's drawing robot to understand its internal workings and eventually figured out how to add custom images to the device. They successfully extracted and modified the image data, wrote it back to the device's flash memory, and even created a script to automate the process of adding custom images.

We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse

22 shardullavekar 2026-01-16 21:13:40 UTC 100x.bot Llama Share 3

100x bot integrates PGLite as its long-term memory for complex data scraping and storage. Marrying an AI agent with Postgres enables efficient data reconciliation, fuzzy joins, and structured querying, replacing chaotic JavaScript code with SQL.

Brain: PC virus [audio]

15 andsoitis 2026-01-16 20:13:40 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 1

The 'Welcome to the Dungeon' computer virus spread worldwide in 1986 after appearing on computer screens. It was created by Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Alvi from their Lahore shop.

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

103 todsacerdoti 2026-01-16 15:13:40 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 32

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.

Our approach to advertising

203 rvz 2026-01-16 18:13:40 UTC openai.com Llama Share 174

ChatGPT is expanding access to its AI tools through a free product and low-cost subscription tier, ChatGPT Go, available in 172 countries. The company will test ads in the US, with a focus on user trust, control, and data protection.

Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format

18 ingve 2026-01-16 20:13:40 UTC github.com/microsoft Llama Share 1

The IGVM file format encapsulates virtual machine launch information for various isolation technologies. Contributions to this project require a Contributor License Agreement and adherence to the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.

psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context

77 tanelpoder 2026-01-16 14:13:40 UTC github.com/loresuso Llama Share 26

psc is a process scanner that uses eBPF iterators and Google CEL to query system state with precision and full container context. It bypasses traditional Linux tools' limitations and provides visibility that cannot be subverted by userland rootkits or LD_PRELOAD tricks.