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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)
644 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 20 hours ago | 91 comments
3.
Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)
1019 points by pier25 1 day ago | 851 comments
4.
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)
852 points by mijailt 17 hours ago | 599 comments
5.
Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)
540 points by keyboardJones 1 day ago | 1113 comments
6.
Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)
584 points by qwesr123 13 hours ago | 287 comments
7.
Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)
388 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 66 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)
420 points by randycupertino 11 hours ago | 32 comments
11.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)
481 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 241 comments
12.
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)
243 points by axiomdata316 11 hours ago | 133 comments
13.
Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)
647 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 300 comments
14.
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)
360 points by voxadam 13 hours ago | 596 comments
15.
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)
342 points by MBCook 9 hours ago | 167 comments
16.
A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)
281 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 249 comments
17.
How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)
161 points by kruuuder 13 hours ago | 82 comments
18.
Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)
170 points by ghostwriternr 13 hours ago | 57 comments
19.
Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
125 points by Haakam21 11 hours ago | 141 comments
20.
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)
325 points by croes 8 hours ago | 138 comments
21.
Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)
86 points by phmx 4 days ago | 38 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.
Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)
131 points by unsolved73 12 hours ago | 102 comments
25.
My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)
139 points by kieto 9 hours ago | 84 comments
26.
Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)
78 points by aabiji 6 days ago | 29 comments
27.
Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)
137 points by neelc 12 hours ago | 177 comments
28.
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)
209 points by maximedupre 14 hours ago | 89 comments
29.
Satellites encased in wood are in the works (economist.com)
70 points by andsoitis 4 days ago | 49 comments
30.
Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)
139 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 8 hours ago | 52 comments

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