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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)
642 points by giancarlostoro 23 hours ago | 105 comments
2.
Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)
655 points by saubeidl 19 hours ago | 91 comments
3.
Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
1017 points by pier25 1 day ago | 849 comments
4.
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
845 points by mijailt 16 hours ago | 595 comments
5.
Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
536 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago | 1108 comments
6.
Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
386 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 66 comments
7.
Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
571 points by qwesr123 13 hours ago | 282 comments
8.
Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)
253 points by Realman78 4 days ago | 94 comments
9.
Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)
229 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 59 comments
10.
 [dupe] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)
419 points by randycupertino 10 hours ago | 31 comments
11.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
468 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 233 comments
12.
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
238 points by axiomdata316 10 hours ago | 130 comments
13.
Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
645 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 298 comments
14.
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
341 points by voxadam 12 hours ago | 581 comments
15.
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
326 points by MBCook 8 hours ago | 162 comments
16.
A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
274 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 240 comments
17.
How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
156 points by kruuuder 12 hours ago | 82 comments
18.
Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
86 points by phmx 4 days ago | 38 comments
19.
Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
122 points by Haakam21 10 hours ago | 138 comments
20.
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
304 points by croes 8 hours ago | 128 comments
21.
Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
158 points by ghostwriternr 12 hours ago | 56 comments
22.
EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)
96 points by avaer 6 days ago | 15 comments
23.
Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)
109 points by orange_redditor 3 days ago | 18 comments
24.
Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)
78 points by aabiji 6 days ago | 29 comments
25.
Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
122 points by unsolved73 12 hours ago | 99 comments
26.
Satellites encased in wood are in the works (economist.com)
70 points by andsoitis 4 days ago | 49 comments
27.
My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
133 points by kieto 8 hours ago | 82 comments
28.
Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
129 points by neelc 11 hours ago | 171 comments
29.
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
185 points by maximedupre 13 hours ago | 84 comments
30.
Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
130 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 7 hours ago | 47 comments

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