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Stories from January 29, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
646 points by giancarlostoro 1 day ago | 105 comments
2.
Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
657 points by saubeidl 21 hours ago | 91 comments
3.
Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
1024 points by pier25 1 day ago | 851 comments
4.
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
853 points by mijailt 18 hours ago | 602 comments
5.
Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
592 points by qwesr123 14 hours ago | 294 comments
6.
Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
541 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago | 1118 comments
7.
Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
390 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 66 comments
8.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
500 points by meetpateltech 11 hours ago | 248 comments
9.
Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
253 points by Realman78 4 days ago | 94 comments
10.
Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
230 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 59 comments
11.
 [dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
422 points by randycupertino 12 hours ago | 33 comments
12.
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
248 points by axiomdata316 12 hours ago | 134 comments
13.
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
352 points by MBCook 9 hours ago | 172 comments
14.
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
378 points by voxadam 14 hours ago | 613 comments
15.
A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
293 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 256 comments
16.
How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
162 points by kruuuder 13 hours ago | 83 comments
17.
Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
648 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 300 comments
18.
Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
181 points by ghostwriternr 14 hours ago | 58 comments
19.
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
345 points by croes 9 hours ago | 145 comments
20.
Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
131 points by Haakam21 12 hours ago | 142 comments
21.
EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
96 points by avaer 6 days ago | 15 comments
22.
Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
86 points by phmx 4 days ago | 38 comments
23.
Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
138 points by unsolved73 13 hours ago | 105 comments
24.
My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
149 points by kieto 9 hours ago | 87 comments
25.
Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
111 points by orange_redditor 3 days ago | 19 comments
26.
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
232 points by maximedupre 15 hours ago | 98 comments
27.
Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
141 points by neelc 13 hours ago | 179 comments
28.
Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
148 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 9 hours ago | 55 comments
29.
Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)
79 points by aabiji 6 days ago | 29 comments
30.
Satellites encased in wood are in the works (economist.com)
70 points by andsoitis 4 days ago | 49 comments

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